Features

• Retrieve download statistics and download URL by one click
• It stores the statistics data in your local server
• Auto synchronize the outdated data in the background using Ajax
• Manage the plugin’s behaviour and saved data at Plugin Option page
• You can create custom format at plugin option page and use it for output
• To make it easier, you can use media button to add download stat to post (see screenshot : Media Button)
• Template tag function is available if you want to display stats in your template (see links below)
• Template tag function is available if you want to make a “download” page (see links below)
• Quickly load all stats of your plugins/themes using your wordpress extend username at plugin option page > Add New Data

Usage

• To output download stat in blog post, use shortcode [downloadstat] in your post content / excerpt.
• To make it easier, you can use the media button (see screenshot for more info) and follow the steps given.
• See the link below for more info about using shortcode and template tag function

Installation:

You can watch this video for an overview of many of the features of Share and Follow or scroll on down for the written description of the features.

Share and Follow offers the following features.

* Automatic addition of the most popular share links to posts, pages, authorpages, homepage or archive pages
* Automatic addition of Facebook Like, Stumble Count Button and Twitter Tweet/Retweet buttons, with share counters and different style configuration.
* a follow tab (facebook/rss/twitter/foursquare etc.. ) to the top/bottom/left/right of the screen
* Print, Browser Bookmark and Email buttons
* Widget to manage Follow actions
* Widget to manage Share actions
* Shortcode version for inside post or page for sharing
* Function access for theme tags for sharing or following
* Icons come in sizes 16, 24, 32, 48, 60 px
* Can be displayed as Icon, Icon + Text or Text only
* Users can change all link text at will
* Head section Style or external CSS control of content
* Ability to change any of the share or follow link text (including text popups)
* Does not give away pagerank ( rel=”nofollow” is set in links )
* All items open in a new tab keeping focus on the original blog
* Configuration of default Share Image on a post, page, author, archive or homepage level (the image facebook shows in news feed).
* Ability to choose how Twitter posts are shown, URL only, title & URL or prefix text of your choice on a global or post/page level.
* Optional Twitter Suffix so you can auto add “VIA @twittername” and be informed when people post your links
* Shortens URL’s for Twitter using Bit.ly
* Support for English, Dutch, French and Portuguese words for text replacement
* CSS support for printing
* Gravatar Support for Author images
* Functions that are very accessibile for programmers, Shortcodes available for content creators
* Plugin Support for WP e-Commerce, so you can easily add share links or retweet/like button and on product pages
* Choice between CSS sprites for faster loading times, or CSS single images so you can have your own icon replacements
* Optional subscription to different icon sets via a content delevery network (CDN), for choice of icon sets and improved website speed. Currently 26 icon sets to choose from, including many Christmas style ones

People time and again have said how much they enjoy using this plugin and how it does exactlly what they want with the minimum of fuss or difficult configuration. A very simple bookmarking solution that offers a discrete clean layout that does not brand your website in it’s image.

Online demo and support site here example link. Currently icons from either the default set, or from the xmas baubles icons. Example User Site unselfish designs using the candy sweets icons.

more info about the CDN and how easy it is to setup

Currently supports these social networks : digg, twitter, faceook, stumble, reddit, delicious, hyves, myspace, linkedin, rss, mixx, email, print, google buzz, yahoo buzz, tumblr, orkut, vkontakte, sphinn, nujij, bookmark, picasa, bandcamp, moddb, imdb, deviantart, youtube, yelp, flickr, feedback, lastfm, newsletter, xfire, foursquare, vimeo, dailymotion, plaxo, coconex, soundcloud, xing, gowalla, itunes, posterous, ya, slideshare, feedburner, ning, plurk, identica, linkagogo,fark, faves, getglue, wordpress, bebo, blogger, freindfeed.

we are growing all the time.

Installations:

Screenshots:

Features include:

• Customize the color scheme of embedded Google Calendars
• Options from the Google Embeddable Calendar Helper can be modified directly within the WordPress Admin
• Save multiple calendars, each with it’s own color scheme, size and display settings
• Display calendars in a Widget, Pages or Posts via shortcode or in templates
• Live preview of all changes to a calendar as you make each change
• Easy color picker or directly input hexadecimal color values

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More information about what XML-Sitemaps are and how they can help you to get indexed by the major search engines can be found at Sitemaps.org and the searchenginewatch blog.

