Posts tagged Plugins
BitNami Bundles Plugins with WordPress and Drupal Stacks
Nov 29th
BitNami is going beyond the value-add of bundling popular open source “stacks” of software to start including popular plugins and modules for the software. BitNami is starting with WordPress and Drupal by adding popular plugins for each of the popular Content Management Systems (CMS).
We’ve covered BitNami before. The service started by offering pre-configured “stacks” of popular open source software to simplify deployment. Initially the offerings were binaries that would install self-contained stacks on Linux, Mac OS X and/or Windows. (Not all stacks run on all OSes.)
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Over time the company has moved from offering just the binaries to also offering full virtual appliances, and finally to offering cloud images and Cloud Hosting to simplify cloud deployment.
Now BitNami is expanding scope once again to simplify deployment by adding popular modules to its stacks so users don’t have to.
With WordPress, BitNami is providing the All-in-one-SEO pack, JetPack, the Google Analytics plugin, Google sitemap generator, and the wptouch plugin. The only thing missing from my standard install here is the Bad Behavior plugin.
Drupal includes plugins for Apache Solr, Google Analytics, SMTP, an admin menu plugin, and several developer-oriented plugins.
BitNami, of course, is looking to get more users to adopt its stacks and sign up for its Cloud Hosting services. It will be interesting to see if adding in plugins makes a difference in adoption. This sort of packaging for the cloud is in its infancy, but I suspect we’re going to be seeing more of it from third-parties like BitNami and from PaaS providers.
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Do Sentiment Analysis With Chrome Plug-ins
Oct 19th
Can sentiment analysis be as simple as installing a browser plug-in and scrolling down a screen? You bet, and you might want to check out the latest from ViralHeat. In a matter of minutes, you too can be getting in touch with your feelings, or at least the feelings of those folks that you correspond with on Twitter. The tool has been updated to analyze Facebook’s fan pages, timeline, news feed and comments.
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We last wrote about them earlier this summer here, when they released an API to do sentiment analysis. Now they have built this plug-in from the interface. You can train the tool (as you see here) to be more positive or negative than it initially guesses, if you want, or you can just accept the defaults. You do have to scroll up and down to collect all the content that is displayed on screen, and you can see the results change at the top of your screen.
I looked over my Tweetstream and got 73% positive and 18% neutral comments. (hah: better than MacManus. It Must Be Working!) If you are looking for a quick and dirty tool to tell you how others think of you at a glance, check it out. If you add this to Klout’s plug-in and Rapportive’s plug-in you can get a lot done for basically no software cost too.
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10 WordPress Plugins Your Small Business Website Needs
Oct 7th
One of the biggest benefits to creating your small business website on WordPress is that the system is easily expanded using the WordPress plugin system. You can easily optimize your website, manage your content, or even create quick backups.
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Report: Facebook Has The Most Implemented Social Plugins, Google’s +1 Surging
Jul 8th
Today BrightEdge, an enterprise SEO platform, released a report on the adoption of social sharing plugins on websites. This report also includes a look at the statistics around basic social links, e.g. , a direct link to a Facebook Fan Page. The findings show that out of the top 10,000 websites…
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When Gmail Plug-ins Compete, Users Win: Rapportive Ups the Ante
Jun 10th
Late last month Google launched a Gmail plug-in that looked an awful lot like popular startup service Rapportive’s sidebar CRM app – but with additional functionality from Google services like Calendar. What’s a little startup to do? Rapportive’s plan is apparently to move faster and adds more on top of what Google can do. That makes a must-have browser add-on even better.
Today Rapportive is announcing a big upgrade to its baked-in Twitter functionality. You can do so much Twitter stuff in the sidebar of your Gmail now! Check out the demo video below.
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I’ve been testing this feature for the past week and it works really well. It works so well that I’ve hardly noticed it – it just feels natural. And if you haven’t tried tying your LinkedIn account to Rapportive, I highly recommend doing that too. Both are easy to do, just install the add-on, then click the Rapportive menu at the top of the page on Gmail and associate your social media accounts.
It’s been over a year now since I urged readers here to stop what you’re doing and go install this Gmail plug-in. The email CRM plug-in space is a crowded one, but all the competition is just making it better.
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App Search Startup Quixey Launches New Plugins & API
May 20th
Quixey, a mobile application search startup and makers of an accompanying suite of tools for app developers, is today announcing three more tools to aid in mobile application discovery. These tools provide new ways for publishers and partners to integrate app search into their own websites, and include everything from a simple widget up to fully customized solutions built to a specific publisher’s requirements.
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Says Quixey co-founder Tomer Kagan, “people want to search for apps on the platforms they use…By creating customizable app search solutions for each partner, people can find the apps they want, when they want them…apps will finally be easily accessible.”
The new tools include the following three categories:
- Customizable Search Plugin – This self-service solution allows anyone to place a Quixey search bar directly on their site. The partner can choose the platforms, APIs and appearance of their Quixey plugin. The plugin adds functionality to any site that focuses on apps, allowing users to search for apps directly on the partner’s site.
- Custom search API - For partners that want more control over the look and feel of their search results, Quixey offers a custom search API.
