Below is the list of new WordPress plugins release for Monday – 19 Jan 2009.
WordPress Automatic Backup
Plugin that allows you to backup and restore your WordPress blog very easily. Requires an account on wordpressbackup.com.
First Impression: Very good plugin, not only allow you to backup and restore your WordPress blog, but it also allow you to upload the backup to their server. Even if your web server crash, you still able to retrieve your backup from third party server. I’m wondering if their server is secure enough to prevent any hacker/virus attack.
Comment Counter
Comment Counter is a plugin which count the comments by a commentator. You can define different parameters for the count:
- URL
- Author name
- Email address
- User ID
- Author IP
First Impression: In my opinion, this plugin is not very useful. And it require you to modify the code in comment section of your WordPress theme. There is no other choice other than this. I do hope there will be more hook or functionality in the comment to make the life easier for comment plugin writer.
Feedback
FeedBack is a standard inspired by PingBack, and designed to establish relatively secure push mechanisms for feed sharing and management. In feedback plugin, each blog owner can subscribe and can be subscribed by others. If you subscribe other people’s blogs, whenever a user posts something, your blog is “notified” and you get the updated content, which enables you to reach an aggregated content provided by other blogs from your own blog. It is important to note that a blog that you are subscribed to is called as “channel”, and the content it provides to you is called as “feed”, whenever someone wants to subscribe your blog, he/she sends you a “subscription request”, or whenever someone wants you to get subscribed to him, he sends you a “subscription offer”.
First Impression: This is a new concept for me. It’s something like a feed reader integrated into your blog. But I don’t like to read feed/aggregated content in my blog. I prefer to use third party feed reader to organize my aggregated content. Another thing I don’t like is since we can use independent feed reader to read the blog, will you send a subscription request to blog owner to ask for approval?
SEO for Paged Comments
The purpose of this plugin is to reduce SEO problems when using WordPress’s paged comments.
First Impression: Simple and good plugin to solve the problem created by WordPress 2.7 paged comment. Luckily, my WordPress theme doesn’t support paged comment, so I won’t need this at the moment.
Fast Cat – Fast Categories Widget
A highly optimized category list/tree widget for WordPress. It works very nice on huge WordPress databases, and doesn’t require hundreds of MB of RAM.
First Impression: It’s useful for those blog with lots of categories, i.e. 100 hundreds of them. For general blog owner like me, I don’t need this because at most I’ve only tens of categories.
Resize at Upload Plus
The plugin will automatically resize an image upon upload, depending on the maximum width and height that you define. Gone are the days when you, or your client, will ruin a site’s layout by uploading a huge file with 25 megapixels. This plugin is basically just a little improvement of Resize at Upload, a fabulous plugin by A. Huizinga.
First Impression: This plugin is good for those who don’t know how to resize image/photo in your local desktop/laptop. For those who know, this plugin is not so useful. Imagine, if you upload an image with 25 megapixels, how much time will it require? If you’re able to resize it in your local computer and make it less than 1 megapixel. I’m sure you can save a lot of your precious time during uploading.
outside.in StoryMap
StoryMaps plot your blog posts on a map widget to help readers navigate your stories by location. This plugin allows you to embed a StoryMap on your Widget.
First Impression: Those blogs focus on news, travel and photography will get more exposure from this nice little plugin. The world can easily search their blog post by location. For me, it’s not relevant as my blog is not related to location.
AWeber Integration
A simple way to add one or more AWeber email subscription form(s) to your sidebar and optionally enable AWeber email web analytics for your website. It gives you access to a new “AWeber Mailing List” sidebar widget, that lets you enter the subscription form’s details. These details are used to automatically display your AWeber email subscription form. The settings page lets you enter your AWeber account id. Once entered, the AWeber web email analytics tracking code will be automatically enabled on all pages in your website. No manual page or template editing is required.
First Impression: It makes the life of the integration between WordPress and AWeber mailing list easier and convenient for people who don’t know coding/HTML/programming or don’t want to touch them. For your information, AWeber is a very popular auto-responder and mailing list service. A lot of bloggers and online marketers has created an option for their readers to opt-in to their newsletter using AWeber.
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Very interesting list. I like that you share your honest opinion for the plugins, thats really unique. Will be becoming a regular. Keep up the good work, and the lists.
@Mike,
Thanks for your comment. I’ll keep up my work.
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