WordPress plugin : WordPress Landing Pages
Category: WordPress
WordPress is my favorite Content Management System (CMS). Once in a while it helps me make some extra money. Once in a while it helps me look at the problem from a different perspective. But even when it doesn’t, I still enjoy using it for this (and a few other) websites. And I enjoy interacting with the community. I use this category to share bits and pieces which are WordPress related.
Upgraded the site’s WordPress theme to FavePersona…
Upgraded the site’s WordPress theme to FavePersonal 1.3. Â This time, using the child theme best practice.
Out of sync
Yesterday, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out if Crowd Favorite had yet released an update to the FavePersonal WordPress theme that I am using on this site. Â It’s been quite a while since I installed it, and I didn’t remember any mentions of newer versions coming out. Â After some searching across their website, I decided that there has been no update released yet.
Today, I see a notification in my WordPress administration interface of some updates available. Â Guess what? Â You are right. Â Indeed, a new version of the FavePersonal has been released today. Â But that’s not the end of my lack of sync.
I rush to the Crowd Favorite website once again, trying to find some kind of Changelog that would describe the changes that went into it. Â And once again I fail. Â Surprisingly, a company that does so many awesome things for bloggers, doesn’t have a blog on its own site.
Just as I am switching tabs away, getting slightly disappointed, I open up my Gmail and there is an email from Crowd Favorite with release announcement, changes, and all.
Now, if that is not me being out of sync, I don’t know what is.
P.S.: Please don’t take this post as bashing of Crowd Favorite. Â It is not. It’s just me ranting about timing issues. Â Crowd Favorite people and products are awesome.
WordPress plugin : Auto-Schedule Posts
WordPress plugin : Auto-Schedule Posts
You gotta love WordPress! Â For anything that you can pretty much think of, there is a plugin already. Â Just now I realized that I’ve been posting quite a few things at once, and that it would be way better to distribute such moments of “creativity” across the whole day. Â There is, of course, the manual way of post scheduling, but that’s boring and annoying. Â Instead, I thought, there could be a plugin to do so. Â Gladly, I checked the WordPress plugins before jumping into my own coding.
Auto-Schedule Posts plugin does just that and more. Â For now, I’m setting it to a 60 minute interval and leaving everything else default. Let’s see how that will work out.
Update: Unfortunately I had to disable this plugin as it conflicts with the Social plugin (and, I suspect, many other ones too). Â The post is not available until later, yet social network notifications are being sent out, resulting in bad experience (endless redirect loops and such).
WordPress plugin : Google+ Comments
WordPress plugin : Google+ Comments
This looks very interesting.
There is some overlapping functionality with Social plugin, which actually brings comments from social networks back into the WordPress installation. Â That’s a bit more useful in longer term, when social networks come and go. Â Social also brings in likes from Facebook, and retweets and favorites from Twitter. Â However for the discussion flow, this plugin might be a better fit. Â I’ll probably try it on for a few days just to see how it goes.