Posts Tagged ‘cool stuff’

I’ve never been one for instant messengers and avoided them until a few months ago when I was tempted with a new phone and that was it, love at first skype!

Not a great one for talking on the phone, this suited me down to the ground – free messages from my mobile and also should I feel the need, I can call for free too.  Skype on my computer has been a great success too, right now I have the chat box open with my latest conversation with our blogmistress!

I thought this plugin would be great for anyone who is a skype addict, like me, or if you want your readers/customers to be able to contact you quickly and easily.

The only thing that you have to remember to do after installing, activating and setting it up is go into your skype privacy settings and make sure “Allow my status to be shown on the web” is checked, otherwise you will always appear offline.

I suppose the only downside to this is that you will need to make sure your skype status is up to date, but if you are like me I am always online unless I turn my phone off!

This plugin comes with plenty of display options, the one I am showing you is every option available but you can just have an online/offline button showing.

Here’s the link for more info and download – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/skype-online-status/

Recently I’ve come across a few blogs that use a lot of photos in their posts and to be honest, not too well, so I decided to have a dig around for a cool image viewer for WordPress and Shutter Reloaded is the plugin I think would be invaluable if you have images you want to share.

To try it out I have used the adorable ‘Ladder family’ on my site to show off this lightbox plugin (basically where you do not need to leave the page to view the images), of course you could visit Shutter Reloaded to see it works there!

What’s great about this plugin is that it’s quick and easy to install, there are five display options to suit most sites and it’s all very simple to customise too.

To download visit – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shutter-reloaded/

I love WordPress but I hate the admin dashboard, if I have to look at something a lot I want it to be functional, involve less clicks (those extra clicks are just too exhausting for someone as lazy as me!) and to be quite frank, less boring.

Well I’ve found Ozh’s Admin Drop Down Menu plugin and I love it!  It simply replaces the default view with the boring sidebar full of menu options with a slick drop down menu running across the top of your dashboard.  Straight away saving you time and energy with those tiring extra clicks and the easy to use settings page gives you more options including allowing you change the colour to liven up your dashboard even more.

Super quick to download and very simple to install to, go give it a try.

Oh and here’s the link - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-admin-drop-down-menu/