Category Archives: plugins

What’s the weather like?

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Owen

Here’s another good plugin that can fit quite a few websites. It’s called WP-Weather and lets you pop a weather forecast on your website with no effort at all. It uses the weather from weather.com and even generates an image … Continue reading →

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Google Maps plugin

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Owen

Here’s a great plugin if you ever need a map on your website. The Google Maps for WordPress plugin lets you easily embed a map into your Wordpress blog without having to mess around with code or embeds. All you … Continue reading →

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Affiliate plugin

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Owen

Have you ever used your affiliate links on your website? If you have, you should be looking at a plugin like WP-Affiliate. The plugin works by masking your affiliate links and make them seamless against the rest of your website. … Continue reading →

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Coping with the load

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Owen

Are you ready for the big time? What’s the difference you may ask? Well, if your site gets really really popular you may be getting thousands of page hits an hour and unless your server is designed to handle the … Continue reading →

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WP Auctions 3.7

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Owen

photo credit: walknboston There’s a new version of WP Auctions in town, the plugin that turns your WordPress blog into an fully fledged auction site.The new version has some new features, like the ability to customise the automated emails sent … Continue reading →

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Cutting down the extra bits

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Owen

Here’s an interesting plugin. It’s called WPlite and lets you hide extra bits from your Administration menu. If you’re preparing a site for someone else to use, then having all the menu options that Wordpress provides can be a bit … Continue reading →

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NextGen Gallery Plugin

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Owen

What plugin do you use to display your photos? One of my favourites is one called NextGEN Gallery Plugin which lets you upload and store photos and even display them on a slide show on your blog. The plugin allows … Continue reading →

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100 Million Plugin Downloads

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Owen

Have you ever downloaded a WordPress plugin? Well, that’s a bit of a silly question isn’t it; if you’ve ever used WordPress you’ve bound to have downloaded a plugin or two; especially one of the more essential ones like Akismet. … Continue reading →

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Speed up your site with WP Super Cache

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Owen

Here’s a plugin you really need to know about if you have a popular site. It’s called WP Super Cache and is the best way to handle a surge of traffic that could bring your servers to their knees. The … Continue reading →

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New version of WP Auction Lite

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Owen

I’ve just dropped another version of WP Auctions Lite, to correct a small bug that was displaying a warning message whenever a page is loaded. It’s quite fortunate that Wordpress supports the ability to tell you automatically if there’s a … Continue reading →

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