plugin Archives - David Yin's Blog https://www.yinfor.com/tag/plugin Tech geek. Life geek. Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:41:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 https://www.yinfor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-icon-120x120.png plugin Archives - David Yin's Blog https://www.yinfor.com/tag/plugin 32 32 Yoast SEO has problem with AMP https://www.yinfor.com/2018/05/yoast-seo-has-problem-with-amp.html https://www.yinfor.com/2018/05/yoast-seo-has-problem-with-amp.html#respond Mon, 07 May 2018 17:56:21 +0000 https://www.yinfor.com/?p=5559 Recently, I found the AMP page of this blog is not working. After checking the web log  error file, the error looks like below If you Google it with wp-content/plugins/glue-for-yoast-seo-amp/classes/class-frontend.php:162 A lot of search results with the same problem. Based...

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Recently, I found the AMP page of this blog is not working. After checking the web log  error file, the error looks like below

If you Google it with wp-content/plugins/glue-for-yoast-seo-amp/classes/class-frontend.php:162

A lot of search results with the same problem.

Based on the Yoast SEO support page, it said it is AMP plugin fault.

gooma2 provided a workaround, I tried it. It does not work for my blog. All my blog’s AMP pages are 505 error.

Then, I disabled the Yoast SEO plugin, removed it. Installed All In One SEO plugin.

I used All In One SEO before. Simple and easy to use.

Features of All In One SEO

  • XML Sitemap support – submit your sitemap to Google and Bing and improve your SEO
  • Image XML Sitemap submitted to Google and Bing to improve your Image SEO
  • Google AMP support (Accelerated Mobile Pages)
  • Google Analytics support
  • Support for SEO on Custom Post Types
  • Advanced Canonical URLs
  • Redirect attachment pages to parent post
  • Automatically notifies search engines like Google and Bing about changes to your site
  • Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality
  • ONLY free plugin to provide SEO Integration for e-Commerce sites, including WooCommerce
  • Nonce Security built into All in One SEO Pack
  • Automatically optimises your titles for Google and other search engines
  • Generates META tags automatically
  • Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs
  • For beginners, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
  • For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything to optimise your SEO
  • You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
  • Compatibility with many other plugins
  • Translated into 57 languages
  • PHP 7 100% Compatible

 

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Post your new Blog post notice on Facebook from MovableType https://www.yinfor.com/2016/01/post-your-new-blog-post-notice-on-facebook-from-movabletype.html https://www.yinfor.com/2016/01/post-your-new-blog-post-notice-on-facebook-from-movabletype.html#respond Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:13:36 +0000 https://www.yinfor.com/?p=4716 I have a blog which is powered by MovableType. Everyone use facebook, almost everyone. I think to put a notice on Facebook when I have new post on my Blog is a good idea. So I did a search and...

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I have a blog which is powered by MovableType.

Everyone use facebook, almost everyone. I think to put a notice on Facebook when I have new post on my Blog is a good idea. So I did a search and finally found this one, FBWallPost.

FBWallPost is build by the same author of PostTwiOauth.

PostTwiOauth is another plugin for MovableType, which is used to publish a tweet on twitter when a new blog post published.

FBWallPost can do the same job, but on Facebook.

The latest version of FBWallPost is v 0.17.

My experience of it is as below:

  • MovableType 6.2.2.
  • Facebook API 2.5

fbwallpost-settings

Here is the official page of FBWallPost plugin.

Here is the backup link of the plugin v0.17, I prefer you can download it from the official site.

Now, it is my simply way to install it.

  1. Download the plugin file with tar format
  2. Decompress it and copy the plugin files into my MovableType plugin folder
  3. Sign in MT backend and go to System > plugins list, to check it, make sure it is enabled.
  4. Go to the blog section.
  5. Go to Tools > plugins > FBWallPost
    blog-tools-plugins
  6. Follow the link on settings:
    1. Register a APP, choose WEB Site. (Enter contact email, change status to live)
    2. Enter the App ID and Secret into settings, Save
    3. Get Access token
    4. Choose Facebook page, I will post on page, not profile
    5. Post Test.
    6. Done

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Which Social Plugins is the best for WordPress? https://www.yinfor.com/2013/11/which-social-plugins-is-the-best-for-wordpress.html https://www.yinfor.com/2013/11/which-social-plugins-is-the-best-for-wordpress.html#respond Fri, 08 Nov 2013 02:54:23 +0000 https://www.yinfor.com/?p=1387 There are some plugins or services on market for WordPress. I checked them and compared them. Tried some and found the best choice of Social Media Plugin for WordPress 3.7. The top two are AddThis and shareThis From 2012, AddThis...

