Apr
Plugins in Use @ Moondance: Google XML Sitemaps
Posted by Michelle Petit-Sumrall as Blogging, Plugins, Wordpress
So far, much of what we have discussed involved getting your blog found on search engines and keeping it clean of spam. There’s one more plugin that will help you get popular: Google XML Sitemap.
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Tags: Blogging, Moondance, Plugins
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Apr
Plugins in Use @ Moondance : All-in-One SEO Pack
Posted by Michelle Petit-Sumrall as Blogging, Plugins, Wordpress
It’s plugins time once again! This time, we’ll talk about getting your site found on the major search engines.
If you’ve been following along so far you should have developed a pretty decent set of blogging skills. Moreover, by now I bet you’ve got a few articles published, because blogging is an addiction: once you start, it’s hard to resist. But who’s reading your innermost thoughts, your most important opinion, your treatise on life? How will they ever find your insightful insights? The secret lies in great content, word of mouth (or rather, word of web, which we discussed a bit in the post on the “Add-to-Any“plugin), and Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
The “All-In-One SEO Pack” plugin makes it pretty easy.
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Tags: Blogging, Plugins, Wordpress
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Dec
Plugins in Use @ Moondance: Wordpress Stats
Posted by Michelle Petit-Sumrall as Blogging, Plugins, Wordpress
Continuing on with my series on the plugins available for your Moondance-hosted blog, this time we tackle “WordPress Stats”, a tool designed to show you the basics of how many people are visiting your blog and other such cool and useful things.
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Tags: Blogging, Plugins, Wordpress
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Nov
Plugins in use @ Moondance – Akismet
Posted by Michelle Petit-Sumrall as Blogging, Plugins, Wordpress, security
Akismet Button
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Tags: Blogging, Plugins, security, Wordpress
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Nov
Plugins in Use @ Moondance – “Add-to-Any”
Posted by Michelle Petit-Sumrall as Blogging, Plugins, Widgets, Wordpress
In my second post on this blog I mentioned some of the Wordpress plugins that are available on Moondance, and promised I would explain how some of them work, why I’m using the ones I’ve chosen, and so on. I will do my best to do exactly that for you, starting with the “Add-to-Any” plugins.
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Oct
Plugins
Posted by Michelle Petit-Sumrall as Miscellaneous
These are the plugins installed for the Moondance blogs. This should update automatically.
There are 40 plugins used: 30 active plugins and 10 inactive plugins.Active Plugins
Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button .9.9.2.3
» Add to Any (url)
Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service. [Settings]
Akismet 2.2.6
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.
All in One SEO Pack 1.4.91
» Michael Torbert (url)
Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. Options configuration panel | Donate | Support
Autor Exposed 1.0
» Igor Penjivrag (url)
Simple and elegant way to get more information about author.
Broken Link Checker 0.4.14
» Janis Elsts (url)
Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.
Datafeedr Random Ads Plugin 1.1
» Datafeedr.com (url)
The Datafeedr Random Ads plugin is a free plugin which allows you to simply and easily show random ads anywhere in your template files or using widgets.
Event Calendar 3.1.4
» Alex Tingle (url)
Manage future events as an online calendar. Display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar. You can subscribe to the calendar from iCal (OSX) or Sunbird. Change settings on the Event Calendar Options screen.
Event Calendar Widget 3.1.4
» Darrell Schulte (url)
Adds sidebar widgets for Event Calendar and Upcoming Events. Requires the EventCalendar and Widget plugins (WordPress version 2.1 and earlier). After activating, please visit Sidebar Widgets for WordPress version 2.1 and earlier or Widgets for WordPress version 2.2 and subsequent to configure and arrange your new widgets.
Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.2
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page
Grouped Links Widget 1.0.3
» Stefan Meretz (url)
Grouped Links Widget can use any number of widget instances to group links by their associated link categories. Tested for WP 2.7.
Insights 1.0.1
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Insights allows you to quickly search and insert information (links, images, videos, maps, news..) into your blog posts.
Maintenance Mode 4.3
» Michael Wöhrer (url)
Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end. Navigate to Settings → Maintenance Mode to get started.
pageMash 1.3.0
» Joel Starnes (url)
Manage your multitude of pages with pageMash’s slick drag-and-drop style, ajax interface. Allows quick sorting, hiding and organising of parenting.
