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Firefly’s Chat-On-A-Webpage Goes Live.: Found via GigaOm, Firefly is a cool little Javascript app that sits on tops of your blog or webpage and allows unfettered chatting and interaction ability for visitors. I have enabled it on WeblogToolsCollection for the time being for people to check it out. Enable at the bottom of the page (look for a small bar), click anywhere on the page and chat away! If you want to put it on your own blog, visit firef.ly WARNING: It is addictive in an “Ooo! Shiny!” sort of way.
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Original post by Mark Ghosh

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Thord Daniel Hedengren over at Devlounge has published an extensive checklist based on his experience of things to consider when using WordPress as a CMS, especially when it will be used for a client. His post covers a number of different situations you should think about ahead of time before you step into your favorite code editor. According to Thord, there are three things you need to consider before committing to WordPress:
1. Is the functionality needed covered by the WordPress core functions, and/or with the addition of (not too many) plugins? This is usually managing information pages (using Pages), and publishing news/press releases (using Posts). If I need to add a lot of custom stuff, including the custom fields, then perhaps it gets too complicated for the client.
2. Is there a good translation of WordPress available, so that your client can get the backend in their own language? Why should […]

Original post by Jeff Chandler

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Breadcrumb Titles For Pages
This plugin modifies wp_title() (the function used to create the title of your website to output all parent Pages when viewing a Page.
Allow Numeric Stubs
Starting with WordPress 2.5, there is a bug where you cannot have a child Page that’s stub is a number. For example this will not work: /about/5/. That URL conflicts with paged content feature where you can posts and Pages with multiple pages of content by adding <!–nextpage–> within your content.
This plugin allows you to have children Pages with numbers as stubs by giving up the ability to have paged Pages which isn’t a big deal as most people don’t use paged Pages anyway.
p2pConverter
Converts either a static Page into a Post, or a Post into a static Page! Just click on the Manage tab in the Admin interface, and click the Posts or Pages sub-tab.
Status Press Widget
Adds a Facebook Status Widget to display […]

Original post by Ajay

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WineX
WineX is a lightweight script that will import the listing contents of your CellarTracker wine cellar into your Wordpress website.
Hidden Content
Some blocks of the text can be shown/hidden for bots, logged-in users or all visitors (in posts, pages and comments) (Page in Russian)
GD Star Rating
Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating system for pages and/or posts in your blog. Also includes the widget for displaying votes and rating statistics for all posts and pages with votes.
GD LinkedIn Badge
This widget displays badge with a link to a LinkedIn profile page. It can also display some additional custom information above the picture and link.
GD Pages Navigator
Standard display of pages in Wordpress can be a problem if you have a lot of pages with subpages causing the widget with list of pages to take a lot of space on the page.
Silverlight Content
Add Silverlight objects (XAP-files) to the post and manage default […]

Original post by Ajay

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Image alignment within a WordPress post: WordPress 2.5 introduced floating image alignment within text on a post. This feature does not work on certain themes. Thanks to Jason for asking the question and to Sadish for the solution. Final thought: it would also be nice if a few gallery formatting options were available through the default interface instead of having to modify the shortcode and/or introduce hacks.
WordPress Search as a custom Google Search without addition page or post: Add a custom Google Search to your WordPress blog (and make search advertising dollars?) without too much of a hassle. Complete instructions and examples are included in the post.
Create a Flash Arcade site using WordPress: This set of instructions will help you convert a simple WordPress blog into a Flash arcade site. Pretty cool with detailed instructions on the transition.
Here is a tip which I stumbled upon accidentally, that is somewhat unrelated […]

Original post by Mark Ghosh

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Matt has opened up the signup for the WordCamp San Francisco event which will be held on August 16th 2008.
The WordCamp SF ticket prizes has been reduced by $5, each ticket will only cost $20 for this event. The event is being hosted at a bigger venue this time around, so you can expect better and comfortable seating arrangements, one of things Matt has ensured us about.
Going by the success of past WordCamp’s, we believe this one will be even bigger and better. You can book your tickets for the WordCamp SF event by visiting this page. Don’t forget to read more about what is WordCamp, if you are new to it.
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Original post by Keith Dsouza

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Listed here are the entries to the WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5.
Please help us choose the winners by visiting each of the plugins below and rating them on the linked page.

Adminimize
AnyVar
Attachment Extender
Automatic Timezone
Broken links Remover
Click
ComicPress Manager
Dk Obama Gallery
DoDo
Editor Extender
Flaresmith
Flickr Gallery
Fun with in-context comments
Great Real Estate
Idealien Category Enhancements
Image Browser Extender
Invite friends
Live Blogroll
MailPress
Manageable
Maxref Widgets
Media in response
MultiSiteManager
Nonce! Please
PhotoJAR: Base
Picture Increment Cron System
Post Groups
Post Tabs
Repost
Role Scoper
SEO Smart Links
Show Me Options
Sidebars
Simple Flash Video
SlideShare Presentation List
Snazzy Archives
Paypal API Subscriptions
Tabbed Widgets
tWPtter
Vent
Vote2Publish
WP125
WP Comment Remix
WP Easy Uploader
WP Sentry
WP Wall
Yank Widget
ZdMultiLang

Remember to test the plugin properly before giving your vote.
Design Trendsinspiration

Original post by Ajay

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Vita

Three column, widget ready, fixed width, custom image header theme
Kitten in Pink

Two column, pink, widget ready theme
WP-Andreas01

Three column, widget ready theme with support for tags, gravatars and including 12 additional header images.
Daleri Sweet

Fixed width, two / three column, widget ready blue WordPress theme
Secondary

Consists of a fluid two column outfit with news slider built into the frontpage: widgetized sidebar and footer columns with typical WordPress action like calendar, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled, native WP tag system, flickr is enabled in its own options panel.
QuickPress

A 2/3-column, widget-ready, SEO-optimized, Ad-ready, WordPress 2.6 compatible wordpress theme which is useful for all types of bloggers.
TheGrunge

TheGrunge WordPress Theme is a widget and ad-ready WordPress 2.5 Grunge Theme re-developed by the PositiveNoize design team.
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Original post by Ajay

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Slickdeals.net Blog: Slickdeals recently started a new “Slickblog” with WordPress. They seem to have put together a pretty seamless integeration between WordPress and their highly complex vBulletin installation and the comments on their blog are redirected to the main forums. I really like their sidebar items, including their hot topics by ratings and up and coming topics by the number of comments.
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Original post by Mark Ghosh

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Category Selector Back to the Sidebar
A simple plugin which moves the category selector back to the sidebar of the Post New page. In return, it removes the Related section (just because that I’m new in PHP and this is my first plugin), except the Press This bookmarklet.
Deviant Thumbs
This plugin displays thumbs from deviantART in a configurable carousel. It has widget support and is licensed under the GPL.
Movie Quotes
The Movie Quotes widget will fetch the latest, random or top rated quotes from themoviequotes.com website, and display them on your blog.
Snazzy Archives
A visualization plugin for your WordPress site featuring an unique way to display all your posts. Your archive page will never be boring again!
Show Me Options
How many times have you activated a plugin and the searched hopelessly for it’s options page? When you activate a new plugin, Show Me Options will show you a link to the options page you […]

Original post by Ajay

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