If you know this feature already , skip this article. But i have to ask a single question at the end of this section .

For wordpress version less than 2.3 , Go to Options  >  writing, and  for greater than 2.3, Go to settings > writing

What you have to do is create an email account with pop3 support

You can see the heading “Post via e-mail” there.

Enter your email server (by replacing mail.example.com)

Enter your pop3 port. (110 by default)

Enter your email login and password.

Choose a category to for the email entry posts

Finally Press update option Button

What you have done above is only the settings. For grabbing or pulling the content from email, you need to call/trigger an url.

That url is: http://yourblogdomain/wordpressinstalldir/wp-mail.php

Either you can call it manually. Or you can set up a cron job for that url by call the url using wget or like functions

Another simple mechanism to call this email trigger is use a hidden iframe in your blog template. (anywhere)

<iframe width=”0″ height=”0″  style=”display:none”  src=”http://yourblogdomain/wordpressinstalldir/wp-mail.php“></iframe>

The problem with this email posting is , it strips all the html tags before entering into wordpress database.

The is no way to find the attachments from an email.

So I decided to start a wordpress plugin which does the above missing properties. If there is any ‘working’ plugin available, please let me know, so that  I can avoid the re-inventing of wheel .

Thanks

Sajith M.R

Google Pagerank is updated this week. www.sajithmr.com page rank is still 3. But most of the posts got 3 and 4. Those who are waiting to see the page rank update,  use this website:

http://www.googleneedle.com

If you use google toolbar in your browser , the result may be shown as cached. The Google Needle will give you live/current page rank. Check your each post or website pages there. If you have better page rank for your wordpress blog, use my page rank plugin to show the rank to your readers with a very cute designed page rank bar.

After the success of my previous wordpress plugins , Announcement, Show My Page Rank, Sexy Rating, Add to this , Stumble Reviews, I created one more interesting plugin, called Currently Reading Posts Plugin.

Whenever a visitor visits your website, he can see what are the posts currently reading by other visitors. It is like youtube’s currently watching videos.

You can see its current working at the top right corner of this website.

Download the plugin for here: http://www.sajithmr.com/downloads/CurrentlyWatching.zip

Go to Admin > Plugins > and activate the plugin.

Paste this code: <?php wp_show_currently_watching() ?> by editing your template / theme . (I placed the code in header.php file)

It is implemented with ajax support.

Do you wanna inform any important news or message to your readers ? Here is a simple plugin, Wordpress Announcement Plugin.

Download the plugin from : http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/announcement.zip

Go to Admin > Plugin > and activate announcement plugin. After that, go to options and select Announcement. By default the plugin will be inactive. You have to set your announcement and activate the announcement by checking ‘Active’ checkbox.

Never Forgot to Run the Announcement. By Default the Announcement will be inactive

Enough !!! You visitors can now see your announcement. It will be displayed only one time for a particular user .

(If you want to see the announcement again, for testing purpose, Clear browser cookies, or atleast cookies from your blog. Otherwise you have to wait another 24 hours to play the announcement again)

The plugin is created with cute design and animation. It will never interrupt your blog reader.

Regards

Sajith

If you wanna know , what is others review or opinion about your website, You can use this wordpress plugin. It will provide the blog readers and your regular visitor to rate your blog. You can put this plugin anywhere in your blog. The plugin name is sexyrate plugin.

Here is the screen shot:

There are 4 types for rating , Perfect, Good , Bad and Too-Bad. One user can rate one time only. The whole thing is made out of Ajax. For providing more attraction , the plugin is created with images of sexy ladies .

If you want to place this plugin, what to do is , download it from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sexyrate.zip

Go to your wordpress Admin > Plugin and activate this plugin. After that , go to Admin > Presentation > Theme Editor and edit any place you want (header, single.php , index.php, home.php or sidebar.php) as suit to your blog and add this line:

<?php wp_show_my_rate() ?>

*Remember, this plugin is referred to those who has white backgroud wordpress theme.

Comment me your opinion about this plugin

Later
Sajith

If you installed stumble toolbar in your browser, you can see a white bubble button. It is called stumble review button. When you browse a website url, if you press this bubble, you can see the reviews regarding that website by different stumbleupon users. Take your wordpress blog posts and click on stumble review bubble, you can see others reviews about each of your blog post.

