Tools
Various tools that I have created
Hotlink 2 Link Plugin
Here is my latest WordPress plugin – Hotlink 2 Link for WordPress
This plugin will show a popup window if somebody right-clicks on an image and asks them to use specific code which will link to your article.
Below is an image example.
You can read more about this on my blog post:
Hotlink 2 Link WordPress Plugin
This plugin is based on and uses the JavaScript widget “LinkMyPics“
Read MoreGeneric Statistics WordPress plugin
Do you have the urge to SPY on your visitors?
The Generic Stats WordPress Plugin is a plugin that allows you to add any statistics tracking code to your WordPress blog without having to edit your WordPress Template’s code.
What does this have to do with spying on your website’s visitors? Well, you could easily sign up for the Performancing Metrics statistics service, and EASILY let you add the statistics tracking code to your blog, without you needing to change ANYTHING ELSE on your site.
This plugin also allows you to specify whether you’d like the code to be place at the top of your page (before the <body> tag) or at the bottom of the page (just after or just before the closing </body> tag).
This option is due to the fact that some statistics packages, like Google Analytics, prefer that you place the statistics tracking scripts at the top of the page, whereas it is actually recommended that you place all external scripts (external to your site) at the bottom.
The reason it’s better to place the code at the bottom is just in case the external site is down, it won’t prevent your site from loading.
Click on the image at the below to see what the plugin looks like on the admin side:
Click here to download the plugin
To be kept aware of updates, please subscribe to the comments feed on this page.
Oh, and Click Here to sign up and try out Performancing Metrics. You will SERIOUSLY get addicted to watching your visitors moving around your site, IN REAL TIME!
Checking Domain Availability
Don’t Alert Others of your Ideas!
There is one MAIN thing you want to be careful of when checking to see if a domain is available or not, and that is alerting others that somebody is searching for it.
You see, there are some people who monitor searches for domains so that they can quickly register the domain in the hope that you will buy it from them at more than they paid for it.
A good way to prevent this is to use tools available from respected and well known Domain Registrars, such as GoDaddy and Moniker.com.
Tools to help you
To facilitate this (because I register domains quite often now, IT’S A DRUG I TELL YOU!) I have created to search tools that you can install if you use IE7 (Internet Explorer 7) or FireFox web browsers.
You will then be able to just type the domain that you want to check it’s availability of, and press enter.
To install these “search engines”, just click on the “down arrow” at the top right of your browser and click on the “Add DomainCheck“. This Search Engine will use Moniker.com’s Domain checking service to see if a domain is available to be registered.
The reason I use Moniker.com is because it can check more than one TLD at a time, for example, if you type in “james” (without the quotes) and click on the magnifying glass, the Moniker.com results will show you the results for james.com, james.info, james.org, etc. etc. etc…
You might have also noticed the ability to add the “CoZaDomains” Search Engine.
This search engine will check the availability of “.co.za” (South African) domains, using the tool provided by www.anno.co.za (the site that hosts my website).
Anyway, let me know if you find these tools useful…
Please Link 2 Me WordPress Plugin
Introducing my next WordPress plugin: Please Link 2 Me
I’ve personally wanted this for quite a while, and I’ve seen it on other blogs before, but when I looked for it, I just couldn’t find it.
So i created it myself… That’s the beauty of WordPress
What does this plugin do?
This plugin adds a little text box below each post on your WordPress blog containing the code required for somebody to just copy and paste it to their blog or website, and create a link back to your article.
This means the reader doesn’t have to know how to get the URL of the article, or even have to know how to make a link out of it.
An example?
Here is a screen shot of this plugin in action (just in case I’ve disabled it on this site for whatever reason, like testing something):
And, here’s a screenshot of the admin page (in WordPress 2.8.5). Click on it to see the full shot…
Where can I get it and what do I do?
You can just go to the plugin repository to download this plugin. Here’s the link: “Please Link 2 Me Download”
Then, just upload the zip file into your “plugins” directory, unzip it, and activate it…
Then all that’s left is to enter the settings in the plugin’s admin page.
Updates?
To get notified of updates, just subscribe to the comments feed of this specific blog post. If there are other comments here as well and you decide to unsubscribe, then you’ll still be able to see the update requirements via your admin “Plugins” page…
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