Wordpress Plugins
To WWW or Not That Is Google’s Question?
The Plugin That Lets You Have Your Own Way With Google..
If, like I have a couple of times, you have forgotten to check the URL of your WordPress site when you first set it up, click on Settings, the first screen that comes up will have the WordPress Address URL and the Blog Address URL.
For setting up as better Search Engine fodder they should both be:-
http://www. then the domain name. If your site addresses are just the http:// then you are in need of this plugin. It is called Enforce WWW Preference. You can find it here:- Enforce WWW Preferences
Once again, if you have upgraded to the 2.7.1 version of WordPress then all
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you need to do is, download the zip file, go to Add New in the Plugins section of your Dashboard menu, browse to where you saved the zip file, click on the Upload button, when the next screen comes up, click on the Activate plugin and you’re nearly done.
One last step, you need to go to Google Webmaster Tools, your Google account gets you in (don’t have a Google account?, sign up for one it’s free).
You need to verify your site by adding a piece of code that is supplied.. This piece of code goes into the header.php file in the Editor Section of Appearance on your site. Look for these tags </head> <body> and paste the code before the </head> tag, click update/save.
Now go back to Google Webmaster Tools and hit the Verify button and all should be well, your site should be verified.
Now in the Webmaster Tools, click on Settings in the side menu and you will see the preferred domain feature options for whichever way you want your URL to be indexed, the www or the non www.
This plugin will help preserve your permalinks by enforcing your no-www or yes-www preference (http://example.com/ vs. http://www.example.com/) and will strip off index.php from the ends of URIs.
Google Webmaster Tools is not a bad place to visit, they have lots of good ‘stuff’ there to help with your sites, have a wander while you’re there doing this.
There you go, some talented person has coded this for you and me, to help us keep the search engines happy and coming back to visit our sites.
If you find the plugin useful, then why not let the person who built it know. If you aren’t comfortable with the Paypal button, Mark has a great wish list with Amazon. Just thought I would mention that as the wish list is a good idea. Go push his buttons, you’ll find them at the bottom of the plugin link here
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WordPress 2.7.1 Upgrading and New Plugins Feature
WordPress 2.7.1 version is available and to upgrade is a breeze, literally one click and it’s done. Remember to back up your database first with the inbuilt backup option, it’s under tools.
Great new features in WordPress 2.7 and 2.7.1 gets even better.
Now there is another feature that has changed with this update, it is how you get your plugins. Not sure if it’s me and my computer or it is how things will 
be from now on but……..you do it all from your Dashboard Menu for Plugins under Add New.
I have tried uploading a couple of plugins via FTP and they haven’t appeared on the plugins page, seems like it is all done via the Add New section. Which, by the way is very good.
On the Add New page, you can search for plugins via Term, Author and Tag and you will get a list of related keywords with description and rating and the option to install your selection.
There is also several options like, Featured, Popular, Newest and Recently Updated. As of writing, there are
4 Plugins in the Featured section
165 Pages of plugins in the Popular Section
178 Pages of plugins in the Newest
and
178 Pages also in the Recently Updated
That’s a couple or two to check out while you’re waiting for something to upload, download, (good for when a video is buffering/streaming and you have the sound down to zero, so you can listen to it later without the stuttering).
Big choice!
You have the option also to upload a plugin from your computer but it must be in zip format. So no need to download the zip and extract the files anymore, just download the zip and this handy little option uploads the plugin zip and does all the work for you, too easy.
So now I’m off to organise my favourite plugins into a folder with the zip files only. I’ve been known to delete the zips once I’ve extracted the files, so may have some chasing to do. Still when you know what’s ahead, it is a good chase.
WordPress just gets better and better!
WordPress Plugins, Three Handy Ones.
Three plugins I’ve found recently, thought you might like to take a look.
So this first plugin was just what I’ve been looking for.
From Manuel Grabowski
I know most people use Google Analytics and yes, they are good and your stats from your web host cpanel are excellent too but this one is right on your site, in your Dashboard and so easy to check.
You get in the Overview (Includes Column Graph for daily quick comparison)
- Hits (date, time, IP etc)
- Search Terms
- Referrers
- Agents (bots)
- Pages
- Spiders
There are many options to enable you to collect data on your site’s stats,
and you get all this right there on your Dashboard, no bringing up a new browser.
WordPress.com have great stats built in, and I’ve tried the plugin for my own hosted sites but no matter what, I’ve never been able to get the API key to work on a WordPress.org site.
This plugin (previously known as StatPress) shows you real time statistics about your blog. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers, OS etc.
Once the plugin StatPress has been activated it immediately starts to collect information. Using StatPress you can see your visitors actions while they are surfing your blog or check which are the preferred pages, posts and categories. In the Dashboard menu you will find the StatPress page where you could look up the statistics (overview or detailed). StatPress also includes a widget you can add to a sidebar (or easy PHP code if you can’t use widgets!).
StatPress speaks English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Norwegian, Dutch, Brazilian, Turkish, Swedish!
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From Vladimir Prelovac
SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.
Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs. Finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window.
Everything happens completely transparent, and you can edit the options from the administration settings panel.
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WP125
From redwall_hp
Easily and efficiently manage your 125×125 advertisments with this plugin. Used on The Theme Blog’s sidebar, WP125 provides a simple admin panel system for creating new ad campaigns, setting a time for removal and reviewing click statistics.
This plugin is for the little 125×125 ad blocks like the ones on my sidebar or similar type ads, you can use this plugin on a single colums too.
From this plugin’s admin panel, you can control those little 125x125s.
The features included are:
* One or two column ad display, and support through template tags to implement your own unconventional design.
* Show as many ads as you want, and in either manual or random order
* Keep track of how many times an ad is clicked
* When creating a new ad, you don’t have to calculate the end date yourself. Just input how many days you wish the ad to run for, and the correct date will be applied. The ad will be automatically taken down when the time comes.
* When an ad run is over, the record is archived on the Inactive ads screen, so you can check on the final click count, or revive the ad for another run.
* When an ad slot is empty, a placeholder ad of your choice will be displayed. This could be a �Your Ad Here� image linking to a page with statistics and pricing, or an affiliate link.
* Optionally recieve email notifications when an ad expires. Useful if you send follow-up messages to advertisers, or if you just want to stay in the know.
Hope you find these useful
I’ll add these three to my WordPress Plugins page.too.
Catch you later,
Cheers
Carmel
PS if you check out the last sentence above, the link for “WordPress Plugins” was done by the SEO Smart Links Plugin automatically……Nice!
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