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There are some plugins or services on market for WordPress. I checked them and compared them. Tried some and found the best choice of Social Media Plugin for WordPress 3.7.

The top two are AddThis and shareThis

From 2012, AddThis is the superior content sharing plug-in. It has more features and more control on the fly. Look at the following chart from Google Trending.

So I choose AddThis for my Blog.

The latest AddThis WordPress plugin is AddThis Smart Layer.

addthisplugin

It is response design, so it is good for Desktop, Tablet and phone devices. There are four section for this plugin.  One is Follow, on the right upper corner. Facebook, twitter, Google+ and Linkedin icons can be shown there with the link to your social pages.

The second one is Share. I put is on the left of the site. It can share post to different social media.

The third one is What’s Next. It is a floating box, only shown when move to the page bottom. It shows on the right lower corner.

The last one is Recommended Content. It is more important than others. I do like this feature. It displays four posts of the site or blog which are related to this post.

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A type of Hacker on WordPress https://www.yinfor.com/2011/12/a_type_of_hacker_on_wordpress.html https://www.yinfor.com/2011/12/a_type_of_hacker_on_wordpress.html#respond Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:15:07 +0000 https://www.yinfor.com/?p=922 During past week, I saw two shell accounts are hacked. Both are on Dreamhost. One of it is reported by Google Webmaster Tools. It said there are some malicious code found. The other one is found, because that the memory...

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During past week, I saw two shell accounts are hacked. Both are on Dreamhost.
One of it is reported by Google Webmaster Tools. It said there are some malicious code found.
The other one is found, because that the memory usage is increased too fast, but no increase on PV.
I checked the account and be noticed some wired issues.
One of the important files, .htaccess is changed by a hacker.
It send web spiders, such as Google bots, Bing, ASK, to a third party site, which has a malicious code. The code may affect the user computers.
When user enter a wrong URL, user should see a 404 error page from the site. The hacker also send these users to the remote site, which has malicious codes.
SO, if you land the website on the right page URL, you will not see it.
It looks normal and no problems.
The hacker steal the traffic from the sites. And also has potential risk to the users of the site.
How to fix hacked WordPress blog?
The way I did to clean it is that simply.
1) Export the data
2) Make a new shell account on Dreamhost
3) Point the site to new account
4) Install the fresh, updated version software
5) Import the data
Done.
Then last step to delete the old shell account.


How the hacker get the shell access?
It is a pure WordPress installation. And it is updated. How the hacker get the access of it?
Finally I feel the most chances is the theme. The theme installed are download from one theme site, not from the WordPress official theme site. The author name of these theme is undersigned.
Because I saw the shell command record history. There are some commands showing that some folder are deleted from theme folder. Followed by editing .htaccess file.
How to protect your WordPress installation?
There are some plugins are good.
One I recommend is Ultimate Security Checker
Do not install the plugins, or themes from the source you don’t know.

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Upgrade to PostTwiOAuth 0.46 https://www.yinfor.com/2011/06/upgrade_to_posttwioauth_046.html https://www.yinfor.com/2011/06/upgrade_to_posttwioauth_046.html#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:16:08 +0000 https://www.yinfor.com/?p=897 PostTwiOAuth has 0.46 last month. I still use 0.40 for a long time. Upgrade to PostTwiOAuth 0.46 from 0.40 is easy. Just download the package and overwrite the old installation. No need to change settings or re-set the configuration. This...

