The World, Plugged In: Essential Plugins For Writing and News Blogs
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- The World, Plugged In: Various WordPress Plugins from Various Nations
- The World, Plugged In: Essential Plugins For Writing and News Blogs
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Here is a list of essential WordPress plugins perfectly suitable for writers, reviewers, journalists, reporters, media institutions, and online magazine sites using WordPress publishing software. Some are already installed in this site so you could see how it works instantly. Not only you could use these plugins for your Wordpress blogs or WP-powered websites, but also to show how actively people from different parts of the world collaborate and encourage each other in global scale.
And as WordPress’ Codex would describe it:
Everything you see here, from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything from your cat’s home page to a Fortune 5 web site without paying anyone a license fee.
In order to make life easier, I’ve added the Download and Documentation links for each plugin. But still, don’t be reckless, please click on the plugin’s name to view official documentation by its author or if you want to check for demos and latest upgrades.
See if you are sharing the same view with the rest of the world. Compatible with WP 2.3.
The Sphere Related Content plug-in displays an icon link at the end of your blog posts. When a reader clicks on the icon link, Sphere finds blog posts and media articles related to your content. See it in action on over 1 billion article pages on popular media sites and blogs like the WSJ, New York Times, TechCrunch and Real Clear Politics. Our plug-in works best on English language blog posts and topics that are being actively discussed in the blogosphere.
If you fancy giving signatures to your works, you’d need to use this plugin to insert it automatically. This plugin display graphical signature below your posts, but if you prefer simple text that can also function as a disclosure, please refer to Dagon Design’s Add Signature plugin.
LiveSig is a WordPress plug-in that automatically inserts your MyLiveSignature code after each of your WordPress posts making it seem like each post has been personally signed by you.
Author Complete Post List
Very useful for news sites with multiple authors, the plugin will help readers to find all articles written by a certain author. For sidebar widget displaying authors’ avatars, try WP Authors plugin.
Provides an easy way to display the complete list of the an author’s posts, including the posts where he’s also co-author.
Great plugin for those who produce lengthy and extended type of writings, for instance essays, travel documentary, or academic papers which can be divided into several arranged posts in series of topics. This post is an example of how the plugin works. Compatible with WP 2.3.
In Series provides a way for you to manage stringing together posts in a series. You can add and remove individual posts from series, and reorder posts within a series, all from the post writing screen. The plugin also allows you to customize how series information (like tables of contents and next/previous links) are rendered across your site.
Newspapers sites require a common layout to be applied throughout a set of articles, as in a way like real newspapers do. This is a very useful plugin to set such specific template or layout for articles. Compatible with WP 2.3.
It happens quite often that a blogger publishes posts or static pages on a regular basis which have the same structure. Think about for example a “picture of the day” daily post. With current wordpress state, we need to spend a lot of time doing copy/paste between posts instead of actually writing content. Be happy because I have developped the missing plugin to maintain post templates and allow simple writting of regular posts.
Journalistic bloggers write and take or outsource pictures for their contents. The plugin will feature a slideshow of images concerning a specific story published as a post. It also works with Lightbox2. Note: If you’re more into video footages, grab wordTube plugin to feature media files.
Sometimes, website designers won’t allow content developers to add Images anywhere within the text layout. They’d rather prefer a consistent method to display them. There are hundreds of “inline image gallery plugins” out there. So this is mine: The Mini-Slides Plugin.
Managing a news site sometimes means you have to post new article each day, even more. If you want one of your post to stay on top of the sequence, pin your article as a sticky with this plugin. Note: If you ‘d like to select several articles to be “pinned” on a particular page, try Articles plugin.
Adds a sticky post feature to your WordPress’s blog.
Post-Thumb Revisited
Great for review blogs, whether you’re reviewing gadgets, events or your neighbour’s cats, this plugin will display a thumbnail image for each of your article. Compatible with WP 2.3.
The plugin scan posts for images. Then, it can do the followings:
- Loop display: show a thumbnail linked to the post.
- Sidebar display: it can shows thumbnails from the most recent posts or thumbnails from random posts.
All thumbnails are dynamically created when needed and then saved.
