20 Best Wordpress Typography Plugins To Enhance Readability

WordPress has pretty decent typography features in the core installation. But there are plenty of areas ripe for improvement. That’s where the plugins below come in.

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Whether you just want more control over how the basic text on your site shows up or you want to do something a bit more advanced, there’s surely a plugin available to help. There are plugins to better handle things like hyphens and long URLS, plugins to replace text with images (whether in headlines or to avoid censorship), and plugins to let you add print-centric elements, like drop caps and pull quotes, to your posts.

Be sure to check out our previous post on Dynamic Image Replacement for more useful WordPress typography plugins and here are some Wordpress related plugins we’ve previously published:

• Wordpress Tricks & Hacks Part I, Part II, Part III
• Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs
• Great looking Wordpress Themes

Full list after jump.

Wordpress Plugins For Better Readability

• TTFTitles

  The TTFTitles plugin is another dynamic text replacement plugin that lets you replace your headers with images using any TrueType font you choose. It’s mostly a rework of the Image Headlines plugin. It has been tested with WP 1.5.2 up through 2.7.

  

• DRF2WP EN

  DRF2WP EN is a font replacement plugin that allows you to replace any font on your WP site with a dynamically generated image that uses any TrueType or OpenType font you want. The source code remains in-tact, which means your site won’t take a hit with search engines. The plugin works with WP 2.5 up to 2.8.4.

• Drop Caps

  The Drop Caps plugin lets you add a customized drop cap to each of your posts and pages (or even comments and other excerpts), similar to what’s commonly done in print publications. It can also be used to create other types of initials. The plugin has been tested with WP 2.3 up through 2.7.1.

  

• WP Typography

  The WP Typography plugin adds a number of typography features to your blog. It includes hyphenation, spacing control, forced internal wrapping of long URLs, intelligent character placement, smart handling of quotes and other characters, and CSS hooks for styling ampersands, acronyms, and other special characters. It works with WP 2.7 up through 2.8.4.

  

• Simple Pull Quote

  The Simple Pull Quote plugin lets you insert pull quotes into your blog posts to emphasize certain sentences or phrases using custom fields. Pull quotes can be styled by editing the included CSS file. It works with WP 2.7 or 2.8.

  

• jQuery Font Resizer

  jQuery Font Resizer is a plugin that improves the usability and accessibility of your blog. It adds three links to each page to allow visitors to resize the type on that particular page. It’s a great option to make your site more user-friendly to visitors who want a larger or smaller type than standard. It’s known to work with WP version 2.0.2 up through 2.7.

• WP-Syntax

  WP-Syntax is another syntax highlighter that uses GeSHi. It gives you the option to highlight with or without line numbers and maintains formatting when you copy snippets. WP-Syntax is compatible with WP 2.0 up through 2.8.

  

• Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress

  The Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress lets the original Google Syntax Highlighter that was developed by Alex Gorbatchev work within WP. It’s a completely client-side highlighter, supports multiple languages (including Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript, XML, HTML, Delphi, CSS, C++ and more), and is very lightweight. It’s known to be compatible with version 2.0.0 through 2.2.2.

  

• WP-Syntax Colorizer

  WP-Syntax Colorizer is a simple plugin for colorizing code snippets within your blog posts when run alongside WP-Syntax. WP-Syntax Colorizer has been tested with WP 2.0 up through 2.5.

  

• CodeColorer

  CodeColorer adds syntax highlighting to code snippets placed on your blog. It’s a great plugin to use if you frequently post code snippets, such as on a web design or development blog. It works with version 2.7 up through 2.8.4.

  

• TextImage

  The TextImage plugin replaces all the text in a post with a PNG image. It’s a good plugin to use if you wnat to block search engines from seeing your content or otherwise fly under the radar. It also gets around most automated filtering that certain countries use to censor internet content. It’s been tested with WP 2.1 up through 2.7.1.

