10.04.06
WordPress Gallery Plugin - developed by Al Carlton
Al is an excellent friend; very generous minded and friendly as well. He has great interest in running his own sites, and some of them, such as Coolest Gadgets and SoftSift has soared to great heights after a few months they were launched, particularly the former.
As a programmer by nature, he has also developed a WordPress Gallery Plugin for some of his blog sites. To avoid confusion, there is also another kind of WordPress Gallery plugin in the World Wide Web (WWW), however though the naming is the same, their functionalities are different. Not sure if Al may consider changing the name of his plugin, but the tool that he’s developed is excellent.
The WordPress Gallery Plugin allows blog visitor to see a visual summary of the latest posts. The idea of having this plugin is to generate a post that reflects the summary of the past few posts that the authors of the (WordPress) blog site have made. In terms of search engine rankings, it also helps to provide more internal linking to improve search engine optimisation (SEO) ranking.
Basically, how the plugin works, is very simple. The plugin first generates a new post containing images and links to the latest recent posts made, and these images are scaled properly to thumbnail sizes, so that they look better than just scaling HTML. Since they are scaled, they are much smaller and faster to load. Once generated, the post is marked as draft on your WordPress Dashboard. To post, simply edit that post and click on Publish.
This plugin also has some configurability to the various options, e.g. number of recent posts. Try it out and you will see how simple it looks.
Download Link
I will not put a hotlink to the plugin download here, as I’d like to credit the work done by Al. There are documentations on his site. So, if you are interested in this plugin, check out the original WP Gallery Plugin page.
Examples
Some of the examples are available here:
Chandler said,
October 31, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Hello,
Just wondering if anyone could help. I did something stupid and started my blog using a numerical archive system, and now I'd like to change it so that the post title is part of the URL for SEO reasons. Is there any Wordpress plugins that anyone knows of that could switch it without sending Googlers to invalid pages? Maybe some sort of redirector to the correct page?
Thanks.
keith said,
November 27, 2006 at 1:34 pm
Yes, there are URL redirectors which you can check them out at this site.
It also has a huge list of other SEO-enhancing plugins which you might be interested in too.
qxelwoonw said,
March 28, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Greetings!..
Pretty nice site, wants to see much more on it!
ezrjwsmbw said,
March 29, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Pretty nice site, wants to see much more on it!
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Test said,
March 30, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Hi
G’night
jameswillisisthebest said,
September 8, 2007 at 10:28 pm
This is my first post
just saying HI
keith said,
September 9, 2007 at 9:39 am
Hi, welcome to my site
Idetrorce said,
December 16, 2007 at 12:35 am
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce