WordPress Tip of the Day #0023

Title: WP Comments Notifier

WP Comments Notifier is an open source application written in QT/C++ that alerts you when new comments are posted on your WordPress blog . It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have new comments,It also includes features that allow you to manage/reply/edit your comments directly from your desktop.

Specially for blogs that get a lot of comments, this will allow you to save quite a bit of time and effort.

Learn more or download it here.

WordPress Tip of the Day #0022

Title: WP Toolbar

I found an interesting tool from IAmNotAGoodArtist.com and thought I would share this with you.

It’s a WordPress Admin Toolbar Bookmarklet, basically what it does is add buttons on the top right of your browser that gives you quick access to your admin sidebar links.

This is useful so that you can be browsing the site in question and need to change things, you can get direct links to the options in your administration panel without having to go in it. The buttons work only for the site you are currently browsing, obviously if you aren’t logged in you will need to once you click an option.

This works on all WordPress websites but will still show on other websites, however if you click the buttons you will more than likely get error pages. And like I said before since you need to be logged in to get access, this won’t let you do anything to websites which you aren’t an administrator for.

It can get annoying showing up on all websites, but if you use different browsers for editing websites and general browsing it should make a difference.

WordPress Tip of the Day #0021

Title: Guest Blogging

There are two ways to look at this, you can be a guest on another blog and make a guest post for their site of course the post usually starts with announcing to the reader that you are a guest poster and a little bit about you and obviously a link back to your website. The advantage to this first one is that it will get you some solid link backs, get some exposure for your website. Also depending on which sites you are blogging on it can give you some credibility as well.

The second way is to let people be guest bloggers on your website. This is actually something I’m planning no setting up here very soon. This serves several purposes including:

• Free and Easy content for your website.
• Credibility. (Depending on who the person is)
• The guest will usually promote his post as well, so free traffic and exposure.
• Also great for networking with new people in your niche/field.