Recently, I’ve become a bit of a plugin ho. I love finding new tools that enhance the blogging experience for me and the reading/browsing experience for my readers. In the last few months I’ve been using a plugin called Apture that may be the best one I’ve found yet.
I like embedding things in blog post, like pictures, links and videos. What I don’t enjoy is the number of steps it takes to find pictures that I want. The internet is here to serve me and make my life easier, right? I don’t want to go to Flickr (my photo haven of choice), click search, click advanced search, click the license level I’m looking for, then begin the search, find the image, copy the address, then keep going back and forth to get the info I need. By using Apture I can browse through multiple picture sites and find the photos I want with the proper license level. Not only that, but when I embed a link, it creates a pop-up preview. Here’s the kicker, though – when you embed a YouTube video using Apture, you can “edit” it, choosing the in and out points for the video, in case you only want to show a short clip.
Apture's User Interface
Apture’s made blogging a much smoother process for me. Are you using it? If no, what plugins are you rocking right now?
