Vista l’entusiasmo con cui avete apprezzato la prima release di WordPress plugin mi sono attivato per segnalarvi alcuni nuovi strumenti per ottimizzare la stupenda piattaforma WordPress. Iniaziamo con un compressore JS in grado di comprimere e accorpare i vari JS utilizzati nel Blog per effetti vari, come ad esempio il Light Box.

Si chiama WP JS compressed e dal pannello di amministrazione vi da l’opzione di applicare la compressione, generando un file GZIP per ogni gruppo, di vedere la compressione ottenuta e i tipi di file ottimizzati. Reputo che ne valga la pena di provarlo, anche se consiglio di fare un bel Backup del tutto prima di attuare qualunque azione.

Si chiama Download monitor e vi permette di monitorare appunto i vari file presenti nel vostro Blog al quale date un link per lo scaricamento, come .zip, .rar etc. Amministrabile dall’intefaccia amministratore, presenta un comodo report dello status dei download e altre features. Comodo e da provare.

My Top Commentators per tutti gli amanti delle statistiche; in questo caso se siete curiosi di vedere e sapere chi sono i vostri Commentatori di fiducia o semplicemente ordinare i vari Commenti per giorno o mese vi consiglio di utilizzare questo simpatico Plugin. lo stesso inotre vi permette di filtrare anche per Commentatore e dunque di eliminare o modificare i Commenti dello stesso, risparmiando un bel po di tempo. Consigliato.

Non si tratta di un vero plugin, ma di una bella guida per glia amanti, come il mio collega Spai dell’indicizzazione dei contenuti del vostro sito. Di seguito riporto il testo estratto da un articolo che menzionava il tutto; facile da capire “Joast has written a beginner’s guide to WordPress SEO. You can find all different SEO articles fall into one big piece and become this final guide to WordPress SEO. It covers quite a lot topics from the basic technical optimization to advanced technical optimization and even off site blog SEO. And the WordPress platform evolve he will keep this article up to date with best practices.”

Skribit provides bloggers with the ability to receive real-time, user-generated suggestions directly from their readers via an east-to-install blog application. Not only does Skribit help bloggers understand their readers, but Skribit also helps facilitate an interactive reader-writer blogging community. Skribit is a user-generated content suggestion application for blogs. Effortlessly assemble what your readers really want to hear. Bloggers install the Skribit application into their blogs in four easy steps. Once the application has been installed, your readers can either login to Skribit or anonymously submit questions and suggestions to you. They can even vote on their own suggestions encouraging you to write about what interests them most. Currently, Skribit is under private beta at the moment. But, you can still register for an account, and they will notify you via email as soon as we open up Skribit to the public.

StatPress is the real-time plugin dedicated to the management of statistics about blog visits. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers etc. Once the plugin StatPress has been activated it immediately starts to collect statistics information. Using StatPress you could spy your visitors while they are surfing your blog or check which are the preferred pages, posts and categories. In the Dashboard menu you will find the StatPress page where you could look up the statistics (overview or detailed).

AskApache Password Protect adds some serious password protection to your WordPress Blog. Not only does it protect your wp-admin directory, but also your wp-includes, wp-content, plugins, etc. plugins as well. This Plugin will make alot of the bots out there stop coming back. You just choose a username and password and you are done. It writes the .htaccess file, without messing it up. It also encrypts your password and creates the .htpasswd file, as well as setting the correct security-enhanced file permissions on both.

Imagine a huge brick wall protecting your frail .php scripts from the endless attacks of automated web robots and password-guessing exploit-serving virii. Forget spam, these millions of zombie bots are too outrageous to ignore, they are attempting known (but strangely outdated) exploits looking for known vulnerabilities against blogs and other Internet software. Sooner or later some poor blogger is going to miss an upgrade and become a victim to this type of video-game-like-attack.

The WP125 plugin can help you manage your ads more efficiently, leaving you with more time to write new posts. The plugin adds a new “Ads” menu to the WordPress admin, featuring submenus for tweaking display settings and adding and removing ads. You can show as many ads as you want, and in either manual or random order. Keep track of how many times an ad is clicked. When creating a new ad, you don’t have to calculate the end date yourself. Just input how many days you wish the ad to run for, and the correct date will be applied. The ad will be automatically taken down when the time comes.