Archive for the ‘Plugins or Widgets’ Category

Wordpress Plugin: MyAvatar

Friday, June 15th, 2007

MyAvatar Wordpress plug in shows MyBlogLog’s avatars in your comments instead of Gravatar’s ones even if you’re not subscribed to MyBlogLog. You can see the example by looking at this picture. I will not discuss how to install this plug in here because you can learn from this plug in’s website. If you have any question, I don’t mind to help you.

Wordpress Plugin: Top Post by Category

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Long time ago, Jesslyn already told me that my category look so messy, that time I thought it is still OK. Recently I found that it is not OK at all, and then I decided to rearrange my category again, meantime I also change/move the category of particular posts from one to another.

I only spent half an hours to get it done, this is only for blog live about 2 months only, what do you think if it is more than one or two years? I think it would be a tedious task rearranges your categories.

I have used Top Post by Category Wordpress plugin in my blog, I have no choice but to empty the default database (wp_tpbc) of this plugin. I feel hard to explain why I need to empty the database, but I’m sure that when you use this plugin then you will know after that. Anyway, this is good plugin and you can try it. I’m strongly recommended.

You can see an example of this plugin by click here.

Widget to Show Rank of PR, Alexa, Complete Snapshot and Technorati

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

I come across with the personal blog called adesblog.com and found a fantastic widget which provides provides a simple and elegant representation of your site’s rankings. Currently supported rankings are:

- Google PageRank
- Alexa Traffic Ranking
- Compete Snapshot Rank
- Technorati Rank

It is simple to set up, all you need to do is key in your site URL, choose which rankings you want to show and then generate the code. Copy and paste the codes into your page. That’s all.

If you are interested in, you can customize your widget at showoffrankings.com.

Learn How to Install Smart Archives v1.9 Wordpress Plugin

Friday, May 25th, 2007

If you are not expert like me, may be you will spend some time to install smart archives v1.9 Wordpress plugin in your blog. Do you know that I have spent few days time to learn how to install smart archives v1.9 in my blog? I do not wish you like me spent so much time to learn and explore, that’s the reason why I write this post for sharing and I hope this post can help you.

If you are using Wordpress “Page” features, follow the steps below will do.
1. Download Smart Archives v1.9
2. Change the file extension from “.phps” to “.php”
3. Activate the plugin from the WordPress admin panel
4. Duplicated your page.php and change it to another name, let say page-archives.php. Put the following code at very top of page of page-archives.php

<?php
/*
Template Name: page-archive
*/
?>

5. Copy and paste the following function to page-archives.php. Refer following example:-

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id=”content”>
<div id=”contentleft”>
<?php smartArchives() ?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php the_content(__(’Read more’));?><div style=”clear:both;”></div>
<bR /><Br /><br /><br /><br />
<!–
<?php trackback_rdf(); ?>
–>

<?php endwhile; else: ?>

<?php _e(’Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.’); ?><?php endif; ?>
<?php posts_nav_link(’ — ‘, __(’« go back’), __(’keep looking »’)); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

6. Log in Wordpress and write new page
7. Look at right hand sidebar of Wordpress new page
8. Select “Page-Archives” for the Page Template
9. You do not need to write anything in this page, just give a new Page name and save it, that’s all.

If you have any question, please leave your comment here and I will try my very best to help you out. To see an example of smart achieve in my blog, click here!