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Profanity filter for WordPress

By tom.altman ⋅ August 30, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Image via Wikipedia We’re working on a new version of our website at work. We currently use Intense Debate for comments – but we want to leverage Buddy Press more – so we chose to go with the built in stuff. That being said – we need a profanity filter – I think we’ll give [...]

BPWP Twire (twitter/wire)

By tom.altman ⋅ August 30, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Image via Wikipedia The more I learn about BuddyPress the more I like it. One very cool feature is the wire – its a Twitter-like app. This plugin allowsyoue wire and Twitter feed to intermingle…in a good way. Twire is a BuddyPress plug-in that makes it easy to post to Twitter directly from the member [...]

BuddyPress WordPress chat

By tom.altman ⋅ August 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Image via CrunchBase Buddypress Ajax Chat is a full featured chat built specifically for Buddypress, based on AJAX chat. This is the Premium version of BuddyPress Ajax Chat meaning that there will be NO advertisements built into the chat once you tell us your domain name.

admin manager – wp

By tom.altman ⋅ August 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

There are many times when you have to hide things in the WordPress admin. This plugin is used to control WordPress admin interface. You can hide widgets administration or hide menu itens.

WordPress: Query Custom Fields

By tom.altman ⋅ August 17, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

I work for a media company and we are always bending WordPress this way and that – one of the latest challenges is to build a new version of our Obituaries page. You laugh – but, it is the second most popular page on our site. When I came across this plugin “Query Custom Fields” [...]

Use Google Libraries

By tom.altman ⋅ August 16, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Google has the best servers. I mean – like if you have ever really had to maintain a server, or website in your life…you understand what I mean. It sucks – like as soon as something you post gets popular, sha-bam, your server lays over and plays dead. Well Google can help – any files [...]

W3 Total Cache

By tom.altman ⋅ August 16, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

There are many cache plugins for WordPress – but my fav is W3 Total Cache. Fredrick Townes is the author and publisher of this plugin and it is awesome. My favorite things about it has to be the number of things it does – fantastic cache and minify, it alow allows the ability use database [...]

Keep your WordPress healthy

By tom.altman ⋅ August 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

15 tips from Web Design Booth You can never have enough plugins in the bag-o-tricks to keep WP happy and healthy. Here are 15 for you to check out. One that looked particularity interesting is IP Host Blocker – it will block out pesky IP’s and send them packing. They recommend WP Super Cache, I would make [...]

FeedWordPress Plugin

By tom.altman ⋅ August 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Plugin: FeedWordPress There are a few of these “auto-posting” bots around. I’m definitely not a proponent of stealing content, but these tools have some uses. There are a ton of feeds around the net which could be leveraged for content in a white hat way. FeedWordPress is an open-source Atom/RSS aggregator for the WordPress weblog [...]

WPMU Global Robots.txt

By tom.altman ⋅ August 11, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

WPMU Plugin: WP Global Robots.txt robot.txt get more important each day in my opinion. If you take a look at what some of these bots are looking for it is a total waste of server resources. I’ve had some of these repeatidly look for pages which were on a system we removed well over a [...]

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