• Censortive

  Censortive helps you get around automated censorship by replacing certain words with images of the word instead of text. You define which words you want to be replaced and Censortive does the rest. It’s a great plugin for getting around a lot of censorship without blocking your content from search engines. It’s been tested with WP 2.0.2 up through 2.3.

• Title Style

  Title Style gives you additional formatting options for your post titles. It can be used to wrap lowercase words or words like “the”, “a”, or “of” in em, span, or other elements. It’s compatible with WP 2.0.0 up through 2.8.4.

• PS Disable Auto Formatting

  PS Disable Auto Formatting prevents WordPress from applying its own auto formatting functions to your posts and pages. It prevents WP from stripping out tags when you’re editing in the HTML editor and has a positive impact on the way the visual editor formats your posts, too. It’s known to be compatible with WP 2.5 up through 2.8.3.

  

• Post Typographer

  Post Typographer plugin adds a number of typography improvements to your posts automatically. It changes dashes with spaces around them to em-dashes, transforms hyphens without spaces to n-dashes, and turns spaces after particular words into non-breaking spaces, among other features. It’s been tested with WP 2.5 up through 2.8.3.

• Author Intro for Post

  Author Intro for Post plugin adds an author intro to the beginning of each post based on the author’s name and bio information. It’s been tested with WP versions 2.0.2 through 2.7.

• WP-Footnotes

  WP-Footnotes makes it simple to add footnotes to your posts. Usage is incredibly easy and only requires you to use double-parentheses around your footnote. It does the rest. It’s compatible with WP versions 2.0 through 2.6.

  

Plugins for Admins

Here are a couple of admin plugins that can help you improve your site’s typography by giving you more editing options in the backend of your site.

• WP Super Edit

  WP Super Edit adds a host of WYSIWYG options to the standard WP visual editor. It adds two full rows of additional features to your visual editor toolbar, including options for applying specific styles and for adding and formatting tables. It’s known to work with version 2.8 and 2.8.1.

  

• Real WYSIWYG Plugin

  The Real WYSIWYG Plugin adds a WYSIWYG editor that actually shows you the page layout of your post within the visual editor. It makes it easier to see how your line breaks, images, and other elements will actually fit on your page.

  

• Text Control

  Text Control gives you additional options for formatting posts on your WP site according to a variety of different syntaxes and encoding options, including Textile 1, Textile 2, and Markdown. It’s compatible with WP 1.5 and higher.

  

About Author – Cameron Chapman is a professional Web and graphic designer with over 7 years of experience. She writes for a number of blogs, including her own, Cameron Chapman On Writing. She’s also the author of Internet Famous: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Online Celebrity.

Google Adsense and the sacrifice

Many people who write a blog wonder why they do not make much through Google Adsense or other forms of advertising. The content maybe well written, and indeed they have a fair number of readers, but Adsense cheques for $500 always seem to elude them. What on earth can be going on?

There are a few things to understand about your blog before you can make it commercially viable. The first thing to look at is the blog itself. If it is in actuality an online diary then this may not have that much commercial appeal. The readers could be there but it has no niche. If your blog is a photography blog, and you had photography ads, then you stand a fair chance of earning a click or two. A blog about your job, favourite foods, or favourite plant, well that just is not going to attract people specific to the content.

The trick to attracting visitor for a money making venture is to have commercially viable content. This brings us to our second point, and that is the content. To make real cash through advertising you have to have content, lots of content, and then some more content. We are talking around two hundred articles minimum with regular contributions. The content has to be about a specific subject, and if possible a niche market. The ads can then be related to the subject, so there is a greater chance of a click.

Also, the theme has to be able to accommodate the ads, and if you are serious about making money through advertising, you must be prepared to sacrifice some of the theme to make room for it. This can he the hardest part of the ad sacrifice a blogger can make, especially as you can be talking about in some cases, above the fold in the middle of the screen. This is where they become the most visible and are more likely to earn you a click. This is the online equivalent of right hand advertizing pages in a magazine.

