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If you have upgraded your blog to WordPress 2.1, you might have already noticed that if you use the <!–more–> feature it will cut off your posts in RSS feeds. This can be really annoying if you prefer full feeds.
CaveMonkey50 has created a WordPress plugin called Full Text Feed that prevents WordPress 2.1+ from adding a ‘more’ link to your RSS feed.
Unzip full_feed.zip, upload the full_feed.php file into your plugin directoy and activate the plugin.
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I have mentioned before the importance of a Top Posts page - it makes it easier for visitors to find the best content on your blog without having to dig through your archives and helps you to to get them to subscribe to your feed and convert them to regular readers easily.
Until yesterday I was manually listing out important posts on my Top Posts page. But it is no more needed to do it manually thanks to Marc Macalua who contacted me yesterday as soon as he finished his Top Posts by Category plugin.
Top Posts by Category is a plugin for WordPress that allows bloggers to display their best posts categorywise, as determined by the number of visits to the post or number of comments.
You can view my Top Posts page (by number of comments) in action here.
Have you ever wanted to execute PHP codes inside a post? If yes, you need to install PHP Exec which is a plugin for WordPress that lets you execute dynamic PHP code in posts.
It masks PHP code before balanceTags, and unmask them afterwards, so it should be safe to use PHP code that has literal HTML tags in it, for example: code which print out HTML.
Installation is pretty simple. Download the plugin, put it into your wp-content/plugins directory and activate it. And when you need to execute PHP codes, enclose the code with <phpcode> … </phpcode>
Readers Post is a plugin for WordPress that can list out the recent posts read by your blog visitors. It can also show the number of visits a post has had and the most viewed posts of your blog.
The plugin “Readers_Post” shows for each post how often it was visited. So it works as a posts-based counter. You can generate something like “This post was read by 40 people until now” under each post of your WordPress blog.Secondly you can display the most recent posts that were read by other visitors and the most visited posts of all time.The visits is counted in a seperate table, so an update of WordPress causes no trouble. The visits of the SiteAdmin will not be counted
To install, just upload the plugin to your wp-content/plugins/ directory and activate the plugin. Then use the code the author has given.
Rating: 3/5
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You might have noticed that you get most of your comment spam on older posts, this is because spammers target older posts as they are indexed by search engines. So it might be a good idea to automatically disable comments on older posts (posts that are 21 or more days old). This tip will be useful to you currently as Akismet is down.
For WordPress users, there is a plugin called Auto-Close Comments that will automatically disable comments after 21 days.
I just installed the plugin and I haven’t got any spam ever since even though Akismet is down 
To install the plugin, go here and simply copy the plugin code provided there and paste it to your favorite text editor and save the file as autoshutoff.php. Now upload the file to your plugins folder and activate the plugin.
The Google Sitemaps Generator Plugin for WordPress that automatically generates a sitemap and helps in better indexing of all pages of your blog has been updated.
Recently Yahoo, Google and Microsoft joined hands to support a single format for Sitemaps. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site. Sitemap 0.90 is now offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License and Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft will continue to collaborate on the protocol and publish enhancements on the jointly-maintained site at sitemaps.org.
Recently the author of the plugin updated the xml-namespace definitions in the new beta version of the XML-Sitemap Generator for WordPress Plugin as per the new sitemaps.org standard.
I’ve updated the xml-namespace definitions in the new beta version of my XML-Sitemap Generator for WordPress Plugin to the new sitemaps.org standard.
Some of the updates in the latest beta version are:
Also, if you are using UTW (Ultimate Tag Warrior) check this addon to include your tag pages in the sitemap.
Download Google Sitemaps Generator
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Popularity Contest, a plugin for WordPress that will help you see which of your posts are most popular, was updated yesterday to version 1.2. The significant changes include:
Update: A new version has been released (1.2.1) to fix some bugs in the 1.2 release.
AdSense-Deluxe is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to quickly insert Google or Yahoo! Ads into your blog posts. The plugin supports multiple ad blocks…
…and lets you manage where the Ads are shown
Adsense Injection is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to randomly inject AdSense Ads into different places on your Blog each time your page is refreshed in an attempt to reduce Ad blindness.
The plugin takes a random paragraph break in your post and inserts the Adsense code. You can choose the total ads to insert and pick the formats and colors you want it to randomly select from.
I have not tried the plugin so far as I don’t feel readers are going to like Ads moving around the page. Though I am interested to know if this plugin can help increase the Click Through Rate (CTR).
If you try it out, then please let me know if you notice an increase in your CTR.
AdSense Beautifier is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to make your Adsense Ads look beautiful by placing images besides them. Adding images adjacent to Ads can help increase click through rate (CTR).
You can do all what this plugin offers manually if you know basic HTML and CSS. But if you are too lazy, you can use this plugin which requires no HTML knowledge.
Note: If you are going to do manually, you must know that AdSense team always ask publishers to place a visible border between the ads and the images in order to avoid confusion and invalid clicks.
This plugin can also be integrated with Adsense Deluxe plugin.
