One of the greatest things about the internet is the ability to give more people a chance to be innovative and resourceful. When something is needed, something will be created. Web Developer Jon Lee is fulfills this spirit of the internet by creating an all-in-one rank diplay plugin that I know many bloggers will use to replace their current display options, which he calls - Jon’s Showoff Rankings.
As I would never recommend something that I don’t use myself, I have installed the plugin on the right side of the menu. With clear titles that have been spaced out nicely and with alternating bar graph colors, it’s easy to find the ranking you most care about (that “3″ still eats at me to this day!)
I have to admit I did have a little bit of trouble with installing the plugin, but this is the first release of the plugin, so I’m not going to complain at all. According to Jon’s instructions, I was suppose to just download the plugin, ftp the plugin folder onto my server and the activate it through my dashboard. Apparently, my hosting service is a little tighter on security than Jon’s in Canada, so it didn’t work on the first shot. I emailed Jon right away and asked what I should do and he responded pretty quickly and told me to create a blank html file and save it as jsr_cache.html with chmod 666. Once I did that, it was worked perfectly.
The Dashboard Plugins Option page that Jon created was oustanding. Truly one of the easiest plugin option pages I’ve worked with as the options were clearly stated and intuitivly placed.
I’d like to congratulate Jon and thank him again for making such a great plugin. I’m sure that along with helping out a lot of fellow bloggers, he has just helped himself with a great piece of linkbait to spread throughout the blogosphere that should definitely give him a reason to showff off his own rankings! If you like what you see or would like to learn more, click here to read and download the plugin.
What do you guys think about the plugin? What else would you like to see? What are some of your favorite new plugins you’ve been using?
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Definitely a great plugin! Thanks for the info Gary!!
Yup…very nice plugin..would have used it if i had any kind of ranking !!
Thanks for the review
I have a few bug fixes and a new release should be out later this week!
Looks like a good way for you super-bloggers to show off your feathers. Interesting plug-in.
That’s a pretty nifty plugin. It’s small and looks organized and professional.