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PostTwiOAuth has 0.46 last month. I still use 0.40 for a long time.
Upgrade to PostTwiOAuth 0.46 from 0.40 is easy. Just download the package and overwrite the old installation. No need to change settings or re-set the configuration.
This is also a test post to see how PostTwiOAuth 0.46 send notice to my twitter.

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Top 10 WordPress Plugins https://www.yinfor.com/2011/01/top_10_wordpress_plugins.html https://www.yinfor.com/2011/01/top_10_wordpress_plugins.html#respond Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:09:12 +0000 https://www.yinfor.com/?p=872 All in One SEO Pack – 6.9 Million Akismet – 5.8 Million Google XML Sitemaps – 4.8 Million Contact Form 7 – 3.1 Million NextGEN Gallyer – 2.7 Million WordPress Stats – 2.2 Million WP Super Cache – 1.9 Million...

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All in One SEO Pack – 6.9 Million
Akismet – 5.8 Million
Google XML Sitemaps – 4.8 Million
Contact Form 7 – 3.1 Million
NextGEN Gallyer – 2.7 Million
WordPress Stats – 2.2 Million
WP Super Cache – 1.9 Million
WPtouch – 1.5 Million
AddToAny (share/bookmark) – 1.4 Million
Google Analytics for WordPress – 1.4 Million


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Install Facebook Like plugin for Movable Type https://www.yinfor.com/2010/11/install_facebook_like_plugin_f.html https://www.yinfor.com/2010/11/install_facebook_like_plugin_f.html#respond Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:29:54 +0000 https://www.yinfor.com/?p=821 Add Facebook like button in my Blog. The installation is easy and fast, just 5 minutes. Republishing took me about 17 minutes. This plugin adds MT tags to display Facebook Like button. The Like button lets a user share your...

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Add Facebook like button in my Blog. The installation is easy and fast, just 5 minutes. Republishing took me about 17 minutes.

This plugin adds MT tags to display Facebook Like button.
The Like button lets a user share your content with friends on Facebook.
When the user clicks the Like button on your site, a story appears in the user’s friends’ News Feed with a link back to your website.

The installation steps as below:
INSTALLATION
1. Unpack the FacebookLike package.
2. Copy the contents of FacebookLike/plugins into /path/to/mt/plugins/
3. Select “Tools > Plugins” menu in your blog.
4. Configure the plugin’s settings
5. Insert <$MTOpenGraphMeta$> in your HTML header () section.
6. Insert <$MTFaceBookLike$> in the section
where you wish to display the “Like” button.


Download the plugin here. Right now, I use version 0.2.
More social network gadgets installed, more social connections.

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Add Rebuild Items modules for Gallery 3 https://www.yinfor.com/2010/10/add_rebuild_items_modules_for_.html https://www.yinfor.com/2010/10/add_rebuild_items_modules_for_.html#respond Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:53:42 +0000 https://www.yinfor.com/?p=811 The Gallery 2 import is good to transfer all photos from old, Gallery 2, to Gallery 3. But sometimes the thumbnail is not converted completed. Some photos thumbnail are missing. So, I installed Rebuild Items module. Gives the administrator the...

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The Gallery 2 import is good to transfer all photos from old, Gallery 2, to Gallery 3. But sometimes the thumbnail is not converted completed. Some photos thumbnail are missing.
So, I installed Rebuild Items module.

Gives the administrator the ability to rebuild items (thumbs and re-sizes) as well as EXIF data. It marks the items in the database as ‘dirty’ and Gallery will then attempt to fix those items that are marked as dirty.


It can rebuild thumbs and resizes in specific album.
How-to:
1) Download the module from here
2) Decompress the zip file, and upload to the module directory of your G3 install.
3) Activate the module: Login -> Admin -> Modules. Check the box next to the module. Click update at the bottom of the page.
4) Click the album you want to rebuild, select the menu: Albums Options -> Rebuild Items
5) It will give you the options to rebuild Thumb and/or Resize
It is good and simple to rebuild items for Gallery 3.