- Fully Customizable Search Solution – For partners that want a particular collection of apps or want extra data integrated into their search, Quixey engineers will work directly with the partner’s team to build a fully customizable solution.
To be clear, these tools are not limited only to those who publish websites designed for the desktop – they can be used by mobile application developers as well.
Quixey’s core business involves scouring the Web for mentions of applications, mobile and otherwise, especially focusing on app descriptions, how the app is used and the sentiment surrounding the app. The mentions can come from anywhere – websites, blogs, forums, social networking sites, mainstream media and more. It then takes this unstructured data and transforms it into structured metadata. That information is used to then power its consumer-facing app search engine as well as its developer-facing application dashboard.
Those working in the mobile application industry, providing sites, services or even apps that aid in the discovery of new apps, could use Quixey’s new solution to provide easy app search tools to their own end users. For example, if a blog wanted to host a widget that let readers search the site for all the apps ever mentioned there, it could do so with Quixey’s custom solution. The self-service plugin can also be customized to just search mobile, Web, desktop or browser apps, and whether it shows free or paid apps or both.
All of the solutions will become available on May 23, from Quixey’s website. And best of all, the price for everything is free.
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How to Reuse Your JavaScript as jQuery Plugins
Feb 10th
Ruby on Rails platform-as-a-service provider Engine Yard is running a series of articles on reusing JavaScript code written by Christopher Haupt of Webvanta. The first focuses on reusing JavaScript as jQuery plugins.
“If jQuery is a fit for your project, you can utilize its conventions to reap the benefits of a consistent code style, logical approach to working with data, and to easily leverage other basic building blocks of code,” writes Haupt.
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Haupt covers:
- Best practices for developing JQuery plugins
- Function patterns
- Chaining
- Namespacing
He also touches briefly on jQuery UI Widget.
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The Top 5 SEO WordPress Plugins for 2011 – Search Engine Marketing (blog)
Dec 13th
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The Top 5 SEO WordPress Plugins for 2011
Search Engine Marketing (blog) So to save me having to list them out everytime someone asks, here's a post that lists my Top 5 Plug-ins for SEO. Of course there's plenty more out there, … |
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5 WordPress Plugins to Keep in Touch with Your Blog Co-Authors
Sep 10th
Maintaining multi-author blogs is hard but it definitely pays off. A multi-author blog provides the variety of insights, perspectives and blogs. Most feeds in my reader are from multi-author blogs – namely because I enjoy the daily variety they offer.
Creating the strong community of guest authors and contributors around your blog is gold: the guest bloggers would
- Come daily to comment their own (and each other’s) posts,
- Link to and cite their guest posts from many other places they contribute to,
- Share their guest posts across their social media channels, etc.
However building this community is definitely hard and takes plenty of time, effort and commitment.
No matter what type of multi-author community you are building (paid authors, regular columns, one-time guest contributions, etc), the following WordPress plugin will let you effectively keep in touch with your authors, invite them back to your site and develop stronger contacts with each other:
1. Email Users
Email Users lets you send a newsletter to all your registered authors (or even subscribers). How you use this plugin depends on the type of the blog you run and the type of relationships you have with your co-authors. Surely, I wouldn’t overuse it but it should work great for important updates and announcements.
As far as you can see from the screenshot below, the plugin supports a few mail formats and some variables. It also lets you choose the author names to send the newsletter to or just send to everyone:
2. Peter’s Collaboration E-mails
This plugin updates both the blog owner and the contributor on the submitted guest post status:
- When a Contributor user submits an article for review: The plugin e-mails a list of approvers of your choice, letting them know that there is a post ready for review, and giving them a link to edit the post.
- When a post is approved: The Contributor user gets an e-mail saying that their post has been approved and who it was approved by. If the post was directly published, the author is given a link to read the post as the whole world sees it. If the post is scheduled to be published, the author is informed of the time that their post will go live. When the post does go live, the author will get another e-mail informing him / her of that.
- When a post’s status is changed back to “draft” from “pending”: The original Contributor user gets an e-mail saying that their post has been reverted back to a draft, along with a link to edit and re-submit the post.
3. Peter’s Post Notes for WordPress
Peter’s Post Notes for WordPress: this plugin allows to post quick private notes to go with posts. It is thus a very handy collaboration tool as an editor can suggest a quick fix, the contributor can report a status or ask for the advice etc – and the whole conversation is forever saved with the post for you to refer to it whenever you need to. Besides, when used in combination with the above plugin, the note recipient will be updated of a new note via email.
The notes are added right to the extra panel added to the sidebar (once you save the draft or publish the post, the note is saved as well).
4. Admin Msg Board
Admin Msg Board is a plugin for WordPress that will add a messaging system in your WordPress admin area. Messages can have up to 140 characters (ala your own internal blog Twitter), and you can choose whether to send a message to all writers or select recipients
5. Private Messages For WordPress
This plugin allows users of WordPress blog send private messages (PM) to each other. The number of PMs can be controlled via the plugin option page.
Otherwise, an email will be sent to user when a new PM is received.
Do you run (or plan to launch) a multi-author blog? Please share your insight!
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5 WordPress Plugins to Keep in Touch with Your Blog Co-Authors
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