Chitika|Premium is a CPC search-targeted advertising solution brought to you by Chitika. It can be run on the same page as Google AdSense, or on its own as an AdSense alternative.

Chitika|Premium ads sample

This plugin allows you to easily change the display of your Chitika|Premium ads through a settings page in the WordPress admin interface. It allows you to change any of the following features:

• Ad size
• Link and text color
• Background color
• Display position (above or below your post)
• Channel

Installing Chitika|Premium is just the same as any other plugin. Download it first, then extract, and then you need to fire up your favorite FTP client, and log in to your WordPress installation. Then do the following steps:

1. Upload /chitika-premium/ directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin Chitika|Premium through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Go to ‘Settings’ > ‘Chitika | Premium’ to activate the display and add your username and change any display settings.
   If you are using a version of WordPress earlier than 2.5 your configuration screen will be in ‘Options’ > ‘Chitika|Premium’

If you have any problems using Chitika | Premium, don’t hesitate to contact the plugin developers.

The said comments aren’t spammy, but linking to off-topic sites isn’t something I consider good commenting behavior. In fact, comments like these give the impression that the person who did this was insincere and is only using my blog as part of SEO. Frankly, this blatant promotion annoys me at times, because there are way too many comments to edit and links to delete, and I don’t have much time for that. A plugin that will automate the process of removing links through a single mouse click would be a godsend.

Strip! by Markku Seguerra is a WordPress plugin that allows you hide links from a given comment. This gives you a button to strip any given comment of links, and unlike other plugins that offer a similar function, Strip! also gives you the option of restoring the links with the same button.

Strip! has been tested on WordPress 2.6, but may still work with older versions.

Installation of Strip! is easy: just upload to your WordPress installation using your favorite FTP client, and activate through the plugins page. You’d see the strip/unstrip buttons right away. I’ve been using Strip! on my personal blog since the time he unveiled it at WordCamp Philippines, and I’ve been satisfied with it so far. You can download Strip! from here.

What other commenting behavior do you find annoying? If you use other plugins to combat comment off-topic llinking, tell me about it.

WP-Tuner for WordPress is a powerful and easy way to answer hard questions about why your blog is slow or cranky. What’s causing the slowdown? Is it a plugin? Is it your host? This plugin will help you find out. One problem, though, with this particular plugin is that it’s not for the novice. Advanced WP users will be able to understand what the plugin tells them, but it may not be that obvious for everyone.

WP-Tuner is recommended to be used by:

• WordPress site administrators
• WordPress plugin and theme designers
• WordPress developers

WP-Tuner can also be used with a number of advanced ways, like hooking any WordPress action to it. You can even use it to time anything at all in WordPress.

Installing WP-Tuner is as easy as installing any other plugin: upload using your favorite FTP client, and activate via the plugins page. Be sure to read the plugin’s readme file and the associated help documents before using it.

Used with a bit of common sense, this powerful plugin will help blog administrators as well as software developers improve their WordPress blog performance.

By default, these shared items are readily available to your Google contacts who use Google Reader. But what if you want to share these entries with your blog readers as well? The people at Google Tutor came up with a nifty plugin that lets you include your shared items on your WordPress blog.

Shared Items Post is a WordPress plugin that automagically creates a blog post from your Google Reader Shared Items feed. You can schedule the post to go out daily, weekly, or monthly and even set the time of day.

The plugin is pretty straightforward, enabling you to automatically make a post out of your shared items. Since this is a pretty new plugin, the features are quite sparse. So far, the plugin only has these features:

• Post scheduling - by day, week or month, and time of day
• Post formatting - you have complete control over the layout of post from the plugin admin panel
• Post settings - set the author, category, and tags

Installation is straightforward: just download the file from here, unzip and upload to your plugins directory using your favorite FTP client, and activate in your plugins page. To see the plugin in action, Google Tutor provides us with these two sample posts here and here to see how it looks.

Honestly, I’d love to see a sidebar widget that will let us post a non-javascript version of our shared items on our blog sidebars, but I’m hoping that gets included in the future.

Overall, Shared Items Post is a good plugin for you to be able to share your favorite reads in your RSS subscriptions, and a nice way for your blog to have content when new posts cone far in between.

But now, IntenseDebate is out of beta and is offering a new WordPress plugin that offers the following features for your blog:

Two-Way Comment Sync

Comments made in IntenseDebate are automatically backed-up to your WordPress comment system, while your existing WordPress comments are automatically imported into IntenseDebate. In case you want to leave IntenseDebate and go back to the default comment system, your comments are safely migrated.