Also, the theme needs to be simple and not have too much going on in it like custom graphics. These are distractions, and if a reader is looking at these rather than your ads, guess what happens? This to will probably involve some kind of sacrifice, especially if you have paid money for your theme, or it has been custom built by someone close to you.

There is a rule here to remember when talking about ads: Content is King. The golden rule of web design still applies. Without readers you have no chance of making a buck with ads, and the only way to attract readers is to make sure you have top drawer content. However, incorporate ads and turn your blog into a viable commercial venture, your content must in some respects fit around space for ads. Preferably, so that as people read the content they see the ads.

Using ads and to make real money at it, will involve a sacrifice on your part. The question is are you prepared to make that sacrifice, and how much is too much? You may well have to change the content drastically to make it more commercially viable, and this poses difficulties in keeping enthused about your blog as you could well start writing about subjects you do not really have an interest in, and also, you could lose readers in the first instance as the blog begins to change.

To make ads work on your site, you have to make the site ad friendly. If this strikes as you as being a lot of work, a lot of effort and a lot of sacrifice, guess what? It is.

Blubs Premium Wordpress Theme [Free Giveaway]

Today is Wednesday and it’s another around of giveaways here at hongkiat.com. This week’s free giveaway is a premium Wordpress theme named Blubs, developed by BlogPerfume. Blubs is a simple and neat 2-column premium theme.

Let’s take a look at some of the specifications of the theme:

• Clean and Elegant Design
• 2 columns flexible layout
• Navigation Dropdown Menu
• Widgets ready on sidebar
• Serach bar at the top
• Ready for125px and 250px ads integration
• Separated comments/trackbacks
• Built-in gravatars in comment section
• Print.css stylesheet
• Author Profiles & Archives
• Clean & valid codes – XHTML 1.0 Strict + CSS 2.1
• Cross browser compatible – tested on IE/Win, Opera, Firefox, Safari/Win.

Blubs cost $49 for a Single License and $99 for a Developer’s License. Courtesy of BlogPerfume, there are 3 Developers License Blubs premium Wordpress theme to be won here at hongkiat.com.

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1. Look for the hyperlink inside RSS feed (end of content, before Related Articles)
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40+ Most Wanted Wordpress Tricks and Hacks

Have you ever came across a Wordpress blog, saw something you liked, and questions like ‘how they did that‘, ‘is that a plugin or hack?‘, ‘where can I get those cool mods‘ begin to pop? Well, it’s really pretty normal because most of us did the same thing. For this article we’ve spent time with some 14 Wordpress bloggers, finding out what kinda hacks and plugins they are really looking for to enhance their blog in any aspect. Here’s our outcome, 40+ most wanted Wordpress tips and hacks, including those you don’t even knew the keywords to search for.

While you are at it, here’s few more Wordpress related articles we’ve previously written:

• 49 Most downloaded Wordpress themes
• Wordpress themes for Video Blogging
• 20 Desktop blogging clients
• 16 Wordpress premium themes that don’t suck

1. Display categories in horizontal Drop-Down menu

   Instead of using your categories in sidebar, you can put them up on the navigation bar, dropping down the sub categories in second-level drop down.

   

2. Add Gravatar for post author

   How about adding Gravatar to your post titles to highlight the comment author?

   

3. Using custom page as homepage

   Instead of showing recent entries as main page on your blog, customize it!

   

4. Add author bio on every blog post

   For multi-authored blogs, adding the bio info of each author at the bottom of their respective posts is a good way to give props to the author as well as providing information to the readers as to who that person is without having to refer to an about me page.

   

5. Display recent post from specific category

   Control recent post of any categories you want to display.

6. Highlight author’s comments

   This helps differenciate the author’s comments away from the rest. Useful for commentators to spot which are comments made by the author.

   

7. Create thumbnails for each blog post and displays them

   How to create thumbnails for each blog post, use them anywhere you want, make your post more interesting.

   

8. Create and show categories image

   How to add some simple PHP code to your Wordpress template and make linked images appear instead of text for your categories in posts.

