Category Archives: Plugin Reviews

Installing and Setting Up WordPress Click Tracking

Click Tracking is a simple and useful tool for WordPress users to track clicks with a heatmap (for free). While there are services like Crazy Egg out there that will provide meatier results, some of us might not want to spend a few bucks just to get some quality results. Besides, those of us who [...]

Installing, Using, and Styling the Related Posts Plugin

One of the best and most widely used WordPress Plugins on blogs is the Related Posts Plugin. I can think of plenty of big name sites that use some rendition of it, if not this very plugin (Daily Blog Tips and Problogger, for example). But even more than using this plugin is using it well. [...]

How to Set Up and Use Google Sitemaps Generator for WordPress

When setting up a new website, one of the most important things to consider is how well your site will rank on search engines. Arguably the most influential of these is Google. Having a Sitemap is one of the first things Google instructs a webmaster to do (it’s good practice anyway) and Google Sitemaps Generator [...]

Setting Up Feedburner for WordPress Using FeedSmith

WordPress comes with an easy to use (and find) RSS feed location. It’s sort of a staple for a blog nowadays, so it isn’t all that commendable that a blogging platform uses it. The only disappointing thing about the default WordPress feed is you can’t really find out much about who is subscribing to your [...]

WP Text Ads 1.1 Released

News cometh forth: the new version of WP Text Ads has been released.
WP Text Ads is a pretty sweet WordPress Plugin that you can see in use along the top of the main page and between posts on our site here. Basically it allows you to run your own ad system and retain 100% of [...]

iWPhone - WordPress for the iPhone

Just caught wind of this—a WordPress Plugin and theme to optimize the content of your blog for the iPhone. Do Apple lovers work quickly or what? If you have any interest in your blog being very accessible on the iPhone, give this one a shot.
Link via TechDeep

Getting Rid of the Smiley Face (Thanks Wordpress.com Stats!)

Earlier this week I posted a tentative review of Automattic’s new Wordpress.com Stats plugin available for all Wordpress blogs. Now, as a follow-up, I offer a guide to ridding one’s blog of the Smiley Face (read: frustration and, somewhat, freaked-out-edness).
The Story
My friend Cory and I were throwing ideas back and forth on a Wordpress theme [...]

How to Install Google Analytics on Your Wordpress Blog

As Theme Playground approaches the end of its first week online I decided it would be a good idea to set up Google Analytics to track the stats. And it seems only fitting that we take this opportunity to, together, walk through the steps of setting up Google Analytics on a Wordpress blog.

Wordpress Plugin Review: Page Link Manager

Here’s a look at another one of my prized plugins. And by prized I don’t mean I have sexual feelings for it.
I promise.
I use this one on every Wordpress blog I set up; in fact it’s one of the first plugins I install. Page Link Manager adds a little check box into every page editing [...]

Wordpress Plugin Review: Advanced WYSIWYG Editor

Let me preface this by saying I won’t endorse any plugin I haven’t used and enjoyed.
I’ve been using Advanced WYSIWYG Editor for ages. But maybe it only seems that way because I can’t remember what it was like before I used it.
If you’ve used Wordpress for a while now (or are just starting, I suppose) [...]