WordPress Plugins
In August 2009, we moved pantsonhead.com onto the WordPress content management platform. Thankfully, the move was relatively painless, although we needed to write a couple of plugins to provide all of the functionality we wanted to.
As these plugins started to prove their usefulness, we decided to refine them to a releasable standard and share them with other WordPress users.
The Plugins are released under the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
We hope you enjoy using these as much as we did making them.
Our Wordpress plugins page is: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/pantsonhead
RandomText
RandomText is a handy WordPress plugin that allows you to save, edit and delete categorized text, and inject random/rotated text by category into the sidebar (via widget) or pagebody (via template tags). Whether you want to display random/rotated trivia, quotes, helpful hints, featured articles, or snippets of html, you can do it all easily with RandomText.
RSS Blogroll
RSS Blogroll allows you to link to your favourite blogs via the latest items from their RSS feed. Article titles are much more attention grabbing and will deliver much higher quality traffic. We all hate clicking through to abandoned blogs – displaying article publication dates also lets readers know these are up to date and active sites. RSS Blogroll will create deeplinks to the target sites, which are much more useful for SEO than homepage links. Overall it’s a win-win situation with a better browsing experience for users and the linked sites getting more visitors who are actually interested in their content.
Activity Sparks
Activity Sparks is a highly customizable widget to display a sparkline style graph in your sidebar indicate post and/or comment activity. This WordPress plugin leverages Google’s Chart API, so does not require the PHP GDI library. Customization options include Title, size, colour, background transparency, activity granularity and period.