SRG Clean Archives Plugins

I used this plugin in this blog (http://fatihsyuhud.com/archives/).

Plugins name: SRG Clean Archives
Downloads:

(a) Current version: 4.3 Supports  (WordPress version 2.5.x and 2.6.x only).

(b) Version: 4.2 (Supports WordPress versions 2.1.x thru 2.3).

How to Install:

1. After unzip, put it in plugins directory –/wp-content/plugins/put-here
2. Creating Archive Page
(i) Create a page in wordpress. In my case, I create page named “Archives”.
(ii) In the Page Content section click “HTML” (NOT Visual) first and add the following code:
<!–srg_clean_archives–>
3.Publish the Page. Done.

Further reading and more alternate position see here.

About WP Super Cache Plugins

Name of Plugins: WP Super Cache
Version: 0.8.8
Compatibility: Wordpress 2.7 and below
Author: Donncha O Caoimh
Download: Download the plugins here for free (zip file)
How to install: See installation guide here for details.

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

However, because a user’s details are displayed in the comment form after they leave a comment, the plugin will only serve static html files to:

1. Users who are not logged in.
2. Users who have not left a comment on your blog.
3. Or users who have not viewed a password protected post.

The good news is that probably more than 99% of your visitors don’t do any of the above! Those users who don’t see the static files will still benefit because they will see regular WP-Cache cached files and your server won’t be as busy as before. This plugin should help your server cope with a front page appearance on digg.com or other social networking site.

Download here.

Google XML Sitemaps Plugins

Name of Plugins: Google XML Sitemaps

Author: Arne Brachhold

Description and functionality: This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

Version: 3.1.2 (the latest, compatible with Wordpress 2.7)

Download: Download the plugins here.

How to Install:

1. Upload the folder into plugins directory i.e. ../public_html/wp-content/plugins/–puthere–

2. Create two blank files in notepad. First save it as: sitemap.xml. The second save it as: sitemap.xml.gz.

3. Upload the two blank files into wordpress directory where index.php is. For example, in this blog, I put both files in ../public_html/-puthere-

4. Using FTP (preferably Filezilla), righ-click the two files one by one –> File Attributes –> make it 666 -> Click OK.

5. Activate the plugin at the wordpress plugin administration page (you need to login to your wordpress admin) Plugins -> Sitemap XML -> Activate ->click.

6. Open the plugin configuration page, which is located under Settings (for WP 2.7) -> XML-Sitemap and build the sitemap the first time. The quickest way is just click the “Click here” links at the top of sitemap admin setting (see picture #1) and let all default settings. Do the changes later if you are not satisfied with the default ones.

If activation goes well, there’ll be a message like

“Result of the last build process, started on (example) September 7, 2009 7:18 pm.
Google was successfully notified about the changes…” (see screenshot #2)

7. Done.

Notes: your sitemap is successfully built if you can see the file in websiteurl.com/sitemap.xml. Example, you can see the sitemap of this blog here: http://fatihsyuhud.com/sitemap.xml

Screenshot 1 Sitemap plugins activated, but it has not been built

google sitemap plugins

Screenshot 2: Sitemap has been built

google sitemap plugins after it was built

Further reading: Blogging Tips and Tutorials

Search Term Tagging Plugins

Update 16 June 2009:

Purwedi Kurniawan has made the upgrade version of this plugins called Search Term Tagging 2. It’s better and worth a try.

Here’s the feature:

* Few bug fix,
* No direct queries to the database, a keyword will not stored twice into database
* Add a limit of 30 keywords, or according to user settings
* Sort the keywords, newest keyword shown first
* Auto-create links to corresponding blog post
* Add Bing search engine to the search engine list
* Add a WordPress Admin page to ease the user, the option setting currently available: Number of maximum keywords; Header template; Options to add a keyword list automatically at the bottom of the article or manually placed by user.

* Free Download here. and follow the installation instruction here.

