We’re back with another dose on how to make your WordPress installation even better. I bet that you’ve, at some point at least, noticed that your default WordPress theme has links only to the Previous or Next post page. While this is fine and makes for a simple browsing experience, there are times, especially if you’re an extremely large site like Smashing Magazine or PSDTUTS, where it makes more sense to have a proper pagination, instead of just simple links. We’ve got the perfect plugin for you! WP-PageNavi is a really neat plugin that allows you to create a simple…

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WordPress doesn’t count page views by default. So, if you’re trying to find out which of your posts are popular, you’re kind of stuck with relying on third party analytics software through which you have to drill through extensively. Top 10 will count the number of page views on your single posts and store them in the database. You can then display the page view count on individual pages as well as display a list of most popular posts based on page views. Features: Counts page views on single posts and pages Display the count on the single posts and…

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OIOpublisher is a popular WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and easily sell advertisements on your WordPress blogs. I currently use the same on this blog so you can purchase an ad spot. All through January, affiliate could earn 90% commision on all referrals. With just a few days left, if you’re interested in purchasing the plugin, you can do so at a discount. Use the following coupon codes to avail of a discount: Jan90-35 entitles the purchaser to buy for just $35 Jan90-30 entitles the purchaser to buy for just $30 Jan90-25 entitles the purchaser to buy for…

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You may have figured that we here at Techtites have a thing for WordPress. And who can blame us, right? As a blogger there are many times I’ve thought about putting up a gallery of videos. This is especially handy if you run a media blog or generally do a lot of video tutorials.  There are quite a few media player plugins out there that will help you either embed videos on your blog or play videos for you, but very few that allow you to setup a gallery, and none that are easier to use than TubePress. From the…

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I came across a new service called Apture a few days ago and had decided to blog about it. Many bloggers may be aware of Snap Shots. Snap Shots launched a few years back and took the web by storm. Apture is similar in this respect, though I must say, their popup window is better looking. Getting started with Apture is rather easy. You first need to register on their site and add your blog(s). Apture currently supports the following platforms: Blogger Typepad WordPress (Self Hosted) Movable Type Expression Engine Drupal Squarespace Tumblr Ning Wikispaces Blogsome The following platforms are…

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Spent the last few days working on WordPress plugins and have managed to churn out three of them. Add to Feed Add to Feed is a feed enhancement plugin that allows you to easily add a copyright notice and custom text/HTML to your WordPress blog feed. The custom text can be entered before and/or after the content of your blog post. GreyBox Integrator GreyBox is a script can be used to display websites, images and other content in a beautiful way. GreyBox Integrator provides a one-click installation of GreyBox on your WordPress blog. WP-Niceforms Niceforms is a script that will…

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WordPress being an open source platform has seen tremendous growth in its usage. Along with WordPress the number of plugins being released daily has also seen a phenomenal increase. Which plugins should you use? Do you really need them? The more the number of plugins you install, the greater is the load on the server hosting your blog and consequently slower will your website be. Way back on January 1, 2007 when I first began to blog at WLTC, I wrote an article to address these questions. Titled Check your Plugins this New Year, the article covered what plugins you…

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Have you made a quick post, hurriedly hit the publish button and then suddenly realize you have a few glaring mistakes in it. So, what’s the big deal? Simply edit the post and everything is back to normal. Well, it is a big deal when your blog is highly popular and you have a huge number of readers subscribed to your feed. Enter Feed Pauser. Feed Pauser, pauses a post from being made available through RSS. Below is a video explaining how to setup Feed Pauser on your blog. Whenever you publish a new post, Feed Pauser captures the publish…

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As of today, my personal blog turns five years old. Over the past five years, I have seen WordPress evolve from a bare-basic blogging tool to a full fledged blogging application. Whenever I install a new blog using WordPress, I make sure I have a few basic plugins installed as well. The following are ten of my favorite plugins. Akismet This is one necessary plugin that all blogs require to battle the spam crisis that we face. Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API…

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Have spent the last two week coding and was able to churn out three plugins for WordPress. Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks Close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on your post automatically at intervals set by you TwitterCounter Integrate TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog to display the number of followers you have on Twitter Digg Integrate Add a “Digg This” button to your post.