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Tags: Plugins, Wordpress.
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A brilliant Wordpress plugin I’ve come across lately is “What Would Seth Godin Do?”
This plugin allows you to insert a little box into the latest post, or the post page that a new user is visiting. It works by storing a cookie in the users browser so of course users will see it again if they clear their cookies, but its better than nothing! I have it installed at the moment and you can all see it, as you can see its encouraging you to subscribe, which I think it is best used for! So everyone listen to what it says and subscribe! I’d like to see those feedburner numbers go up abit! 
Tags: Plugins.
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Just found a brilliant plugin that will automatically update Wordpress for you, WordPress Auto Update [WPAU] This I think will be brilliant for bloggers who just don’t want to have to deal with the hassle of upgrading or don’t know how to! Get it here! What exactly does it do you ask?
Well:
Here is what WPAU does;
1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
4. Puts the site in maintenance mode.
5. De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
6. Upgrades wordpress files.
7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
8. Re-activates the plugins.
Tags: Plugins.
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So there’s been some talk around the blogosphere recently about Adblock, starting off from the one guy who decided to block all Firefox users from his website due to the fact that they can block ad’s with the Adblock extension. Tom Raftery has made a post about his thoughts on it here.
As a blogger, who has ZERO ads on his website, I’m Pro-Adblock, even when I did have ad’s on my website Adblock is a handy feature. Readers who don’t want to see ad’s don’t have to, true your not going to make any money out of them but you wouldn’t anyway. Anyone who is “smart” enough to install Adblock is smart enough to not click some random ad! Honestly I think at the end of the day alot of people have lost track of what having a website is about, its all about income now! How much money can I make from this and that! I’m totally against Google Ads. Sponsorship I don’t mind, an optional Pay service, or perhaps even just a nice old donate feature. I click Ad’s for “Sponsors” on websites. Just due to the fact as they are actually relevant to what I’m looking for, I know of no blog with an optional “pay service” so I can’t say I have done that. However, the nice old paypal donate buttons, if I like your post, I will donate to you!
But back on track, blocking out Firefox users just because they could possibly have an ad-blocking service is ridiculous. And the whole “We give you free content they should have to look at ads” thats even more stupid. Seriously guys, your not making that much from ad’s! Because if you were you would not be complaining! As well as that, like it or not you need the Firefox users. You stop Firefox users from coming to your website your locking out a good portion of the internet that is not going to be happy about it, your potential for sponsorship will be very low.
You people are so strange sometimes!
Tags: Mozilla, Plugins.
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Well its happened! I finally got around to moving the blog out of the /blog directory and up onto just /.
I probably did it the most messed up way, first trying to just move the blog folder itself and then when that didn’t work doing a clean install! But its here and thats all that matters! Lets just say thank god for backups! Mint is still working perfectly!
Also, I have now installed a plugin on the old blog that redirects all the traffic here, what makes this better than just doing a PHP redirect? Well the fact that if someone goes to a certain article they get brought to the certain article here. Instead of just the main page and having to search for what they were looking for originally! This is accomplished via the .htaccess file. The plugin is called “Moving Your Blog” and can be located here.
Note: Both websites permalink structures have to be the same!
Tags: Blog, Plugins.
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Well never having heard of it until Ken mentioned it, last night I decided to have a look at what Mint was. I’ll admit, I fell in love with the screenshots, the idea, the abilitys. . And just an hour ago! I purchased it, not too bad a price either $30/per site. I’ve only bought it for this domain, but we’ll see how things work out!
There’s a screenshot of the plugins / theme I am using. Just click it, it loads itself! I think the amazing thing about Mint is Pepper, the amount of plugins you can get for it! For instance I can now track my blog subscriptions, my google page rank and my latest blog comments from Mint! Three things you’ll find it hard to find in another stat program! The ability to be able to move around your modules via Ajax is another seller for me! More important modules to the top, rest to the bottom!
The theme I’m using if anyone is interested is “Massive Blue“, all plugins and more themes can be gotten from the Peppermill. I can see Mint being a big player in the stat market as time goes on, more time = more modules!
Lastly, if your setting your Mint up on Wordpress I reccomend using this plugin here to automatically install it!
Tags: Mint, Plugins, Statistics.
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So recently I installed a plugin called Twitter SMS Notification, which would basically post a twitter of a comment when somebody would comment me, meaning I would get the comment texted to my phone. However the last few comments haven’t been coming up on the blog and I’ve been going a tad insane trying to figure out what was wrong! So I’ve pinned it down to the fact that Twitter SMS Notification must have a bug in it that deletes them. If someone could post a comment on this post just so I could see if it’s working or not it would be much appreciated! If it doesn’t work drop me a line at sean.sneoATgmailDOTcom
Tags: Plugins.
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Well i’ve finally bit the bullet and installed Google Analytics. I’ve been putting it off for a while simply because I really hate looking at my stats and seeing them super low! But I think now from tommorrow on I might start promoting the blog a little more to increase readers, I have also GOT to switch my feeds over to feedburner! Its a definate must! Might look at that in a few minutes, I probably will only check the stats once or twice a month, though they do get quiet addictive. I remember on The Technology Blog at its peak having fifty different people come to the blog one day was just insane. So lets try beat that record!
I’m using the Google Analytic plugin for Wordpress found here
Tags: Blog, Plugins, Statistics.
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Okay, I’ve decided I’m going to just make a post here of all my plugins I’m using, instead of 10 different posts for each one!
Firstly, my little spam fighters are:
Akismet and Did You Pass Math?
Then on the add-ons I have
Dean’s FCKEditor For Wordpress,
This is a great attachment I think anyway, I love FCKEditor and I really am more used to it than wordpress’s default editor. I also rather the lots of extra features, half of which I probably won’t use but they look pretty hey! 
Extended Live Archives
This plugin isn’t yet really working how I want it, but I just need to re-style it and I will be happy. It provides and Ajax-based archive which is very handy for finding posts fast!
Twitter Tools
I was originally using this to update Twitter when I made a blog post, but I find that too annoying, I don’t really know why! 
So at the moment this is just making a post itself per day of my daily Twits! Show off twitter to my readers I guess
Disable WordPress Widgets
I’m using this plugin because I am using the k2 theme. And the k2 sidebar modules are a hell of alot better than the wordpress widgets!
Tags: Blog, Plugins.
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Ok, the feeds are being powered with feedburner.I’m using a lovely plugin called Feedburn to change all my subcribe links over to feedburner aswell as provide the chicklets that you can see in the right hand sidebar there! Very good plugin! So far no trouble with it!
Tags: Blog, Plugins.
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