Shankar Ganesh

Random Redirect is a WordPress plugin that lets your users to easily visit a randomly picked post from your blog – in StumbleUpon style.

May be useful for those lazy readers who feel bored to go through pages and pages of archives and category posts.

It’s fun. Just download the plugin from here, install it, activate it, and just put up a link to yourblogdomain.com/?random and you’re finished.

Clicking on the link, your blog’s readers will be redirected to a random post on your blog.

Some bloggers have already installed it and they’re using a dice icon for the links to increase the fun factor. You can also see it live on this blog in the sidebar.

I liked this plugin very much and I recommend to you all to install this one on your blog.

Post slug is a mostly underused option in WordPress.

By default, if you write a blog post with the title “This is the heading”, your post permalink may be something like this domain.com/date/this-is-the-heading (if you still have something like domain/?p=55, you could change this in Options >> Permalinks)

WordPress generates these post permalinks based on your post titles. These can be very easily modified by using the Post slug option located in the right panel on the ‘Write Post’ page.

What are the benefits on modifying post slugs?

• You can use post slugs to shorten very lengthy URLs for the benefit of your readers. For example, a post titled “This url is very lengthy that I cannot remember it” will have its permalink as this-url-is-very-lengthy- that-I-cannot-remember-it. You can shorten this to anything, say for example: url-lengthy-to-remember
• You can use post slugs to eliminate less significant words like a, the, it’s, its, etc.
• Post slugs can be used for SEO optimization. You might want to write a catchy title to attract your readers, but this may have less or no significance in terms of SEO, with no keywords.
  This is another place where Post slugs come in. You might have a post titled “Have you seen the new look Google search pages?”. But for better SEO, you could modify the post slug option to google-search-pages-redesigned-review. Now you have a balance between writing titles for your readers and search engines.

But, make sure that you don’t turn permalinks irrelevant to your post titles, and also take care not to overstuff them with keywords. Share your views in the comments.

WordPress is a wonderful blog platform. As an administrator, every time you wanted to reply to a comment in a post, you had to go to the individual post page to respond.

Better Comments Manager is a plugin released by Keith Dsouza of Techie-Buzz and it allows you to reply to your blog readers’ comments from inside your Admin control panel itself, thereby reducing the task of moving to individual post pages to respond.

Have a look at this screenshot:

Notice something different? There are two new options in that comment: Reply, View All

Clicking on Reply, you can directly post your comments on the post from inside your dashboard itself.

What’s View All for? View All sorts all comments made on a particular post. I was waiting for such a feature, never knew where to get it, now it’s there, thanks to Keith

Download the Better Comments Manager Plugin for WordPress now!

Your WordPress Control Panel is a pain to navigate through.

For example to edit a particular page, you have to go to Manage >> Pages >> Select particular page to edit: which means 3 clicks and 2 pageloads. Irritating.

How about a plugin that eases your Control Panel Navigation?
Less clicks, faster navigation.

Lighter Admin Drop Menus is for you. This plugin provides CSS based drop down menus for easier and speedier navigation.

Have a look:

Cool, isn’t it?
Save time, Increase Productivity: Get the Lighter Admin Drop Menus Plugin