Every year i try some of them and  remove them after few hours. As i remember, they where resource-hungry or just bad in reverse engineering

Some weeks ago i tried ObjectAid UML Explorer Class Diagram and liked it. It could quick and easy create simple class Diagrams – just by Drag & Drop. And i had no problems with static constructors or inner classes and other stuff in the code which causes problems to another Plug-ins.

Unfortunately Object Aid Sequence Diagram are not free but cost not much for private usage. Maybe i’ll try it soon.

But first i would ask you what is your favorite Eclipse IDE Plug-in for fast and easy (e.g. partly) revers engineered UML diagrams which can be used to show some architectural details to your colleagues?

Thank you for comments!

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It differs from other “Related posts”-plug-ins, which are based on automatic content analysis. What ever the content analysis algorithms are and how ever the configuration options used,  resulting related post lists are mostly just a bullsh$%.  That’s is understandably, then these plug-ins have same problem like search engines and other content analysis tools . In the reality of our age (It is 2009 A.D.) – computers cannnot understand any semantic of human written articles.

So what is the solution for an good Related Post Plugin? Of cause simple to do it manually!

You say it much work?  No!, with Micrkid’s Related posts Plugin, which  provides very comfortable AJAX driven interface, it becomes fun! It’s becomes so easy and quick as providing tags. You decide what is related to the actual post by creating meaningful related post list.  Try it out!

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Why the movement

Primary it had to be done because of some problems with hosting service provider. But that is a long story, which I won’t tell you here. However ORG domain is much nicer? What do you think?

wPopularity Plug-In

Please excuse me for not maintaining it. I just have time to keep this site alive, not really for a writing Plug-ins i free time. But I promise i try to find some hours in the winter holidays, to answer all your questions and maybe even to release new version. Thank you for you patience.

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I have fixed this problem now. Please use newest version of W-Popularity Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

No other functionality was changed in this release.

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One of the Important aspects is properly made page for the search engine optimisation point of view. I don’t wanna cover these point in this article, if interested, you can read WordPress SEO – The Beginners Guide by Joost de Valk’s, which is good introduction in the theme. I just wanna cover one of the aspects of good page and that is Meta-information.

Every page of your blog has to provide title attribute and meta attribute keywords and maybe even meta description, which helps Search engines to better “understand” what is on that page. Unfortunately there is no adequate support for meta description by default in WordPress. So we need a Plug-In.

HeadSpace2 – Plugin

The HeasSpace2 PlugIn homepage is one of the popular in that field. The installation is easy, no template hacks are needed, copy and activate as usual. The configuration is done in “options” -menu. It may be helpful to read the description and concepts on the Plug-In homepage, before starting configuration.

There are four main configuration tabs:

• Page Settings (shown on image)
• Modules
• Options
• Import

Page Settings

Crucial are Page Settings, that are default settings for different parts of WordPress like Archives pages, post pages, main page and so on.

In Page Settings dialog it is possibly to configure default tags for all of them, of cause with support of predefined variables. It is possibly that you have to play a little bit around until you get desired effects.

But before you start check your templates header file. Inspect how title is created. It is crucial because some template authors use wireds things for creating titles. You are well advised to use something like this:

<title>

<?php wp_title(‘ ‘); ?> <?php if(wp_title(‘ ‘, false)) { echo ‘ : ‘; } ?><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>

</title>

This, will enable by default right presentation in title, first the title of Post then Blog name separated with “:” like on my blog. Works fine without Headspace2 PlugIn ant with it. By usage with Headspace2 use empty string as separator in the configuration of “page title” in the Modules Dialog.

Modules

Modules has two sections, top and bottom. Top section allows you to define the presentation of meta tag description fields in Post and Pages Editors and also in the Page Settings dialog. And that are so called Page Modules. Here is also “page title” module which is mentioned before.