9. Format images for feed readers

   Get your blog content to display properly, even in feeds.

   

10. Create really cool Wordpress date button

    Display your blot post’s date in the form of button.

    

11. Hiding Advertisements For Single Posts

    Quick and easy way to hide advertisements for any particular post by making some minor changes to your theme.

12. Creating a dynamic sticky

    There are some news you just want them to stay on top.

13. Customize Error 404 page

    Create a new Error 404 page of your own.

14. Protect CSS Mods for ANY WordPress Theme

    Implementing a custom stylesheet that simply overrides the styles defined in the theme’s original stylesheet

15. Make your blog Digg proof

    Tweaks and settings to add to your blog to take the Digg effect.

16. Using Wordpress as Membership Directory

    Create a moderated membership directory that showcases your member’s information.

    

17. 4 Ways to speed up your wordpress blog

    Some quick tips on how to speed up your self-hosted WordPress site.

18. Create mobile version of your blog

    Create a mobile version of the website within clicks with Mofuse.

    

19. Open links in new windows (by default)

    Title’s pretty self-explainatory, make all links open in new window.

20. Turn Wordpress blog into CMS (Content Management System)

    Your Wordpress blog don’t have to look like a typical blog display. It can be something more fun.

    

21. WordPress Thumbnail Size Limit Hack

    Don’t like the default thumbnail JPEG quality? Change it.

22. Automatically post Del.icio.us daily link to Wordpress

    Get more daily post on blog, from del.icio.us

    

23. Create a peel away effect on blog

    Very effective way to market products and bring more attention to pages you want visitors to focus.

    

24. Seperate Comments from Trackbacks/Pingbacks

    Get a clear view on what are comments, what’s not.

    

25. Blog Alone or Together with Writely

    Writely is one of my favorte Web 2.0 apps. It’s a full-fledged web-based word processor that you can access from anywhere. Think of it as Microsoft Word for the Web.

    

26. Embed Google Ad in first wordpress post

    The leading SEO (Search Engine Optimization) sites will tell you that placing an ad after the first post in your blog’s home page is particularly effective.

27. Creating multiple single posts for different categories

    Fast and simple way to assign a specific stylesheet for only one category of blog posts in a WordPress blog.

28. Using WordPress Custom Fields

    You can do pretty much anything you want with custom fields. Your imagination is your limit.

29. Creating an Archive Index

    Create single page with links to all your archived entries, arranged just so to form the main gateway into your blog’s past.

30. Wicked WordPress Archives in One Easy Step

    Provide specialized archive views that place a premium on scannability.

31. Place a login form in the sidebar

    Put a login on the front page of your Wordpress blog.

    

32. Protect Wordpress post against hot-linking

    Plugin for Wordpress that helps prevent image hotlinking as easy as installing and activating it.

    

33. Moving a Static HTML Site to WordPress

    how you retain the old URLs after moving static HTML to Wordpress.

34. Build a Techmeme River of News Clone

    Building something similar to Techmeme with Wordpress.

    

35. Custom login page

    This is more significant for multi author blogs, or sites you have set up for clients.

    

36. How to Put Your Best Content Forward

    Don’t let your best content get lost in the archives.

37. Display Twitter messages in Wordpress

    Customize the Twitter message display on your Wordpress blog.

    

38. Add Stripe Ad to boost response / earnings

    A new non-obtrusive way of displaying a single line of advertising message, a special note or other information right at the top of your blog

    

39. How to Display Facebook Statuses on Wordpress Blog

    Put your Facebook statuses directly on your wordpress blog. Works for both self-host Wordpress and Wordpress.com bloggers.

    

40. Post text and image count

    Counts and display number of words and images (leaving the default Wordpress smilies out)

41. Place content only in RSS Feed

    Ever wonder how some bloggers control some content to be shown only in RSS feed but not the blog. Here’s the plugin to do that – RSS Footer.