Popularity Contest 1.3b3
» Alex King (url)
NOTICE: This is a modified version of the original plugin. Modifications by Wessley Roche in order to work with WordPress 2.5. This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values. Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports. You can also use the included Template Tags to display post popularity and lists of popular posts on your blog.
Register Plus 3.5.1
» Skullbit (url)
WordPress 2.5+ ONLY. Enhance your Registration Page. Add Custom Logo, Password Field, Invitation Codes, Disclaimer, Captcha Validation, Email Validation, User Moderation, Profile Fields and more.
Shadowbox JS 2.0.4.1
» Matt Martz (url)
A javascript media viewer similar to Lightbox and Thickbox. Supports all types of media, not just images.
Simple Tags 1.6.6
» Amaury BALMER (url)
Simple Tags : Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.3, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 ! Autocompletion, Suggested Tags, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Mass edit tags !
Snazzy Archives 1.2.3
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site which creates completely unique archive pages.
Sphere Related Content 1.4
» Watershed Studio, LLC (url)
Automatically show related blog posts and news articles from Sphere. NEW in this version, related video for news bloggers. You can now select from several plug-in types, see the Sphere Configuration Page for details. More plug-in types for politics and other categories coming soon.
Tagline Rotator 1.0
» Vasken Hauri (url)
Displays a random tagline from a database list. You can manage taglines through Settings->Tagline Rotator.
Theme Test Drive 2.7.3
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Safely test drive any theme while visitors are using the default one. Includes instant theme preview via thumbnail.
User Photo 0.9.4
» Weston Ruter (url)
Allows users to associate photos with their accounts by accessing their “Your Profile” page. Uploaded images are resized to fit the dimensions specified on the options page; a thumbnail image is also generated. New template tags introduced are: userphoto_the_author_photo, userphoto_the_author_thumbnail, userphoto_comment_author_photo, and userphoto_comment_author_thumbnail. Uploaded images may be moderated by administrators. This plugin is developed at Shepherd Interactive for the benefit of the community.
WordPress.com Stats 1.3.8
» Andy Skelton (url)
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.
WP-Footnotes 3.3
» Simon Elvery (url)
Allows a user to easily add footnotes to a post.
WP-PageNavi 2.40
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.
WP-PluginsUsed 1.40
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.
WP-UserOnline 2.40
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Enable you to display how many users are online on your Wordpress blog with detailed statistics of where they are and who there are(Members/Guests/Search Bots).
WP-UserOnline Widget 2.40
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds a UserOnline Widget to display users online from WP-UserOnline Plugin. You need to activate WP-UserOnline first.
WP Hive 0.4.2
» ikailo (url)
Hive manager for multiple blogs with a single WP installation.
WP Wall 1.4.2
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
“Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately, without reloading the page.
Inactive Plugins
Advanced Tagline 1.5.3
» Kevin Morey (url)
This plugin gives the option to have multiple taglines for your blog and display them at random or sequentially with each page view
Downloads Manager 1.0 rc-1
» Giulio Ganci (url)
This Plugin adds a simple downloads manager to your blog.
GYS Themed Categories 2.1
» Mike Lopez (url)
This plugin allows you to assign themes to each of your Wordpress categories. To assign themes to your categories, just go to Manage->Categories and you’ll see a dropdown of all available themes at the bottom of the form. Get more GYS Themes and Plugins at Get-Your-Stuff.Com.
Hello Dolly 1.5.1
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page.
Profiler 1.2.8
» Eric Schulz (url)
An enhanced version of the Profiler plugin with support for multiple users. It allows you to display the information of every registered user on your site in a special members area. Each user has their own profile which can be modified from the WordPress admin interface by either the user or an administrator.
Quote Rotator 3.5.6
» Luke Howell (url)
Creates widget to rotate user entered Quotes.
Role Manager 2.2.3
» Thomas Schneider (url)
Role Management for WordPress 2.0.x, up to 2.6.x..
Tabbed Widgets 0.77
» Kaspars Dambis (url)
Place widgets into tabbed and accordion type interface blocks. Configuration options are available under Design » Tabbed Widgets.
Wordpress Navigation List Plugin NAVT 1.0.31
» Greg Bellucci (url)
Create, organize and manage your web site navigation by logically grouping your pages, categories and user’s via a drag’n drop interface. Manage your navigation lists from the NAVT Lists menu tab in the Manage menu.
WP-Print 2.40
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page.
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