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When setting the featured image for a post, you usually have to go into each post’s edit screen. Bulk-Select Featured Image is a very useful new plugin that can save you a good number of clicks in this process. It adds an “Use as Featured Image” action to the Media Library. This can be very useful if you need to set the post thumbnail / featured image for a lot…

Whether you write a sports commentary blog, manage an online sporting equipment store, or just love sports so much that you festoon your personal website with your team colors, you can now share your enthusiasm with your site’s visitors with breaking sports headlines from ESPN. ESPN Headlines is a simple widget that easily integrates with your WordPress site and allows you to enhance your sidebar with high quality news about…

Having a little trouble with your site’s speed? The Site Performance plugin allows you to get a glimpse of how your WordPress site is doing and where it might be slowing down. There’s no need to insert any code – simply install the plugin and start browsing your pages. The Site Performance plugin measures three major aspects of how your site is performing: Queries: Memory: Load Time: It may be…

Everyone sees a 404 page now and again, whether due to an incorrect URL, a site that hasn’t quite gotten all of its pages fleshed out, or a link is simply broken. But what a 404 page doesn’t usually do is provide anything useful to the frustrated user. The True Google 404 plugin aims to remedy that. It uses the trueGoogleSearch API to turn your usual useless 404 page into…

WPSnipp is a handy, searchable code snippet reference site for WordPress developers, currently boasting 580+ snippets. Kevin Chard has given the website a quick refresh, making it easier than ever to sort snippets by tag and category. The sidebar widgets now display popular and favorite snippets, as well as a small bar graph for each category and tag, showing a graphical representation of the total number of posts. At the…