    

Read also: More Wordpress Related Articles

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30+ (More) Most Wanted Wordpress Tips, Tricks and Hacks

Most of the Wordpress blogs look more or less similar these days, to stand uniquely out from the rest, you have got to tweak it. And by tweaking, we mean really getting your hands dirty down on the blog theme and PHP codes. We’ve previously showcased more than 40 Wordpress tricks and hacks you can perform on your blog but we quickly realized there are still a lot of impressive Wordpress tricks, hacks and plugins out there that we thought are really great.

So as a sequel, here’s another 30+ Wordpress tricks and hack. If you are wondering how some bloggers add those cool functions, mods or displays on their Wordpress blog, be sure to run through our list. You might just find the solution in here.

More Wordpress related articles we’ve previously written:

• Most Wanted Wordpress tricks and hacks
• 49 Most downloaded Wordpress themes
• Wordpress themes for Video Blogging
• 16 Wordpress premium themes that don’t suck
• 20 Desktop blogging clients
• You’ve Installed Wordpress, So What’s Next?

Full list after jump.

1. Apple Flashy Accordion Sidebar

   Use the Accordion plugin in jQuery UI to create an Apple-alike Wordpress sidebar.

   

2. Adding Tabs to Sidebar

   Creating tabs on Wordpress sidebar with Yahoo! UI Library

   

3. Sidebar With Dynamic Contents

   Every blog visitor has different habits, but many tend to ignore sidebars because they are always the same. Mixing things up and keeping the contents of the sidebar relevant to the post can make them a bit more likely to be noticed.

4. Allow Users To Submit Blog Post

   This plugin allows you to add highly customisable forms to your website that allows non-registered users and/or subscribers (also configurable) to submit posts.

   

5. Paginated Comments

   Give you the ability to break your comments into a number of search engine optimized pages.

   

6. Image Caption

   Extracts the title or alt attribute from images within your blog post and generates a neat caption directly underneath those images. Supports custom CSS styling for captions.

   

7. Random Redirect

   Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion.

8. Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress

   Easily integrates the Google Syntax Highlighter by Alex Gorbatchev into WordPress. Image below show how codes look like in Wordpress with Google Syntax Highlighter.

   

9. Facelift Image Replacement (FLIR) for Wordpress

   FLIR allows you to convert text and title into images (better display quality) on the fly without hassle. Now this FLIR Wordpress plugin make things even easier for bloggers.

10. del.icio.us for WordPress

    del.icio.us for WordPress displays your latest del.icio.us bookmarks in your WordPress blog.

11. Create Your Own PopURLs Within Wordpress

    Like the way how PopURL display contents? Now you can create similar inside Wordpress.

    

12. Exclude certain categories from being displayed

    2 ways to hide posts from certain categories to be displayed on the blog. You can either put this code inside the loop

    or you can use Advanced Category Excluder.

13. Another Date Image Hack

14. Create a calendar view of your article post date.

    

15. Styling Individual Posts

    Styling one post a little different from the rest with the use of the_ID.

16. How To Avoid Duplicate Posts

    Duplicated contents are pretty bad and they somehow affects how search engine weights your site. Here’s how you can avoid getting duplicated contents on your blog.

17. Wordpress ‘Page Redirect‘ template

    This template lets you specify a single URL as the page content, then as the page loads, the template automatically redirects the page to this new location, and that includes category or any tag pages you specify.

18. Delicious Save Buttons

    Add badges that encourage people to bookmark your website or blog

19. DesignFloat Buttons, Website & Blog Integration

    Give your website or blog visitors the option to submit your stories to Design Float and “Float” them

    

    

    Read here for more.

20. StumbleUpon Buttons & Tools

    Add a Stumble It! button to your site to make it easy for your visitors to submit your content to StumbleUpon.

    

21. Dynamic Highlight Menu

    This allows you to theme/style and control the currently selected menu tab in CSS by adding a class="current" on it.

