3 More WordPress Plugins
Smilies Themer - Allows you to replace the default smilies in WordPress.
File Icons - File Icons adds icons via CSS to your links.
Firefox Detective - Displays a banner to IE users to download Firefox.
3 WordPress Plugins to Check Out
Impress - A plugin to help you share stats with your readers about things such as number of comments or number of words in all posts.
Kontera Integration - Allows you to choose on a post by post basis where you want Kontera ads to be displayed.
WPsyslog - Logs system events in your blog allowing the admin to analyze the state of his system.
Two Word Reviews - WordPress Plugins
I didn’t get any comments on the last “Two Word Reviews” post so I figured I would try it out on WordPress Plugins and maybe someone will comment on this.
Advanced Permalinks - Permalink Redirect
Bloglines blogroll plugin - Interestingly Useful
del.icio.us for WordPress - Customizable, Simple
StatusPress - Life Sharing
GZ Calendar Date Style - Don’t Know
So there you go, there’s 5 plugins that you can try out, maybe even you can come up with your own two word reviews and put them in the comments.
PXS Mail Form, Drop Dead Simple Mail Form
I had been meaning for waaayyy too long to add a contact me page to CyberSurge and I finally got around to doing it. To do so I needed to find a contact form plugin. The first one I found was PXS Mail Form. This thing was drop dead simple to set up. I have to be honest with all of you though, I apparently was having an idiot that day because I couldn’t find the link to download the freaking thing. You tell me if you can find it:
Yea pretty dumb huh? Alright now that I’m done telling you all why I’m an idiot I’ll tell you why this plugin is great. Just like every other plugin you just upload it to your server and then activate it. But after that you just head over to its options page at Options>PXS-Mail. Inside the options page you have, quite obviously, a number of options.
The options include:
The subject of the email
A redirect option to send users to another page after sending their mail
Along with options to customize a few messages
After setting all the options up adding it to a page is extremely easy, just put the following code into the page where you want the form:
“mailform” inside of two {} (I’d show it to you but WordPress is being fussy about it)
Pretty great plugin huh? The only thing I don’t like about it is I don’t see any way to add any type of spam blocking into it, that means I will probably find a different solution to try and keep the spam to a minimum.
UPDATE: I have implemented the plugin here, you can see it working at my contact page.
WordPress Plugin Competition
A few days ago the winners were announced for the WordPress Plugin competition and I thought I would let you all know who won and what I think of them.
Consolation Prize
The consolation prize winner is Ozh for Who Sees Ads. The plugin lets you control who sees ads on your blog. I’ll tell you something very interesting about this plugin, I’m using it right now and their is actually an ad that displays over this text right here. The reason you can’t see it is because I’m using this plugin and, Who Sees Ads? no one sees ads.
Third Prize
The third prize winner is Keith Dsouza for WordPress Automatic Upgrade. I don’t know anyone who would trust this plugin because upgrading WordPress is already scary enough let alone letting some plugin do it for you. Just spend the 5 freakin minutes to upgrade your WordPress installs people, it isn’t that hard and I’m tired of seeing people with out of date installs.
Second Prize
The second prize winner is Barry for MyDashboard. Don’t use this plugin. I’ll tell you why, even though it is an intersting idea iGoogle and Pageflakes do it sooooooooooo much better (I used extra o’s to emphasize my point, isn’t that coooooool?).
Grand Prize
The Grand Prize Winner of the Wordpress Plugin Competition is Anirudh Sanjeev for his OneClick Plugin. Thats pretty cool, It’s like having FTP built into your browser, oh, like FireFTP. Except it is ONE CLICK, OH MY! Ok so installing plugins and themes with one click is kinda cool but why have one more plugin that you need to keep up to date when you already have an FTP client?