There is no doubt that the All In One SEO Pack for WordPress is the ultimate SEO Plugin that you have been waiting for. The plugin has undergone many updates since I first blogged about the benefits of this plugin in a previous post and it just keeps on getting better and better!

I love it!

Because this plugin has been updated so often, there has been a small bit of confusion about the exact download location for it. The latest version of the plugin can be downloaded from here, and it is well worth checking the creators blog page here; All In One SEO Pack for WordPress, which features the latest news about updated versions.

Video Tutorial

And now Tubetorial has just released a new All In One SEO Pack Video Tutorial about this great plugin. The video is Part 1 of a brand new 7-Part series called “7 Must Have Killer Plugins”. I would definitely agreed that the All In One SEO Pack should be first and the tutorial is sure to be of use to those that may be discovering this plugin for the first time, or even those that have been using it for a while and would just like to see what new features have been added recently. A great tutorial and I’m already looking forward to the other 6 videos in this series.

The Tubetorial All In SEO Pack Video Tutorial can be viewed here.

Plugin Download

To download the latest version of the All in One SEO Pack plugin please visit here.

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The Sitemap Generator Plugin by DagonDesign.com has just been updated to Version 3.01 and is a great addition to any blog because it creates a genuine sitemap for your entire WordPress powered site. This is not just another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator which is highly customizable from the options page in your WordPress admin panel.

This Plugin has many features built into it such as; support for multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, multiple-page generation with navigation, permalink support, choose what order to list items in, show comment counts and/or post dates, and lots more.

Requirements

The updated Sitemap Generator Plugin plugin requires WordPress 2.1 or later.

Download

The Sitemap Generator Plugin V3.01 can be downloaded here.

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This is a fantastic new plugin for Wordpress which does a great job of optimizing your blog for the search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo.

The plugin does several things at once in order to do the Search Engine Optimization (’SEO’ for short) for your Wordpress blog;

The plugin optimizes all your blog titles for you. Post titles are hugely important for SEO and with this plugin these will be re-written on the fly, with the actual post title coming first, then your blog name. E.g. the post title for this post will become something like ‘All In One SEO Plugin | Blogcarta.com’ instead of the default method of having the blog title first and the post title second, ‘Blogcarta.com | All In One SEO Plugin‘. This also means there will be no more Archive, etc, in your title.

Secondly, categories for a post will get output as Meta keywords. Since posts are already tagged with categories they will be automatically added as Meta keywords. Additional keywords can be added in the Write Post page in the admin area. Also with this plugin post excerpts will become the Meta description for the post.

Thirdly, pages that are just fillers (category pages etc.) will automatically get a content=”noindex,follow” to avoid the duplicate content issue in the search engines.

This is a very effective plugin and well worth adding to your blog. It’s simply a matter of uploading the plugin and activating it to give your blog a great SEO boost.

Download

To download the All In One SEO Pack visit; http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack/

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The developers of WordPress have just released a new WordPress Plugin Directory where you can download all the plugins that have been submitted to the development plugin site wp-plugins.org, all from one place!

This new extend section of Wordpress.org features a complete Plugins Directory where you can browse, download, rate and comment on all of your favorite plugins. The home page has a

• Featured Plugin section,
• Most Popular Plugin section,
• Newest Plugins section and also a
• Recently Added plugins section.

There is also a very cool Most Popular Tags section which shows the top plugins per section (tag) at this very moment. These tags are very revealing as it clearly illustrates the popularity of Skype and of the social networking aspect of Wordpress blogging. Some of the current Popular Tags include; skype plugins, sociable plugins, digg buttons and interestingly, mobilerss plugins.

I highly recommend that you check out the WordPress Plugin Directory.

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I just came across a nice new plugin, via the JohnTP.com blog, for adding Related Posts onto your Feed. The Related Posts (or Entries) are automatically added to your full text RSS feed. So now people that use Feed readers will now see a list of related posts just below your normal feed, just like they would see if they were visiting your actual website, and all just by activating this cool WordPress plugin!

Note: The plugin requires that you have the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin or the Wasabi Related Posts plugin installed and activated.

This new plugin is being developed by Solo Technology, and looks set to be an instant hit. There are numerous advantages to having related posts appearing within your RSS feed. It will certainly help you to get your feed readers to visit your blog more often, and almost definitely increase your blog pageviews. Future versions of this plugin are sure to enhance your RSS feed further. It is well worth getting ahead of the pack on this one and checking out this plugin.

Download

The Add Related Posts To Your Feed plugin can be downloaded here.

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A new version of the WordPress Database Backup Plugin has been released. This V2 Version works great in conjuction with the latest WordPress 2.1 version and gives you the ability to schedule automatic backups of your WordPress database either hourly, daily, or weekly and also with the ability to have the DB backup file emailed to an email address of your choice, automatically!

Once installed there are several new options under the Manage/Backup menu in your Wordpress admin panel. The top section of the Backup screen is for doing immediate backups while the bottom section is for scheduling automatic backups. The created backup will be in the form of a SQL script file that contains all the data of your blog as well as the proper commands to restore it. To restore the data you will need to execute the SQL on your MySQL database, using PHPMyAdmin, which will recreate the tables and repopulate the data into the proper fields.

The new automatic backup feature makes this a must-have plugin to have on your blog. Check it out.

Download: WordPress Database Backup Plugin

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This is a very simple way to distinguish your Blog from everyone elses and that is by having a Favicon appear next to the URL in many browsers such as FireFox or Internet Explorer. The great thing about this is that it takes just a minute or two to setup.

