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WOT Launches "WOT for Blogs" WordPress Plugin

Tue 18 Jan 2011 12:38:34 PM UTC — DeanC_UK
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Are you a blogger using WordPress technology for your blog?

Today sees the beta launch of a WOT plugin for Wordpress - the popular blogging platform/software.

The WOT for Blogs plugin adds WOT reputation symbols to posts and comments on your blog keeping you and your readers safe from any untrustworthy external links.

Install and give feedback

Installing the plugin is simple and can be done in one of two ways:

  • Search for "WOT for blogs" on your Wordpress Control Panel and it'll be the first result. Follow the instructions on the page.
  • Alternatively, you can download a zip file and upload that to your wordpress control panel.

And you're done.

We're releasing the plugin as a beta to get feedback from users and iron out any potential problems. Please let us know your feedback in the comments below!

Read more about the plugin

Don't have WordPress?

If you're a blogger using some other technology than WordPress, you can add the WOT rating icons to your blog using the WOT widget. It does the same as the WordPress plugin but the installation requires a tiny bit of HTML coding.

Safe Surfing!
Dean

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Comments

  1. User picture
    • IssViews on Tue 18 Jan 2011
    • 04:57:48 PM UTC

    RE: WOT Launches "WOT for Blogs" WordPress Plugin

    Awesome and thank you. :D Have installed it on my Blog and works great :)

    Will WOT be considering expanding this addon to cover PhpBB, Joomla, Drupal and others?

    Using an obese PC. I offer it a bit and it takes a megabyte.

    • User picture
      • DeanC_UK on Tue 18 Jan 2011
      • 08:26:00 PM UTC

      RE: WOT Launches "WOT for Blogs" WordPress Plugin

      Glad to hear it works. It's something I've thought about and would be fairly straightforward but at least with wordpress we have a non-complicated distribution channel where blog owners can just click install. With drupal/joomla/phpbb there's no such functionality built in so there's the complicated barrier of a user having to upload files or edit HTML.
      • User picture
        • IssViews on Thu 20 Jan 2011
        • 01:05:50 PM UTC

        RE: WOT Launches "WOT for Blogs" WordPress Plugin

        I have found Joomla as easy as Wordpress when adding plugin's. PhpBB is another story though as this can be a rather complicated to those who are not familiar with File / CMS or HTML editing.

        If you decide to release this for Joomla, I certainly would be very interested :D

        Using an obese PC. I offer it a bit and it takes a megabyte.

    • User picture
      • Quadunit404 on Wed 02 Feb 2011
      • 03:47:25 AM UTC

      RE: WOT Launches "WOT for Blogs" WordPress Plugin

      I know there's a WOT mod for SMF 2.0 RC3, but since my site's forum uses SMF 2.0 RC4 I can't use it without some workarounds.

      And thanks for the plugin, WOT, my site's blog has been getting spammed lately (don't worry, I have Akismet!) and this will help me differentiate the actual spam from the legit comments caught by Akismet (although, if the comment has some site nobody's heard of posted over and over again, it's obviously spam!)
  2. User picture
    • Anonymous on Tue 18 Jan 2011
    • 05:09:48 PM UTC

    RE: WOT Launches "WOT for Blogs" WordPress Plugin

    Nice!
    Good job WoT.
  3. User picture
    • mentalist3d on Wed 19 Jan 2011
    • 08:54:22 PM UTC

    RE: WOT Launches "WOT for Blogs" WordPress Plugin

    I had been using the WOT widget for a while, but as I use a built in social bookmarking function with my theme, the WOT widget was mucking up the display a bit, and I couldn't rectify it completely, so it was removed.

    I've just tested it on the site, and that previous issue has now been resolved, so thank you very much for taking the time to create this.

    The only thing I would change though, is have ratings show for external links on static pages.

    If you wanted to go even further with the plugin, include a settings page that gives the site owner more control over where ratings are made available, ie a checkbox for - show ratings for links on Posts,
    Show ratings for Comments
    Show ratings for Pages
    Show ratings for links contained in widgets
    etc.

    Good plugin though and shortly to be rated on WordPress ;)
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    • Bob Zenith on Thu 20 Jan 2011
    • 07:26:35 PM UTC

    RE: WOT Launches "WOT for Blogs" WordPress Plugin

    Is there anyway for a similar functionality to be used on WordPress.com domains? WordPress.com domains can't add any Javascript, only plain HTML, so it isn't possible to use the widget or this plugin.
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    • Pawel Chichkov on Fri 21 Jan 2011
    • 09:28:23 PM UTC

    RE: WOT Launches "WOT for Blogs" WordPress Plugin

    Я без проблем установил у себя на сайте, прекрасно работает, без проблем. Спасибо разработчикам!
    I installed without problems on your site, works fine, no problems. Thanks developers!

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    • wayne navarro smith on Mon 12 Sep 2011
    • 12:54:37 AM UTC

    RE: WOT Launches "WOT for Blogs" WordPress Plugin

    HELLO, I HAD PREVIOUSLY POSTED A QUESTION ABOUT INSTALLING WOT ON WORDPRESS.I DID FIND THE ANSWER. BUT WHEN I TRIED TO INSTALL "WOT FOR BLOGS" ON MY .ORG SITE,IT SAID:
    Warning: This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress. 3.2.1
    ANY IDEA WHEN A NEWER VERSION WILL BE RELEASED.

    If It Don't Fit Don't Force It !!