Geek: the Gathering! » Plugin http://geekthegathering.com Find help to subdue your computer! Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:54:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 My favorite WordPress pluginshttp://geekthegathering.com/my-favorite-wordpress-plugins/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-favorite-wordpress-plugins http://geekthegathering.com/my-favorite-wordpress-plugins/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:32:49 +0000 Jean-Michel Paris http://geekthegathering.com/?p=809 I would like to share with you my favorites plugins that I used along my WordPress blogs. They address several domains, such as performance, survey or administration.

No wait, here the list:

SEO

Optimizing

  • Cleanup WordPress: A very useful plugin to strip the database. It can remove all old post revisions, that are completly unusefull for a personal blog. Can help to save space on the database.

Performance

  • WP Super Cache: Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.
  • WP Minify: combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time. Does not work on all theme; but when it does, it’s amazing!

Backuping

  • WP-DBDatabase: Manages your WordPress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.

Survey

  • StatPress reloaded: No, Neo is not here :) . Improved real time stats for your blog. Simple and synthetic.
  • WassUp: WordPress plugin to analyze your visitors traffic with real time stats, chart and a lot of chronological informations. It has sidebar Widget support to show current online visitors and other statistics.

Multilingual

  • qTranslate: Adds userfriendly multilingual content support into WordPress. I think the best approach for multilingual blog.

I use many other plugins, including two of mine ;) . But I don’t consider them as essential!

]]> http://geekthegathering.com/my-favorite-wordpress-plugins/feed/ 2 WP Favicon: Add a favicon to your bloghttp://geekthegathering.com/wp-favicon-add-a-favicon-to-your-blog/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wp-favicon-add-a-favicon-to-your-blog http://geekthegathering.com/wp-favicon-add-a-favicon-to-your-blog/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:20:37 +0000 Jean-Michel Paris http://www.geekthegathering.com/?p=474 The “WP Favicon” plugin add a favicon to your site. Most of the themes just forgot to manage this small but nice feature. The plugin just add – inside the HEAD section – the needed links to the favicon. It supports, both the .ico and a .gif favicon.

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Due to the famous web browser from Redmond. The best approach is to have 2 separates favicon files located at the site root directory. 1. The first favicon file (favicon.ico) is either a 16×16 or a 32×32 icon. Nowadays, all modern browser supports both size. 2. The second favicon file (favicon.gif) is a (reasonable) free size, and can be an animated GIF too! The .gif version have precedence over the .ico. So, if the browser support animated favicon, the animated will be displayed, else the static .ico will be used instead. Note that both favicon.ico and favicon.gif can be different pictures.

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You can download the plugin here.

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The solution comes from a new service BackType! This service can gather all your comments into an unique syndication. Then, you just have to use the “My Comments Elsewhere” WordPress plugin to display this stream using the included widget. That’s all!

Of course, you’re able to publish a digest message of all your comments.

]]> http://geekthegathering.com/backtype-plugin/feed/ 0 qTranslate 2.2.4 patchedhttp://geekthegathering.com/qtranslate-2-2-4-patched/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=qtranslate-2-2-4-patched http://geekthegathering.com/qtranslate-2-2-4-patched/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:21:05 +0000 Jean-Michel Paris http://www.geekthegathering.com/?p=405 I’ve made a new patch over the current lastest release of qTranslate plugin.
You can find here a patched release of the qTranslate 2.2.4 plugin.

]]> http://geekthegathering.com/qtranslate-2-2-4-patched/feed/ 0 qTranslate 2.2.1 patchedhttp://geekthegathering.com/qtranslate-2-2-1-patched/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=qtranslate-2-2-1-patched http://geekthegathering.com/qtranslate-2-2-1-patched/#comments Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:33:53 +0000 Jean-Michel Paris http://www.geekthegathering.com/?p=387 This site uses an amazing plugin for translation, called qTranslate. To make it properly run under a Win32 environment (WampServer); i’ve modified source code over past month. I follow all major release deliveries.

I’ve proceeded to these modifications. You can find here a patched release of the qTranslate 2.2.1 plugin.

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