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Tag Archives: WordPress Plugins
Trulia Plugin for WordPress
Easily add TruliaMaps to your website!
Add a Trulia maps widget showing homes in your area, without touching any HTML or code. This plugin allows you to configure tons of options; check it out today!
The Trulia real estate plugin includes options for:
- Map size
- Map, Satellite or Hybrid map type
- Slideshow – automatically cycle through houses. Choose how quickly the slideshow displays, or to turn it off.
- Map Background and Text colors
Easily add a real estate map to your page or post using “shortcodes”:
[trulia city="Bethesda" state="MD"]
will show a map for Bethesda, MD real estate.
Posted in Plugins
Tagged Trulia, WordPress Plugins, Wordpress Real Estate, WordPress Real Estate Plugin
6 Comments
Export Bit.ly Link Data as CSV
Finally, a way to download Bit.ly link data as a CSV.
Would you care to download a CSV of your Bit.ly links? WINNING!
Download the plugin from WordPress.org
Bit.ly is one of the most popular link shortening services, and rightly so: it is stable, easy to use, and has pretty looking statistics. One thing Bit.ly does not do is export data. There is simple no other Bit.ly exporter out there.
The Bit.ly Exporter plugin allows you to export up to three years of daily click data for your links. This allows you to analyse click data like you always wanted to! All you need is WordPress.
Posted in Plugins
Tagged Bit.ly, Bitly, Link Shortener, URL, WordPress, WordPress Plugins
10 Comments
SEO WordSpinner Removed from the WordPress Plugins Directory
Today I found out that the SEO WordSpinner plugin is no longer available via its WordPress Directory page. I emailed WordPress plugin-master Mark Riley asking what was up, and he just emailed me back:
Hi,
There were some complaints about some SEO plugins.
Your plugin was among those checked and given it’s purpose is not suitable for the directory now.Mark.
If you’re a fan of the SEO WordSpinner plugin, email WordPress now to show your support!
Hierarchical Link Categories for WordPress
Download the plugin on WordPress.org
If you’ve ever tried to use WordPress’ built-in bookmarks / links manager, you know that its limits can be frustrating. One of the biggest issues I’ve encountered is that the link categories are not hierarchical.
Let’s say you have a tech blog and you link to a lot of pages about TV’s. You may want to categorize the links under TV > Plasma or TV > LCD. With the existing system, you cannot.
Enter the Hierarchical Link Categories plugin
Posted in Plugins, Uncategorized, WordPress
Tagged Blogroll, Link Categories, Links, WordPress, WordPress Plugins
21 Comments
Shopify Importer – Import Shopify Products into WordPress
Download the plugin from WordPress.org
Shopify is a great hosted eCommerce provider. WordPress is the best blogging platform.
I first learned about Shopify in 2007, and was very interested in their service: they take care of every aspect of an eCommerce shop, and you pay them monthly plus a little cut of your sales.
- Themes: Shopify has a great theme generator package that uses Ruby on Rails and it also has a theme store with tons of beautiful, standards-compliant themes.
- Apps: The Shopify App Store features free and paid applications that integrate using the Shopify API.
- Hosting: Shopify uses Rackspace and Akamai for hosting and as a CDN, respectively. Security, hosting, etc.
- …and tons of other features
I am still impressed with Shopify, but when I logged in recently to my Shopify account, I saw that Shopify’s “blogging” functionality is weak. Very weak. When I saw that there was an app to import a WordPress blog into Shopify, I laughed, and went ahead creating a Shopify importer for WordPress.
Posted in Plugins, WordPress
Tagged Shopify, Shopping Cart, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Shopping Cart
12 Comments
EasyVideoPlayer WordPress Plugin
Embed EasyVideoPlayer videos to WordPress
Finally add videos inside your WordPress content without the hassle!
Download the plugin from WordPress.org
It’s been hard — and very technical — to embed EVP videos inside WordPress content…until now. The EVP plugin for WordPress changes everything – it is now simple to add EVP videos to your content.
Posted in Plugins
Tagged Easy Video Player, EasyVideoPlayer, Embed Video, EVP, EVP 2.0, Video, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins
41 Comments
Lottery Results – A New WordPress Plugin
Download the plugin at WordPress.org
For plugin support, please visit the support forum.
Show lottery results from all 43 states with lotteries
- Choose which games you want to display
- Choose from different lotto results layouts
- Embed results in your content using the
lottery]shortcode.
The widget automatically gets updated results every 6 hours, then they are stored in your website for very fast load times.
Posted in Plugins
Tagged Lottery, Lottery Results, Powerball, WordPress, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins
12 Comments
Snow Report – Ski Mountain Conditions Plugin for WordPress
Get the latest ski/snowboarding conditions from your favorite area or mountain using the Snow Report WordPress plugin.
The plugin uses the OnTheSnow.com website’s data feeds that provide the most accurate, up to date information available.
Posted in Plugins
Tagged Ski Report, Snow, Snow Report, WordPress, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins
41 Comments
Weather Forecasts for WordPress – WP Wunderground Plugin
This is the official plugin support page for the Wunderground plugin. Download it now from WordPress.org.
Do you need plugin support or have comments?
For information on how to use the Wunderground plugin, please view the plugin page.
Posted in Plugins
Tagged Weather, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins, Wunderground
54 Comments
WordPress.org Changes Plugin Page Layout
WordPress.org plugin page layout change likely for usability
What the WordPress.org plugin page used to look like.
A couple of weeks ago, WordPress.org changed the layout of their plugins directory plugin pages. The update was likely to improve usability for users trying to determine whether a plugin is trustworthy and what it does. I believe the re-arranging of the page has achieved those goals.
The update removes author links
The layout redesign removes links to the official plugin page. I believe this makes it more difficult for users trying to get support on plugins.
Removing links also affects plugin authors. One of the ways that plugin authors are “rewarded” for creating plugins used to be a link from the WordPress.org website. This resulted in two things: increased traffic to the author’s website and some passed SEO value from the WordPress website to the author’s website.
I recommend all authors to go back through their readme.txt files and add a link to their support pages.
Posted in Web Development
Tagged Layout, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins, WordPress.org
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