When your news feeds are syndicated to (and displayed on) other sites, some publishers preserve the articles as if are technically their own part of publications. This happens all the time, therefore in order to protect your articles, use this plugin to copyright them. Note: The plugin’s quite outdated, hence if there’s any conflict with newer versions of WordPress, try Planet Feed Copyrighter plugin –just download the file and activate the plugin.
This plugin adds a copyright message to your feed items. No customization is required. This acts as a deterrant to feed-stealers (you heard the word first here) who unscrupulously and blatantly displays your full feed contents (often with their own advertisements) in their site(s) without your permission.
Because the Internet is built by, to, and for the world, translate your articles and reach for more international readers. Compatible with WP 2.3.
This language translator plugin and widget for WordPress 2.3 is based solely on Trevors widget plugin.
Writing blogs tends to hold densely spread of text which can be really confusing to visitors that are searching for a specific keywords. The plugin will highlight the keywords with customizable color background, it also works with Google or Yahoo search results and search within the blog itself. Compatible with WP 2.3.
Extend the standard search with a full text search across everything (posts, pages, comments, authors, meta-data), with the output from plugins included in the search. Search phrases are highlighted, as are incoming searches from Google, Yahoo, and most other search engines.
Are you managing an activism-oriented news site? Then you’ll find this particular plugin quite effectual for your readers. The plugin will generate a petition which can be digitally signed by your readers. Compatible with WP 2.3.
Our WordPress Petition Plugin helps you run a simple web based petition through your WordPress based site or blog. The custom petition text can be embedded into any post or page.
If Language Translator plugin translates the whole text for blog-viewing usage, this plugin will only scan the words readers choose by (right-click drag) selecting them and searching the words’ definitions on dictionaries and databases, such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Urban Dictionary.
If you wanted to know what is this plugin exactly does, simply select any word in this blog with mouse, you would should see the unobrussive popover box with list of dictionary link, just clck on them which fetches the words meanings from respective dictionary, without going away from the current blog page using yahoo UI. This widget is released under GNU GPL.
Writers have writer friends and writer visitors too, give them love by displaying their latest post just below their comment on your blog. Compatible with WP 2.3.
The CommentLuv Wordpress Plugin will visit the feed of the comment author and attempt to scrape the last post they made and display it under their comment, this way you can encourage people to join in the discussion of your posts and give something back straight away.
HP Blog Printing
Displays a button to click if your readers need to print your article (yes, some people still like to do it the good offline fashioned way.). Note: If you also like to have your posts to be able to be converted to PDF version, use the post2pdf plugin.
HP Blog Printing makes it easy to add full-featured printing to your blog so users can enjoy a customized read on the go. Starting at the print button, readers can pick and choose the posts they want to print, free of sidebars, ads and other clutter. Each great-looking printout is fully formatted to reduce paper waste.
And here are some related articles that can help you in starting up or managing WordPress-powered news or magazine site:
The Best WordPress Magazine Themes Available
WordPress Magazine Themes
WordPress as an Online Magazine
Stelzner’s Top 10 Blogs for Writers
Premium, News, & Magazine WordPress Themes
That’s all for now.
Of course the list doesn’t stop there; there’ll be more inventions to be made, more common goals to be shared and achieved in future time. And if you have any suggestions or corrections for this article, please leave a comment.
For more references, please go right ahead to The Codex.
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This is a good list, thankyou. The footnotes plugin might also be useful –
http://robm.me.uk/projects/plugins/wordpress/footnotes
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Thanks for the list. Commentluv is especally cool
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I’ve noticed a huge difference in the number and quality of comments after I installed CommentLuv. Especially when people see I approve comments that are of value in bot information and aren’t simply one liners that want to get links back to their site.
I would encourage anyone who has a blog to seriously consider installing the CommentLuv plugin and at least consider removing the nofollow tag. Sure you might get a few spam comments, but you can always delete these instead of approving. Remember, comments are content for your site, fresh content, and if the person leaving the comment has written something of value then it can help when the search spiders crawl your site for fresh content.
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Ian (Make Everything EzyAs123) Richardson
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The blog is on dofollow. Hope it helps the readers! :D