About Favicons

The browsers of today have a facility where if someone visits or bookmarks your website an icon or small picture can be associated with that particular website and bookmark. Browsers try to obtain that icon by requesting for ‘favicon.ico‘ from the root directory of your website. When the favicon.ico file is found, the icon will be displayed beside the web address in the browser address bar and beside the link name in your Favorites/Bookmarks menu. Favicons are usually 16 x 16 pixels or 32 x 32 pixels in size.

Getting A Favicon

There are many online resources for obtaining Favicons, but the easiest way is to create one yourself by visiting the Favicon From Pics site. With this online tool you simply upload any picture and it will be automatically converted to the appropriate size along with additional options such as scrolling text and animated pictures. I prefer to just use the static icon. The file containing the favicon.ico can be downloaded to your desktop.

Favicon Plugin

The Wordpress plugin that is used to automatically show the Favicon can be found at Favicon Head. Simply download the plugin, upload to the plugins folder and activate. Next upload the created ‘favicon.ico‘ to the root directory of your blog and that’s it!

The Favicon should appear the next time you visit your blog. Sometimes it can takes a few browser refreshs for the Favicon to appear and if at first you do not see the Favicon, then click CTRL+F5 on your keyboard to do a hard refresh.

Download

Favicon Head Plugin

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The PayPal Donate Plugin is a nice WordPress plugin which can be used to insert a PayPal Donate Button in your WordPress sidebar without you needing to mess with any HTML code. It allows visitors of your site to make a donation or contribution via PayPal, the most popular and largest online payment processing service.

PayPal Donate Plugin

The PayPal Donate Plugin adds a small PayPal Donation form on your sidebar. In order to use this plugin with Widget-Ready Wordpress Themes, you will need to download the PayPal Donate Widget also. The settings for this plugin can be changed via your blog options page.

How To Install The PayPal Donate Plugin & Widget

• Download PayPal Donate Plugin for WordPress.
• Download PayPal Donate Widget
• Extract the Plugin zip file into your wp-content/plugins/ folder
• Extract The Widget zip and upload paypalwidget.php to your /wp-content/plugins/widget/ directory
• Activate the plugin from inside WordPress (Plugins tab).
• Enter your details in the Options page (make sure you do this)
• Drag the PayPal Donate Support widget to your sidebar from inside Themes/Sidebar Widgets
• Click the Widget configuration icon and enter a title and backlink option.

Options Page Settings

• PayPal Email Address (Required)
• Currency
• Donation Reference
• Return URL
• Cancelled URL
• Choice of buttons (the ones in use by PayPal)

Plugin Requirements

• PayPal account.
• WordPress 2.0+
• WordPress Sidebar Widgets Plugin.
• PayPal Donate Plugin for WordPress.

Download

• PayPal Donate Plugin
• PayPal Donate Widget

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Live is a nice WordPress plugin by HeadZoo.com that lets you watch your website activity and various website stats in real time. You can watch as people are visiting your pages, leaving comments and grabbing your RSS feeds.

The Live plugin site activity display is similar to that of Digg Spy. Each page hit, RSS hit, and comment slowly scrolls in the admin area in a smooth motion. It also includes a hit graph that dynamically shows you how much traffic your site is getting over a period of time.

You can download the latest 0.4.1 version of the Live Plugin now from the download page.

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If you would like to show video on your blog in the style of Google Video or YouTube then the new Wordpress plugin WordTube by Alex Rabe is for you. Alex has done a great job in creating this plugin as it makes the process of adding and managing media files such as Videos, MP3s and even pictures very easy. This plugin can transform your blog into a complete Media Center if you wanted to!

WordTube supports the following;

• streaming Video formats .flv and .swf,
• sound files such as MP3
• and also JPG, GIF or PNG picture files.

With WordTube activated in your plugins admin area, you simply insert the tag [MEDIA=ID] into your blog to have it displayed. You can also add a playlist of files when you use the [MYPLAYLIST] tag. You don’t need to change the WYSIWYG mode or have special HTML knowledge to insert such a tag. You can show a single media file (i.e. a flv video) or a playlist of all your media files.

How To Encode A Flash Video

There are several ways to encode your videos so that the can be streamed using the WordTube plugin. You can use the Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash Video Encoder (included in the Stanard installation) or the free version of RIVA FLV Encoder. It’s really easy to encode your Mpeg,Avi or whatever into a flash video (the FLV format).

Installation

Unpack the zip file and upload the folder to your Wordpress plugins folder. You will also need the free (for personal use) Flash Media Player plugin from Jeroen Wijering. Download the player from the website and upload the file mediaplayer.swf into the WordTube plugin folder. If you would like to have the Equalizer displayed for MP3s then download the Flash MP3 Player as well. The plugins can now be activated.

Uploading Media Files

You can upload your media files via the Manage->Media Center Upload form or you can manually upload to your blog and select the URL to the file. The file you want to play doesn’t need to be on your server. Note for streaming videos; The Flash player will not show a thumbnail preview so you will need to upload a image thumbnail file. After uploading you can insert the tag [MEDIA=ID] or you show the playlist with the tag [MYPLAYLIST] in your blog.

Download

To have your blog transformed into a very flexible Media Center using the WordTube Wordpress plugin please visit the following sites to download the required plugins;

• WordTube Plugin by Alex Rabe.
• Flash Media Player and Flash MP3 Player by Jeroen Wijering

Have Fun!!

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