Wordpress Plugin: Buy Me A Beer

May 26th, 2007

Miscellaneous

There are many sites around the internet that have “Donate” buttons on their sites.  While many times these sites offer great content and are no doubt worthy of a donation, it can be few and far between that it happens.  This can be for a variety of reasons, but more than likely, people just don’t [...]

Wordpress Plugin: DoFollow

May 24th, 2007

SEO

Have you ever noticed that when you comment on some blogs, the search engines will pick it up as a link to your website, while on other sites it doesn’t?
That is because most blogging sites, such as Wordpress, Blogger, and Typepad, all add a “NoFollow” tag to all comments, which instructs search engines to not [...]

Wordpress Plugin: Show Top Commentators

April 30th, 2007

Miscellaneous

There are many great plugins available for Wordpress users, but very few are so important that they should be used on pretty much every blog. The Show Top Commentators plugin is one of these that every blog that accepts comments should use.
Why? Last week, I eluded to the importance of this plugin for getting users [...]

Top 5 Comments Wordpress Plugins

April 23rd, 2007

Miscellaneous

In embracing the idea of using a blog as a conversation station, comments are a crucial part of your blogs success.   After all, why blog if you don’t want comments?  Thats more like a website because its a one-sided conversation.   As a result, I’ve decided to highlight some of the top Wordpress plugins related to [...]

Wordpress Plugin: Know Your Alexa Ranking

April 10th, 2007

Miscellaneous

The past couple weeks we’ve debated the value of Alexa’s traffic ranking system on this site, but we’ve also covered the importance of knowing and working to improve your sites Alexa ranking. 
Many people choose to display an Alexa widget on their sidebar as a way to improve their Alexa ranking, but some people would prefer not [...]

Wordpress Plugin: WP Ajax Edit Comments

April 6th, 2007

Miscellaneous

Previously, this blog used the Edit Comments plugin, which allows users to edit their own comments for roughly 30 minutes after posting on this site before the comment is permanent.   I like this feature because I’ve often submitted a comment to later find a typo.  Today I found another plugin called WP-Ajax Edit Comments which [...]