In an ongoing effort to improve my blogging experience, I continually evaluate different tools for WordPress based blogs. As a result, I have changed some of the plug ins that I am using. Below is an outline of the latest changes that I have put into operation here. Hopefully there is something here that you may find useful.
Print a blog post. If you click on the post title to read the whole post in a single page, you now have a new link at the top left side of the page, Print This Post. Click on it and try it. It gives you a nice, clean, printer friendly page, along with comments and any images you have embeded in your post. It even gives you a nice a URL listing at the bottom of all the url’s that are embeded within your post. You don’t have to print things often, but it’s a nice little plugin called WP-Print (http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-print) that makes this all possible.
Backup the Blog. I have tested and tried out a better backup tool for WordPress, called WP-DBManager (http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-dbmanager). This has a cleaner backup tool, but in addition, has some tools to optimize your database automatically as well as let you do things like drop tables, repair your database, etc. These items are for advanced users, but if you run into an issue with a plugin that corrupts things and you need to clean things up a bit, this is a useful tool.
Who is commenting on your blog? Meet your Commenters (http://www.berriart.com/meet-your-commenters) is a great tool to allow you to look at all the information people who are commenting on your blog leave behind. You can identify all the posts they have commented on as well as any public information that they have avaible such as their blog url, their social networking links, etc…
Manageable (http://www.aaronharp.com/dev/wp-manageable). A WordPress plugin that allows for inline editing of the date, title, author, categories, tags, status and more on both posts and pages without leaving the “Manage” admin sections. No need to load each post or page individually. Simply double-click anywhere in the post or page row and when you’re done, press enter. Alternately, you can click the link in the new “Edit” column. This is a great tool, makes managing many posts, including changing your publishing schedule a breeze.
October 18th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Cool. I am always looking at new tools for WP. I’ve recently started using Buddy Love http://www.dyers.org/blog/buddy-love-wordpress-widget/ which allows you to utilise the RSS feed as you add blogroll links. It’s a great way to include posts from the BlogPack. I also added AJAXed Wordpress http://anthologyoi.com/awp which adds a whole host of cool editing goodies to your bag of tricks. It probably does even more than I know!
October 18th, 2008 at 2:49 am
Lester has a treasure trove of good, working plugins, two of which I see you have used
I’ve been messing around with a couple myself and found a sweet streaming plug that works pretty good. Now I can share my war tunes stream with others, live as I pew pew. >:-}
October 18th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Nice list, I’ll check em out
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