I am not a big fan of websites that have half a billion “Add to Facebook/Delicio.us/Fly-By-Night Social Site of the week” buttons, but I do like the way that the Add to Any WordPress plugin handles this with just a single button that lists its various options when you hover over it. I’m currently trying it out on this blog to test whether or not it helps or is just an annoyance.
Tag: Plugins
@ Reply Plugin for WordPress
The @ Reply plugin for WordPress adds a Reply To link (either graphical or text) in the comments to make it easy to make it clear to which commenter/comment you are replying to.
WordPress Carbon Footprint Plugin – Ugh
Somebody just had to go and write a Carbon Footprint plugin for WordPress,
The script searches through every post and every page on your blog, counting the total number of words and images in each post. It then works out how many pages the text would take up assuming a standard of 794 words per page. This was worked out by taking the most widely used fonts, font sizes, the word processor being used and other print options. It also works out how many pages the images would take up, again based on DPI, margins and other factors. The most widely used paper is around 120gsm (grams per square meter) and standard A4 paper is 210x297mm. This means that we can approximate that there is 0.0074844g of carbon per sheet of paper which we multiply by our number of pages to give the total amount carbon saved by the blog vs it being printed out on paper.
Um, yeah, ok I guess. But what about the carbon generated by a) the computer hosting the site, b) the computers of the folks accessing the site, and c) the computer used to write the post. For example, I know I have about 6 computers (including this server) that are on 24/7 sucking up sweet electricity while they gradually kill the planet (mwahahaha).
Simply saying “oh, if you had printed all of your blog posts out it would have used X grams of carbons” is just a silly metric.
Xavin’s Review Ratings Plugin for WordPress
Xavin’s Review Ratings is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to add and display a rating system to posts, such as if you’re doing a lot of movie or music reviews and want to rate items on an X scale. If you need this sort of feature, this plugin pretty much does everything you could ask.
Progressive License WordPress Plugin
Progressive License is a clever little WordPress plugin that allows the user to, among other things, change the licensing terms for blog posts over time. For example, you could have a copyright notice appear on a blog post until 30 days after it is published whereupon the license automatically switches over to a Creative Commons noncommercial license. If you wanted, you could go further and remove the noncommercial stipulation after, say, 6 months or whatever else you find appropriate.
Footnotes Plugin For WordPress
WP-Footnotes is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to add footnotes to any post. You just surround whatever text you want to be the footnote with double parenthesis, and the plugin takes care of the numbering, location, etc. of the footnotes.