My Review plugin updated

My review plugin is now at the version 1.2 . It brings a new tag {rw_text} and support for I18N (Internationalization).
The new tag enables you to have a text outside the full review. While it's optional I'm sure some of you will find it useful ;) .

How to use it

{rw_text}
Any text you don't want included in the review
{/rw_text}

The text appears before the review, but you can change its place by modifying the template.

Download the new version from wordpress.org

Category: Plugins
June 7th, 2008 by Mike

Review of the All in One SEO Plugin

The Good

Very user friendly.
It comes translated in quite a few languages.

The Bad

From the utility point of view it's around 90% useless.

Full Review


Starting my Wordpress plugin reviews series is the famous and loved ‘All in one SEO ‘ plugin.

For those who don’t know it yet, this plugin has the objective of improving your blog SEO. In these days SEO is sadly more of a buzz word than an actually working technique but nevertheless every little bit counts.

Basically SEO means that your html contains the relevant tags valued by the search engines. This means the title tag and the headers (the h1,h2,h3 tags) contain the most descriptive keywords. Although there is more than google search, google is what it counts nowadays and google ignores your meta tags. Read the rest of this entry »

Category: Reviews
June 4th, 2008 by Mike

My Review - Wordpress Plugin for Reviewers

Since many people publish reviews on their blogs and I'm going to write a few of my own soon, I thought to make easier their lives (and mine) and thus I wrote a little Wordpress plugin named "My Review" that formats a simple post into a review.

By using some special tags you can improve the overall look and feel of your review, providing a better experience for your readers.

Download here (version 1.2)

Read the rest of this entry »

Category: Plugins
May 30th, 2008 by Mike

Demo for “My Review” Plugin

The Good


Easy to install, you can customize it at your leisure with themes and plugins.
FREE

The Bad


Not very efficient, it uses more resources that it needs to.
You have to install a plugin to benefit from caching.

Full Review

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Rating (out of 10)

Ease of Use

Wordpress is famous for user friendliness but sometimes some not so friendly bugs show their ugly faces.
9

Performance

It performance still needs to be improved by reducing the number of database queries and having the cache system enabled by default etc.
7

Flexibility

Its amazing ability to support so many themes and plugins is overshadowed by a poor documentation.
8

TOTAL

8
Category: Plugins
May 29th, 2008 by Mike

How Fast Is Your Blog?

You want your blog to be fast. Fast running, fast loading and fast getting traffic . You know the benefits of page loading speed already; the problem is how to achieve the highest speed possible.

Most of the tips and guidelines are for geeks (web developers) but, you are not one of them. You don't know all that HTML, Javascript stuff but you want to optimize your blog loading speed.

You can ask a geek, you can hire one or you can do it yourself. Read the rest of this entry »

Category: Tips & Tricks
May 25th, 2008 by Mike