Tag: Wordpress

Cleverness To-Do List Plugin for WordPress

Cleverness To-Do List is a plugin for WordPress that adds a task list system, including a dashboard widget showing users what tasks they’ve been assigned.

You can configure the plugin to have private to-do lists for each user, to have all users share a to-do list, or to have a master list with individual completion of items. The shared to-do list has a variety of settings available. You can assign to-do items to a specific user (includes a setting to email a new to-do item to the assigned user) and optionally have those items only viewable by that user. You can also assign different permission levels using capabilities. There are also settings to show deadline and progress fields. Category support is included as well as front-end administration.

P3 Profiler Plugin for WordPress Checks Performance Issues

The P3 Profiler plugin for WordPress will “create a profile of your WordPress site’s plugins’ performance by measuring their impact on your site’s load time. Often times, WordPress sites load slowly because of poorly configured plugins or because there are so many of them. By using the P3 plugin, you can narrow down anything causing slowness on your site.”

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.

WordTwit Pro

WordTwit Pro is one of the few commercial WordPress plugins I’ve paid for, and am extremely happy with. This is another plugin designed to let users automatically tweet blog posts. I’ve played around with quite a few of these, but this is the only one that had all the features I needed.

What I especially liked was the ability, seen in the screenshot below, to schedule tweets to occur a certain amount of time after a post gets published. WordTwit Pro also supports a variety of URL shorteners, including self-hosted YOURLS installs, and has a very simple but thorough interface for editing what finally gets tweeted.

Finally, I didn’t have any problem at all actually getting it to tweet without having to jump through a bunch of hoops. Most of the other post-to-Twitter plugins I tried were a pain in the ass to configure to actually work properly with Twitter.

Expensive ($39 to $99 depending on the number of sites you want to install it on) but worth it.