Clean Notifications Plugin

Everton | Mar 16, 2009 | View Comments


It’s been a long time since I added a new plugin to the site. I try to avoid adding the latest shiny plugins so that my server isn’t put under any undue strain. I’ve made an exception for two new plugins.

The first one is Clean Notifications Plugin which I discovered via One Tip A Day. This great little plugin tidies up the mess that Wordpress makes of email notifications. Check out the diagram below which best summarises the impact of the plugin:

The second plugin I’ve installed is the NextGEN Gallery Wordpress plugin. I’ve been searching for a while for a good gallery plugin mainly for my Windows 7 News which generates a lot of traffic from various screenshot pages. I wanted to find something that would make it easier for uses to view images in each gallery. To see the plugin in action check out the Windows 7 Screenshots page.

The plugin has been a resounding success and increasing the number of gallery views has made a significant impact on page impressions and has taken the traffic for Windows 7 News past the fantastic 1m page views per month landmark in just a matter of days.

The final plugin I’ve added to the site isn’t a new one, but an upgrade. The excellent Yet Another Related Posts Plugin has a new beta version available that introduces caching. Adding this new beta version has made a noticeable difference to page loading speeds, as well as adding a few new options.

Have you added any good plugins recently that you’d like to recommend to other readers?


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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

  • nice little plugin thanks.

    will try it when bloody freehostia get my site back up!!
  • Sounds nice, I think I'll add a one tip a day to one of my blogs
  • Well done with the Windows 7 News site! 30k a day isn't bad :P

    I'm going to add the nextgen gallery plug-in to my blog.
  • The stats on your Windows 7 News site are awesome. A milion pageviews a month is nothing toi be sneezed at! What were they sitting on before you started using the NextGEN Gallery plugin?
  • The blog was doing around 20k per day and that has shot up to 30k.  The forum part of the site chips in with another 10k views per day.
  • Shameless plug, but have you seen my Top 10 plugin for tracking popular posts?
    As well as Where did they go from here? for giving related posts based on visitors moving through your site?
  • I use the mint popular posts plugin to track my most popular as it uses my mint stats service to generate the posts.  My theory is that this saves on server load, by using one service to do two tasks.

    I'll have a look at the second plugin
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