    
    >Gallery
    >About
    >Submit
    
    

    Line 2:

    If Home, or Category, or Archive, or Search or Single page is selected, class="current" will be included in

22. Line 3,4:

    If Page with page slug about or submit is highlighted, class="current" is added.

    If you are looking at putting categories as menu tabs, here’s how to make the menu dynamic:

    
    >CSS
    >Showcase
    
    

    Line 2,3

    If category with category slug of css or showcase, class="current" is added.

23. DZone Buttons

    Let your website’s users vote for our links on DZone without leaving your site.

    

    

    More on DZone Buttons, Tools and Widgets

24. Reddit Buttons

    Similar to the rest, place a reddit button on your site to promote blog post.

    

    

    

    Source.

25. Archive that works

    Noura of Noupe.com shows various ways you can style your Wordpress Archive page. Techniques and guides includes:

    • Listing all Posts
    • Display monthly or Yearly Archive
    • Archives Ordered By Category

    Read this entry.

26. Add Breadcrumbs to Your WordPress Blog

    Breadcrumb trails are a good supplementary navigation system that aid in site usability. This plugin allows you to add breadcrumbs to your theme.

    

27. Landing Sites / Pages

    When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, they are definitely looking for something specific – often they just roughly check the page they land on and then closes the window if what they are looking for isn’t there. Why not help them by showing them related posts to their search on your blog?

28. WordPress Exploit Scanner

    This WordPress plugin searches the files on your site for a few known strings sometimes used by hackers, and lists them with code fragments taken from the files. It also makes a few checks of the database, looking at the active_plugins blog option, the comments table, and the posts table.

29. Buy Me a Beer

    Allows your readers to donate money to you via PayPal. Not something new, but worth knowing.

    

30. Display Feedburner Subscriber Count In Text

    How to display feedburner subscriber count in text instead of using chiklets.

    

31. Notifixious – Notify Users via IM

    This plugin allows you to notify your readers on their Instant Messaging (AIM, MSN, GTalk, ICQ…), Email or SMS when you publish new posts.

32. Installing Xampp and WordPress

    Guide to setup Xampp and run Wordpress locally on your machine. You can also install plugins, upgrade to the latest nightly and virtually anything else confident in the knowledge that if it goes wrong, there is no impact on your actual site.

    

33. Create an Ajax-based Auto-completing Search Field

    Why not helping your visitors to find what they’re looking for on your blog, by using a cool auto-completion on your search field?

    

More Resources

• WordPress Theme Hacks | Web Designer Wall
• 4 Simple Ways To Speed Up WordPress | WPCandy
• Reset your lost WordPress administrator password | village-idiot
• Optimize Your WordPress Title | hackwordpress.com
• Huge Compilation of WordPress Code | hackwordpress.com
• Backing Up WordPress | Lorelle
• Buttons, Bows and Badges for Your Blog | Lorelle
• Optimizing Wordpress and LAMP to survive the Digg effect | vallery.net
• 5 Golden Tips For WordPress Performance Optimization | taragana

35 Tips Tricks To Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs

Inviting other bloggers and writers to become co-authors is one great way to expand one’s blog. Assuming the recruiting of writers part is being taken care of, the next big problem you could be facing is management. Managing multiple authors for a blog is never an easy task. It’s often a challenge to keep co-authors in control, getting them to write quality content on schedule, making sure they did not miss anything before hitting the publish button, etc. Also sometimes you might also want to give different authors different level of accessibilities and controls, depending on their performances.

Luckily there are lots of Wordpress plugins and resources out there to help owners and administrators to manage co-authors. If you are planning to turn your blog into a multi-author blog, here’s 35 Tips Tricks To Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs you might want to check out.

More Wordpress related blog post:

• Most Wanted Wordpress Tips, Tricks and Hacks – Part I
• Most Wanted Wordpress Tips, Tricks and Hacks – Part II
• more..

Full list after jump.

Managing Blog Posts

If you have more than 5 authors on a particular blog, managing the daily published entries can be tedious especially when rules and checklists are not properly laid out. Even if they are, they might not be followed at the times. Dealing with situations like this, some plugins could be your life-savers, or at least making blog postings more efficient.

