Wordpress Plugin: Alphabetic tag index

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Multi-column Tag Map display a columnized, alphabetical and expandable listing of all tags used in your site. This makes it easier for visitors to quickly search for topics that might intrest them.

This is a plugin that I’ve searched for almost 2 years. Before this plugin, I have used static pages to list tags alphabetically but this was to hard to maintain (on an instance where you have more then 900 tags). Mostly is for Wordpress CMS cases because it targets those users familiar with a certain niche and taxonomies within it, making it easy to locate a certain tag.

Use cases:

  • Music blogs where tags are bands.
  • Blogs about celebrities

In a few days I’ll post a link to a live demo

2009
10/17
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Getting more targeted followers on Twitter

If you have followed the tutorial that I posted here, by now you should have a pretty decent list of followers and most likely you have more than 2000 followers, moving over past the first Twitter limit. But also you might have come to some limits in finding new, targeted followers. Here are 3 tips that will help you move on:

  • Do not focus only on the followers of the your vertical leaders. More important than those, are the people that they follow. This are pretty hard to get persons, but also more valuable so the effort is worth it
  • Use Buzzom to identify people that use your niche keywords on their bio.
  • Use Buzzom to identify people that interact with your vertical leaders. For this, use the people search option and look for @username (where obviously username=the profile of your niche leaders). Those are very important profiles because they have 3 important traits: they are interested in your niche, they are active users and they interact with others from your niche
2009
10/03
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General
Web 2.0
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Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) errors

As I previously mentioned, a few days ago I was testing some new features on Google CSE. Unfortunately nothing worked as expected. I tried using the forums and directly contacting one of the CSE team members with no results. Today, using a new account, I started fresh and everything worked as advertised.

Looks like Google’s Achilles Heel is client support and this doesn’t look like a issue to be fixed soon as Google is betting on crowdsourced support rather than investing in it. Short lesson: if something doesn’t work in Google and is not vital (gmail/adsense/adwords) create a new account and start from scratch

2009
08/17
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YouTube Related Videos Trick

Each youtube video gets on the right side 2 sets of recommandations:

  1. More from: [AccountName]: Videos from the same account
  2. Related videos: Videos with similar characteristics (name tags and so on)

Unless you are a YT partner, the “More from” is going to be collapsed. This means that there is a high probability that any user viewing your video will leave to see an item from “Related videos” element

If you want to keep the user within your account, tag all your videos with a unique tag sequence. For example you can have the same repeating sequence of tags (3-4) and after that add the unique tags for the videos. Doing this will cause the “Related Videos” to show videos also from your account.

  • Upside: once a user gets to one of your videos, the chances that he will see other videos from you are higher
  • Downside: you are giving up on traffic generated by videos from other accounts
2009
08/17
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Social Media
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Wordpress plugins ep.1

I have always recommended (where it was possible) Wordpress as a CMS platform. One of the main reasons is its extensibility and that for almost any task there is a plugin or one can be easily developed. I’m checking daily the Wordpress Plugins section of Wordpress.org and you can see my favorite plugins on del.icio.us. From today, I’m going to post them here too.

WP Download Codes

From developer:

The plugin enables to generation and management of download codes for .zip files.

Applications:

  • Use it for any limited downloads that you might have on your WP based website (EX: release a beta software to a limited number of users)

Booking Calendar

From developer:

Using this plugin, you can add booking service to your site. Your site visitors can make booking of one or several days. Its can be interesting for hotel reservation service, rental service or any other service, where is needed making reservation at specific dates.

2009
08/16
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