Under Plugins, Add New, search for "broken link checker", install, 'install now', and activate. There's no clicking around to open all the posts, and finding the links, and editing them all manually. This plugin gathers all the links that are returning with errors and puts them all in one screen for you. When you edit the broken link, it will automatically add a redirect so there are no further broken links caused by the change. The latest update to this plugin also parses the blogroll links! This is SO handy! The options screen is "Broken Links" under Settings. The broken links … [Read more...]
DS Plugin Picks
August 24, 2009
My latest discovery has been the "Excerpts of Children" plugin. Here's what it does: This plugin dynamically generates html paragraphs with excerpts from child pages. Put [excerpts-from-children] on any page and it will insert the excerpts from its child pages. See our Value Added Services for WordPress for an example. … [Read more...]
Easy Links & Post ID's
November 20, 2008
I don't know if you noticed this, but on an upgrade this year (which one was it, heather?) we lost the "ID" column in the Manage>Posts screen. And yes, I know, you've never used it, and really don't care. But... I do bring you useful information each week, do I not? Here's why you care. That particular column made using the CREF plugin stupid-easy. You will LOVE the CREF plugin if you: have a cooking blog photo blog write a bunch of posts that you want linked together want to add links of your best work into a post or page. I regularly make lists of my recipes on my … [Read more...]
