Posted on Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 at 7:47pm.
My previous WordPress Plugins list has done fairly well in visits, so I thought I would do it again. 
So, here’s a list of the WordPress plugins I’ve installed since my previous list:
- Archives by Selected Categories^ – although I like my normal archives list, I also wanted to have a page that listed all of my entries by what category they’re in. This plugin does the job nicely and was very easy to set up. I’ve modified the code slightly by adding jQuery “Show All” links to each of the categories.
- Clean Archives Reloaded^ – I didn’t like the default way that WordPress shows archived entries, so I set about looking for a plugin that would display my archives in chronological order but in a nice and clean way.
- Different Posts Per Page^ – set how many entries are displayed on different views: 3 on the home page, 5 on a tag view, etc.
- flickrRSS^ – when I was using my own CMS, I used a Flickr parser to display my most recent Flickr photos. I liked the script but couldn’t get it to work nicely with WordPress, so I went in search for a plugin that was very similar to the previous script I used. I came across this one and I like it; it displays as many of your photographs as you want and doesn’t have any unnecessary code floating about.
- WordPress Database Backup^ – this plugin will automatically backup your WordPress database and send the resulting *.zip to an email address you specify. You won’t have to worry about backing up your database ever again!
- WordTwit^ – this will send a link and the title of all new blog entries to your Twitter account.
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin^ – this will add a list of similar posts at the bottom of the current entry on the single view.
A short one this time, as I’ve been finding it difficult to find plugins that I actually want to use and work with the current version of WordPress.
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Posted on Friday, April 24th, 2009 at 1:36pm.
My favourite type of WordPress-related posts are the ones where the site owner has written out a list of the Plugins they use and why they use them.
This is my list of the Plugins that I’m using on my site right now and why I use them. I’ve only listed the Plugins that actually add something to my site (improved functionality) or are useful (for example, by cutting down the amount of time I have to waste maintaining my site). Read the rest of this entry »
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Commented: Belinda Rebecca
Posted on Saturday, March 21st, 2009 at 10:00pm.
I put a lot of time and effort into my “How to properly care for a new ear piercing” article. That time and effort seems to have been well used, as it’s my second most popular post.
As much time and effort I put into that entry, I’ve noticed that a lot of questions probably aren’t answered as well as they could have been. Some of these aren’t exactly questions but I feel they’re worth discussing.
List of questions answered
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Posted on Saturday, February 28th, 2009 at 10:47am.
There are so many articles on the web and a great deal of them are inaccurate and could increase the amount of time it will take your piercing to heal.
I don’t have any degrees or qualifications on the subject of body piercing but I’ve put myself through it enough times to know what you should do to get those piercings healed up nice and quickly.
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Tags: Body Modification, Piercings
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Commented: Marieke Lirae Francine Amber
Posted on Friday, August 8th, 2008 at 9:27pm.
An easy way to understand RSS is to think of an RSS reader as a custom newspaper; you choose who writes the articles in your newspaper. The RSS feed just inserts the “article” into your “newspaper”.
This is a really handy way of keeping up to date with your favourite sites; you just add the URL of the RSS feed into your feed reader.
MagpieRSS basically uses your site as a feed reader. If an RSS feed is just a list of updates from a site, you can use your site to show updates from another site.
To install it, first you need to download MagpieRSS^.
It’ll probably download as a .tar.gz file which you probably won’t be able to open. This doesn’t matter; you won’t need to open it anyway. As always, when you’ve downloaded it, scan it to make sure it’s virus free.
Upload the .tar.gz file to your root directory. You might as well do this in your cPanel because you’ll need to use it in a moment anyway.
Once uploaded, use the File Manager in your cPanel and view your root folder (usually called ‘Document Root’).
If you’re using the fancy file manager, check the checkbox next to the MagpieRSS .tar.gz file. If you’re using the basic HTML file manager, click on the name of the file.
Click the “Extract” button.
You’ll now find that you’ve got a new folder, called “magpierss”.
You don’t need to do anything else; it’s now installed. 
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