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Some of the better Wordpress plugins newly released

Better Comment Manager - Better comment manager is an extension of the wordpress default comment manager.  This plugin adds two new features, It allows you to 1) View all comments based by posts  and 2) Reply to a comment from within the Admin panel

Impress Your Friends - Installs a sidebar widget which displays things like how many posts you have had, how many words you posted, how many comments you have had, etc

Clean Trunks - Clean trunks automatically gives your posts and categories SEO friendly URLs

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Time Is Money, Save Both

Here are some keyboard shortcuts for the Wordpress post writing page.   Using these can save you time and help you Blog more efficiently

• Alt + B or Cntrl + B => Bold
• Alt + I or Cntrl + I => Italics
• Alt + K  => Strikethrough
• Alt + L => Unordered List
• Alt + O  => Ordered List
• Alt + W  => Outdent
• Alt + Q  => Indent / Blockquote
• Alt + F  => Align Left
• Alt + C  => Align Center
• Alt + R  => Align Right
• Alt + A  => Insert Link / Edit Link
• Alt + S  => Break Link
• Alt + M  => Insert Image
• Alt + T  => Split Post
• Alt + H  => Help

Want to change the shortcuts?  Or create your own?   The shortcuts can be seen and edited in the file /wp-includes/js/quicktags.js

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Here are some of the better newly released plugins

Star Ratings For Reviews - Allows you to easily insert rating stars into posts

Inline Javascript Plugin - Lets you insert inline javascript into your posts

Show Off Rankings - Lets you insert you easily show off your Google PageRank, Technorati Authority, and Alexa traffic rank into posts

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I was recently turned onto this WordPress Plugin called WPBankroll

Basically WPBankroll performs the same function for you as ReviewMe or PayPerPost.   The  difference between the two is that WPBankroll is free  ( although there is a subscribed version as well )  where as Reviewme takes half of your payment.

Obviously WPBankroll can’t take over all the functions of ReviewMe.  ReviewMe will still be great for getting advertisers who wouldn’t otherwise have come to your site.   But what about bloggers who have a “ReviewMe for $300″ banner on their site?   What is the point of sending advertisers to ReviewMe so that they can send them back and take half the money?   

By using WPbankroll judiciously you can increase your income without sacrificing your ReviewMe income.   I recommend putting up a ReviewMe review price of $X  and then setting your WPBankroll price equal to 75% of your ReviewMe price.    Your advertiser will benefit from the cheaper price.    You will benefit by getting 50% more income per review.

Sounds like a Win-Win    (And a lose if you count the commission ReviewMe is losing)

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Some more good plugins for those of you out there using Wordpress

Count Down Timer - Self Explanatory, count down the time to any given event

http:BL Lite - This is a lite version of the http:BL tool.  This plugin verifies an IP address against project honey pots database to block malicious users from accessing your site.  The difference between this version and the full version is that this version does not include logging.

Automattic Stats - Display stats of pageviews on your wordpress dashboard.  Tracks popular pages, entrance points and exit points.  It runs on their servers to keep your load low.

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I just grabbed a new theme off of Daily Blog Tips and I must say I am very impressed with it so far.  It is far far better than the default blog theme.

 2 Things that I need to modify in it though

1) My Statcounter plugin stopped working.  I deactivated it, reactivated it.  Hopefully it works again, if not I’ll need to figure out why it stopped.

2) Need to enable comments on the main page of the blog.

Both sound great things to do on Sunday

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I have experience a recurring error in Wordpress which I find quite annoying.  The Spell Checker Doesn’t Work!

Has anyone else experienced anything similar?  I find that whenever I click the spell check button, it underlines all of my misspelled words.  ( As well as words such as Blog, Google, and even Wordpress.. which it should know, but that is a separate issue)  

When I click on a word, it brings up suggestions for new words.. all is good so far.   But I can’t select any of the suggestions!   Clicking on them does nothing!     Has anyone else experienced this bug?    I have found the best way for me to spell check is to click the spell check button, find which words are spelled wrong, and then unclick it so I can fix the spelling.

If anyone has had experience with something similar, how did you fix it?

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I personally hate self pings!

If you don’t know what pings are, in blogging terms whenever you link to a website you send a ping to that blog.  If it is enabled, in the comment section of the pinged blog you will get a link back to the pinging site.

Self-pings are when you put a link to one of your own pages.  I link to myself frequently, especially when I am writing a series.  As I result I often leave comments on my own page!

In fact, of the 35 comments on my page at the time of writing 30 of them are self pings!  I have been looking for a way to turn off self pings, but there is no internal wordpress functinality to do it.   But, like many things in wordpress, there is a plugin

This plugin will let you turn off self-pings

I have only been using it for several days, but I have found it to be extremely useful.

What do you think.  Like Self pings?  Hate them?  Will you use this plugin?

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A handy feature of Wordpress that I just started using is the Database Backup Plugin.  I personally do not have the knowledge to use mySQLadmin to back up my site regularly.  Luckily, with the database backup plug in, I don’t have to. 

I  set up the plugin to Automatically backup my blog every week.  I keep 3 copies of each backup, one on my computer, one on another computer, and one hard copy.   I wouldn’t be able to remember to do this every week if not for the plugin.  Now if something happens to my site, I’ll be able to restore it without too much hassle.

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