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WordPress plugin: What Would Seth Godin Do | Richard K Miller. Seth Godin advocates using cookies to distinguish between new and returning visitors to your site: One opportunity that’s underused is the idea of using cookies to treat returning visitors differently than newbies. It’s more work at first, but it can offer two experiences to two different sorts of people. (Source: In the Middle, Starting) I built this WordPress plugin to implement Seth Godin’s idea. For WordPress users it reduces the “work at first” to almost nothing. Installation is simple: Download the WWSGD WordPress plugin and unzip it.Copy the what-would-seth_godin-do folder to your WordPress plugins folder.Activate the plugin in the Plugins panel.Customize settings in the Settings panel.

By default, new visitors to your blog will see a small box above each post containing the words “If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. New visitors will appreciate some context and background information about your site. DOWNLOAD the What Would Seth Godin Do WordPress plugin. Web Performance Optimization for WordPress by W3 Total Cache | W3 EDGE | Boston, MA. In response to customer demand, we’ve expanded the offerings around paid W3 Total Cache support.

Use the form below to order service and improve your site’s performance today. The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin. Trusted by many popular blogs like: mashable.com, pearsonified.com, noupe.com, webdesignerdepot.com, freelanceswitch.com, briansolis.com, tutsplus.com, yoast.com, css3.info and others — W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your blog by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.

Benefits: Features: Easily improve the user experience for your readers without having to change WordPress, your theme, your plugins or how you produce your content. Download it now or get support here. Pretty Link WordPress Plugin | Blair Williams. Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Unlike other link shrinking services like tinyurl, budurl, and bit.ly, this plugin allows you to create shortlinks coming from your own domain! Pretty Link tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host. Pretty Link is a killer plugin for people who want to mask their affiliate links, track clicks from emails, increase the reach of their website by spreading these links via Twitter, forums or comments on other blogs. What people are saying: “I don’t know if you realize it or not , but I think you’ve created what’s going to be one of the ‘most sought after’ and ‘useful’ solutions for every WordPress user out there!!!

“I could probably write a book explaining why this plugin would be one of the ‘must have’ tools to have in your WP arsenal, but to top it off… not having to add the extra directory for the URL plus being able to track clicks too! Google Analytics for WordPress Plugin. Do you want to track how many visitors you have? Do want to know where they come from and what they do on your site? Google Analytics is the de-facto standard for measuring this, and much more. Adding Google Analytics to your website is as easy as pie with the Google Analytics by Yoast WordPress plugin.

Google Analytics by Yoast Premium Buy GA Premium now from $89 » Start tracking with just a few clicksEasily switch to Google’s Universal trackingTrack your 404 error pages and search results like a pro! Possibly even more important, buying Google Analytics by Yoast Premium gives you access to our support team. All about the Premium plugin So What does this Google Analytics plugin do?

Stats for GA by Yoast First of all, this plugin makes sure you’re using the latest tracking code. You’ll be able to select your website in a drop down of the sites you have in your Analytics, hit save, and you’re done. More information Available in your language! Convinced? 1 year upgrades & support: Support. Anti-Spambot Plugin.

NOTE: If you start getting spam, change the “secret key” to any really long set of random letters and numbers (no special characters) and save it. Each time you change it the hackers have to start trying to break in again. It can take them hours to days to do that. You can change this as often as necessary to keep them out. For support or questions please contact Gail at GrowMap not Andy! We are absolutely thrilled and relieved that our spam problems are over. Download GrowMap Anti-Spambot Plugin (G.A.S.P.) now. With the custom GrowMap anti-spambot plugin Andy Bailey from CommentLuv wrote based on an idea from Phil Hollows of FeedBlitz and improved by a suggestion from Dazzlin Donna Fontenot you can too!

UPDATE: I finally had to turn off pingbacks and trackbacks in both WordPress under discussions and in CommentLuv Premium. The plugin is already installed in all of our blogs plus all of Murray Newland‘s blogs, at Influence People and in dozens of our closest collaborators’ blogs too. FD Feedburner Plugin for WordPress. Overview Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com. It does this seamlessly without the need to modify templates, setup new hidden feeds, modify .htaccess files, or asking users to migrate to a new feed. All existing feeds simply become Feedburner feeds seamlessly and transparently for all users. Just tell the plugin what your Feedburner feed URL is and you’re done. Requirements Installation To install the plugin: Copy fdfeedburner.php into wp-content/plugins.Activate the plugin from the Plugins tab in WordPress.

Usage First, go to feedburner.com and burn your feed.Then go to the plugin configuration by clicking the Plugins menu and then clicking the Feedburner Plugin sub-menu.Enter the Feedburner feed URL.If the “Append category slug to feedburner URL” option is enabled, category feeds will be redirected to your main feed with the category slug appended. Known issues Nothing else that I know of. License Copyright (C) 2006 John Watson Version history. After the Deadline - Spell, Style, and Grammar Checker for WordPress, Firefox, TinyMCE, jQuery, and CKEditor. Contact Form 7 - Just another contact form plugin for WordPress. Simple but flexible. Contact Commenters.