Support movement to phase out Internet Explorer 6, with Use Stop Living in the Past plugin

Stop Living in the Past is Wordpress plugin to promote users to upgrade their  Internet Explorer 6 to the current version. This is the brainchild of web designer, Morten of designisphilosophy who has tired dealing with IE6, in order to make his work compatible and work correctly on this obsolete web browser.

The plugin works by displaying message on the screen shot below, on top of your website, whenever visitors coming to your site is using IE6. No other modification required after this plugin activated.

warninggrab Support movement to phase out Internet Explorer 6, with Use Stop Living in the Past plugin

While home users might already moved to the latest version of Internet Explorer including IE8, when they purchase new system or reading about it on the net, Internet Explorer 6 is still installed and widely used in machines belong to large companies.

Users are without an admin right, or prevented from upgrading the web browser by IT admin.  The incompatibility and lack of fund to test their software, are often stated as the reason, why they reluctant to move to the latest version.

Click here to installed the plugin, or install it from your Wordpress dashboard.

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Wordpress Plugin : Google Friend Connect for easy commenting

Google Friend Connect plugin for Wordpress is plugin that allow user easily leaving comments on any blog that using this plugin.

friend connect plugin Wordpress Plugin : Google Friend Connect for easy commentingInstead of traditional way that need you to fill up your name and email, Google Friend Connect simplify it, by utilizing existing Google, Yahoo, AIM, or OpenID account to authenticate you.

If you see any ‘Sign In’ button like this, with just single click, you’re authenticated to leave comments on that blog.

If you familiar with Facebook Connect, this plugin is working exactly the same way.

Before you can use this plugin, you have to install Google Friend Connect. You can get similar instruction here.

First, install Friend Connect and get your Site ID

see InstallFriendConnect for details.

Then, install the plugin

This plugin also available for phpBB and Drupal. Download here.

Wordpress plugin: GooseGrade allows readers to correct your posts

My English is far from perfect. I can’t hardly write a post in less than 30 minutes. There are ‘holes’ here and there needs patch up. I still need someone to proof read my post, but due to the speed of writing I’m ‘in’ now, with 4-7 posts in a day, my proof reader (my wife) is lagging far behind.  So having stumbled this plugin yesterday,  I felt this is really what I need. grade this Wordpress plugin: GooseGrade allows readers to correct your posts

GooseGrade plugin allow readers to notify webmaster with any grammatical error, typo error, or other English-related error on your post. After plugin installated, there will be ‘Grade this‘ button  on each post. If readers notice any mistake on the post, to correct it, clicking this button will pop out a new windows, for editing purpose.

To correct it, highlight the incorrect sentence,  which will then automatically appear on that windows. Make correction and save it. Please note that , registration is required before readers be able to post any correction.

As for Webmaster, they can view the corrections on the blog’s dashboard. By approving the correction, the error part will be replaced , or there is also option to decline the suggested correction. Watch the video below to get to get better understanding how this plugin works.

goosegrade plugin1 Wordpress plugin: GooseGrade allows readers to correct your posts

While certainly, this is one such brilliant idea, but my concern is on the number of readers that willing to register in order to use this feature. Unless the reader is blogger too, that interested to with this plugin, I have feeling that, it is hard for normal visitors to register solely for the purpose of post any correction.

Fewer users will defeat the plugin’s main objective to let ‘readers to become citizen editors’. Allowing unregistered user will probably pose security threat to that blog as well as that plugin itself.  So the best way is, to integrate it with open id, facebook connect or Google Friend Connect , but I’m very well aware that, this means more works to be done.

Next time, if you come across any typo,grammatical error here, do let me know, okey.

Sphinx powering Wordpress Plugin Directory’s search function

Wordpress plugin directory got little touch up at the back end side, few days back. The search function is being polished with the introduction of Sphinx. It is said now returning better and more relevant search result. Externally, it still maintain similar looks though, but with better performance and relevancy, who would arguing it?

Btw, the search box is pulling the key phrase cache from the Firefox search bar. For greater user experience, it would be better to suggest key phrase as we type, instead.

plugin search Sphinx powering Wordpress Plugin Directorys search function

Wordpress plugin: Canonical URL tag

Last week, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft has together introduced a new tag, called ‘Canonical‘  to help clearing duplicate URLs. What is Canonical Tag? The basic principal is to tell search engines, the preferred URL on your site, and telling them out of tonnes of URL pointing to certain web pages on your website, which URL should be indexed.

The tag should looks like this, installed on each of your web page’s <header> section.

<link rel=”canonical” href=”http://example.com/page.html”/>

I have to read the first post that I come across to, many times before I pretty much understand how it works and what for. I know it is going to be quite confusing initially. So you should read Joost De Valk’s post, how he illustrate this tag to his readers.

He in fact has created Canonical URL plugin for Wordpress, Magento and Moveable as well, which will add the tag automatically at your <header> section.

If you still confuse, you might as well take a look at Matt Cutt’s presentation.