Tag Archives: Wordpress

WordPress plugin Apture for linking

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Apture is a lovely, smooth little plugin that integrates itself as a button onto the post WYSIWYG editor.

Admittedly, it’s a bit of an aesthetic plugin rather than adding any SEO, blog loading time or speed benefits. It’s dead smooth, works a treat and its one major attribute is that it adds some nice stickiness to your site.

What do I mean by stickiness? Well, without digressing too much, links to other sites are all well and good, but when you give a link to something else, there’s a healthy chance that the visitor will click this link and move to that landing page, meaning they will have left your site. Stickiness means that you can still serve that link via the Apture plugin, but when they click the link, it springs into action with some really cool pop up boxes and windows rather than a new browser window. This helps you retain the visitor and encourages them to stick around. Hence: stickiness!

Once you install the plugin, you’ll see the buttons appear on the top bar of the WYSIWYG editor. The step by step instructions are dead intuitive, so get it on and enjoy.

Heres a video to explain a little more about it.

Author: Apture

Download the Apture plugin

WordPress Anti Spam plugin with Akismet

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For the maintenance and control of spam comments, this plugin is essential for any blog.

Without Askimet, you’ll probably find yourself spending the better part of your day clicking “Delete” or “Spam”. Once you install your blog, take the time necessary to get your Akismet API KEY from their website.  Its completely free, and simply by following their instructions, you’ll register for a personal API KEY by creating an account on WordPress.com.

If you’re making money on your blog, then, choose the commercial version; you’ll more than likely need it.  Don’t get cheap on this, or you’ll regret it. I would also encourage you to make a donation to Akismet to help them keep running to maintain the free personal use system. Dont be embarrassed. Even if it’s one dollar, it will all help.

Author: Akismet

As it’s already installed, there’s no need to download it again, unless you accidentally deleted it…if so download Akismet here.

WordPress Plugin 404 Notifier

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The wordpress 404 notifier might sound a bit weird, but it’s very, very useful.  As your blog develops, you may decide that the original way it was created needs to be adapted. So, you change some categories, or the permalinks structure.  No matter the size of your site though, the last thing you want are dead end links, or 404 pages, appearing after you do these changes.

Grab the 404 notifier plugin, and you’ll be emailed (or via an RSS feed) with a list of problems and 404 pages that need to be addressed to keep the site ship-shape and in working order.

An essential house keeping tool.

Author: Alex King

Download the 404-notifier plugin