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If you are interested please go to the Design 2 Code page and fill out the form. Payment is required at start of project.
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.
Darren Hoyt has written an amazing, concise and easy to read WordPress “tutorial” on using the template tags to customize your Wordpress theme in creative ways to achieve the layout you desire - in this case a magazine style layout.
Before reading it will help if you have a familiarity with WordPress of course, but I think anyone who’s just dipped their toes in a WordPress template will be able to understand and use this article to stretch their imagination to create a complex theme.
(Don’t miss the first part of these great series!)
In no particular order - these are tenthirteen (of a very long list) of my very favorite underrated (underused?) Wordpress Plugins.
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.
