Sunday, January 29, 2006

Top 30 Tools For Working With Wordpress Posts

Aside from tweaking the design and installing the occasional plugin, most of the time in your WordPress blog is spent writing and editing posts. In the penultimate post of the WordPress Tips series, we present 30+ tools to help you with everything from saving recurring post layouts to hiding the spoiler at the end of your movie review.

Post Administration & Layout

Add Graphic Signature – Adds a graphic of your signature to your posts either automatically or via the insertion of a simple tag.

Adman – Allows you to post ads such as Google AdSense at the beginning or middle of a post.

Another WordPress Meta Plugin – Allows you to add Meta tags and keywords to your post to try to further optimize your blog for search engines.

Category Remindr – Category Remindr puts a button next to the “Publish” button to remind you to select the categories for your post.

Corrector – Adds Google Spell to your admin area and can spellcheck in 27 languages.

DropCap First Character – Enlarges the first character of a post to give it more of a magazine appearance.

Front Page Excluded Categories – Sometimes you don’t want posts from certain categories on your front landing page, this allows you to exclude them from appearing there.

Limit the size of main page posts – Set the number of words you want each of your main page posts to contain, if they exceed that limit, a link is provided to a page with the complete post.

Notify On Draft Post – Notifies the editor when the authors of a multi-author blog post a new draft for review.

Post Notification – Sends an email to all of the registered Users, who have opted in, when you make a new post. Includes the option to include the post in the email.

Post Repeater – Sometimes you have a post with significance every week, month, or year; this plugin will do it for you with just a few edits.

Post Templates – Allows you to set up repeating templates such as a “Picture Of The Day” and so on without all the tedious copy and pasting.

PostPost – Allows you to add content such as advertisements before or after every post.

Posts Expire – Set an expiration date on your post, after the date passes, it will no longer be displayed.

Subscribers Only – Lets you mark a post as “subscriber only” so they are visible only to members of your site.

Subscribe-Remind – Adds a reminder to the bottom of each post to your readers to subscribe to your RSS feed.

WordPress PDA – Helps your readers view your blog on a PDA browser.

WP-orderposts – As more people use WordPress also as a CMS, sometimes you don’t want your posts in chronological order; this plugin allows you to change it.

WP-Sticky – Sometimes you want a post to always be the first entry for your blog, especially when using WordPress as a makeshift CMS. This plugin does just that by making a post “sticky”.

Post Tools

Auto Link – Use the Google API to set delimiters like [movie]Move Title[/movie] to make it auto link to the page on IMDB. Can set others as you wish.

Author Complete Post List – Gives you the ability to display all the posts by an author, including the ones where they are co-author.

Blog by Mail with Categories – Changes the “Blog by Mail” feature in WordPress so you can also set the category.

Code Markup – Allows you to include snippets of code, including HTML, in your post without it affecting the page.

Easy Post-To-Post Links – Allows you to use a shortcut when writing a post linking to another post on your blog; shows the full hyperlink in the published post.

On This Day – Will display posts posted on the same day in previous years.

Plain Text Paste – Helps to ease the pain of pasting something you wrote in Microsoft Word into WordPress.

TD Word Count – Will display a word count for each post on a blog, and gives you a total count.

Ubernyms – Allows you to make shortcut for terms and links you use often. Just enter the abbreviation and this plugin fills it in for you.

WP-Footnotes – Allows you to add footnotes to a more detailed post.

wpSpoiler – Great for sites that do movie or TV reviews, will allow you so hide text behind [spoiler] tags. (via)