• Future Posts Calendar

  Adds a simple month-by-month calendar that shows all the months you have future posts for (and the current month no matter what), it highlights the days you have posts for, and as an added bonus if you click a day the Post Timestamp boxes change to that day, month and year. Pretty handy to organize and plan blog post for a multi authors blog. Also comes in form of widget.

  

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• Pre-Publish Reminder

  A friendly checklist for you and your co-authors before they hit the publish button to place any blog article live on the main page.

  

  Similar plugins: Pre-Publish Reminders by Nick Ohrn, Category Remindr for those who forget inserting categories.

• Draft Notification

  This WordPress plugin automatically emails the admin when a new draft is saved. The email contains the post’s title, the author, and a link. There is no options page currently, because there is really nothing to configure. The plugin now supports the new ‘pending’ status.

  Similar Plugins: Draft Notifier

• Co-Authors

  Allows multiple authors to be associated with a post. Co-authored posts appear on a co-author’s posts page and feed. Additionally, co-authors may edit the posts they are associated with, and co-authors who are contributors may only edit posts if they have not been published (as is usual).

  

  Similar Plugins: Multi Authors

• Audit Trail Plugin

  Audit Trail is a plugin to keep track of what is going on inside your blog. It does this by recording certain actions (such as who logged in and when) and storing this information in the form of a log. Not only that but it records the full contents of posts (and pages) and allows you to restore a post to a previous version at any time.

  

• Report Posts

  This allows your user to report any post they find not appropriate. Think of it as seeking users help on quality control. Reported posts then appear in the manage section of the admin console.

• Gravatar plugin For Multiple Authors

  Wordpress plugin that provides multi users to show their respective gravatars on their authored posts.

Managing Multi Authors

Sometimes you might want to give some authors a higher access over the others. By that we mean giving them the access to publish content without your moderation or perhaps access to sensitive areas you won’t share with the rest. These following plugins allow you to administrate your fellow authors the way you prefer.

• Role Manager

  Reworked from the previous version of Role Manager Plugin is written by David House and Owen Winkler. This plugin allows you to control roles and access for different authors on your blog.

  

  Similar plugins: Role Scoper

• Draft Control

  The WordPress Plugin “Draft Control” allows users above level 5 to view drafts in a nice row paging system.

• Hide Dashboard

  A pretty self-explanatory plugin. The reason why you would need this is when you have multiple authors on your blog and you want to hide (or customize) the dashboards.

• WP-Group Restriction

  Wp-group-restriction is a Wordpress plugin that enhances the current user role feature, by allowing administrators to manage access to content (i.e., pages).

• Adminimize

  The plugin changes the administration backend and gives you the power to assign rights on certain parts. Admins can activate/deactivate every part of the menu and even parts of the submenu.

Authors Profiles

When co-authors write for your blog, the least you can do (if there’s no revenue sharing involved) is to publish a decent author’s profile as token of appreciation. Proper credits on authors are important, it shows how much you appreciate their work. Here are some plugins to place a decent Author’s Profile on blog post, or anywhere in the blog.

• Post Avatar

  Simplifies the process of including a picture when writing posts. Authors simply choose from a predefined list of images in the Write Post page to display an image in a post. A template tag displays the image with The Loop.

• User Photo

  Allows you to associate authors’ profile photos with their account under Your Profile , or any other pages with the use of tags like userphoto_the_author_photo(), userphoto_the_author_thumbnail() etc.

  

• Posts by Author Plugin

  This plugin will show the last X posts by the current author either at the bottom of every post, or where you manually specify in each post. Using the built-in options page, you can choose the number of posts to show, set the header text, choose to show the post dates, select the format of the date, and choose whether or not to include the current post in the list.

• Get Author Profile

  Allows you to access an author’s profile manually outside The Loop, such as for a sidebar intro of the blog owner or to list contributors to your blog.

