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Thesis & WordPress Plugins

by Jon Bishop on November 2, 2009

in Plugins

Thesis WordPress Plugins

As I submerse myself more and more into the world of Thesis from DIYthemes, I am gaining a huge appreciation for all of the enhancements it provides to the WordPress platform. Furthermore, I have developed a new found appreciation for developers who have taken the time to create WordPress plugins that integrate easily with the [...]

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31 WordPress CMS Plugins

by Jon Bishop on October 8, 2009

in Plugins

31 WordPress Plugins That Turn Your WordPress Blog Into a CMS

WordPress is what you make of it. For some it is a simple blogging platform no different than Tumblr or Blogger. For others it is an all inclusive content management system for their corporate website. Developers continue to recommend WordPress as a CMS because of all the extended functionality contributed by the community as well as it’s raw simplicity.
So [...]

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13 Wordpress Plugins You Need To Know Exist

by Jon Bishop on July 31, 2009

in Plugins

13 Important WordPress Plugins

There are over 6000 plugins in the WordPress Plugin directory. Some are broken and others are just not worth your time. However, you should at least know about these 13 as they are either the most sought after or provide much needed functionality to WordPress.

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7 Awesome Twitter Plugins for Wordpress

by Jon Bishop on March 13, 2009

in Blogging, Plugins, Twitter

Twitter Wordpress Plugins

TweetSuite
TweetSuite is an excellent plugin developed by ’social & viral marketing scientist’ Dan Zarrella. It started off as a plugin that returned all ReTweets of a post and has turned into a complete Twitter/Wordpress solution.
Features include:

Server-side (no-JS or remote calls) TweetBacks
ReTweet-This buttons for each TweetBack
A digg-like Tweet-This Button
Automatic Tweeting of new posts
A Most-Tweeted Widget
A Recently-Tweeted [...]

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Too Much Trash In Your Sidebar

I’ve made this mistake in the past and it may have cost me a few readers. People get trigger happy with their plugins and readers can’t get to the content.
You need to remember that the content is the main reason someone might be reading your blog at any one point in time. If your blog [...]

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Introducing Commentwitter

by Jon Bishop on March 5, 2009

in Free, Plugins, Social Media, Twitter

The other day I was thinking that it would be great if Twitter could be used as a communications platform for discussions around blog posts. I mean we already do this but lack organization. We all know organization isn’t Twitter’s strong suit.
Ultimately I think it would be beneficial if everyone tweeted their blog comments. Currently [...]

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