Akismet does a pretty good job of catching most comment spam on WordPress blogs, but you still tend to end up with hundreds (in my case thousands) of user accounts registered by spam bots that just sit there cluttering up the user list. User Spam Remover is a plugin for WordPress that fixes this problem…
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Dynamic Widgets is another plugin for WordPress that lets the user customize which widgets appear on the sidebar based on the specific context of the page, post type, user type, etc. This one seems to be more actively developed than some of the other plugins that perform this function, and seems to have support for…
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Simple Facebook Connect is a plugin for WordPress that promises to make it easy to enable Facebook Connect on a WordPress install.
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The Custom Sidebars Plugin for WordPress does exactly what it says — it allows the user to set up different sidebars that appear based on the context of the page being displayed. For example, set up a custom post type and then assign a sidebar that appears only on posts of that type.
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Back in October, WordPress.Com implemented Gravatar Hovercards — wherever you would see a Gravatar you could mouse over the image and a small image would pop out showing details from the person’s Gravatar profile. For example, here’s what the Hovercard for my Gravatar profile looks like, The Gravatar Hovercards plugin for WordPress now enables this…
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Edit Calendar is a plugin for WordPress that makes it much easier to manage and keep track of posts scheduled to be published in the future. The video below does an excellent job of illustrating what the plugin does and why you probably want it. The WordPress Editorial Calendar Screen Cast from Zack Grossbart on…
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Add Linked Images to Gallery is a WordPress plugin that I suspect has a fairly limited number of uses given the very specific nature of what it does, but if you are one of those folks who need this, it is a lifesaver. The plugin will scan the IMG tag on new posts looking for…
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Post Revision Display is a WordPress plugin created by D’Arcy Norman at the instigation of Scott Rosenberg who wanted a way to publicly display any revisions made to a post after publication. The plugin does just that, adding no-index/no-follow metatags in the revisions so that Google and other search engines don’t end up indexing the…
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ShushThatNoise is a WordPress plugin that lets you hide obnoxious comments without deleting them, Edit the comment and wrap the offending text in [shush][/shush]. Example: [shush]FIRST!!![/shush] or [shush reason="Boring"]FIRST!!![/shush]Readers can choose to read the buried comment by clicking on the “Show” link.
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One of my many obsessions is with activity streams — collecting the little bits of information we leave all over the web and organizing it into something a bit more useful. I used to use Sweetcron for that on this website but a) Sweetcron has largely been abandoned and efforts to fork and update it…