{"id":10945,"date":"2007-12-02T12:45:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T09:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/02\/more-polish-with-wordpress-plugins\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T15:34:07","slug":"more-polish-with-wordpress-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/02\/more-polish-with-wordpress-plugins\/","title":{"rendered":"More polish with WordPress plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I am still polishing a few things here and there on this site.  If you don&#8217;t follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mamchenkov\">my Twitter stream<\/a>, then here is a quick update for you since I wrote about it <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/25\/having-fun-with-the-sidebar\/\" title=\"Having fun with the Sidebar\">the last time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Installed <a href=\"http:\/\/alexking.org\/projects\/wordpress\">404 Notifier<\/a> plugin.  When somebody hits a non-existing page on my site (Error 404 &#8211; Not Found), I get an email telling me which page was missing, from where the visitor came, and what browser he used. Since I don&#8217;t have the time to monitor my web server logs closely, it was often that I missed something and didn&#8217;t know about it.  Now, this plugin tells me if I need to fix something.  First few days were a real something for my Inbox, but it seems that things are slowing down.  Most of the stuff has been fixed and now it&#8217;s mostly notifications from SPAM bots and references from some really old web sites.<\/li>\n<li>Installed <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/search-unleashed\/\">Search Unleashed<\/a> plugin (and removed Search Hilight plugin). Search Unleashed provides an extended (and much needed) functionality for WordPress searching.  First of all, it does plenty of highlighting.  When you search for something on this site, or if you came to this site from search results of one of the major search engines, you&#8217;ll see your query highlighted on the page.  Secondly, Search Unleashed extends searching with patterns.  So instead of searching for &#8220;Limassol&#8221; and then &#8220;Limasos&#8221;, you can now search for &#8220;Limas*&#8221;.  You can also use quotes to search for an exact phrase.  And you can even use some logic operators.  If you are interested in these things, check <a href=\"http:\/\/urbangiraffe.com\/plugins\/search-unleashed\/\">plugin&#8217;s page<\/a> for more information.<\/li>\n<li>Installed <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-cache\/\">WP-Cache<\/a> plugin.  This one should have improved the speed of the site quite a bit.  Unfortunately, I can&#8217;t make sure of that myself, as my Internet connection is the real bottleneck.  However, I do have a feeling that loading of the front page is a bit faster.  On the other hand, I get a feeling that posting a comment now is a bit slower.  If you noticed any speed changes here in the last few days, please let me know in the comments.<\/li>\n<li>Installed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnebrachhold.de\/projects\/wordpress-plugins\/google-xml-sitemaps-generator\/\">Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator<\/a> plugin.  This one should help Google (and a couple of other search engines that support the standard) to index the web site better.  Hopefully, this will bring more people to the site and increase the number of comments we have here.<\/li>\n<li>Installed <a href=\"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/programmer\/web\/wp_pingpreserver\/\">WP_PingPreserver<\/a> plugin.  I often publish posts with links to a few previous articles, and when I do it, only the first of the articles gets a pingback.  With this plugin, all of the linked articles should be pinged.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed Google Analytics code.  Now my statistics will work again and I&#8217;ll know better who visits the site, when, from where, and why.  Spotting problems will also be much easier.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed plenty of links.  Mostly these were links to my old photo albums.  Before, I used to have them on my server, but then moved them to <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/mamchenkov\">my Flickr photo stream<\/a>.   The links in the old posts were broken until recently.  Now you&#8217;ll be redirected to the appropriate section in my Flickr archives.<\/li>\n<li>Added protection from some major SPAM bots and other &#8220;bad guys&#8221;.  This was done through .htaccess file with many of the tips coming from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewebsite.biz\/modules.php?name=phpnuke&amp;page=hacks\/secure_htaccess.html\">this article<\/a>. If you suddenly get a &#8220;Forbidden&#8221; error message or get redirected somewhere that you shouldn&#8217;t, please let me know via comments.  If comments don&#8217;t work for you, send me an email, SMS, or IM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Oh, and I&#8217;m still moving things around the sidebars.\u00c2\u00a0 This should stop eventually&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I am still polishing a few things here and there on this site. If you don&#8217;t follow my Twitter stream, then here is a quick update for you since I wrote about it the last time. Installed 404 Notifier plugin. When somebody hits a non-existing page on my site (Error 404 &#8211; Not Found), I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/02\/more-polish-with-wordpress-plugins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More polish with WordPress plugins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,1335,60],"tags":[3012],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-site-news","category-wordpress","tag-wordpress-plugins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27939,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/05\/plugins-spring-cleaning\/","url_meta":{"origin":10945,"position":0},"title":"Plugins spring cleaning","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I've done a little spring cleaning of some plugins installed and activated on this site. \u00a0You shouldn't notice much of a difference, except, maybe, fewer quirks and issues. \u00a0Here are some of the plugins that were removed: Smart YouTube Pro - it was only used in a couple of posts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11026,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/16\/wordpress-comment-related-plugins\/","url_meta":{"origin":10945,"position":1},"title":"WordPress comment-related plugins","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I went through a few comment-related plugins in the WordPress plugin directory.\u00c2\u00a0 It's amazing how much cool stuff is written and uploaded over there.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are just a few to give you an idea of what you can find and install on your blog: WP AJAX Edit Comments - this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24785,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/30\/packaging-third-party-plugins-with-your-wordpress-theme\/","url_meta":{"origin":10945,"position":2},"title":"Packaging third-party plugins with your WordPress theme","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many a time I've been involved in building a custom WordPress theme, which relied or benefited from some plugins being installed and activated. \u00a0I've always had an ad hoc solution to the problem, with my own installation scripts, WP-CLI mockery, etc. \"Packaging third-party plugins with your WordPress theme using TGM\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"wordpress theme plugins","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wordpress-theme-plugins-500x157.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9188,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/04\/technorati-tags-installed\/","url_meta":{"origin":10945,"position":3},"title":"Technorati tags installed","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 4, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I've installed Bunny's Technorati Tags plugin for WordPress. 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