More Plugins and Addons Listed
I realized that it has been awhile since I’ve updated my Plugins page. If you haven’t been to this page before, it’s a list of useful WordPress and FireFox plugins that I use and a brief description of what they do.
Plugins/Addons (depending on your preferred terminology) are one of the best things about FireFox and WordPress. This handy little programs will make your experience with these programs so much better because they allow you to truely customize what you’re doing.
You’ll want to be careful not to use too many FireFox addons though, since if you add too many it can really slow down your browser. Also, if you use too many JavaScript plugins you can really slow down the load time of your blog as well.
Here are some of the new ones that have been added to the page:
FireFox Plugins
FireGestures
This is another gestures program. I’m using this on my laptop and Mouse Gestures on a desktop, but as time goes on I think I’m liking FireGestures more than Mouse Gestures. Same basic idea though.
FireBug
I’ve grown to really love this plugin. It let’s you hover over a page and see what the different divs are so you can then go into the code and make the changes to the CSS and HTML to make your site look the way you want. I use this plugin all the time when i’m customizing a site.
TwitterFox
TwitterFox let’s you manage your Twitter account from a little pop-up box in your browser. You can also change back and forth between accounts if you have different ones. It will keep track of your most recent updates, replies, and direct messages. Great if you’re a Twitter user!
RankChecker
Another great tool from SEOBook.com. This one will let you type in a domain and a keyword and tell you where that site ranks for that phrase on Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. You can also save lists of keywords that you check frequently.
SearchStatus
This one will let you see the Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, and/or Compete Rank as a small button rather than using the Google Toolbar, Alexa Toolbar, etc. I just use it for PageRank rather than using the full Google Toolbar.
WordPress Plugins
WordPress Thread Comment
I LOVE this plugin! I only started using it a few weeks ago, but what it allows you to do is reply to someone else’s comment and the reply stays inside the original comment. Great for conversations. It will also email the reply to the person you commented back to if you want it to, thus getting rid of the need for the Comment Email Responder plugin. It seems though that some themes don’t work well with this one.
TwitterTools
This will make it so that you can show your most recent Twitter updates on your sidebar. You can also set it up so that when you write a new post it is automatically sent to Twitter.
Apture
I love Apture! Apture is a plugin that allows you to add extra multimedia to your website from places like Flickr, YouTube, etc. by just highlighting words on the page and inserting the link. It’s all Javascript, but pretty darn cool. Check out their site for a demo of how it works.
Ad Rotator
This is a very simple plugin that will let you set up rotating ads where ever you insert it.
Exec-PHP
This is more of an advanced plugin, but can be really useful if you need to do some more advanced things with your blog. This plugin will make it so that you can actually use PHP code in your posts, which is something that the normal WordPress editors will not let you do. But use with caution!
Lijit
Lijit is a more advanced search feature for your blog. It allows people to not only search your blog, but also your social networks and sites you’ve bookmarked on places like delicious and StumbleUpon as well.
Be sure to checkout the Plugins page for other plugins that were added in the past but are still good to use. Also, let me know if you have any ideas of other great plugins that I should be trying!
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Yes it is right that using more add ons or updating plugins page may slow down the performance of the system. To prevent this problem one should install only that plugins which are essential .
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Dan Reply:
October 23rd, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I agree. There are lots of ‘cool’ little things you can do with plugins, but if it slows things down too much it’s not worth it!
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I love firebug and twitterfox, but I’d not heard of rankchecker before. I’m going to get it and install. Sounds like its something I’d use every day. Cheers.
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Dan Reply:
October 23rd, 2008 at 3:20 pm
It’s a really cool one. Let me know what you think!
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I use rankchecker everyday
best tool.
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Dan Reply:
October 23rd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
It’s a great one, that’s for sure
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This is more of an advanced plugin, but can be really useful if you need to do some more advanced things with your blog.
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Dan Reply:
October 24th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
It all depends on what you need to customize.
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Though i love firebug and twitterfox, but I’d not heard of rankchecker before. I’m going to get it and install. Sounds like its something I’d use every day. Nice blog.