If you have questions about XML-Sitemaps or run into problems, have a look at my Sitemaps FAQ.

Note: The XML-Sitemap format was introduced in 2005 by Google and adopted in 2006 by YAHOO, Bing (formerly MSN Search) and Ask.com so thats why it’s often called “Google Sitemaps”.

Features:

• Available for all WordPress versions since 1.5
• No PHP skills or file changes needed
• User interface to customize all parameters like priorities etc.
• Available in many languages
• Generates automatically a sitemap for all types of WordPress pages
• Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments
• Notifies Ask.com, Google, Bing and YAHOO about changes via ping
• Includes a WordPress filter for other plugins which can add their pages to the sitemap
• Generates a static XML file as well as a zipped version
• …and many more!

Download (includes all languages):

Download for WordPress 2.1 and better (recommended)
Download beta version (WordPress 2.8+ and PHP 5.1 required)
Download for WordPress older than 2.1 (discontinued)

Installation:

Simply download the Zip-Archive and extract all files into your wp-content/plugins/ directory. Then go into your WordPress administration page, click on Plugins and activate it. After that you will have a new menu point called “Sitemap” under the “Options” menu. You can alter the default change frequencies, filename and other options there. Click once on “Rebuild Sitemap” to create your sitemap the first time. If you receive an error that the sitemap files could not be written, continue reading.

The script needs write access to your Blog directory. Check out the WordPress Codex or have a look at the FAQ for help.

Professional Support:

If you require professional support from the plugin author or sell WordPress to your clients, you can subscribe for Support & Upgrades. The professional version also includes a “white label” switch which will hide all backlinks and donation information.

Screenshot:

Cutout of the administration UI, click for full image:

Have you added Google AdSense to your WordPress blog yet? Or maybe thought about it? I was thinking about this last year and knew I could do it generically in the templates, or painfully by pasting the AdSense code into each post I wanted it in, but neither seemed like the optimal way to accomplish my aims. I wanted some flexibility in deciding which posts ads appear in and perhaps some control of which ad format would display in any given blog post.

I found Phil Hord’s AdSense WordPress plugin (http://philhord.com/wp-hacks/adsense) and gave it a test. It’s simplicity was great and it offered some of the control I thought I wanted while avoiding template changes. Phil’s plugin is configured by pasting your AdSense code into the plugin PHP file, then adding an HTML comment (“<!–adsense–>”) anywhere in a post, then your ads are substituted for the placeholder when the post is served. The plugin operates in the common role of a WordPress filter hook.

Working from phil’s simple and effective design, I started digging into the basics of WordPress plugin coding to add some of my the items on my wish list. The first item on the list was having a choice in different AdSense code blocks. It would have been trivial to just put all the different blocks into the PHP code and use a bit of conditional logic for choosing among them, but that’s not very nice for anyone not comfortable mucking about in PHP source code. Which led me to discovering that plugins can have their own configuration pages….Cool!

Introducing AdSense-Deluxe.

AdSense-Deluxe Plugin Download & Version:

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Features:

• Use simple HTML comments for embedding AdSense or Yahoo! Publisher Network ads in a WordPress post
• Choose from any number of ad styles and format on a post-by-post basis
• Globally change ad styles
• Selectively disable display of individual ad styles or all ads
• Integrated AdSense Preview tool (a sandbox) for seeing what ads will appear on a given page. (Stand-alone AdSense SandBox Tool also available)
• All settings configured through WordPress Options interface (no knowledge of plugins or PHP required)
• Easily test different ad formats and color styles across (all, or) a range of blog posts.
• (Optionally) Apply CSS formatting to the AdSense code.
• Does not display live ads when editing a page, instead placeholders are shown.
• Ads are EXCLUDED from RSS feeds — even if you have full-text feeds enabled. (new in v0.3)
• Preview your ad blocks from the AdSense-Deluxe options page (in case you forget what the ad style looks like), and ads can be clicked without penalty since they use a test account.
• Support for wp-tiger-admin plugin’s CSS in post/page editor QuickTags

AdSense-Deluxe Advantages and Uses

• Switching all AdSense ads to a new color scheme across the entire site
• Trying out image ads instead of textual ads
• Testing alternate AdSense formats
• Disabling a class of AdSense ads, or even all ads
• Including common formatting for AdSense ad blocks (less typing)
• Testing alternate ad placements for higher click-thru rates
• Controlling ads within your WP template files.

Usage:

After installation (described later and in the plugin distribution’s readme file) click on the WordPress Admin “Options” link, then select “Adsense” on the sub menu to get to the settings interface. Copy your AdSense code from Google and paste it into the form on the Options page and give it a name. If it’s the style you’ll use most often, just name it “default”. Now you can edit an existing post in your WordPress blog by adding either <!–adsense–> to use whatever you select as your default AdSense format, or by referencing the name you defined, such as <!–adsense#default–>. Now view your post after saving the changes. You should see AdSense ads wherever you inserted the HTML comment.

You can wrap inline CSS styles around your AdSense blocks, or place any other html or strings around, before or after the AdSense JavaScript. For example:

<div style=”display:block;float:left;padding:5px;”>

<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “pub-555555″;
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
…</script>

</div>

[New in v0.5] To insert any of your defined ad units within template files, you can call a PHP plugin function with the name of the ad unit you want displayed. The syntax is as follows:

<?php adsense_deluxe_ads('my_AdBlock_name'); ?>

However, it’s strongly recommended that you always confirm that the function is available to keep from generating PHP errors or breaking your page display, using the following syntax:

<?php if(function_exists('ad_unit_name')) :
adsense_deluxe_ads('my_ad_unit'); endif; ?>

When you use this new feature it enables the plugin to track the total number of AdSense units displayed on a page and avoid inserting more than the maximum of three units allowed by Google. Sadly, this tracking isn’t completely refined yet and the following example illustrates the issue I still have to code for: Assume you have a single ad unit in a template file, but three ad units in a single post. The plugin tracks the ads displayed for the template and increments the counter by 1. However, replacements are done en masse in a single post, thus the page will now have four ad units displaying (the last of which is going to be blank since Google will not display more than three). The internal counter is now at 4, and if other posts appear on the page they will NOT have any substitutions performed. At some point in the future I will have to rewrite the code to stop doing mass replacements, but for now this is more efficient.

Installation:

» Requires WordPress 1.5+ (including WP 2.0)
» Installed like most all WordPress plugins, just copy the adsense-deluxe.php file into wp-content/plugins
» See the ReadMe.txt file included with the download (before you email me for support!).

Limitations:

» Not technically a limitation, but during testing I noticed that switching which ad format I wanted to use as the default, my browsers continued to show me the old one. This was simply the browser going to its cache for the page. Restarting the browser always resulted in the proper page being shown.
» It currently does no substitutions in WP templates. If users can provide sufficient motivation for doing this, I’ll add it, but right now I prefer managing template-based adsense blocks manually.
» When you click the “edit” link to edit an existing AdSense code block, it’s supposed to scroll the window down to the editing form. This seems to work reliably in FireFox (Mac OS X), but only works half the time in Safari browser. It can be confusing though if you’re not already familiar with the options screen since the page reloads but doesn’t scroll down to show you the form with your data.
» You’re limited to a maximum of 3 AdSense blocks on a single page. If you embed AdSense code into your templates, this counts against the 3 unit maximum, and sometimes Google simply doesn’t have enough ads for your content, so you’ll get empty space in your pages unless you use AdSense’s features for showing alternate ads or folding the empty blocks.

Future Directions:

The current “wish list” I have is geared towards locating the posts in which I have adsense tokens — whether a specific ad block or all ad blocks, and being able to perform mass (and selective) search/replace operations on those posts. It’s simple now to change which ad style is displayed across all the posts where you’re using a named or the “default” ad block, but I’m imagining I’ll (and others) will eventually want to be able to do some house cleaning and review over time.

Something else I just discovered is that I may want to replace an existing ad block which has been in use and contained in various posts, but I’d like to change the name of it to reflect the new style I’m switching it to. In this case, any posts still referencing that named adsense block will no longer get ads displayed since no ad block by that name exists any longer. Ideally, the plugin should update all posts containing that named block with the new name. I do plan on adding features for locating, removing and changing the placeholders within existing posts, but want to approach this very cautiously since mass replacements within the database has the potential of wreaking some havoc…

Release Notes

Screen Shots:

(clicking any image will open it full size in a new window)

AdSense-Deluxe Options Page Header

List of defined AdSense-Deluxe Ad Blocks

AdSense Preview Tool

AdSense-Deluxe QuickTag Menu

Sample Post from this Blog with Multiple AdSense ads

Closing Remarks:

I hope you find the AdSense-Deluxe as useful as I have over the last year. I look forward to your comments, feature requests and bug reports and will do my best to be attentive to all feedback. Nonetheless, the plugin is offered with no guarantees, warranties, or assurances of any kind, other than the fact that I use it on multiple WP blogs of my own, and have since mid-2005, without any noticeable problems.

If you this plugin helps you earn more from your WP blogs, you’re encouraged to check the option in the configuration screen which “Rewards [the] Plugin Author”… This option uses my publisher ID in 5% of the ads displayed on your site so if someone actually clicks one of those ads, I’ll receive a small commission. It’s fun and helps keep me motivated to release future udpates to this plugin.

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Perfect for:

• Bands & Record Labels
• Clothing Companies
• Crafters & Artists
• Books, DVDs & MP3 files

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Installing this stats plugin is much like installing Akismet, all you need is to put in your API Key and the rest is automatic.

Once it’s running it’ll begin collecting information about your pageviews, which posts and pages are the most popular, where your traffic is coming from, and what people click on when they leave. It’ll also add a link to your dashboard which allows you to see all your stats on a single page. Less is more.

Finally, because all of the processing and collection runs on our servers and not yours, it doesn’t cause any additional load on your hosting account. In fact, it’s one of the fastest stats system, hosted or not hosted, that you can use.

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BuddyPress will let users register on your site and start creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups and much more.

Try the Demo

If you’re interested in seeing what a default installation of BuddyPress has to offer, try out the BuddyPress test drive! This site is a community of BuddyPress users looking to try out and discuss the latest features of BuddyPress.

BuddyPress Test Drive

Who’s Using BuddyPress?

More and more WordPress with BuddyPress powered sites are popping up. You can take a look at some of the best sites on the BuddyPress demo page or the BuddyPress section of the WordPress showcase.

Plugins: Adding So Much More

BuddyPress boasts an ever growing array of new features developed by the awesome plugin development community. Some of most popular BuddyPress plugins currently available are:

• WP-FB-AutoConnect – allow your users to instantly log in to your site using their Facebook credentials.
• BuddyPress Like – add a “like” button to site activity.
• BuddyPress Links – rich media embedding for your BuddyPress powered site.
• BuddyPress Tweetstream – allow your users to sync and post to their Twitter stream.
• BuddyPress Facestream – allow your users to sync and post to their Facebook stream.
• BuddyPress Album+ – allow your users to upload photos and create albums.
• BuddyPress Group Documents – add file upload and document repositories to your groups.
• BuddyPress Profile Privacy – allow your users to set privacy options on their profile data.
• BuddyPress Welcome Pack – set defaults for new users, auto join them to groups or send welcome messages.
• BuddyPress Group Blog (WordPress MU only) – allow your groups to include a fully functional WordPress blog.
• BuddyPress Group Wiki – add wiki functionality to your groups so all members can contribute to pages.

There are already more than 125 BuddyPress plugins available, the list is growing every day. For a full list of plugins, please visit the BuddyPress.org plugins page. You can also install any of these plugins automatically through the plugin installer menu inside of your WordPress installation.

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The static html files will be served to the vast majority of your users, but because a user’s details are displayed in the comment form after they leave a comment those requests are handled by PHP. Static files are served to:

1. Users who are not logged in.
2. Users who have not left a comment on your blog.
3. Or users who have not viewed a password protected post.

99% of your visitors will be served static html files. Those users who don’t see the static files will still benefit because they will see regular WP-Cache cached files and your server won’t be as busy as before. This plugin will help your server cope with a front page appearance on digg.com or other social networking site.

If for some reason “supercaching” doesn’t work on your server then don’t worry. Caching will still be performed, but every request will require loading the PHP engine. In normal circumstances this isn’t bad at all. Visitors to your site will notice no slowdown or difference. Supercache really comes into it’s own if your server is underpowered, or you’re experiencing heavy traffic. Super Cached html files will be served more quickly than PHP generated cached files but in every day use, the difference isn’t noticeable.

See the WP Super Cache homepage for further information. Developer documentation is also available for those who need to interact with the cache or write plugins.

The changelog is a good place to start if you want to know what has changed since you last downloaded the plugin.

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