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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes I hit the jackpot on good plugin finds today for all you junkines. This morning I found myself sitting face to face with a site called Coffee 2 Code and a long list of WordPress 2.5 compatible plugins. I won’t go through the whole list but here are the ones you can bet will find their way into my blogs very soon. · Auto Hyprelink URLs. It does just what it says by coding any plaint URL from your post or comment into a clickable link. While this has the potential for abuse with spam, it does mean you can remove the linking feature from the comments that might redirect someone elsewhere. · HTML Special Character Helper. I don’t this very often, but when I do I really hate looking it up in an external program. · Post to Post Link. While this is easily done with some preplanning normally, the description makes it look even simpler. I haven’t gone through the full trial on it, but it looked too good not to mention. · Extra Sentence Space. As a novelist,... 

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes WordPress Excerpt Editor Excerpt Editor lets you easily make post excerpts from all your posts and pages. With a host of options that will allow you to customize the excerpts including one to let you show the latest post in its entirety and the rest in excerpt or even giving you the entire home page as full posts while the rest are excerpted. There are a couple of really good reasons for using excerpts. First it will even out how your page looks when people show up on it. For those of us who are occasionally long winded and other times not so much this is a very good thing. The second big reason to use them is it eliminates quite a bit of duplicate content which is bad for SEO. The second new plugin for me is NoFollow Those Dupes which is something that not everyone is going to need. I have actually installed it here yet as I am working on some theme upgrades before I do. The great thing is it doesn’t actually eliminate duplicate content,...