New Fish

I have upgraded my WordPress plugin Top Friends to version 0.3. The following features have beed added to the version:

• Add a setting panel for the plugin
• Compatible with the host which PHP version less than 5.2
• Widgetize the plugin

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More information about how to use the plugin please click Top Friends introduce page.

Download: Top Friends.

There are lots of archive plugins for WordPress, but what I use is the archive function in BLIX theme. The plugin will list posts group by months, then the archive page will be thought as a static sitemap page by Search Engineer. So it will improve the blog performance in Search Engineer.

Now I package the function to a plugin Simple Archie.

Installation and Usage

1. Upload plugin to directory wp-content/plugins/.
2. Create a Page Template
3. Add following code in the page template:
   <?php simple_archive(); ?>
4. Upload the page template to your theme directory, and write a new page with the page template you just create.

Download: simple_archive.zip

WP Turbo is a WordPress Plugin, which can make your blog super fast. WP Turbo can find all static files in your current theme and active plugins automatically and then store them locally with Google Gears on the visitors’ computers. After install and enable WP Turbo, all needed static files will serve directly from visitors’ computers but not your server (to be honest, they need to download them all at the first time when they visit your site). This can siginificantly reduce the page loading time, which may give your visitors better experiences.

And most of all, WP Turbo is developed by my best friend LiuYang.

Installation

Download, Unarchive, Upload and Active. There is nothing different from any other plugins.

Download: WP Turbo

Top Friends is a WordPress blogroll enhancement plugin. The plugin will fetch your friends’ feeds, and then display the feed’s name and status icon base on last update time and latest two posts of the feed.

The plugin uses Google AjaxFeed API to fetch feed. So it need your server can manipulate JSON format data (PHP >= 5.2). The new version need’t it.

There are two options need to be setup for the plugin properly works.

• Google AJAX Feed API Key is the API Key, you can apply it here.
• Top Friends Feeds is the feeds that you want to fetch.

After upload and active the plugin, you can use the following function in your template.

<ol>
	<?php top_friends(); ?>
</ol>

Dowload: Top Friends