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Category Archives: Plugins

Plugin: Thanks for Commenting

As bloggers, we should be grateful to readers who write thoughtful comments. One way we can show our appreciation is to remove the nofollow attribute in comments.
We can go one step further by sending out a short email to say thank you whenever they comment. So I’ve created the Thanks for Commenting plugin.
It’s really easy […]

Posted 23 August 2007 § ‡ Comments (0)

Plugin: Welcome Back Your Readers

Have you ever wanted to welcome your readers back to your blog by displaying a friendly message? It’s actually possible and I learnt this tip from Andrea Micheloni.
It works if the reader is logged in or he had left comments before. WordPress actually saves his name in the cookies and the plugin takes advantage […]

Posted 21 June 2007 § ‡ Comments (1)

WordPress Plugin Syntax Checker

Have you ever uploaded and activated a new plugin, only to realize that it contains PHP errors? I have.
Did you find it a hassle to delete that file using your FTP client so that WordPress would start working again? I did.
So I wondered if it’s possible to check the PHP syntax of a WordPress plugin […]

Posted 07 May 2007 § ‡ Comments (1)

Sticky Post on WordPress

There was a request at the WordPress Ideas page to make it easy to create sticky posts.
I think it’s a feature sorely lacking in WordPress. Not only would it be useful to have a particular post stay at the top of the home page, it would be great if I could post some sticky […]

Posted 05 May 2007 § ‡ Comments (126)

1 Click to Stop & Start Plugins

If you use WordPress plugins, you’d have come across situations where you need to deactivate all your plugins and then activate them at a later time.
This plugin lets you do that with 1 click!
This is how it works. If there are plugins loaded, then a click of 1 Click Stop & Start Plugins will deactivate […]

Posted 04 May 2007 § ‡ Comments (7)

Post Footer Plugin

If you scroll down to the end of this post, you will see some text that goes:
“About the author: I’m Alex Choo and I live in sunny Singapore. I’m also the developer of WP Text Ads, a WordPress plugin that lets bloggers sell ads directly to advertisers … ”
It’s easy to add this snippet of […]

Posted 03 May 2007 § ‡ Comments (43)