Tag: Wordpress

WP Resized Image Quality Plugin

Even though I’ve been using it for years, I didn’t realize until recently that WordPress compresses uploaded images to 90 percent.

The WP Resized Image Quality plugin adds an option in Settings that features a slider so you can change the compression level.

I get why the WP devs probably think compressing uploaded images is a good idea (they are wrong, but I get why they think this is a good idea), but compressing images and not building in a setting where this can be adjusted without adding a plugin or editing a PHP file is ridiculous.

Threads Plugin for WordPress

Threads is a plugin for WordPress that makes it easy to arrange multiple posts in a timeline. If, for example, you had several posts on your blog about a particular event, Threads makes it easy for readers to follow along.

Another good usage of Threads is on a news site to track posts related to a single ongoing story. For example, a tech blog might create a thread to group stories about a product launch event. Several months later, stories about sales figures for the product might be added to the thread. By placing all of these posts in a thread, there is a useful visual way of browsing all of the posts.

Developer Alex King has a nice example on his website of the sort of potential use for this.

Custom Comment Form Title Plugin for WordPress

Custom Comment Form Title is a WordPress plugin that lets the user modify the default “Leave A Reply” message that appears above the comment box on WordPress posts.

The plugin allows the default message to be changed and also allows the message to be customized on a post-by-post basis in order to provide a conversation prompt relevant to the content of the post.

Colored Admin Post List Plugin for WordPress

Color Admin Post List is a plugin for WordPress that color-codes posts in the “All Posts” view to help better distinguish between drafts, pending posts, published posts, future posts and private posts.

Colored Admin Post List Plugin for WordPress

The plugin allows the user to change the colors applied to posts, but that’s pretty much it.

There is a commercial WordPress Plugin available for $12 called Color My Posts Pro that does the same thing only with finer grained control. Color My Posts Pro allows the user to color posts based not only on post status, but post author, post format, post categories, post tags, and even individual posts.