Category: Plugins
How to show someone’s last post (and some love) on your blog
Did you ever see links in the comments of a blog? Ever wonder how to get them to appear there? If you want to show the last post of people leaving a comment on your blog, use the plugin Comment Luv. The plugin tries to visit the feed of your commenter’s blog and grab the [...]
How to let your readers subscribe to comments of a post
Have you ever seen a post on a blog that has a little checkbox at the end that said subscribe to comments? For anyone who isn’t sure what that means, I’ll tell you. If you check that box you’ll get an email notifying you when new comments have been made on that post. It’s a [...]
How to manage the ads on your blog
Do you have sell advertising on your blog? Wouldn’t you like an easy and efficient way to manage the ads? If you would, then you need to get OIO Publisher. OIO Publisher is a WordPress plugin designed for managing blog monetization and sales. If you’re like me you might have kept track of things in [...]
How to install a WordPress plugin
Installing a WordPress plugin is fairly straightforward. First, download the plugin that you’ve decided you want to use. In most instances the file will be a zip file. The next step is to unzip the file. If you don’t have the software to do this you can use programs such as WinZip or 7Zip, as [...]
How to show similar posts in WordPress
If you use WordPress and want to add the ability to view similar posts at the end of a post then this plugin is for you. I have recently done this on this blog, as you might have noticed if you’re a regular reader. Implementing it isn’t too bad but will require a little fidgeting [...]
How to place a contact form in WordPress
Want to include a contact form on your blog? With CForms, it’s easy. I have it installed on all of my blogs. Here’s how you do it. Go to http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin and download the plugin. Extract the plugin and upload it to the plugins directory of your blog. If you upload the file zipped into cpanel [...]
How to add a print option to your posts
I found a WordPress plugin that allows me to offer a print option on every post. The plugin is called WPPrint and it’s free. I downloaded it from Lester Chan’s site at http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-print.html and uploaded it to my server. At first I installed it in the index php file as per the instructions, but didn’t [...]
How to keep notes in WordPress
I often get an idea for something I’m going to write but am not ready to publish yet. On my blogs I usually have one or more posts in draft with different ideas and things I think I’ll want to write about. The problem with this system is it that it sits there as a [...]
How to thank first time commenters
I recently learned of a plugin for WordPress that once activated will send an email to your blog’s first time commenters. It can be found at http://www.justinshattuck.com/comment-relish/ and it’s called Comment Relish. It’s easy to install and use. Once you’ve downloaded the zip file, install it into the plugin directory of your wordpress folder. Activate [...]
