Plugins
Twitter avatars inside your WordPress comments
Ricardo Sousa, who writes for Smashing Magazine created a great plugin called Twittar.
This plugin will use someones Twitter Gravatar if their email address is not connected with a Gravatar.
For more info check out the full post at Twitter Avatars in Comments: A WordPress plugin
Image credit: Ricardo Sousa
Most all WordPress theme’s use a a simple search form to search your site. But what it you wanted to search your whole site and not just your posts.
Search Unleashed comes into the picture. Search Unleashed performs searches across all data, including that added by plugins.
Some features of this plugin are:
- Full text search with wildcards and logical operations
- Search posts, pages, comments, titles, URLs, tags, and meta-data (all configurable)
- Search data after it has been processed by plugins, not before
- Search highlighting of all searches, including titles and comments
- Search highlighting of incoming searches from Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, Baidu, and Sogou
- Search results show contextual search information, not just a post excerpt
- Record search phrases and display in a log
- Exclude specific posts and pages from results
- Compatible with WP-Cache
- Supports WordPress 2.0.5 through to 2.7
- No changes required to your theme
The guys from Instinct whom released the E-Commerce Plugin have release a new plugin today. Dan Milward even went as far as to announce that this plugin was a gift for Matt Mullenweg, seeing how today is his 25th birthday.
The plugin: WordPress Wiki.
Head over to Instinct’s site and check it out.
For those looking for a way to optimize your search results on your WordPress blog. You may want to check out the following plugin. Goolge Highlight
It will highlight or colorize the background of any letter or word that you search for. Head over to the site to see it, or do a search on this site and see it in action.
I want to update: I am going to follow up with at least three more great tricks and plugins you can use to help search you WordPress blog.
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Alex Vazquez
February 18, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I needed this!
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frosty
February 18, 2009 at 1:02 pm
It’s an awesome plugin! Shows peoples gravatar from twitter if they don’t have one.
Alex Vazquez
February 18, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Where do I put the:
after activating Twittar plugin?
I tried to put it inside comments.php but it just gives me errors 🙁
Alex Vazquez
February 18, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Yea its awesome but where do I put the script inside of comments.php, what line?
Thank you.
frosty
February 18, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Hey Alex,
Check out this post: adding twittar plugin to WordPress with comment threading