Thanks to Purwedi for the good upgrade.  :) I do hope, however, that there’s an option to set the search term result into hyperlink and/or plain text.

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Name of plugins: Search Term Tagging
Author: James Asher
Functionality: if a user searches for Keyword XYZ on Google or other search engines and ultimately visits one of the blog entries, that blog entry will have the Keyword XYZ added to its tag list
Download: Download here
Bugs fixed version by Cosa Aranda: Download here or here (zip file) (recommended).

How to install (assuming you use the bugs fixed version). If using the original version see here:

1. After unzipping the file (for bugs fixed version), upload it into plugins directory i.e. public_html/wp-content/plugins/–puthere–
2. Activate the plugin in Plugin Admin.
3. Add the following code where you want the incoming search-term-tagging to appear. Hint: in single.php or comments.php


<?php
/* Search Term Tagging Plugin */
echo "<div id=\"searchTermTagging\">";
echo stt_terms_list();
echo "</div>";
?>

Problems:

This plugins is nice. It really is able to increase your traffic. The problem is we cannot set or limit the maximum query result, say, 40 result maximum like bstat does.

Anyone who can  limit the maximum result and bundling the same result into one would make this plugins even better.

Related posts:

Bstat Search Term Tagging Plugins

Name of plugins: Top incoming search terms for this post – Plugin
Adapted from: bstat plugins
Rerwitten and bugs fixed by: Techbuzz
Functionality: Showing incoming search term tagging a user typed into a search engine to find your site. It will certainly add to your SEO performance, your website/blog visibility to search engine and thus your traffic.
Download: Download the zip file here.

How to install:

1. Upload bStat.php to plugins folder i.e. ../public_html/wp-content/plugins/–puthere–

2. It is essential that bstat_hitit be activated once (and only once) for every page load. In most themes (including the default and classic), it works perfectly when added to the bottom of the footer.php file.


<?php // this is the part that makes the bstats plugin work...
global $id;
if (!is_single()) $id = 0;
bstat_hitit($id, "read");
?>

3. Insert the following piece of code in your single.php


<? if (function_exists("bstat_refsforpost")) { ?>
<b>Top incoming search terms for this post</b>
<ul><?php bstat_refsforpost($id, "&nbsp", "&nbsp"); ?></ul>
<? } ?>

Notes: Installation guide above is also mentioned in the Read Me after you unzip the file.

Further reading: Blogging Tips and Tutorials

Related Post Plugins

Bad news, the Related Posts plugin I have installed and used here in this blog has to be deactivated and deleted. That’s what my hosting provider asked me to do. They said:

Please be informed that one of wordpress plugin (Related Post) in fatihsyuhud.com account has caused server high load, this can cause disturbance to the particular server. We hope your cooperation to deactivate and delete the plugin within three days.

In another word if I don’t deactivate it, my account may be suspended. So, you won’t see the Related Post again below any posting from today on.

While deactivating the plugins, I also asked my webhosting provider if they know any good related post plugin which is not consuming much to the server–something like Related Post using ajax? They said in negative.

Anyone have an idea where to find a light Related Post plugin? Oh btw, I used Related Post 2.0 by Wasabi and Mike Lu

Last but not least, the server high load occurs when your traffic is high. So, it’s ok to use the plugin if you haven’t reach a certain amount of traffic that will cause the server high load. You’ll know it when it comes.

From now on, until I find a light “Related Post” plugin, I will use Feedjit Recommended Reading in place of Related Post 2.0 plugin. It’s better than not at all.

The Plugins

Here are the lists of Related Posts plugins you may want to have a try if you have a self-hosted wordpress blog:

All in One SEO Pack Plugins

SEO Pack PluginsThis plugins seem good and promising both for newbie and oldies wordpress blogger alike. If it means what it says, the plugins really what any bloggers are looking for: a SEO tools which aint require you to sweat it out. Just install it, activate it and wait for the result.

Interested? Download it here.
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