In the bottom you will find the Site Modules configuration. In the main Site modules could be selfcontaining Plugins. But here they wrapped as modules. Most of them are some Statistic analysers like Google analytics, but what what i found interesting is Google Section Targeting Module. Google targeting allows you to demarcate adsence relevant html>body area of your blog, read more about Google section Targeting (in German).

Warnings

Be careful with the Modules, i have switched something wrong there, and that broke the output of that site, so only admit are worked well. therefore I didn’t notice anything fore more than ten ours. You may be notified strange downtime of my site in the last week?

Conclusion

All in one, Headspace2 seems to be nice Plug-In. use it with care in it will serve you well. Questions are welcome.

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Be aware of using that “great” shortcuts Plug-in. Oh what a silly shortcuts support it was, only useful stuff like “Search for WordPress on Yahoo”-Pop-Ups. But that’s OK. But not such destructive action in addition.

I use the first version (0.962) of Yahoo ShortCuts Plug-in with the WordPress Version 2.3.2. and that happened 2 times on one day on one nearly complete article, the big one article. I hope you do not trust this awful plug-in.

Disclaimer: I don’t wanna say That whole “Yahoo!” is like this Plug-In, i believe this is not the case.

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The Plug-In homepage has an installation instruction, fread it befor begin with installtions. Actual you need to copy polyglot to your WordPress installtion and then put something like this

<?php if(function_exists(‘polyglot_other_langs’)) {
//display existing language versions of the post
polyglot_other_langs(‘ ‘,’<ul>’, ‘</ul>’, ‘<li>’, ‘</li>’);
}?>

in to your template for enabling the flags. Also look in the PHP file of the plug-in, there is a lot of configuration options, wich allows you fine tun of Plug-in.

All in one such kind of Plug-in setup is not a problem for one singular blog, but can get you tired when you have to administrate several WordPress installations. May be a will write some upgrade to Polyglot in the future that covers such issues.

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But there is one small problem i found, LightWindow does not work till the whole page is loaded. But that is not good, when i have multiply images on the same page and network speed is not good. LighWindow bases on prototype and I’m not familiar with that in the moment, and so unsure whether there is a way to quick as possible enable javascript execution.

I know, in jQuery it would work, cause there is a way to start execution of javascript already when DOM is loaded. Just put your code inside of:

$(document).ready(function() {
// put all your jQuery goodness in here.
});

Is there something similar in the Prototype? Does anybody know?

P.S. PlugIn WordPresss that enables LightWindow for WordPress, i have not testet it.

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Top 10 Plug-Ins

1. Askimet
2. DoFollow
3. GoogleAnalytics
4. GoogleXMLSitemaps
5. Instant Upgrade
6. Simple Database Bakup
7. Simple Trackback Validation
8. Similar Posts
9. 404-Notifier
10. Share-This-Classic or similar Social book-marker.

Description

• Askimet should be nothing new for every blogger.
• Else DoFollow. I see often that bloggers are to lazy with “nofollow” problem. Read why “nofollow” attributes should be used wisely.
• GoogleAnalytics provides easy way to add your google analytics script for your blog. It’s in any case better to use this Plug-ing and not to hack the blog template, cause templates can be switched and therefore need to be updated one every change. With that Plug-In you just forget such issues.

• GoogleXMLSitemaps is more that just adding a script. It generates a sitemap.xml file for your blog or even whole site. Meanwhile it is highly configurable and mighty Plug-in, that provides the needed flexibility. It is suitable for blogs with just few articles but also for blogs with many of them. And of cause it automatically ping Google Webmaster Tools site.
  
