In this Round Table Jeffrey from Geekazine.com shares his recommendations for wordpress plugins. Todd Cochrane of GeekNewsCentral.com talks about PowerPress 3.0 and the new Meta Marks feature along with an assortment of other new features..
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WebOS is the most underrated mobile operating system on the market. It has everything but a large user-base. So, it seems a bit strange that WordPress has chosen it to be the first recipient of their new visual editor app. Android, with the largest market share, would have been a no-brainer, iOS would have seemed logical, and Windows Phone would not have been a major surprise (Microsoft has been know to throw some money the way of developers for things like this), but it landed on WebOS.
WordPress already has rudimentary apps available for Android and iOS, but they lack the power and functionality of the WebOS release.
The WebOS WordPress app uses sliding panes to navigate between various sections and editors. You can easily edit text, add media, and get a preview of what your post will look like before publishing it to a website. You can not only moderate comments on your posts, but also get notifications when new comments arrive through the WebOS’s native notification system.
The app supports both WordPress.com hosted sites and self-hosted sites also. WordPress for webOS is a free app and is available for the HP TouchPad through HP’s App Catalog. You can watch a walk-through video below.
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WordPress has been around a long time and is quite a powerful web publishing platform available to virtually everyone at no cost.
I finally got around to installing the official WordPress app onto my iPod Touch and I have to say I’m impressed with the app. It quickly accepted the credentials to my own WordPress blog, and I found I could update my site directly from my iPod. More impressive to me was when I discovered the ease with which I was able to take photos (or videos) with the iPod’s camera and instantly embed them into blog posts.
Nothing is more powerful than to be able to quickly update one’s own site with not only words but images as well. The official WordPress for iOS is a free download on the iPod/iPad/iPhone/iOS App Store. If you have a WordPress blog and an iOS device, this free app is worth installing.
I share with you tonight our upcoming Media on Demand / PPV offering that we will introduce at NAB. Very excited about this new product offering and making it available to all of the content creators we work with and the new genres we will be expanding into. If you are going to be in Vegas at NAB stop in and see the team at the show. I have an action packed tech show for you as well.
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If you use WordPress to run your website or blog then you are probably always on the lookout for a new theme. If you are serious about your site then you are willing to pay for a good theme. The biggest problem isn’t the lack of WP themes out there, it’s how to find and compare them. There’s a new resource online that is attempting to solve this issue. It’s called ThemeSorter.
Although it just recently launched it already has an impressive catalog of themes (500+ as of this writing). The layout is basic, making it easy to browse available themes in any of several different category types – formats, niches, colors, and styles to name a few.
If you look carefully you will even find an occasional freebie thrown in. You can also find discount deals on a lot of the themes being offered. It’s a great one-stop-shop for anyone looking to launch a new site or upgrade a growing one.
My team at RawVoice this morning released version 2.0 of the PowerPress Podcast plugin for WordPress. The work committed to this update was well over 1 month of coding. I have been running the beta here at Geek News Central for several weeks, and many of you have already commented on the new video player experience as being superior to what you have seen on other podcasters websites. Now that the update has been made available to the 80,000 podcaster worldwide we are excited to watch the implementation across the web.
Folks making video will want to check out the new HTML5 video player, WebM support and Embeds feature! PowerPress 2.0 provides an optimized viewing experience for the widest spectrum of hardware/software including web browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari), mobile devices (e.g. iPhone, iPad, Android), and TV’s (e.g. Google TV, Roku, Boxee).
Some of the new features and enhancements include:
I have created a short video on some of the coolest features and hope you will take a few minutes to overview the update. Please note that the video embed below is from the actual posting on our official PowerPress site. No longer do we need Blip or YouTube we can share our content from our sites with the embed feature.
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There are many good WordPress plugins available out there. Some allow you to track your site’s stats – like Google Analytics and Quantcast Quantifier. Some may help generate traffic – like All In One SEO. Some even help generate revenue like Quick Adsense and Amazon Best Selling Electronics. Today I thought I would showcase three that get less attention, but also can do a great job for your site.
AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button
You may have seen the AddToAny plugin in action on many web sites. It usually appears at the bottom of a post and looks similar to this:
It’s highly configurable as it allows you to choose from over 100 sites that you can have appear in the bar, choose from several options for the Share/Save button, where you want it to appear, menu style and options, etc. It’s a great way to allow your readers to easily share your articles.
Yet Another Realated Posts Plugin
The Yet Another Realated Posts Plugin is a way of letting your readers find similar stories on your site that they may also be interested in. Here it is in use on the MakeUseOf website’s RSS feed:
You can have this appear at the end of your articles on your site or in your RSS feed or both. It scans your site in several ways – categories, keywords, and tags – and finds articles related to the one your are posting and puts links at the bottom of the article that can point readers to other posts they may be interested in. It’s a great way to retain eyeballs.
Google XML Sitemaps
The Google XML Sitemaps plugin has a slightly misleading title. I say that because XML sitemaps don’t just help Google, but also most other major search engines like Bing, Ask.com, etc. It’s a little hard to explain so I’ll borrow from the WordPress description.
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.
As you can see from the description it makes your site more easily indexed, which is always a good thing. It updates pretty regularly, but if you add a new post and are particularly anxious to get the word out then you can do a manual update. The settings section will give you lots of data and options.
So, there are three of the many WordPress plugins that are out there. These three focus on getting your site noticed and keeping people on it once they are there. If you have a good one then please let us know in the comments section below.
Hey folks back in Hawaii for two shows only, then I will be in Albuquerque for 3 weeks on a consulting gig. Really weird doing the show without the tricaster, one thing for sure I have a whole lot less to do in the show which was kinda nice for a change. Had my outpatient work done on my arm today where the took some skin samples to from some suspect spots so should know at the end of the week whether I will need some more intensive treatment or not, fingers are crossed.
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