FeedWordPress

Wanna add posts from other sites into your own? Rad Geek has a plugin that does just that called FeedWordPress. I’m thinking moving PlanetOSSI over to this would be a good thing.

Wordpress Bugfix

Eric Anderson has posted a bugfix for the new plugin options page. More info and the fix is here.

Tags/Keywords Revisited

I’ve just made the switch away from Bunny’s Technorati Tags to Jerome’s Keywords since it means much greater flexibility. Just click on any of the ‘Tagged as’ entries to see what I mean… Course that tag search pages is very much a work in progress, but what else is new… ;)

Useful Plugins

I’ve been trying out several plugins and figured a little summary of the ones I’ve found useful was in order.

  • WP Plugin Manager – One-Click Install and a ton of plugin listings. This one rocks!
  • WP CC – Makes managing your Creative Commons licensing easy. You do have a CC license for your content, don’t you?
  • Spelling Checker – Spell checks your posts before you publish using aspell
  • Spam Karma – Aptly called the “Ultimate Spam Fighting Tool” by it’s author, this is a must-have these days with all the various types of blog spam floating around. There’s a detailed guide to the options here
  • Bunny’s Technorati Tags – If you use Technorati and haven’t discovered their new tags, you should check it out. This plugin adds a custom “tags” field to each post and appends em to the post.
  • BAStats – Stats collector, don’t know if I’ll use this long term, but still quite useful
  • Favatars – Downloads favicon for URLs posted on comments.
  • X-Valid – “Attempts to create valid XHTML from arbitrary source”. In short, makes your posts and comments validate against a Doctype of your choice

BAStats plugin

Just installed the BAStats plugin, looking forward to seeing what kinda output it produces… Seems the 1.5 WP release has really brought everyone out.