In no particular order – these are tenthirteen (of a very long list) of my very favorite underrated (underused?) WordPress Plugins.
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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.
WP Theme Users: Remove the Meta Sections from the Sidebar!
Jul
18
At DailyblogTips they have very good advice on why you should remove the meta section from your blog’s sidebar.
The Meta section includes some admin links like “Login” or “XHTML Valid.” While those links might be useful for the owner of the blog, they offer no value at all for the reader.
Movable Type 4 Beta Available
Jul
16
I’m a little late with this, as I’ve completely stopped using MT on all of my sites, but I just saw that Sixapart has released a beta version of Movable Type 4. The new interface looks kinda sweet actually.
Sixapart touts that MT has 50 new features, including a new easier setup that will have you up and running in minutes. Also very interesting is the summary of how your blog(s) is doing with some pretty cool stats built right in.
It’s worth another try I suppose, and I’m going to give it a test go and see how I like it.
The real question is whether or not this new version (or any subsequent ones) will be enough to win back the hearts of many MT fans who jumped ship to WordPress. Is it too little, too late?
Tartan Pattern Background Generator
Jul
11
Very cool find here – a tartan pattern background generator! You can adjust the width and color of up to 10 bands, as well as adjust the overall “yarn” (pattern) size. You can also change the orientation of the pattern from normal horizontal and vertical patches/stripes to diagonals. Also provides you with the option to preview the pattern fullscreen, in a smaller preview box, or a single tile. You can download your finished pattern (as a .png file) and share the pattern with other users of Tartanmaker by naming and tagging your creation. Check out the gallery too, which offers you the option of downloading other user’s creations, rating patterns or modifying them.
My tartan patterns:
