With the emerging users in Facebook nowadays, it is a good way to increase your blog traffic by submitting your blog posts on your facebook wall. But isn’t it a bit fuzzy if you need to submit manually every time you update a new blog post? Here’s a good WordPress plugin that can help you to submit your blog posts to Facebook automatically every time you update – WordBook.
How Wordbook works
- Wordbook will post an excerpt of the post along with a few images detected on the post automatically.
- Wordbook will post it on your Facebook Wall so your friends can see it easily on their news feed area and they will be able to comment on it straight on your wall.
- Wordbook automatically submits the post to your Facebook wall every time a new blog post is published even if you use post scheduling.
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As Google and other search engines penalize sites that have duplicated content, you may want to use post excerpts everywhere other than the single post page. But in order to do that, you would have to edit your theme files which might be a big trouble for those who are not familiar with php codes. This is where Post Teaser plugin comes in handy.
This plugin actually generates a preview or “teaser” of a post for the main, archive and category pages, with a link underneath to go to the full post page. It includes features to generate a word count, image count, and an estimated reading time as well.
You can edit how many words that will show in a post. For example, you can set the plugin to limit every posts to 100 words and set whether to show the word count, image count and the reading time. Basically this is the simplest way to make post excerpts in other pages other than the single post page without changing the codes of your theme. 
Download Post Teaser Plugin here
Staska.net had compiled a list of the top 30 WordPress plugins in blogosphere. The list is done by votes from 48 bloggers on their favorite plugins.
The list is based on the Lists of favorite WordPress plugins, made by Lorelle last month. Lorelle found 48 lists with a total of 280 plugins that were recommended by other bloggers to their readers.
So I went through all those lists and compiled a spreadsheet of the mentioned plugins to see which of them were the most used in blogosphere.
So how many plugins among the top 30 that you used so far? I’ve used at least 15 among those, from the most popular plugins like Akismet, Google Sitemap Generator, and Related posts to those at the bottom like WP-Page Navi plugin. Many might not agree with the ranking of the plugins but what the heck, Staska had done a great job of compiling them into a list right? 
One way of getting your readers back to your blog is by sending them a “Thanks for commenting” email after they comment on your blog for the first time. This is what Comment Relish plugin does.
Comment relish is a WordPress plugin developed to send an e-mail message to users who comment on your website who have never commented before. The message dispatched to the user is defined within the plugin’s preferences. Numerous tags have been integrated to allow for information to be included in the message easily (I.E.: timestamp, author name, comment, ETC.).
Readers tend to leave your blog after commenting and never come back. By sending them an email for thanking them on commenting on your blog, you get a chance to gain return readers and possibly subscribers to your feeds. That’s great isn’t it?
For installation instructions, please visit the author’s site.
Download Comment Relish Here
As I mentioned in the previous post, I found a plugin which can let you change your permalinks without losing the traffic you’re already getting to your blog. This plugin actually redirect the old permalinks to the new permalinks of the same post.
Many people want to change their permalink structure,for example, from /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname%/
But doing so will make all pages indexed by search engines become invalid,moreover, losing visitors from other sites or bookmarks that links to you.
There is a way to tell the search engines (and browsers) that the page has permenantly moved, and that the old address should be replaced by the new one . It’s called a “301 Redirect”, also known as a Permanent Redirect.
I’ve tested the plugin and it actually works! Just key in the old permalink structure in the plugin’s option page and you are ready to go~! You can get more info from the author’s site.
Download Permalinks Migration Plugin Here
Are you tired of upgrading your WordPress versions just to keep up? WordPress has been releasing new versions more frequently lately and it would be troublesome for some of us to upgrade it. Luckily, there is a plugin where you can upgrade your WordPress versions just by one click! (Err.. Maybe a few clicks.. )
How does it work?
The InstantUpgrade plugin downloads the latest WordPress version from the WordPress server and unpacks it at your server. In the next step, it deletes all of your old WordPress files (except wp-content/ and wp-config.php, language packs are preserved, too) and puts the new files into your WordPress directory. At last, it runs the upgrade script contained it the new WordPress version.
Further instructions of how to install and use the plugins can be found here. It is said that you need to apple chmod 777 to the named directories and files. Will this cause some security issues? I’m not really sure. Maybe you can just set it when you want to upgrade your WordPress.
I’ll try this plugin to upgrade my WordPress from 2.1 to 2.1.2 later. Make sure you back up all your files before making this upgrade ya!
Download InstantUpgrade Here
If you are a MyBlogLog user that have been commenting in this blog recently, you will notice that your MyBlogLog avatar will appear just beside your comments. How do I do it? Just use this WordPress plugin, MyAvatar.
This plugin will show users’ MyBlogLog avatar beside their comments in your blog. In my opinion, it is much better than Gravatar, another plugin that requires user to upload their own avatar to your server in order to show their avatar beside their comments. Who will want to upload their avatar to every blog they comment to? 
Wondering how to install this plugin? Just add this code,
<?php if(function_exists("MyAvatars")) MyAvatars(); ?>
in your comments loop in your comments.php file of the theme you are using. For more instruction, visit the author’s site.
You will need to edit the stylesheet if you want the avatar to show at the places you desired. I tried making the avatars to show up just before the name of the commenters but still got a little bit of error. Anyone can help out here?
Download MyAvatar plugin here
Credits to: JohnTP
