Plugins News & Articles

According to WordPress, there are 69,774,073 websites in the world using its platform. Recently, it surveyed its community to better understand what they love, what they hate, and what they want to see in 2012.

Wish you could actively rate and share opinions about people in the news? SendLove.to aims to do just that (and much more) with its new people-polling platform that launched today.

James Dimick, a Web developer at WordPress (news, site), says, "When it comes to Search Engine Optimization, there are a slew of options out there. Some good and some not so good."

We're inclined to agree. Thankfully, Dimick's got your back. His recent list of what he feels is the cream of the crop when it comes to SEO plugins for WordPress is, as far as we can tell, pretty thorough. Here's his top 5, which range from full packages to simple solutions:

The new version of SamePage (news, site) adds a host of features designed for both the remote employee and those who live on their company intranet.

dotCMS (news, site) has been on the plugin tip for some months now. In fact, the last time we covered the open source/enterprise CMS they were touting their new plugin architecture, which allowed modular development, more extensibility and user contributions.

This time around the platform is opening up realms of new coding possibilities by way of a scripting plugin. The tool allows users to execute server side code directly from Velocity in PHP, Ruby, Python, Groovy, and Javascript.

When Palm’s Pre phone was finally unveiled at January’s Consumer Electronic Association’s (CEA) bash earlier this year, everyone knew it was going to create a stir.

With it, Palm introduced some very cool hardware and a new operating system that looks like it will be Palm's platform for mobile devices for the foreseeable future: webOS.

Now, with the phone on general release, Alex King of Crowd Favorite, a prodigious developer of WordPress (news, site) plug-ins, has released a new edition of his WordPress Mobile Edition plug-in that will allow Pre users with WordPress blogs to update and edit the blogs using Pre.

Apart from the added support for the webOS operating system -- a Linux-based platform which leverages web standards for development – there are also a couple of other updates.

For one, it fixes a CSS bug that was referencing a non-existent image. For another it includes a new version of Carrington Mobile, the content management system theme framework for WordPress. This also includes updated README files and version 2.3 of the core Carrington framework.

If you have a Pre and a WordPress blog you can download the plug-in from Alex King’s WordPress plug-ins page.

Remember when WordPress (news, site) was like, Hey guys! Check out my new multilingual support, because on top of a being *the* most popular blogging platform in all the land, I’m also on the way to being a complete content management cure-all!

Ok, WordPress didn’t actually say that. But the team behind WPML, the mega-plugin for multilingual functionality within Wordpress, no doubt has intentions along those lines. Back with more finesse to impress, OnTheGoSystems has released what they’re calling a “major update” to WPML, which reportedly integrates human translation services.

Well, well, well, it appears as though WordPress fanboys and fangirls are even more bent on making the popular platform a complete Content Management cure-all than we initially thought.

Though it’s no secret that additions and plugins are always being built for the blogging tool, this time we've been hit closer to home. WPML, a mega-plugin written by OnTheGoSystems, aims to boost WordPress from simple blogging platform into the realm of proper Web Content Management Systems. The method? Multilingual support.

dotCMS (news, site), an open source J2EE/Java Web CMS, released a new version -- v1.7. The last time we saw an update was back last year, when 1.6.5 came out.

What’s new and exciting in 1.7? The answer is -- plenty. Should you jump on the dotCMS train? Read on, and then decide.

Callas software, specialists in software for the analysis and processing of PDF files, released an update for their pdfToolbox 4 plug-in that will make pdfToolbox Server 4 available for purchase on October 27th.

Thankfully, the all-in-one PDF production tool pdfToolbox Server 4 is no longer tailored for prepress users. That means you can know almost nothing and still be able to complete common to eclectic tasks in next to no time!

Mozilla, the same entity that is responsible for providing us with the Firefox Web browser, is expanding Firefox’s wide appeal by offering users the ability to interact and control the browser with a linguistic user interface project called Ubiquity. The point of this project is to allow users to create on-the-fly mashups.

Video has quickly become one of the fastest growing media formats on the Internet, and that seems like a logical thing to occur. It makes sense that a company would attempt to integrate an interactive video solution into WordPress and Kaltura is the first solution that we’ve seen to address this. It is a decent try, but it is far from perfect.

It wasn’t that long ago that we brought you an exclusive view of 7 really Superfly Plugins for Wordpress. But low and behold our ever resourceful colleague John appears to have missed a couple key ones. Now he said we could call him a dufus..but I don’t know…

Instead, we offer up 4 more that should whet your appetite for WordPress, particularly around marketing capabilities. Just for fun, we’ll give you the other seven as a reminder to John to get with the program.

So you’re in the web provision game, and you’re too much of a big shot to use WordPress, right?
If you’re doing multi-user, community-based, advanced website features then I can understand that. For a pretty-boy website and a heavily branded product, you don’t want WordPress. If you’re building the next Facebook, or setting up a web solution for The New York Times, this is not the tool you need.

But if you are doing a bit of blogging and want to put in a few ads here and there, or run a newsletter, a RSS feed, a poll and an occasional blogcast, then WordPress is perfect.
It’s low-maintenance, set-up is quick, updating and customizing is a snap, and non-techies will find the back-end content management intuitive and hassle-free.

But the best thing about WordPress, as everyone knows, is the sheer weight and quality of plugins to extend this cuddly Micro CMS. Here’s a few of the best.

Following closely in the footsteps of Movable Type 4, which likes to think of itself as less of a blog platform than a harmonious collective of plugins, New Zealand-based Silverstripe has released a blog module with a “drag n’ drop widget system.”

Why use one word when five will do?