There are always times you need to keep track of the different contacts in the company – this will help.
This plugin use for manage and display simple directory about informations. You can use this plugin to list your member, your affiliates, and other informations that you want to display or manage with your blog.
You may have noticed I have been a little plugin crazy. I’ve had a bunch “starred” in google reader and figured I’d better get them out in the open. Otherwise I would simply forget them and they would disappear in the ether.
I have some more, then I promise I’ll keep it to a minimum. 
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As WordPress rolls on for your site, the categories keep piling up. They are all good – but it would be nice to put only a subset in the sidebar. This plugin will do that.
Do you have a lot of categories and are sick of having a huge list in your sidebar? Want to highlight only a few of them to make your site easier to navigate?
Sometimes, you want to show people all your stuff. But with WordPress – the river just keeps on flowing. This plugin will capture the last articles people see and then start displaying from there…very nice.
I like to think of this plugin as the “What Would Seth Godin Do” on steroids version. The difference is that it tackles returning visitors that have already proved engagement for your blog and it displays them the content that they are looking for.
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Why are posts and pages so oil and water in WordPress? This plugin bridges the gap and makes them more like chocolate and peanut butter.
The Post-Page-Associator enables you to attach posts of the particular category to a page.
Anything we do to keep people on the site longer is a good thing:
A widget that tries to improve the site bounce rate by producing links to posts and pages matching search engine terms used to find the page. For instance if the page displayed is where the user landed after clicking a Google search result link the widget tries to inform about more reading on the site that might interest the user.
This is a very in depth post on how mikeindustires.com was able to grab a domain at expiration time:
I recently found myself in the position of wanting to register a domain which was owned by someone else. The domain was set to expire in a week, and I figured there was a decent chance that the person who owned it wouldn’t be renewing it. Upon consulting the WhoIs registry on the current owner, I discovered the guy was a bit of a domain shark and didn’t seem to be around anymore.
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Mavis Beacon Klava hits the web.
If you’ve been meaning to get around to working on your lackluster keyboard chops Klava can help you hone your touch typing skills without having to install any apps or sign up for any services.
I’m the world’s fastest two fingered typist. (I use my thumbs too) I really knew how to type at one point, 7th grade I think. But I was typing a paper and my hands cramped up one night and then ended up back in two fingerland and left.
OK, TMI.
We ran across this tool for real time analytics about a week ago called “chartbeat” – which is just plain cool. I learned of it while enjoying the podcast “This Week in Startups” by Jason Calacanis and crew. #twist
This offers a real time (within seconds) look at the visitors to our site. Some of the metrics are total people on the site; if people are reading, writing or idle; average USER page load times (more how this works later); and a very niffty twitter monitor.
Oh yea – and it keeps a historical record. (At least 30 days worth.)
So How Does it work?
I have had a lot of people ask “How does it work?” and “Doesn’t it cause the server to slow down?” – which is actually the brilliant part about the whole deal. It works with AJAX and analysis on the chartbeat side.
Here’s picture:
chartbeat visual
User goes to your site (which already has the chartbeat embeded in the page.)
Server sends the code back to user’s computer. At this time, a javascript timer is executed within the users browser – to give us an idea of the page load speed.
After the page loads – the browser communicates in very, very small files to the chartbeat server, telling it the information about the page and what they have done. It does this with AJAX and after the page loads – as to not interfere with the transfer of information. (AJAX is asynchronous communication with the server, or stated differently, a message sent to/from the server which doesn’t interfere with the user’s browsing.)
chartbeat takes that data and crunches the numbers, and builds the very cool charts, graphs and dials. Which gives us a look at our site’s performance.
It’s a great idea and one that has saved us a lot of time wondering if the site is slow because of a programming issue – or if we have a sudden influx of users. We can see in real time the story. The cost is $10/month for 5 sites, and is well worth it. (They do not sponsor this blog – I just really, really like the product.)
Take a test drive here. It is a demo chart they have running. Let me know if you like it – or have used it.
