A lot of fans, including myself, of the popular photography finder and attribution plugin, PhotoDropper, were disappointed with the updates. So today we are looking at some alternatives that may be able to fill PhotoDropper’s shoes. Below are three selections from the Official WordPress Plugin repository. Just as the case with any open-source contribution to… Read More »
Plugin Picks – New, Updated and Cool Plugins to Enhance WordPress Sites
On February - 3 - 2012
In this Plugin Picks we look at new security plugins. While WordPress takes security very seriously (making constant improvements, monitoring/culling entries in the Repository and notifying WordPress hosts of updates in real time), there are always going to be situations and users that call for special measures. Below are three recently released plugins which expand… Read More »
Plugin Picks – New, Updated and Cool Plugins to Enhance WordPress Sites
On January - 27 - 2012
In this Plugin Picks we look at plugins for widgets. Widgets “…add visitor visual and interactivity options and features, such as sidebar widgets for post categories, tag clouds, navigation, search, etc. They were originally designed to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress Theme to the user… Read More »
Tag! You Are It! Part 3, Auto-Tagging for the High Volume Blogger
On December - 19 - 2011
In the first part of this series, we explained the importance and advantages of using Tags in WordPress posts. We then followed up with how to track down and correct tagless posts on your blog. In this last installment, we’ll take a look at a plugin designed to help high volume publishers or those having limited time… Read More »
In Due Time, Cron Jobs for WordPress
On July - 6 - 2011
The term cron comes from a scheduled job manager present on Unix and Unix like operating systems. Basically it allows users to schedule periodic functions. They sit quietly in the background but can trigger powerful features and take a lot of the manual toil off humans managing the system. WordPress has one common automated featured… Read More »
Adding Photo Attribution in WordPress and the Photo Dropper Plugin
On June - 27 - 2011
A well chosen and placed photograph can really add impact and meaning to a post or page in WordPress. With the advent and continued growing popularity of the Creative Commons standard back in 2002, there is a wealth of imagery to draw upon for those bloggers that don’t have a media budget or their own… Read More »