Admin Panel Integration

IntenseDebate has been interated to the WordPress admin panel, making the switch as smooth as possible.

Search Engine Optimization

IntenseDebate intelligently outputs the standard WordPress comments, which makes your comments easily indexed by search engines that ignore JavaScript. And it also makes visitors with JavaScript disabled on their browsers easily interact and make comments.

Trackbacks

Trackbacks and pingbacks are also easily integrated with IntenseDebate.

Profile Sync

You can login to IntenseDebate with WordPress, and vice versa.

Post Settings

WordPress admin settings like closing and opening comments on a post, and even changing your post titles, are automatically recognized and reflected in your IntenseDebate settings.

Other features included in the plugin would be:

• Threaded comments
• The ability to vote on comments and show comment reputations
• Simultaneously post a comment to a blog and Twitter
• Replly to comments and moderate comments by email
• Commentor profiles can include links to social networking pages
• Ability to add sidebar widgets with information on things like your top commentors

Intense Debate also works with Blogger, TypePad, and Tumblr.

And of course automating the process via web apps or plugins will make things a lot easier for us. On the Twitter side of the microblogging spectrum, we have Twitterfeed, which gets updates from your blog RSS and updates Twitter with it. WordPress have a lot of plugins a lot of plugins to choose from, the most famous of which would be Alex King’s Twitter Tools.

For the longest time, users of Plurk have been stuck with manually updating their timeline whenever they post a new blog entry. However, with the release of the unofficial API, we see plugin developers hard at work creating ways to integrate Plurk with WordPress.

One early effort would be WordPlurk. It easily creats a complete integration between your WordPress blog with Plurk. It creates a post on Plurk whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post.

The plugin is in its early stages though, and the barebones interface of the plugin shows it. In fact, there are a few things left to be desired in this plugin:

• Only one Plurk account is supported (not one account per author).
• When a post is deleted, the Plurk update isn’t.
• Plurk login details are not checked to see if they’re correct.
• No sidebar widget, or any other way to put the latest Plurk on the sidebar is available.

Despite the caveats in WordPlurk, this seems to be a great start for the plugin. This is on plugin we should definitely keep an eye on. You can download WordPlurk from here.

Landing Sites.

This is a plugin that will allow you to show related posts based on your visitors search keyword.  Kinda like “You looked for this, now here it is, and here are other things that maybe related to your search too”.  Here’s a sample screenshot:

Installations are a snap, you just download the files and upload it to your plugins directory.  After which, you need to insert a 5-line PHP code anywhere on your site, preferably on the top lot where the searchers could easily get it.

Imagine your blog filled with words and graphics, then a cute little box in a good page lot that gives a smart quotation from a post in focus or a great comment from one of your loyal followers.  Nice eh?  That’s The Flexi quote rotator.

It’s all just a few lines of PHP code and a handsome/professional pull-out quote  comes from your favorite posts.  You can apply your own CSS styles to better fit this in your blog.

You can download the plugin right here.  A demo is provided on the page too.

Let me stress how important it is to navigate your visitors eyes, showing him what may be valuable for him to read.  Don’t let them click away from your blog too fast.  Capture them with short yet attention grabbing information that will keep them in your blog reading, reading, reading.

The moderator sits in your system tray (there’s the clue, windows only guys), and advises you when your blog received a comment with a an icon animation and a audio alert.

Built using Adobe AIR, here are it’s features:

• Viewing unmoderated comments.
• Dock and system tray notifications of the number of unmoderated comments.
• Accept, delete, and spam comments from within the desktop client.
• Close application window, or minimize it to the system tray while running.
• Shows the Gravatar icons for the user who posted the comment.

Forutnately there is a WordPress plugin to help you… A new plugin developed by Donncha O Caoimh released a new version.  Here’s the plugin intro specs:

WP Super Cache 0.8

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After an html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

However, because a user’s details are displayed in the comment form after they leave a comment, the plugin will only serve static html files to:

1. Users who are not logged in.
2. Users who have not left a comment on your blog.
3. Or users who have not viewed a password protected post.

The good news is that probably more than 99% of your visitors don’t do any of the above! Those users who don’t see the static files will still benefit because they will see regular WP-Cache cached files and your server won’t be as busy as before. This plugin should help your server cope with a front page appearance on digg.com or other social networking site.

You can check this page and this page for more information regarding this plugin.