Reviewing Co-Authors Plus
WordPress comes in many forms, it allows you to blog on your own, create a blog with contributors, have multi users create a blog on WordPress Multi Version, and also create a social network with the help of Buddy Press, but one thing that is pretty much an eye candy is this plugin that the SEO Wright has reviewed for us, the Co-Authors Plus WordPress plugin that has already been activated here at our Pinoy Teens Online Blog. It’s handy especially if there’s more than just one person who contributed to a post with decent effort to be recognized as an author as well.
Read more about the plugin review on Kevin’s latest plugin and let us know what you think about it after you read it or even better tried it out yourself.
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I.D won’t go on Pinoy Teens
I’ve always had this problem about adding Intense Debate to Pinoy Teens, it’s just that I have once messed up with the installation and it’s just not going to be alright again without trying asking help from the tech (which I find too lazy at the moment). Instead, I’ve been so humble to keep the discussions here going without the help of the plugin and found rightful resource which suggests that I shouldn’t put the plugin back in, for the temporary time being.
One of the blogs that I have been following inside my Google Reader has had a couple of problems with the plugin and it’s strongly telling my mind that I shouldn’t go after installing the plugin and have the problems on my ass myself since I’ve got enough blogs aided with Intense Debate (this, this, this, this and even this). It’s only here that I have been experiencing such problems!
Anyways, I’d like to enlist 5 reasons why you should not make use of that kind of software based on my personal experience:
- Auto-Login Feature sucks, I don’t know what’s wrong, but it’s really not working the way I would love it to.
- Spam Spam Spam – A lot of spam comments get through to moderation, even after I checked out the configuration to be at it’s most secure setting.
- SpamSpam Spam part 2 – That means even more spam gets into my email, since I would like to be updated about new comments across my blogs.
- Loading and Refreshing Issue – The speed of the plugin really bothers me at times, it causes a lot of loading problems, not mainly for the blog, but the comment section itself to get loaded at the bottom of every article.
- Why should I use it? -When WordPress itself is cool enough, and when there are tons of other internally working, light weight plugins that can get awesome jobs done for your comment area and the benefit of you and your readers? You’ve got to be kidding me that you really want to go after the features that cause you headache instead of lurking for a plugin that could maybe do just the same or better for you.
Now, if you want to make use of the plugin; I’m not saying you shouldn’t nor do I hate it, it’s just that it’s not the plugin’s time to shine on Pinoy Teens, but maybe when it’s out of its beta stages anytime sooner or later, whatever :p
Read MoreGravatar & WP Gravatar Plugin
Did you heard about Gravatar already? If you haven’t then you must belong
to those who are pretty unfamiliar with WordPress and are using my most hated blogging host, else, if you are a WordPress User, it may be that you are simply not updated or not geek enough to know about Gravatars, but don’t worry, let me tell you more about it.
Gravatar stands for Globally Recognized Avatars, it’s a little image that will be attached to your email address and whenever you comment on Gravatar enabled blogs, that image will appear along with your comment.
Gravatar is part of the Automattic Family and has been a nice complement not only to WordPress, but other systems who are making use of it. It’s pretty easy to get an account and get started with Gravatars. And it’s highly recommended to do so asap. (You can also make use of your WordPress.Com account to sign up login)
You might question me, why it’s so highly recommended to have one, and I’ve prepared an answer for you:
Having a Gravatar along with your post or comments will help you stand out from the lone boring comments that are using Identicons or just a default image for those who have none. You can add a personal photo or simply any image that could represent you best along with the blog or comment that you write or left on, respectively.
All you have to do is sign up, verify your email address, upload a picture, crop it as desired and you are done.
It couldn’t be more easier than that, go get a Gravatar now, I’m hoping to see your faces or a custom image next to your comments soon here 
Before I forget, here is a nice plugin for WordPress that enables you to use Gravatar on it, if in case your theme is not capable of showing the default Gravatar template. It’s called WP Gravatars, go get it now
If Akismet gives you headache
I come to recall the times when Akismet marked one very important comment as spam and I was just too lazy to check all those 1,200+ pending spam comments and delete them all immediately, confident that Akismet did not make any mistake with that.
Read MoreWordPress + Flickr, preparation for my PhotoBlog
There are a lot of ways and means to get your images live online. People recommended me that I should keep all pictures stored on my web blog and upload them here, but I said, nah nah; not with me.
Although, I do have this glimpse feeling that they are right, but who really knows? If you don’t understand what I mean, then don’t mind it. It’s something SEO related that not everyone wants to know about. Instead, let’s hop over to the WordPress Flickr Plugins that can really help you out in connecting your flickr account and your WordPress blog.
I know, and you good know that Flickr is one very awesome service. I have FlickrPRO with them and that’s one of the main reasons why I store all my pictures, even my pictures on my local machine with them. Besides, it also takes off a lot of load in terms of bandwidth and storage which I would waste each time I’ll be uploading a picture here to this blog. While at the other end, my friends are correct somehow, that the traffic which could’ve been mine when people search for images is now going to flickr.com. My only hope now would be that people will click the link that I’m leaving in every image description that I have there.
Now, having decided that flickr shall host all my images that I’ll be using on this blog and my other blogs and my upcoming photoblog, I had to look for an alternative solution to get my images into my posts and pages the fastest and most convenient way. It took me a little time but, it was worth lurking for these plugins on the net.
First candidate that I’ve found (which I’ve found some months ago already) is the Flickr RSS, what this plugin does is quite simple. It allows to display your pictures on the sidebar via widgets or via the code so that you can go and show off your flickr images to all. That’s the plugin that I’m using at the front page of Pinoy Teens (refer to Featured Photos)
The second of the 3 plugins then would be the WP FLICKR Plugin, which is quite a simple plugin that adds a
new option to your WordPress’ Write Page wherein you simply have to click on any image of your recent photostream which then will be inserted to the post/page of yours. Though it’s the most fastest solution of all, it doesn’t add a link to the original photo source, which is the one and only catch of this plugin.
The last, but not the least, it’s even the best; is the Flickr Photo Gallery Plugin. It’s quite a little fancy option, but still the best out there, based on my search. This plugin adds a little media button to your write page which functions just like Image media button, just that it works the flickr way. It gives you total control of the output of your images whether to link back to the original source on flickr or to link to a custom url. It’s all up to you.
With any of these WordPress Flickr Plugins, you’ll gonna have a hell less trouble with your Flickr account and your WordPress installation. Could you imagine that it could’ve been that easy to insert a flickr image to your posts and pages?
Enjoy Photoblogging!
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