January 2009 - Plugins: WordPress Plugins Podcast

Plugins 005 – Google XML Sitemaps

Today we’re covering the Google XML Sitemaps plugin to generate valid site maps for popular search engines such as Google, MSN Search, Yahoo and Ask.com to process.

Key features include:

Automated regeneration (New and edited posts and pages automatically regenerate sitemaps)
Auto Notify Google, MSN Search, Yahoo and Ask.com when sitemaps are updated
Optional compressed version of sitemap file
Detailed selection of content to be included in Sitemaps (e.g. only posts and static pages)
Customize priority weights based on page type (homepage, archives, static pages, etc..)
Works with WordPress 2.7 (latest version as of this writing)

The plugin is developed by Arne Brachhold. To learn more about the Google XML Sitemaps plugin as well as other plugins developed by Arne, please visit www.arnebrachhold.de.

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CFormsII plugin Currently Not Available at WordPress.org

The CFormsII WordPress plugin is currently not available on wordpress.org/extend/plugins/. The plugin is still available for download from the Delicious Days web site, http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin.

The plugin was removed due to the current license packaged with the plugin. The future versions will be released with the correct license. We are hopeful that the new version will return to the WordPress Plugins directory.

Plugins 004 – CFormsII Custom Forms

Today we’re covering the CFormsII plugin to add contact forms, applications and other custom forms to WordPress.

Key features include:

Complete gamut of field types (radio, checkbox, dropdown, listbox, password, date, etc…)
Auto confirmation Email message
Email admin(s) of form submission
Use forms for blog comments
Integrates with the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) content editor
Multi-page forms
Ability to attach files
Captcha image to prevent SPAM form submissions
Data saved in database exportable (XML, CSV, TAB)
Specify start and/or end dates when forms are available
Works with WordPress 2.7 (latest version as of this writing)

The plugin is developed by Delicious Days. To learn more about CFormsII plugin as well as other plugins developed by Delicious Days, please visit www.deliciousdays.com.

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Plugins 003 – Peters Custom Anti Spam

Today we’re covering the Peter’s Custom Anti-SPAM plugin to combat comment SPAM in WordPress. The plugin adds a Captcha image to confirm that the actual user leaving the comment is a human and not a scripted SPAM bot or comment spamming crawler.

Key features include:

Easy to read customizable Captcha words
Random font styles
Audio option for visually impaired users
Does not require Javascript or web browser cookies
Works with WordPress 2.7 (latest version as of this writing)

The plugin is developed by Peter Keung. To learn more about Peter’s Custom Anti SPAM plugin as well as other plugins developed by Peter on his web site, www.theblog.ca.

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Plugins 002 – 7 Minutes on Blubrry Powerpress Podcasting Plugin

This is a shortened version of episode 1 covering the Blubrry Powerpress podcasting plugin. We will try to keep all episodes under 15 minutes for now on, sorry all. 🙂

Blubrry Powerpress is a lightweight WordPress plugin that adds only the essential features to your WordPress blog to turn it into a podcasting system. Below are some key features.

Easily add podcast episodes to blog posts and pages
Integrated audio/video media player
iTunes RSS tags and album over art
Podcast only RSS feed
iTunes Ping
Media size detection and duration in seconds detection for mp3s
3rd party statistics integration

In addition to the core fetureas above, the plugin has the ability to easily import Podpress episodes and settings so users can easily migrate switch plugins.

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