Month: November 2011

Relevanssi Improved Search Plugin for WordPress

Relevanssi is a plugin for WordPress that replaces the existing search engine with one that does a better job of finding relevant results and is far more configurable than the default search. I especially like the fact that it will not only let you decide whether or not to index comments or user profiles, but also let you assign weights to content types for determining relevancy.

Relevanssi is available in both a free version from WordPress.org and a premium version available from Relevanssi.com The premium version comes in several different licensing flavors — for $9.95, you can install it on an unlimited number of personal blogs, though with no support. There are also standard and developer licenses at $39.95 and $69.95 per year that add additional support and installation options.

NoScript Anywhere

NoScript Anywhere is the excellent NoScript Firefox addon retooled to make it easy for porting to Firefox for Android, Maemo and other platforms:

NoScript 3.x is implemented as a restartless add-on for Firefox Mobile, meant to explore the issues and the challenges posed by the Electrolysis multiprocessing architecture to a NoScript porting.

It also features a new page permission editing UI, specifically redesigned for smartphone usage and easily accessible by tapping on a navigation bar icon.

Once installed (with no need to restart the browser), it blocks every script and embedded object (plugin content and iframes) unless the loading resource is whitelisted.

NSA’s whitelist is implemented as a JSON map, having domains or URL prepath components as its keys and custom permission sets (or reference to the TRUSTED and UNTRUSTED predefined permission sets) as its values (references are serialized as 0 for UNTRUSTED and 1 for TRUSTED).

There developer also has plans to use Firefox Sync to sync NoScript settings across platforms. That would be awesome.