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Top 10 Must have WordPress plugins

Jan 14

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Wordpress | 6 Comments

Top 10 WordPress plugins

Top 10 WordPress plugins

Here is the list of top 10 WordPress plugins which I have setup on Blogs@DiGiTSS, why they are good and why you should install them if you're using WordPress Blog. If you use and choose them wisely these plugin will help you make most of your WordPress blog by making it more search engine friendly, will help you spread the word and to keep visitor busy on your website.

Google XML Sitemaps: It generates XML sitemaps for your WordPress blog automatically based on configuration you specify. It will help search engines like google, yahoo, bing or ask.com and many others who use Google XML sitemap format to crawl your website/blog. It is a kind of must have plugin for any WordPress blog.

All in One SEO Pack: This plugin provides out-of-the-box SEO for WordPress blog. You can specify different title, keywords and meta-description for any post. So that title of the post can be different than the meta-title under head tag which can help in SEO. As well as it will build custom keywords for post-lists by collecting keywords from each post. (For example home or any category list - it will collect list of keywords from each post and build a keyword list).

WP Super Cache: WP Super Cache is the best plugin if you want your posts to load faster as once loaded your blog-page will be cached as html file so that subsequent requests will be served by that html file only avoiding database query, which will improve the performance of your WordPress blog and let you serve more requests per second. :)

Similar Posts: This plugin brings list of similar posts for any blog post. It is highly configurable in terms of functionality and it can configurable by # of keywords used in posts or tags or categories etc. Similar Posts will help you retain your blog visitors on your blog for more time and reduce bounce rate. I am sure that once you'll install this plugin you'll observe your bounce rate going down with your analytics tool.

WordPress Popular Posts: Show your most popular posts on your blog, where visitors have commented on your posts. Just need to paste a function call and it can be placed in any of the text-widgets of your WordPress blog. Read the rest of this entry »

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Wodpress 3.0 What’s new? explore the features.!

Jun 26

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Wordpress | No Comments

I am really excited about WordPress 3.0. The good news is WordPress 3.0 has released this month on 17th June 2010. We at DiGiTSS has been using WordPress since more than 2 years now on our multiple domains like Blogs@DiGiTSS and Life@DiGiTSS. It has always been fun working with WordPress. Updates are always as easy as piece of cake; previously with Auto-Update plugin and later since 2.7 I guess auto-upgrade has been integral part of WordPress. WordPress has always evolved in it's features and functionality.

Since I came to know that WordPress3.0 is under the hood and being backed I can't stop myself from downloading a copy and install it on my local system. Read the rest of this entry »

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WordPress Auto-Login for Friend/Ally Websites

Feb 2

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Wordpress | 16 Comments

Wordpress Auto-Login

Wordpress Auto Login Plugin

I had come up with requirement where I need to provide a auto-login to WordPress blog with Guest user credentials. To accomplish that requirement first I had looked up at available plugins which can let me do that without writing a line of code. Finally I got something similar I wanted and I have modified that and written a plugin to match up that requirement. I owe lot to WordPress; and to add up my little contribution to WordPress community I have generalized that plugin and published it here on my blogs and WordPress Plugins directory.

To be fair this plugin is simple and do not have any interface from where you can configure it. Simply open up the auto-login.php file and edit following configuration array; that's it you are done.

How to configure WordPress Auto-Login ?

It's simple just look at code snippet and you will find out yourself..! Read the rest of this entry »

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WordPress 2.8 auto-upgrade and problem with WYSIWYG Editor

Jun 21

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Wordpress | 10 Comments

I have upgraded my WordPress blog from WordPress 2.7 to 2.8 and I lost my WYSIWYG TinyMCE editor. I have verified this now that this has happened just because I have chose the auto-upgrade option. I have gone through some google search and after that tried installing WP 2.8 on my local machine as fresh copy and it just worked well without any problem as I was able to find WYSIWYG editor working just well as before.

I tried to drill-down problem into little more and I found that following URL does not seems to be returning anything:
http://blogs.digitss.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/wp-tinymce.php?c=1&ver=3241-1141 which has caused the real trouble. The reason behind it was that wp-tinymce.js.gz file was missing under wp-includes\js\tinymce directory.

Placing wp-tinymce.js.gz from my local directory to live has immediate impact and WordPress WYSIWYG TinyMCE started working well.

Before:
Tiny MCE WordPress Error

Tiny MCE WordPress Error

After:

TinyMCE WordPress WYSIWYG Working again.

TinyMCE WordPress WYSIWYG Working again

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