December 2nd, 2008

Comment Relish : Send automated welcome email to new users

Visitors love interaction, especially a personable approach at gaining their attention and spiking their interests. Increasing the overall readership of your blog revolves primarily around content, accessibility and presentation. In an attempt to gain return readers and possibly subscribers.

Comment relish is a Wordpress plugin developed to send an e-mail message to users who comment on your website who have never commented before. The message dispatched to the user is defined within the plugin’s preferences. Numerous tags have been integrated to allow for information to be included in the message easily (I.E.: timestamp, author name, comment, ETC.).

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October 16th, 2008

SweetCron : The Automated Lifestream Blog Software

sweetcron SweetCron : The Automated Lifestream Blog Software

SweetCron is an automated lifestream blog software. It can track your online activities like Flicker updates, your Diggs, your bookmarks….. and post them on your blog.

SweetCron is a Free, Open Source software which you can install on your own server.

There is a Great Tutorial on NETTUTS which you can follow to get started with SweetCron.

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September 17th, 2008

FlatPress : Extrememly light-weight Wordpress alternative, No MySQL required

FlatPress is an open-source standard-compliant multi-lingual extensible blogging engine which does not require a DataBase Management System to work.

You don’t need MySQL because FlatPress stores all of its content on text files.

All you need is some web space supporting PHP4 (or later).

Features

  • Standard-compliant (XHTML valid)
  • Plugin support
  • Widget system
  • Easy to customize with themes

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September 15th, 2008

Ping it up : Let the world know about your new story

Update Services are tools you can use to let other people know you’ve updated your blog. Many blogging applications like WordPress automatically notifies popular Update Services that you’ve updated your blog by sending a XML-RPC ping each time you create or update a post. In turn, Update Services process the ping and updates their proprietary indices with your update.

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