Get Your Personal Research Assitant: Zemanta FireFox Plugin

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Here’s an interesting FireFox plugin that in essence is a personal research assistant. The Zemanta FireFox Plugin takes your first 300 characters and provides you with a gallery of images, a list of related articles, links, and suggested tags based upon what it thinks you are writing about.

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Reveal IDs For WP Admin 2.5 Plugin

If you have upgraded to WordPress 2.5 and are doing any blog development work then you already know that WP has removed the ID field from being displayed.

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4 Easy Steps Create Unique Custom Logins

Are you looking to add that something extra to your blogs or want to give a client a distinctive look for their blog? Here is a review of a useful plugin that will allow you to create a unique custom login in 4 easy steps.

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Reduce Ping Banning Issues! Use This Tool

Not everyone is aware of the two inherent problems with WordPress when it comes to Pinging. Now one of these problems is scheduling future posts which has not worked on the older versions of WordPress. The problem is that WordPress ignored the future date and pinged right away causing banning issues. Read more

WordPress Polls Plugins

Do you want to add a Poll or Survey to your blog? I have a review of two of the most popular “WordPress Polls Plugins“, Democracy and WP-Polls.

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Why Can’t All WordPress Plugin Developers KISS?

This is my RANT on WordPress Plugin Developers and consistent programming development. Now I know that most plugin developers are not making much money from their efforts, but I say, “If you’re going through the effort of creating a plugin, why not do it right?”

My rant is not against all Developers, just the lazy and inexperienced ones. You know, the ones who develop a plugin that when installed doesn’t work correctly or causes problems with your blog because of plugin coding clashes or doesn’t work as advertised (they modified it for a new release of WordPress, but it doesn’t quite work).

I have looked at and used a lot of plugins because, as Vince says, I am a “plugin junkie”. If there is a plugin tool out there that will make my life easier … I am going to try it. My experience in all of this is that I have seen some great, consistent, and reliable work by some very good programmers.

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Plugins That Work: Look What We Have Under The Hood

We’re always curious about what other people use in their site designs and figured you are too. So here’s a list of what we are running under our engine hood.

Obviously, all of these ACTIVE plugins work with WordPress version 2.3, otherwise they wouldn’t be here. It may be another story for the inactive plugins, as I may have tried them and am still experimenting with it. Now some of you may say “Are you crazy, testing a plugin in a live enviroment”? LOL - I’m not that crazy, most of them I test on a development blog before installing on our live blogs.

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