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WordPress MU Sitewide Feed not working fix https://www.yinfor.com/2010/08/wordpress_mu_sitewide_feed_not.html https://www.yinfor.com/2010/08/wordpress_mu_sitewide_feed_not.html#respond Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:06:08 +0000 https://www.yinfor.com/?p=789 I have a WPMU installation used for years. One MU plugin I use is Ada WPMU Sitewide Feed. Until WordPress upgrade to 3.0. It has multi-site support internally. So, upgrade WPMU to WP 3.0.1. The problem just found that Sitewide...

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I have a WPMU installation used for years. One MU plugin I use is Ada WPMU Sitewide Feed.
Until WordPress upgrade to 3.0. It has multi-site support internally. So, upgrade WPMU to WP 3.0.1.
The problem just found that Sitewide feed does not work any more.
No content in the feed.
I went to the author site of this plugin.
In the comment part, Brad Williams pointed the solution to fix this problem.


The plugin has one file only. wpmufeed.php
Open this file in whatever text editor.
Find line 250,

 global $wpdb, $wpmuBaseTablePrefix;

Add following just after the line.

$wpmuBaseTablePrefix = $wpdb-&gt;base_prefix;

Save it and all fixed.
Thanks to Author of this plugin, நாத‌ன் Nathan, and Brad Williams.

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PostTwiOAuth 0.40 released https://www.yinfor.com/2010/07/posttwioauth_040_released.html https://www.yinfor.com/2010/07/posttwioauth_040_released.html#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:31:48 +0000 https://www.yinfor.com/?p=781 PostTwiOAuth 0.40 released just 9 days after 0.30 release. The author added two more new settings. 1) Enabel Twitter Client 2) Use Twitter @Anywhere I do not know which purpose for these two. And not sure how to use them....

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PostTwiOAuth 0.40 released just 9 days after 0.30 release.
The author added two more new settings.
1) Enabel Twitter Client
2) Use Twitter @Anywhere
I do not know which purpose for these two. And not sure how to use them.
If you know the details, please comment below.

http://www.macminiosx.com/2010/07/movable_typeoauthtwitter_postt_3.html

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PostTwiOAuth upgrade to v0.30 https://www.yinfor.com/2010/06/posttwioauth_upgrade_to_v030.html https://www.yinfor.com/2010/06/posttwioauth_upgrade_to_v030.html#respond Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:11:15 +0000 https://www.yinfor.com/?p=779 It is so fast. macminiosx announce v0.30 of PostTwiOAuth plugin of MovableType is released. It is better than the old v0.21. More features, acutally I did not use them. Say Google Analytics, etc. Here if you installed v0.21 before, you...

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It is so fast. macminiosx announce v0.30 of PostTwiOAuth plugin of MovableType is released.
It is better than the old v0.21. More features, acutally I did not use them. Say Google Analytics, etc.
Here if you installed v0.21 before, you have to remove the whole folder and ftp v0.30 files under plugins folder.
Still need to change retweetmaker.cgi to 755.
Not just replace the old one, you still need to re-setup the token of it.
Here is the link, you can download zip file or gz file there.
Good luck.

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PostTwiOAuth upgrade to v0.21 https://www.yinfor.com/2010/06/posttwioauth_upgrade_to_v021.html https://www.yinfor.com/2010/06/posttwioauth_upgrade_to_v021.html#respond Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:13:10 +0000 https://www.yinfor.com/?p=778 I have installed PostTwiOAuth v0.11 almost one month ago. Now, I saw the v0.21 released. So I upgrade my installation. It is a plugin use Twitter OAuth to send notification to your Twitter timeline. The first Auth, or Basic Auth...

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I have installed PostTwiOAuth v0.11 almost one month ago.
Now, I saw the v0.21 released. So I upgrade my installation.
It is a plugin use Twitter OAuth to send notification to your Twitter timeline. The first Auth, or Basic Auth of Twitter will be retired soon. And also OAuth is safer.
Let me show you how to install it.
0) MovableType 5.0
Requirement:
Digest::SHA1
Digest::HMAC_SHA1
1) Download the plugin from the official site here.
2) Decompress the zip file and upload the whole folder PostTwiOauth to the mt\plugins\
3) Login your MT backend
Tools > Plugins >
Click PostTwiOAuth 0.21, Register an application
Filling following information on Twitter application form
Application Name:
 
Description:
 
Application Website:
 URL of the site to download this program
Application Type :
 Browser
Callback URL:
Use the callback URL provided
Default Access type:
 Read & Write
Use Twitter for login:
No
After submit, you get Consumer key and Consumer Secret strings.
Enter them into settings of MT, and click Save Changes.
4) Click Settings again, click Go to Twitter
/mt5cgi/plugins/PostTwiOauth/oauth.cgi/1 to get Access Token and Access Secret.
Enter them into settings of MT.


