So in addition to upgrading the code to the site yesterday, I added a plugin. Absolute Comment allows me to reply to your comments from the admin menu, making my job just one step easier. How cool is that??

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This time its an RSS plugin I’m lovin on and its good. FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.3 by feedburner themselves helps consolidate all the wordpress feeds in to one easy to find feedburner feed. “But Mark, why would I want that??” simple. It allows anyone to go to your RSS feed on your page (delusionsofgrandeur.org/feed/) and get the feed through feedburner allowing for better stats tracking of the feed. This way you can get an accurate count of those people burning your feed baby!

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While reading a post about the Super cache plugin for WP and how well it handled the digg effect, I came across another php caching script that I thought I’d give a try. The Xcache Plugin by neosmart seems to have helped a lot to keep the load on my server down. As soon as I had it installed and configured correctly (it took me a minute or two) the load dropped on my server.

The first thing you need to do is download and install XCache itself. On my debian server with apache2 and php5 this was as easy as #apt-get install php5-xcache. The install ran and set everything up. I did have to edit the /etc/php5/conf.d/xcache.ini file.

Look for two things: xcache.size and xcache.var_size. Set the first one to 64M and the second to 10M (you can set it higher or lower, but in order for the wp-plugin to work it has to be set greater than 0). Save and exit and restart apache.

Next download the actual plugin. Once you have it downloaded unzip it and copy it to your wp-content directory. Thats all you have to do. It does the rest. Check your server load and for the fun of it pull up your site and see if it loads any faster. I’d be suprised if it doesn’t.

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I’ve added another super cool plugin to the site that will benefit you more than it does me (at least if you post comments anyways). CommentLuv is another fiddyP plugin that I’ve decided to rock on the site. What it does is scour the site you submit as your site when you comment and it pulls the last post from your RSS or feedburner feed. This rocks for two reasons. One, you get links back to your last post, embedded deeper on my site, and two, I get to see what your posting.

If you’d like to see how it works, leave a comment. Yes, this might benefit the spammers out there, but i do a fairly tight job moderating the comments as it is.

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w00t. I’ve finally found a plugin to list the top contributors the way they need to be done. The cool thing is that it also resets the count monthly (though that and a number of other options can be changed by editing the config section in the PHP code). Show Top Commentators by Jeffrey Strain works well and it was a simple matter of dropping the script in to the plugin folder and activating it. Once done, I placed the code in my side bar and it was off and running. How sweet it is!

One of the nice things is that he also has a list of modified scripts on the page that are set up for running as a widget (something I stay away from here). If you’re looking for a good way to list your top contributors each month, check his plugin out!

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In keeping with last weeks “I’m going to write about a new wordpress plugin every week” statement, here’s another one. One I just came across today and one that has a ton of potential. The guys at younggogetter.com have developed and released the Douche Bag plugin.

Why do you need this plugin? Well, for starters, maybe you want to edit a comment someone left because of what they said, but you feel that would run against your ethics as a blogger (do we have ethics?)? Now you can mark their comment as one made by a douche bag. Of course, you don’t have to use the stock image that comes with the plugin, you could always change it to a pile of sh*t or a thumbs down, or maybe a clown kicking a child. Whatever you use though, you can rest assured that your readers will know you consider that comment/er a douche.

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Hell yea baby! I wanted to change my permalinks in wordpress from index.php/archive/postid to /date/posttitle. The problem was that if I just changed it flat out, I’d loose any backlinks (linked to on other sites, forums and wherever) but then I came across Permalink-Redirect. A kick ass wordpress plugin that allows you to input your old permalink structure and it will automagically (since rewrite have always boggled my mind) redirect your visitors to the correct location.

Its a life saver for me. w00t!

Oh, yea, at least once a week I’m going to be featuring a different plugin (some I use here, some I don’t) for wordpress, so stop in and check them out, because there sure are a ton of them!

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