If you are getting more reviews for your wordpress blog post, it is the time to reveal or expose your reviews in front of your blog readers.

Here is a wordpress plugin which shows your post reviews by stumble users. If you are using wordpress widget, just activate stumble review widget and add to you sidebar after download the plugin files from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stumble-reviews/

If you are not a wordpress widget user, add the below code in Template Editor.

<?php wp_stumble_review_template() ?>

If you want to add stumble review on your sidebar use the below code:

<?php simple_sumble_review_template() ?>

See the screen shot when i activated the stumble review plugin and added the code <?php wp_stumble_review_template() ?> in my single.php file just above the comments area ( <?php comments_template(); ?> )

(Screenshot of sajithmr.com after installing stumble reviews plugin)

If your wordpress blog has a better page rank, here is a better chance to reveal it to your blog readers. That is Wordpress Page Rank Plugin Show-My-PageRank

Download the plugin from Show-My-PageRank.zip

Screen shot of my blog after installing this plugin is here:

You can also change the size, caption text, text color, font size etc from option window.

By default the rank will be shown just before each post. You can uncheck this option from the plugin option page.

If you want to show your page rank to a custom area , say footer.php or header.php , just add the below line to corresponding section in theme editor window.

<?php wp_show_my_pagerank() ?>

See my blog’s about page after adding this php code in page.php file in theme editor:

So start download now. Happy Blogging !!!

Addtothis is a wordpress plugin for improving your blog traffic. What you want to do is just activate this plugin. This plugin automatically add user option / shortcut for adding a particular post in delicious , stumble , feed readers and technorati

Download the zip file and unzip into your wp-content/plugins directory. Go to your administrative control panel / plugin menu and click on the activate link.

The plugin is also available from wordpress official website: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addtothis/

See sample post after activating this plugin:

Comment your opinion / queries regarding this plugin. If you want more additions to this plugin, please feel free to mail : admin@sajithmr.com or comment to this post.

Todo Reminder is a Mozilla Plugin, which can be used to set Reminder for Your Friends for a particular event on a particular date. Your Friend will get Email / SMS alert some days before (Called Heat) that event. So you never forgot a particular event / ToDo.

For example, when you composing an Email to your friends for your College Get together on March 21. While composing mail you can simple add a reminder to all of your friends by a single mouse Click, so that all of your friends get reminder emails / sms on that day.

You can Download the Plugin here

Here is the screen short of composing an Email in Gmail:

Before Sending this mail, Select all email addresses and right click :

(You can select any set of emails from any web page and can add reminder like this)

Launching the TodoReminder Plugin:

Here you can see all of your selected emails, you can put a Subject for your Reminder, Date of Event, and How many days before the alert to be provided (Lets call it HEAT). If Date is March 21 and 3 is the HEAT, then your friends will get alert email from 18th March to 21 March.

See the window after setting the Reminder

Enough, Your Friends automatically gets Reminder Emails along with your email. He can Accept or Reject your reminder.

The screen shot of the email your friend gets:

When he clicks the Reminder Activation link, A Confirmation window will pop up , and he can Accept or Reject the reminder and also can Edit the HEAT (How many days before the alert to be started)

Screen shot of Confirmation Popup:

Download the plugin Now

For more, go to TodoReminder Online Service : http://remind.olph.in

I personally like gmail than any other webmail service in this world. I was a regular yahoo mail user two years before, and i used yahoo messenger also. I am not blaming yahoo mail service, i don’t know the reason for this switching exactly, but i like gmail. Might be because of its simple chat, simple Ajax implementation, very simple look, etc . But the thing i want to disclose is not a mere comparison of gmail and yahoo, that is not my concern here.

Some additional features i expected while using gmail are HTML signature, customizing the view, labellings, theme , removal of ads , i am not revealing the climax of the movie here but i got a mozilla plugin which does all the lagging features of gmail what i expected, and its name is Better Gmail (They could have put better name) .

You can download that plugin from here : Better Gmail

Screen shot:

Download the plugin and install and refresh gmail page after making any changes in the option. Put a better html signature with images , links etc like yahoo, customize your gmail as you wish.

(Tips: For 100% working of this plugin, you need to switch into older gmail version)