Recent posts with new & updated plugins
This first post in 2010 here at WordPress Plugin Guide is all about numbers ! In this post you can read about the top 20 most popular WordPress plugins in 2009 (we use 9 of them here at WordPress Plugin Guide!), and a top 20 of WP developers ranked by the quantity of downloads. We first start with the comparison between the four popular content management systems on the market : WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Movable Type. 2009 is the year WordPress passed Joomla for the first time according Google Trends (www.google.com/trends), an easy way to see how often certain topics have been searched on... [Read more]
It’s not too late yet, you still have almost one week from now (today it’s 19 December) to spice up your WordPress blog and give it the special Christmas look ! In this post at WordPress Plugin Guide we will show you 6 special plugins to give your blog some Christmas feeling, like plugins with nice snow effects, a santa with a welcome message, dancing snow men and a countdown counter to Christmas. All plugins were tested by us on WordPress 2.9 so you don’t have to worry about their functioning ! Ho ho ho ho, Santa is coming, let’s see what kind of special Christmas presents... [Read more]
In this second review at WordPress Plugin Guide the most important plugin on this blog is featured, GD Star Rating, a great WP plugin to feature ratings on your website in a very professional way – also a very popular plugin, at the time of writing this post it almost achieved 400.000 downloads ! We will show you all features of this plugin, it’s eight different rating types, some words about all it’s related (support) websites, an insight into the installation and setup (which is a bit complex), a complete showcase of our use of this plugin at WordPress Plugin Guide, and our... [Read more]
In this first plugin review at the WordPress Plugin Guide I have chosen the plugin Category Icons. After installation of this plugin you can assign icons to categories, which will be displayed next to the category title. This plugin is also used here at WPPG, and as you can see this plugin made a very nice graphical change to this blog. Just check the icons at the left of our post titles – see the post title above, with a ‘box icon’ which is assigned to the ‘various plugins’ category, the small icons positioned right to the menu options in the dropdown menu’s... [Read more]
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