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As I get more proficient with blogging, I am finding more and more really cool plugins and tools to help. One such plugin that I found recently was sooooo way cool, I just had to share it in it’s own post. (Come on, you knew I was a WordPress Plugin Junkie, right?)
WordPress Tweaks is a plugin that adds a "Tweaks" page to your WordPress options. Each individual tweak can be enabled/disabled at will using a checkbox. These tweaks include:
Admin
- Disable tag autocomplete
- Disable the Dashboard
- Disable the Flash uploader
- Remove the width restraint on administration pages
Comments and Pings
- Disable self-pinging
- Open external comment links in new windows
- Show comments in reverse order
Posts
- Open external post links in new windows
- When displaying post excerpts on archive and search pages, display a "Read more »" link instead of "[…]"
Nofollow
- Add to post comment links
- Add to "Read more" links
- Add to tag cloud links
- Add to the "Register" and "Login" links
- Remove from comment author links
- Remove from comment body links
SEO
- Only show the tag cloud widget on the homepage
- Show post excerpts (instead of full content) on archive pages
Security
- Disable directory listing for my plugins folder
- Hide WordPress’s version number from my theme and feeds
Theme and Appearance
- Add code references to favicon.ico
- Remove white space from pages list
WordPress 2.3 Legacy Fixes
- Rename "Blogroll" admin menu item to "Links"
- Fix: current_page_item on page_for_posts
Now, if you are new to blogging, some of these tweaks might not make a lot of sense to you right now. Trust me, just get the plugin and enable most of the items. They all help!
You can get a copy of this plugin on John Lamansky’s blog, the WordPress Expert