• Instant Upgrade and Simple Database Backup were already explained in previous post.
• Simple Trackback Validation helps to protect your form Spamer Trackbacks.
• My Similar Posts Plug-In is not so long in use like the other in the list, but i like it already. It provides widget that contains list of similar post to the current, that allows users to find quickly more interesting stuff they look for on your page. The default configuration may be not very suitable configured for concrete needs of your blog, so i would say, every body has to play around and define what similarity criteria are important for him. E.g. one can say that similar Posts has to have not only similar words, but also be in the same category.
• 404 Notifier, notifies you every time when something was not found on your blog. OK, it can be to much sometimes, when every time favicon.ico is not found, cause you don’t provide it. But you don’t have to send mails. You can configure such 404 to a feed. And reed it with the feed reader.
• Share-this-Classic Plug-In enables this green Button on the bottom of every post , which contains short links to well known social communities. Normally it works like pop-up layer, but with my new template it opens new page. I have to figure out why.
  

Conclusion

Some cool Plug-ins are presented in that list, but not all I use, cause there are some I’m unsure whether they are really useful or I have used them not much. I’ll write about these Plug-Ins in my future posts, i promise.

Of cause you are welcome to comment and please give me a hint on other cool and useful plug-Ins you have not found in presented top 10.

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But updating of WordPress means download, backup, copy files per FTP and maybe backuping old files. And it get’s terrible, when you have to manage several sites.

But the lazy way exists too! And you need just two plug-ins, which can make you life really easier and secure, cause you don’t need to adjourn such important tasks.

Here are needed Plug-Ins:

• The DB back up Plug-in.
• The Instant Upgrade Plug-In

After installing these two you can start with the upgrading of your blog.

Backup

First use backup Plug-in to secure your DB cause ever update can brake your WordPress for several reasons. Presented Backup Plug-In is really handy. Yo can select where to save the backup file, or whether it should be send per mail.

Of cause the configuration of scheduler is possible. Furthermore the is possibility to back up all other db tables in the same Database scheme just by selectem them.

Update

Updating with instant update Plug-In is easy too. It can be really done with one click, how promissed in the caption and in the Plug-In description. There is one option to choose wheter to upgrade to latest version, or some other version of your wish. And if everything went fine, you will see something like this:

“Everything went smooth. Have fun with your new WordPress version!”

Don’t forget to check your WordPress carefully after upgrading. In case of my blogs the instant upgrade with these blogs has produced no errors. I have done upgrades form 2.2 and 2.2 version to 2.3.1 no troubles so far.

In the next time I’ll tell you about other Cool WordPress Plug-Ins.

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But unfortunately This Plug-in found no badges for word Yahoo! So you can see the badges example on: Hewlett-Packard.

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How to install? Bea do not provides an updatesite at the moment, so that you have to download and unpack that plugin manualy.

And of course BEA WebLogic Server Tools are available free of charge to all licensed WebLogic Server users.

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Chilli & Enzymes – code styling

After writing my previous post about Persistence API i understood that i need some of the code highlighting plug-ins and so i just tried out the Chili & Enzymes.

Download Enzymes and just put it in /wp-content/plugins of your WordPress. Then activate. Read manual to get all the features.

Troubles: If you try to install Chili & Enzymes composition as described using the newest component (chili 1.4, enzymes 1.2) you get in some trouble. The Enzymes templates will not work by default.
Solution: There is a bug at about line 68 in the enzymes-1.2.php: exchange: {[.php1 /enzymes/chili-php.php]} to {[.php2 /enzymes/chili-php.php]}
Also i notice that chili not work properly with slow connections. I just get warnings pointing me to the fact that some receipts could not be found or something like this. After moving following lines to form head the end of body (footer), the problems was not appearing again.

{[.jscipt1 /enzymes/chili-js.php]}
So the browser have time to load the page and required js files. and starts the highlighting routine at the end.

Other plug-ins

After that i have found Google sitemap generator plug in and of course i have installed it already. This plug-in can be just copied and activated. It’s pretty nice.

Also i found aLinks plugin that generates links automatically for predefined keywords. So now some predefined keywords should be automatically added. There of course other opportunities like automated links to amazon and so on. So for example the following text is just a keyword typed as plain text: my homepage

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