Google Analytics for Wordpress

This is the first beta release of a WordPress plugin that can add Google Analytics to your website without you needing to code one single set of ’s.

I have it running on this site and it seems to be working just fine so far.

This site has a whole host of useful plugins. Take a look at Headzoo Products.

The plugins include aLinks, Edit N Place, Live, Flickr Spinnr, Net Bible, Post Tools, Create N Place, Digg Badge and WP Cheatsheets.

From the authors own site:

aLinks is a free WordPress plugin that takes a set of phrases you commonly use and turns them into links whenever you include them in a post, but really it’s much more than that!

Since the plugin was first released in August 2005, it’s been downloaded over 10,000 times, and many successful
bloggers are using aLinks to turn their blogs into money making machines. How? By using aLinks to effortlessly
create affiliate links within their blog posts.

Thanks Headzoo

After building WP Shop I realised that this whole venture could grow and hence the title “Small Business Software”.

Take a look at the roadmap but suffice to say that I run a small business and also build websites for small businesses so I am hoping that this plugin will help my small business and benefit others. I am also hoping that the plugin will enable developers to offer more than just websites!

Over to you. Do you have any ideas or suggestions for further implemetations? Comment and suggest please.

The Roadmap
Must haves:
- get WPShop running stable in Wordpress 2.0.x (I’m currently running 2.0.4, and have problems with the installation)
- enable Paypal payment Gateway

Nice to haves:
- WPShop running stable in Wordpress 1.5.x (not tested yet)
- debugging of existing, non-critial bugs
- Reduce number of generated pages

Demarcation criteria (do you know a better word? This is “stuff not to be done right now”)
- prepare plug-in for other payment gateways.
- namespace and incompatibility tests with other than the default plugins of

Wordpress 2.0.4 (akismet, dbbackup and hello dolly)
- include shop urls in url-rewrite procedure (we haven’t talked about this yet, but I’d be very interested to do this. Helps search rankings and makes
urls more readable)
- preparing a wordpress release of the shop as a package.
- Extend the plugin to store customer details.
- Extend the plugin to include the facility to send mailouts.
- Extend the plugin to encompass stock control.
- Extend the plugin to encompass customer/supplier billing and contact details etc.

To get a tagging simple installed and running is something I dream about. Ok that sounds a bit sad really but I odn’t actually dream about it all day long! A good tagging system is a major benefit to a website and seo work, and so is important. So happening on this plugin was good news. Does it work? Well yes it does. I installed it and got it working immediately. No problems configuring or even understanding how the plugin works. I have used both Jerome’s and UTW plugins and they are just not as polished. Install and use this plugin you will be impressed!

From the authors website comes this:

The two mostly used tagging plugins are the Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) and Jerome’s Keywords.

I think most people use UTW, however especially its performance has been criticized in the past. Also, it does not provide a auto-complete type-ahead drop-down menu when tagging posts but it always displays all tags of the entire Wordpress installation which can be quite annoying if you have really many tags.

Jerome’s Keywords is unfortunately still in beta and it seems that the project will not be continued.

With Simple Tagging Plugin, I’ve coded another tagging plugin for Wordpress which is based on Jerome’s Keywords plugin and can import all your tags from UTW or Jerome.

My thanks to Michael.

iMP Links is a wordpress plugin that displayed your link collection from in two columns without table. Using unordered list with CSS styling. In the top of link collection there is a category jumper to make your collection is easy to find. You can also exlude many category if you want. Manage all your links via wordpress admin panel at link manager (blogroll in wordpress 2.1) section.

Wordpress Survey Plugin

The SurveyGizmo plugin for WordPress gives you the best of both worlds. Use SurveyGizmo to build powerful, sophisticated and custom styled surveys, but stay in WordPress to monitor responses. The plugin also makes it easy to quickly edit, preview, or grab your publishing links.

Google Analytics for Wordpress

This is the first beta release of a WordPress plugin that can add Google Analytics to your website without you needing to code one single set of ’s.

I have it running on this site and it seems to be working just fine so far.

WordPress-to-WordPress Import

I know there are quite a lot of folks who have wanted to merge WordPress blogs or in one way or another import from one blog into another. The feature is coming in the next major build of WordPress and is already in place on WordPress.com blog. Trust me. But for now, I have wrapped that code into a plugin. I’ve already merged two blogs and there are other reasons I need this as well. It works. I have not had a lot of other extensive testing, but for me it works.

This site has a whole host of useful plugins. Take a look at Headzoo Products.

The plugins include aLinks, Edit N Place, Live, Flickr Spinnr, Net Bible, Post Tools, Create N Place, Digg Badge and WP Cheatsheets.

From the authors own site:

aLinks is a free WordPress plugin that takes a set of phrases you commonly use and turns them into links whenever you include them in a post, but really it’s much more than that!

Since the plugin was first released in August 2005, it’s been downloaded over 10,000 times, and many successful
bloggers are using aLinks to turn their blogs into money making machines. How? By using aLinks to effortlessly
create affiliate links within their blog posts.

Thanks Headzoo

Looking for some very good Wordpress themes? Then look no further than Webgazette. These themes are brimming over with customisation options. They look good as well despite having a simplicity to them.

Ainslee Johnson is the site owner and developer of the themes and is a hugely helpful guy. Don’t hesitate to ask his help.