Just dug up an informative article by the guys/gals of www.mashable.com.  They’ve compiled 300+ of their most useful WordPress plugins.  Some of them are in the same usage league, so it is up to us to check it out ourselves and see which tool among them works best for your need.  Check it out right [...]

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I recently checked this page to see how many plugins are currently in the WordPress plugins directory.  To this date I’ve seen they’ve counted 2,340 plugins.  These plugins have been recorded to be downloaded 4+ million times!  I ran a quick math and if each plugin was equally useful and popular as every other one [...]

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Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg just loves www.icanhascheezburger.com .  Why?  Well “partly” because it runs on Wordpress (has 1 Million hits a day) and “largely” because he loves cats.  Kidding. 
Mullenweg was very subtle with his WordPress promotions during the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco just last April 2008.  He did manage to be the [...]

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Perhaps due to the social networking phenomena, Last.fm is now re-packaging its code by extending its arms to the social networking world, the blogging community and photo sharing sites as new partnerships with a plethora of platforms including iGoogle, Bebo, Photobucket, Wordpress and Six Apart see the launch of its new ‘Last.fm in a box’ [...]

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If you’re running your blog from a hosted platform, such as wordpress.com, Typepad or Blogger, you probably don’t have to worry about database (and/or PHP) servers choking and bandwidth running out. For folks who run blogs on their own hosting accounts or servers, this is a possibility. Yet then again, for the average blogger bandwidth [...]

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While searching for a solution with an comment notification issue problem, I stumbled upon Clean Notifications by Mike Davidson, of Newsvine fame.
What does Clean Notifactions do?
Since WP sends out plain text emails, all of the links get spelled out as raw, unstyled URLs and the emails end up containing probably twice the amount of visible [...]

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Weblog Tools Collection has announced another WordPress Plugin Competition, this time for the new WordPress 2.5 release, as many important plugins haven’t been updated for this new version.
Some important details for those looking at entering.
All code must be GPL and should be available for download through the Competition Blog and preferably through WordPress Extend. The [...]

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On most of the blogs I write for, I usually forget about adding tags. I have always been a category user, not adding all of the tagging plugins that are currently out in the marketplace, and really not taking up tagging, even though it is now in the core of WordPress, but some new plugins [...]

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It looks like it is Joost de Valk day for me as he updates another one of his popular plugins Sociable, but this one strikes even closer to home with the addition of the Blogosphere News, a blogging related social media site run by Splashpress Media, the company that owns this blog.
I just updated Sociable [...]

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I have talked about the Blog Metrics plugin before (Previous Post), but that was long before its now version 1.0 release, and I wanted to highlight it again as I see it as a must-have plugin for multi-author blogs as well as single author blogs that are looking for some new stats on their own [...]

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Speckyboy has released a great list of the top ten security and protection plugins for WordPress.
With every site you build there are going to be security risks and issues, there is no way around this, it is going to happen. All we can do is minimize the damage, be ready for it and take action. [...]

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I have two amazing plugins for everyone today called TopLinks and FriendsRoll.

TopLinks shows a list of the sites you link to the most in your posts in a really nice little widget while FriendsRoll allows readers to connect with you in an easy way and have their link shown on your site.
I know [...]

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WordPress 2.5 isn’t even out yet, and already we have a theme to replace the default WordPress administration panel theme that has taken a fair bit of flack.
The theme, Fluency, replaces many of the graphics and navigational item placements in the WordPress admin. It strips the colours back to a black, gray, and white mix, [...]

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With WordPress 2.5 still months away, and with it the new WordPress administration panel design, people continue to take it upon themselves to tweak the WordPress administration panel design to suit their needs. Over on Web Graphics, there is a new one for the minimalist called Deconstructed.
WordPress has been a helpful tool. Love it, hate [...]

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A new friend of mine, Jamie Oaster has put up a post talking about potential business models for premium WordPress plugin makers, and basically, if it is worth pursuing creating a premium plugin. This brings us back to the whole GPL versus not-GPL argument that has gone on forever. Jamie raises some very interesting points, [...]

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There is a great post on Weblog Tools Collection by Frank, aka Weathervane, who talks about making sure WordPress plugin authors start to come up with a better system for designing and implementing their plugin code.
Naming Conventions
1. Do not append your WordPress plugins with “wp-“ or “wp_.” We know it’s for WordPress, [...]

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Jeffro put up a great post on Weblog Tools Collection about WordPress and how deleting plugins doesn’t mean that everything with regard to the plugin is gone, as many of them add entries into the database, that sit there doing nothing once the plugin is gone, except for causing bloat, and if you are like [...]

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While not using the plugin here, I have always been a big fan of the ShareThis WordPress plugin, and for those of you that haven’t enjoyed the ShareThis 2.0 release due to positioning constraints built into it, check out the new version 2.1b1 which allows you to have more control over the plugin.
Alex King and [...]

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Now on version 0.3, the Blog Metrics plugin caught my eye, and is a lot of fun to use, especially on multi-author blogs.
Want to know how many posts a month your blog is averaging? What about how many comments a month? Curious at how many words you have written? Blog Metrics answers all of these [...]

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Quick Online Tips has compiled what they believe to be the best WordPress plugins for power blogging and while they aren’t necessarily the most popular plugins, they are ones that the author has found extremely useful or helpful.
Of course it has some expected ones like Akismet, All in One SEO Pack, and Related Posts, but [...]

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