Yesterday Ben, from Binary Moon, released a new plugin that allows you to modify your WordPress login screen without worrying about it being being overwritten by future WordPress updates. This got me thinking about my very favorite adminstrative WordPress plugins that make my life easier when using WordPress. These are plugins I have used or want to use that focus on things like making the admin panel more friendly, that help organize and customize advertising, block spam, gather information, and more.
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Category Archives: Web Tools
Jul
Spotplex Vs. Digg
Jul
18
Spotplex is a digg-like system where your blog’s articles are ranked on the amount of views they receive (which are counted by a Spotplex provided code). Every time someone “reads” (views) your post it is counted by Spotplex propelling that article up the popularity ladder.
From Spotplex:
Spotplex is the only online content aggregation service that dynamically provides an instant, impartial ranking of popular Web content. With Spotplex, Internet users are not required to change their behavior to generate content rankings. By eliminating tagging and voting, Spotplex more accurately reflects what people read most today.
Based on an algorithm-based measuring system that analyzes readers’ behavior in real time, Spotplex’s popular content rankings come from actual impressions, or “reads”. This impartial process gives every blogger a better opportunity to be heard. Spotplex also uses a relative popularity measure by which article reads are measured relative to a site’s overall traffic, rather than by volume alone. This evens the playing field so all blogs can compete equally in the Spotplex rankings, regardless of readership size or subject matter.
Pet Peeve: “Forcing” Invites When Joining a Social Network
Jul
9
I just joined Shelfari “an interactive social media site for book lovers. Using Shelfari, you can create a personal shelf of your books, see what your friends are reading, get and give recommendations for what to read next, create book lists, and even share your opinion on a book with friends or the growing Shelfari community.” And I am super super excited about it being an avid reader and always looking to find new books to read and finding new books through the recommendations of others.
I worked at a library for nearly 3/4 years and consistently stole their Publisher’s Weekly and Book Review Digest to find the newest and most interesting books, so finding an online network where I can read the reviews of others and post my own is exciting.
Except for one thing.
Colourlover’s Finally Comments on Adobe’s kuler
Jul
8
Colourlovers has finally commented on Adobe’s kuler nearly 8 months since it’s launch. I’ve long used colourlovers as inspiration for new color schemes when I hit a color-block. Colourlovers first launched in 2004 building and strong community following and adding more and more neat features as time passed. Adobe’s kuler launched November of 2006 offering another fantastic resource for those looking for color inspiration. The argument here though isn’t who does it best, or who has the coolest features (each site wins different rounds in that aspect) – it’s the fact that Adobe has clearly borrowed their kuler site idea from colourlovers and despite being contacted by the owner of colurlovers has made no attempt to remedy the situation.
Feedburner Pro features now free
Jul
5
Since Google has acquired Feedburner two of the previously paid features are now completely free!
Beginning today, two of FeedBurner’s previously for-pay services, TotalStats and MyBrand, will be free.