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Dan Reply:
October 28th, 2008 at 6:23 am
I love firebug and twitterfox too. RankChecker really comes in handy when you’re checking rankings. Much better than just going through them on your own.
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For Wordpress, I’d add the automatic upgrade plugin, makes upgrading Wordpress a breeze. Click a few buttons and it’s done.
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Dan Reply:
October 28th, 2008 at 5:30 am
I think the most recent version of WP does that automatically. Or is this a different plugin?
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I’d have to agree with Rank Checker being the best tool - Aaron Wall over at SEO Book does have a lot of very helpful tools.
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Dan Reply:
October 28th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Yeah, he really has developed some really good ones.
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“Rank Checker” is cool. i strongly recommend it! it can tell you what is place in google according to the keyword. you can download it in firefox hompage.
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Dan Reply:
October 28th, 2008 at 5:31 am
I love RankChecker, it really does come in handy.
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Thanks a lot, I loved the “ad rotator” addon. So simple to set up that it is silly.
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Dan Reply:
October 28th, 2008 at 5:32 am
that’s one of the things that I love about it, it’s very very easy to use!
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SearchStatus I think this is a great one to rank google page. Good one thanks for sharing
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Dan Reply:
October 31st, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Do you have a link for that one?
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Wordpress thread comment plugin is what I have been looking for. Can you recommend a plugin that will automatically trim posts. I have several WP blogs and a Drupal blog. With Drupal you can set the size of the post to publish and it will automatically trim it with a ‘read more’ statement.
Any ideas for a WordPress plugin to do the same?
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Dan Reply:
November 6th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I haven’t heard of any that do that, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was something like that. Have you checked the WordPress.org site?
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les Reply:
November 6th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Hi Dan - I have tried to check WP.org - their search function is not terribly good. Type in ‘trim post’ and you get everything but. I will keep looking. I know there is a plugin but it relies on hard coding within the index.plp file as well. I should follow that up.
cheers
les
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Dan Reply:
November 11th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Let me know if you find anything, I’d be interested to see it!
I do use a lot Search Status and I love it. I discovered another add-on for Firefox - GreaseMonkey for Google, which allows you to customize the way a web page appears; I use it to make a very fast ranking check, as it could download more than 100 results in search page results.
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Dan Reply:
November 11th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I’ve used some GreaseMonkey scripts before. Do you have any favorites?
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Very useful plugins and thanks for including a description also.
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Dan Reply:
November 14th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Have you used any of them yet?
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You dont really need the Exec-PHP plugin for wordpress anymore when you use the latest versions of wordpress.
I have no problem in attaching php code or html in wordpress 2.6 or higher.
This will save you having to install another plugin and complicate your wordpress install.
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Dan Reply:
November 24th, 2008 at 7:18 am
I’ll have to try that sometime. My understanding has always been that for security reasons they took out any PHP functionality from the wysiwyg editor.
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i miss “Flagfox” and “GA?” on this list!
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Dan Reply:
December 10th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Can’t say I’m familiar with those ones….?
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I would have to say that SEO Quake and Firebug are my 2 favorite plugins for FireFox.
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Dan Reply:
December 17th, 2008 at 11:51 am
I love using Firebug. I haven’t messed with SEO Quake, so I’ll have to check that one out.
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Hmm, the twitterfox could be quite useful, thanks for the info!
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Here I leave the link to unload it:
Https: // addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5081
Thank you for the information.
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I think the most recent version of WP does that automatically. I use it to make a very fast ranking check, as it could download more than 100 results in search page results.
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TwitterFox is a great one for saving some time and for keeping clutter off your screen. And yes, the most recent version of WP does the ranking results automatically now.
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also there are lots of good SEO plugins available for Firefox.
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Thanks for the list! You can add Moztrans to your Firefox list. That’s a translation add-on, very useful http://home.interlecta.com/desktop or use the page for firefox add-ons but you need to look in the section for experimental add-ons.
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A few of those plug-ins I mostly use on WP. Thanks for giving me additional information on adding some important plug-ins on WP.
I’ll explore and see more of these plug-ins!
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