Recently Popular WordPress Plugin

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Oct 292010
 

Displaying and featuring items that are recently popular on your wordpress blog is generally more useful than showing the top viewed items of all time. Recently I’ve began to swap out my “Most Viewed” widgets with “Recently Popular” lists using the Recently Popular Plugin.

You can configure this plugin to show the recently popular pages, posts, or both. The plugin allows you to easily configure how far back it should check activity to generate your list – this allows you to set the widget to display the most popular posts over the past day, week, month, year, etc.

Recently Popular is super easy to setup and display in the sidebar. The author keeps it up to date. In 3 months since my first installation it hasn’t broken down on me yet (/me knocks on wood).

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Contact Form 7 Pixel Tracking In Sidebar Widget

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Apr 202010
 

contact-form-pixelContact Form 7, a free wordpress plugin I’ve raved about for a long time (before I found cforms), has a great widget plugin that will allow you to post up lead generation forms in your blog’s sidebar.

If you decide to pay a certain amount for people who send you contacts through your website you will need to be able to fire a pixel as soon as the contact form has been successfully submitted. This is easy to do with Contact Form 7 if you’re using an image pixel.

Log into your wordpress admin area. Navigate to the Contact Form administration area in the bottom left. Click the name of the form you want to place a pixel in (if you have multiple forms setup). At the bottom of the form admin screen click the “Messages” tab.

Under the first message “# Sender’s message was sent successfully”, paste your IMG SRC image call html. Scroll to the bottom and hit save. Now submit your form and it should fire the pixel.

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G-Lock Double Opt-in Newsletter Plugin

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Apr 102010
 

wordpress-newsletterUse WordPress and need a free plugin to manage your newsletters subscribers? No problem. The G-Lock Double Opt-in Manager includes everything you need to collect and manage subscribers. Users must first confirm their email by clicking a unique link code sent to the email address they use to register for the newsletter. Once you’ve built a list, you can use the G-Lock interface to easily email all your subscribers at once.

Maintaining an active newsletter (or even better yet a trigger based emailing system) is one of the most effective ways to drive business for most websites. Special offers, customer incentives, and keeping your shoppers or subscribers up to date are just a few ways you can use a Newsletter to drive business.

This plugin comes with a handy widget you can place in any widgable area in your WordPress blog and immediately begin taking subscribers. Everything works straight out of the box, it couldn’t be more simple.

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Recent Comments Widget Plugin For WordPress

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Feb 172010
 

The Get Recent Comments wordpress plugin written by Krischan Jodies allows you to format and control all aspects of your Recent Comments display in your sidebar widget.

With support for gravatars, options to exclude specific categories, order comments by date or postings and handling trackbacks in separate lists, this plugin basically is the answer to your prayers if you want to show off the latest 4 or 5 recent comments in your sidebar.

I’ve been using the Recent Comments plugin for several months through various wordpress core file updates and it hasn’t let me down yet.

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WordPress Plugin: Rotate Links In Sidebar Widget

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Feb 162010
 

Want to have your blogroll or links list displayed in your sidebar but don’t want to have a huge list of 30 links distracting people from your content and making your site look like a link farm? I ran into this problem earlier in the week so I went searching for plugins and tested a few out, let me share the best one with you.

Better Blogroll is a wordpress plugin that allows you to specify the number of links that should be displayed, then rotates your blogroll links in your sidebar. It very simple and highly configurable. You can also control “follow” or “nofollow” attributes to control page rank leakages.

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