5) Then you can test your post by click the link of Test post with your OAuth token
6) Get bit.ly API and use bit.ly to shorten URL
7) Save changes and use it in your post.
There is new feature of v0.21
Repost
You can go this link to read Japanese version Howto, which is official guide.
Update:
I forgot to mention one important thing.
CHANGE THREE CGI FILES UNDER posttwioauth FOLDER TO 755

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Twitter your new post automatically https://www.yinfor.com/2010/05/twitter_your_new_post_automati.html https://www.yinfor.com/2010/05/twitter_your_new_post_automati.html#respond Tue, 18 May 2010 11:43:33 +0000 https://www.yinfor.com/?p=775 I used MT-Twitter before. It is good. When I make a new post and click publish, a new twitter post will be made automatically to announce there is a new post with the link and title. After upgrade to MovableType...

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I used MT-Twitter before. It is good. When I make a new post and click publish, a new twitter post will be made automatically to announce there is a new post with the link and title.
After upgrade to MovableType 5, I have not do it again. Now I try it and see how it works. I will update this post when I get the answer.
The test result is that it is not working on MT 5.


Just install PostTwiOAuth which is from Japan.
See how it works and I will write the howto in English.

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WordPress Mobile Pack is great https://www.yinfor.com/2010/02/wordpress_mobile_pack_is_great.html https://www.yinfor.com/2010/02/wordpress_mobile_pack_is_great.html#respond Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:55:16 +0000 https://www.yinfor.com/?p=752 Just bought a iPod Touch 32G edition. It has safari browser. I use it to browse one of my Blog powered by WordPress. The text and images are so small. I know I can enlarge them by two fingers, but...

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Just bought a iPod Touch 32G edition. It has safari browser. I use it to browse one of my Blog powered by WordPress. The text and images are so small. I know I can enlarge them by two fingers, but it is still has width problem.
I thought it must be some plugin can do it to make a blog mobile.
I did a google search and find this one: WordPress Mobile Pack
I install it on the backend of WordPress.
Just a few clicks to config it and it works.
I went to my blog. WordPress detected my browser and knew it is from an hand held device. So it gave the mobile version of Blog.
It is perfect. I don’t need to setup an separated domain for mobile device. Just like some site named as m.example.com. The regular site domain is www.example.com.
The configuration steps as below.


0) Installation and enabled
1) Appearance >> Mobile Switcher
I use browser detection.
2) Appearance >> Mobile theme and Mobile Widgets
I leave them default.
3) Tools >> Mobile Analytics
It has an analytics to tell how much traffic from mobile device from all visitors.
4) Settings >> mpexo
I leave it default without enable it.
Easy and Good plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mobile-pack/

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Upgrade to MovableType 4.32 with Zemanta plugin https://www.yinfor.com/2009/09/upgrade_to_movabletype_432_wit.html https://www.yinfor.com/2009/09/upgrade_to_movabletype_432_wit.html#respond Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:22:07 +0000 https://www.yinfor.com/?p=727 Just get the notice that the SixApart released MovableType 4.32. It is a bug fix release with Zemanta plugin. For me, only Zemanta plugin is the bright point of upgrade. I got Content Recommendations Links and Tags Suggestions Look, I...

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Just get the notice that the SixApart released MovableType 4.32. It is a bug fix release with Zemanta plugin.
For me, only Zemanta plugin is the bright point of upgrade.
I got Content Recommendations
Content Recommendations of MovableType from Zemanta
Links and Tags Suggestions
Links and Tags Suggestion
Look, I use suggested links and tags for this post.

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