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August 15th, 2007 | by Randy |

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.

30+ WordPress Plugins To Get More Blog Readers

Gaining blog readers is hard; Wordpress makes it much easier. Here are 30+ WordPress plugins to help you garner some of that attention, and then retain readers once they visit.

Crossposting

DJ-Email-Publish - Once you publish on your WordPress blog, this sends the post as an email to your other blogs such as MSN Spaces.

Live Space Sync - Allows you to import all your posts to your Microsoft Live Spaces so you can advertise your blog to your contacts.

LiveJournal Crossposter - Automatically posts your latest entries to your LiveJournal account, or any other LJ software based site.

Vox Crossposter - Makes it so your posts also appear on your Vox account.

Xanga Crosspost - Allows you to have your posts appear on your Xanga account also.

RSS Feed Tools

©Feed - Adds copyright info to your feed and puts a digital fingerprint on it so you can search the web for content theft.

Add to Any Subscribe Button - Allows your readers to subscribe via just about any reader out there.

AddThis Sidebar Widget - Adds RSS info and social bookmarking to the sidebar.

Better Feed - Adds a “read more” button, a copyright notice, and a “Add to del.icio.us” link.

DeCat - Allows you to select certain categories to not be included in your feeds.

Feed Control - Gives you the ability to exclude posts from your feed, add pages and much more.

Feed Footer - Adds copyright and advertising to your RSS posts.

Feed Master - Assigns a number to your feed readers so you get a better idea of stats specific to them.

Feed Styler - Allows you to style your feed.

FeedBurner FeedSmith - Make sure all your RSS feed subscribers get counted along with the ones signed up via FeedBurner.

FeedStats - Gives you statistical data on your feeds.

Feedvertizer - Add text links to the end of your feed posts.

RSS Flashfeeder to Myspace - Feeds your last two posts to your MySpace page.

Slash Comments - Adds info to your feed about how many comments are on the post.

Subscribe-Remind - Adds a little reminder to the end of each post reminding readers to subscribe to your feed.

Social Bookmarking

Digg Button - Allows you to add the Digg button anywhere in a post with just a simple code snippet.

Digg IT - Another plugin allowing inclusion of the Digg button.

JPF Add to Reddit - Allows readers to submit your posts to Reddit, if they are already logged in, it automatically posts the title and URL.

Share This - Adds multiple social bookmarking links and an e-mail-this function in one handy button.

Sociable - Adds the linking information for 61 social bookmarking sites.

Social Bookmark Buttons - Adds social bookmark buttons for Digg.com, Netscape.com, Reddit.com, Del.icio.us, Stumbleupon.com, Google.com, Socialogs.com, and Socialposter.com.

Social Bookmarks Plugin for WordPress - Gives you access to the social bookmarking icons.

Socializer Plugin - Adds the ability to post to nearly 40 social bookmarking sites.

SocialList - Lets you see which of your posts have been submitted to del.icio.us and Digg.

Socialogs.com - Allows you to have your entries submitted to Socialogs.com.

WP-Notable - Adds the icons for numerous social bookmarking sites to each post.

wphotspots - Tracks the activity of your posts on several social bookmarking sites.

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