Tag Archives: plugin

Quickie: 04/12/2008 10:33:33am

Updated the Simple Post plugin with a date/time fix.

WordPress Plugin: Comment Author URL Stripper

As promised, I’ve created a plugin which removes the URL from a comment author if it contains any of the words specified in the Options screen. Too many people have been leaving comments and putting in yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc. as their web site and I got tired of editing those comments all of the [...]

Quickie: 02/03/2008 1:08:18pm

Why do people continually enter URLs like hotmail and yahoo as their web site when submitting comments? When I get time I’ll work on a plugin to strip these out.

Simple Post WordPress Plugin

I’ve just released version 1.0 of my new Simple Post plugin for WordPress. The plugin allows you to create simpler post write screen. There are options to set the default category, ping status, and comment status, as well as autofill the title of the post with some text and date/time. You can also choose to [...]

Quickie: 12/19/2007 6:36:24pm

Working on a Quickie posting plugin for the default WordPress admin interface.

Quickie: 12/19/2007 8:30:16am

Added Lightbox and wordTube plugins here at MDV.

Quickie: 12/18/2007 8:13:50pm

Made some good progress tonight on the WPhone add-on plugin. Posting with it right now.

Wphone

Wphone is a lightweight WordPress admin interface built for the iPhone and might convince me to ditch Twitter.

404 Notifier WordPress Plugin

Some of the best WordPress plugins are the ones you rarely use. One of my favorites is Alex King’s 404 Notifier. Very handy to turn on every couple of months or after a site upgrade.

Integrating Twitter

I’ve been using Twitter more and more just because it’s so simple to post quick little updates. I just installed the Twitter Tools plugin which will create a daily post here at MDV from my Twitter Updates. These daily posts (if I have any Tweets that day) will go into the quickie category and make [...]

Spammers Attack

Over the past week I’ve had a problem with spammers hitting my comment form hardcore both here and at 2 Hole Cards so hard it was crashing the web host server. They had to disable the sites and it looks like the spammers have moved along. Just to help out for future attacks, I’ve upgraded [...]

No WWW

I posted a couple of months ago about dropping the www from URLs and have been a supporter of it for much longer. All of my sites have been www free for as long as I can remember. The www.xxxx.com URLs will redirect to the one without www. If you’re using WordPress and have been [...]

Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam

With Akismet from Automattic or more specifically Matt Mullenweg. I just purchased a Pro-blogger license for an entire year and installed the WordPress plugin on all of my blogs. I removed my other spam prevention plugins, turned off the Comment author must have a previously approved comment option in WP, and even deleted my comment [...]

Create Favicons with Photoshop

With the help of a plugin you can now create favicons with Photoshop.

nofollow is BAD for the Internet

If you run a WordPress site, I highly suggest installing the Dofollow plugin. If you don’t, you’re hurting the legimate commenters on your site.

WordPress Plugins: Trackback And Pingback Moderation

These two plugins basically do the same thing, but I wanted to keep them seperate. When you turn one on, it will automatically place either all NEW trackbacks or all NEW pingbacks (depending on the plugin) into the comment moderation queue. It’s meant as a simple way to keep the spammers from getting these onto [...]

WordPress Plugin: Card Converter

Card Converter is a WordPress plugin with poker bloggers in mind, but it can be used by anyone who would like to display playing cards in posts and comments. It will take card abbreviations such as Ad (meaning Ace of diamonds) and convert it to a CSS graphical-like representation of the card. Inspiration for the [...]