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Im an avid reader of Business Insider and the NYTimes and have liked their similar content sharer for some time, but I have never been able to find a WordPress plugin that replicates this. Finally, I have found such a plugin!
The SimpleReach Slide is a great plugin that will show your readers a releated post while they scroll your articles. The widget is to show your readers related content while also increasing your pageviews and social media sharing.
The SimpleReach Slide is free and available to download from the WordPress site right now.
It is now official, Tumblr has more blogs on their service than WordPress.com.
Tumblr has only been around for 4 years and considering that WordPress.com has been running for 8 years its a remarkable feet for the blogging platform.
Google has been trying to get their +1 button added to as many places across the web as possible. It seems as though the +1 button will help content creators in search results. Here are some quick options on how to add the +1 button to your site.
1. The Google +1 plugin: This plugin lets your visitors quickly and easily add their Google+1 vote to your posts or site.
Features;
- Allows readers to vote using the cool Google +1 button
- Includes a Google +1 widget
- Provides ability to choose which posts and pages are included
- Includes 4 different button sizes
- Show/hide Google +1 counts
- Customize position of the button
- Shortcodes and styling for further customization
2. Google +1 Button: This is another simple plugin which will add the +1 button to your articles which enables readers to recommend posts.
If you want to manually add the +1 button, you can visit the Google +1 page to customize it.
It seems as though everyone is starting to develop Windows Phone 7 looking themes for all different software and device. The latest is a new WordPress theme called Metro Style. This theme is taken from the very popular Windows Phone 7 Metro UI.
Check out and download the theme here for free.
via LifeRocks
WordPress.com is closing in on 20 million hosted blogs on the platform. WordPress.com is the blogging service from Automattic’s brilliant WordPress software.
However, it seems as though Tumblr is quickly catching up with WordPress.com in terms of blogs hosted. Tumblr is only just short of 20 million blogs also, so look for them to overtake WordPress very soon.
Have you forgot to write a post for a specific date? When it finally gets to the date you curse and by that time its all too late. Well thats where this new editorial calendar comes in. The Editorial Calendar aims to help you provide order to your blog and your articles. The user can easily drag and drop to move posts, edit posts right in the calendar, and manage your entire blog.
Smart 404 is the best wordpress plugin for 404 pages. We have just installed smart 404 on Crenk it has really helped our readers that were find 404 pages.
Instead of just giving out a 404 page when content cant be found, smart 404 make an effort to guess what they were after in the first place and finds appropriate information. The plugin helps improve search results, pages, posts, tags and more.
These changes really help to improve SEO as Google and other search engines dont like pages that 404.
Download the plugin here.
We have come across an amazing tutorial that outlines how to build a basic portfolio wordpress theme. The tutorial runs through the full design and covert process.
Check out the full tutorial here.
WordPress Core UI team member John O’Nolan is currently running a bit of an experiment with the WordPress backend. Over at his blog he has released a new testing plugin which will make a very small change to the WordPress UI.
Within the plugin O’Nolan will be running a lot of different experiments to see if the WordPress community like the UI changes.
“If everything always fitted the current UI then nothing would ever change. If they fit exactly into the current WordPress UI then this would just be a patch on a core ticket and not a plugin.”
So far there is only one experiment running on the plugin, but I’m sure that will be increased over the next few months. So do you want to be a WordPress guinea pig?
It seems like the next version of WordPress is all about adopting new technologies and killing off old ones. The new version of WordPress will now require PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5 at a minimum. Additionally, support for IE6 will be removed and users will be asked to update to a new version.
It seems as though most of the changes will be performance based, but there are some great interface changes like full screen post writing that will also be improved.