• Userextra

  This plugin basically does two things. It adds the ability to associate extra information to users, and supports category access control where users are being control on which category they are allow to access and post article to.

  

• Author Exposed

  Simple Wordpress plugin that allows your visitors easy and elegant way to see more details about the post author.

  

• List Author Widget

  Display a list of authors in your WordPress Sidebar Widgets linking to the authors.php page.

  

• Blog Matrix Wordpress Plugin

  This plugin provides a suite of extended WordPress sidebar, navigation and blog info template tags that can be filtered by author and category.

• Author Comments

  Highlights author’s comments with customizable styles. Requires author to login.

Communication

Communication is perhaps the utmost important factor in any successful multi-author blogs. Not only it promotes sharing of ideas, getting each other mutually inspired, it also help prevent having 2 authors clasing on writing the same (or similar) blog topics.

• Share Notes on Dashboard

  If you blog with multiple persons, you can leave a message for the others. In the plugin file, you can determine, what capabilities a user must have to read the notes, and what capabilities he must have to write/modify them. By default, Authors and higher can write, and every registered user can read.

• Our Todo List

  A plugin allowing authors to get together to share ideas and tasks with a managable section in Wordpress administration section.

  

• Send Private Email

  Allowing blog owners to send private emails to authors and users.

  

  Similar plugins: Email Users

• Multi Author Comment Notification

  Plugin that sends comment notification to not only the specific author of the post, but to other authors of the blog as well. Customisable via admin panel.

  

Revenue Sharing

Last but not least – the moolah factor, the thing that drives and motivates (most) co-authors. Here are some plugins to make revenue sharing fair and square, or at least automated.

• Author Advertising

  This plugin allows blog admins to create a revenue sharing program utilising one of the many advertising programs out there i.e Yahoo, Google Adsense, Amazon, Allposters etc. It can also be used as a banner manager, author photo/website widgets.

  Similar plugins: AdSense Revenue Sharing

Further Readings

• Wordpress: Roles and Capabilities

  Indepth explanation on how blog owner can control the ability of assigning roles to a user.

• Wordpress: Author Templates

  This article explains how to change what happens when the blog viewer is visiting one of your site’s author pages.

• Creating an “About this Author” for Multiple Authors

  How to insert About this Author at the end of every blog post.

  

30+ New Useful WordPress Tricks & Hacks

As an experienced WordPress user, we keep ourselves updated with the development of the core, plugin releases and useful WordPress tips and tricks shared by developers and enthusiasts. In today’s post, we’d like to share with you updated WordPress tips and tricks and plugins that are interesting and useful. Without further ado, here’s another 30+ More Useful WordPress Tricks & Hacks.

Full list after jump.

1. Antivirus for Wordpress

   AntiVirus for WordPress monitors malicious injections and warns you of any possible attacks.

   

2. Digg/bury blog comments like Digg.com

   This plugin will allow users to digg / bury every thread of your comments, thus find out the most valuable comments as well as the human-spammers.

   

3. Spell, Style and Grammar check with After the Deadline

   Smart plugin that uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find your writing errors and offer smart suggestions.

   

4. Detect Adblocker and display alternative

   Anti-AdBlock WordPress Plugin detects if a regular visitor to your blog (10 visits by default) has AdBlock software enabled. If so, it will display a floating notification message on the 11th visit to your visitor.

   

5. Insert anything into Wordpress Blog Post – WP-Insert

   An allrounder wordpress plugin which takes care of it all be it your ads, your feeds, your tracking codes even the way you edit your posts!

   

6. Improved web typography in WordPress – WP-typography

   A one stop shop for improved web typography in WordPress. Ability includes:

   • Hyphenation
   • Spacing control, including: gluing values to units, widow protection, and forced internal wrapping of long URLs & email addresses.
   • Intelligent character replacement, including smart handling of: quote marks ( “foo” ), dashes ( foo - bar ), ellipses ( … ), trademarks ( ™ ), math symbols ( 1024
     

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