Over my tenure as an avid WordPress user and blogger I’ve come across various plugins that deserve a bit of the limelight. A few of these I use on other blogs, including bloggercamp. I’m shocked at the community behind all the great WordPress Plugins.
So follow on and find out how to save some time with these 5 WordPress 2.3 Plugins that Save You Time.
1. In Series:
The “In Series” plugin by Travis Snoozy saves you time by selecting posts in a series from the “Write Post” screen, instead of manually adding them by getting the links and pasting.
Time Saved: Depends on length of series, but per series it saves several minutes.
“WP 2.3 Related Posts” by Denis saves time by adding related posts to your post pages via the use of similar tags.
Time Saved: Countless hours
“Better Comments Manager” by Keith Desouza allows you to reply to comments within the admin panel, as well as on a per post basis.
Time Saved: Depends on comment traffic, but can be a minute or two per comment reply.
“Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam” by, you guessed it… Peter Keung allows you to save time by adding word validation on an image to your comments… reducing time to sort through spam comments.
Time Saved: Depends on popularity of your blog, but typically several minutes per post.
5. Share This:
“Share This” by Alex King inserts a bit of code at the end of posts to allow your users to share your content across a multitude of social networking/bookmarking websites.
Time Saved: With the ability to quickly edit what networks you want linked, its still negligible but overtime proves useful.
Suggest a plugin to be added? Contact Bloggercamp
Popularity: 19% [?]
on Oct 4th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Thanks for the mention! I aim to make In Series as easy-to-use as possible; I’m glad that it’s saving you time. If you can think of anything I can do to make things easier/faster, feel free to let me know.
on Oct 4th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
@Quandary: Not a problem at all, the only thing I can think of off the top of my head is the config options… have a few default select options:
Radio Buttons:
ul list
li list
then custom
Also, to make things easier for people that want to support your plugin, i’d get rid of the “Post Layout” option, and just have a default id for a wrapping div that people making themes can count on always being there?
— if you need clarification on any of this, just email me from the contact page.
and possibly, make a sidebar widget listing all series? Just an idea.
on Oct 4th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
@Mark
The sidebar widget is already done, it just needs to be tested and be officially released in 3.1.
Improved configuration is also on my to-do list; I’m going for a “basic” that’s a throwback to the later 2.x configuration (which was IMHO very effective and simple), and an “advanced” that is the new configuration (which is total overkill for most folks).
on Oct 4th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Q, sounds like welcome additions then, if I think of anything else I’ll be sure to let you know!