5 useless but awesome WordPress plugins

Posted on 27 April 2012 by Simon Vreeman

I would like to share with you five truly amazing WordPress plugins. These plugins will blow your mind and make your WordPress installation awesome. Even on a monday morning. So forget all those other WordPress plugins and use these! ;)

Comic Sans FTW

The name is self-explanatory. It’s the best plugin to change the font of your theme and admin dashboard to the #1 winning font. Comic Sans.

Rainbowify

Adds a nice little rainbows to your admin bar.

Unicornify

This plugin changes all the Gravatar pictures in to unicorns. Pretty sweet, right?

Unicornify and Rainbowify are made by mister Otto42.

Nyan Press

This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Internet Users: Nyan Cat.

When activated your WordPress installation will join the ranks of the initiated. Your dashboard will be overcome with the spirit of great successful sites such as Reddit.

Everybody loves cats!

Hello Dolly

Yes, Hello Dolly is useless but awesome. A WordPress install without Hello Dolly is not a real WordPress install.

This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page.

The end result is AWESOME!

Do you know any useless but awesome WordPress plugins? Share them in the comments!

WordPress Stats and Numbers: Breaking Their Own Records

Posted on 2 April 2012 by Simon Vreeman

Reblogged from Lorelle on WordPress:

Working on developing a core of WordPress classes for Clark College and preparing for the next “Introduction to WordPress” college course in a couple weeks, I’ve put together some statistics on WordPress you might find helpful – and stunning. WordPress continues to break records set by others, but more often lately, break records set by itself.

As of 2011, estimates are that 25% of all websites are published with WordPress.

4 Reasons You Should Never Use WordPress.com (And 4 Reasons You Should)

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4 Reasons You Should Never Use WordPress.com (And 4 Reasons You Should)

4 reasons you should never use WordPress.com

You can’t alter page structure
Limited themes & plugins
It costs to add style
The content & copyright issue

4 reasons you should use WordPress.com

Back-ups
Availability
Security
The value bundle

PS. did you read why I switched from a self-hosted WordPress.org blog to WordPress.com?

What i do….

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Twenty Twelve is now part of WordPress 3.4

Posted on 7 February 2012 by Simon Vreeman

Reblogged from Coen Jacobs:

The first version of the all new Twenty Twelve theme has been added last night to WordPress 3.4 Alpha in Changeset 19842:

Initial import of the Twenty Twelve theme, by Drew Strojny. This time around we’re trying something different than the previous twenty-something themes, a much more minimalist approach that affords easy use as a CMS in addition to being blog-forward.

Moved to WordPress.com

Posted on 30 January 2012 by Simon Vreeman

Yes, I moved my blog from a WordPress.org (The open source blogging software) blog to WordPress.com (A hosted version of the open source package). I believe that most people do the reverse, mainly because they want more control and freedom over there WordPress blog. I decided to give some of that freedom and control away, but I hope to get some excellent service and hosting in return. So I don’t have to spend time on the performance of my blog.

That other thing is that I spend too much time on my blog. And that’s great, because of al that hacking and tweaking I learned a lot about WordPress. So I recommend that to all of you, but I feel now that the time I spend on my blog is not really paying it back. I could and I am spending more time on WordPress websites of clients. I learn a lot more on those websites then on mine.

What that also means is that I don’t have to spend much time on the technic of my blog and spend more time on writing. One of my goals is to write more, especially more in English. Practicing is the best way to learn things, right?

Of course there are a few thing that I will miss.

Google Analytics statistics; I’m going to miss all the advanced stats of my blog. So I really hope that some day WordPress.com will integrate the possibility to use Google Analytics.
Search Engine Optimization; I’ll miss the extra possibilities that some plugins gave me to optimize my blog for search engines (and humans of course). I would love to see some more SEO options. To start with adding a Meta Description and custom SERP title,
Hacking & Tweaking; Yes, I will miss the friday night with an ice-cold beer, some good old rave techno and breaking WordPress.

Maybe I’ll go back to WordPress.org in a few years. We’ll see.

Don’t know what the differents is between WordPress, WordPress.com and WordPress.org? You should read this.

Presentation about WordPress and Personal Branding

Posted on 21 November 2011 by Simon Vreeman

Last friday i gave a presentation at the Eindhovense School about Personal Branding and WordPress.

I started with an introduction about myself and my story of my ‘brand’. The first SERP of Google is the most important page of your personal brand. So you have to make sure that you like what’s on that page. The best en quickest why to change it is creating new good content. Preferably on your own website.

Then i started about WordPress, the history and the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com. Of course I showed some awesome examples and recommended some premium themes, plugins and great sources to learn more about WordPress.

And after my presentation it was time for the students to get started with their own WordPress blog.
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6 Infographics about WordPress

Posted on 2 March 2011 by Simon Vreeman

On my other blog, Simon Shares, I posted over time a few infographics about WordPress. In this post I will sum them up. Some of them are almost a year old, but I think that they are still interesting to read.