Happy Halloween to everyone! At this All Hallows Eve, I would like to talk about Scary WordPress Moments. Since I have been working with WordPress for some time, I have had quite a few scary moments with WordPress. One stands out in recent memory.
WordPress Pumpkin by Eric Martin Displayed with permission
Let me start by saying that I am a huge proponent of backing up my blog. I put together the original WP-DB-Backup which has been enhanced and fixed through the years and is a fantastic plugin. I use it religiously combined with a couple of tricks I picked up from readers along the way. I have the plugin backup my databases everyday and email them to a “backup” gmail account. I also have filters setup in the gmail account to delete daily backups as they come in, thus managing space (gmail keeps deleted emails for 30 days). So I have […]
Original post by Mark Ghosh
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New Plugins
MagpieRSS Hotfix for Enclosures
This hotfix adds support for RSS enclosures to MagpieRSS, the RSS feed parser behind the fetch_rss() function in WordPress.
Tylr Slidr
This is a WordPress plugin that makes the process of adding a Flickr slideshow to your site much easier.
Upload RapidShare
Upload your file to Rapidshare
IE Warning
Shows nice and simple splash to your visitors with Internet Explorer
WP Unique Article Header Image
Allows you to add/associate unique header image with each single post/page.So you can spice your blog to have a unique header image per post/page.
LinkShare Link Locator (L3) Description
LinkShare Link Lookup (L3) is designed to make it easy for you to integrate LinkShare links in your posts, right from the actual write post page! Simply click the red arrows on the top right of the posting page and start earning today.
New User Approve
New User Approve is a Wordpress plugin that allows a blog administrator to approve a user before […]
Original post by Ajay
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Contender
Contender is a three column, fixed width, adsense ready theme.
NeeWee
Fixed width, three column, gravatar and widget ready theme.
Pink Orchid
A clean simple SEO optimized three column template in soft pink colors. The theme has two widget ready sidebars, gravatar support and is ad ready. The theme features a bio box that can be edited independently of the side bars and is unaffected by the use of widgets.
Grey Matter
Grey Matter is an two column, gravatar & widget ready, free and easy to use WordPress theme.
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Original post by Ajay
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WordPress for LinkedIn.: The WordPress Publisher Blog reports that the WordPress application is available for LinkedIn. Once this app is added and setup, your LinkedIn network will be alerted when you post something to your WordPress.com or self hosted WordPress.org blogs. To add the WordPress App to your LinkedIn account, visit the LinkedIn Application Directory. Select the WordPress App, enter your blog’s URL, and choose to display either all of your blog posts or just those tagged with “LinkedIn.” Save, and you’re all set. Wired, ZDNet and others have writeups on the new Application platform from LinkedIn.
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Original post by Mark Ghosh
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New Plugins
Flexi Quote Rotator
Add the quotations to your site using a shortcode or php snippet in template. You can use this plugin to display quotes or testimonials or other rotating snippets of content on your web site.
Moderator
Moderator is a WordPress Plugin and associated desktop application, built using Adobe AIR, that allows you to view and moderate comments from your desktop.
Font Burner Control Panel
The Font Burner Plugin allows you to easily add Font Burner Fonts to your WordPress theme.
WP-RTL
Adds two buttons to the TinyMCE editor to enable writing text in Left to Right (LTR) and Right to Left (RTL) directions.
PHPInclusion
PHP File Inclusion in posts & pages using require, include or similar statements.
Glassy
An automatic glassy effect for all your post’s images.
Tags 2 Meta Generator
Generates META tags automatically from your post tags!
Updated Plugins
IndicIME
This plugin enables user to write into 9 Indian scripts (Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Devnagari, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu) within […]
Original post by Ajay
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Fluid Blogging
Fluid Blogging is a very light weight theme, with less than 36KB. It uses almost no images and is fully optimized to make your blog fly like the wind. Fluid width, works fine in resolutions from 800×600 up to 1024×768 pixels, two columns, widget ready, gravatar ready, Adsense ready.
Retro
Back to a time when mainframes ruled the computing world and amber and green CRT’s were the only access to these beasts. Retro is based on the Sandbox theme with the Blueprint CSS framework added to give it a grid design if one chooses to modify the theme to their liking.
Pemuda
Two column, fixed width, widget and gravatar ready theme with inbuilt space for ads.
Aapna Theme
Fixed width, three column theme best for Personal Blog with Dynamically Rotating Album Pictures.
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Original post by Ajay
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Ozh has written up a nice article on the new WordPress 2.7 Favorite Actions menu and puts out the call to developers to write a plugin that would automagically determine the favorite actions of a particular blogger and populate that menu with those options. That would be a truly useful plugin and I would love to see it. Now that we are talking about the Favorite Actions menu and we know that actions can be removed, is there going to be competition/confusion between plugin authors who want to add a link to their plugin’s admin page to the top of that menu? Anyone plan on writing such a plugin?
I recently talked about a tutorial on creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress and thanks to WP Candy, have now found a pretty slick plugin that mimics that feature and adds a lot more. Flutter lets your modify your write page and […]
Original post by Mark Ghosh
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Searching through my feeds today, I came across a very cool plugin/application combo. It’s called Moderator and was written by Daniel Dura. Moderator is a combination of a WordPress plugin and an Adobe Air Application. With the Adobe AIR app, you can:
Viewing unmoderated comments.
Dock and system tray notifications of the number of unmoderated comments.
Accept, delete, and spam comments from within the desktop client.
Close application window, or minimize it to the system tray while running.
Shows the Gravatar icons for the user who posted the comment.
After installing and then activating the plugin, I installed the application. Installation went smoothly and now I have access to my comment moderation queue right from my desktop. An additional touch is that, my Windows taskbar now has an icon that mimics the comment moderation bubble graphic with a number that represents the amount of comments in the moderation queue. Pretty cool stuff.
For those of you […]
Original post by Jeff Chandler
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New Plugins
Google Maps Geocoder
WPGMG will create a custom fields on any post containing custom fields of street, city, state, zip and will add two new custom fields to the post: lat & lng. lat being latitude. lng being longitude.
WordPress Carbon Footprint
WordPress Carbon Footprint is a simple plugin for WordPress which works out and displays the carbon footprint of your blog. It works out how many words and images are on your blog and then calculates how many sheets of paper it would take to print a copy of your blog.
ConveyThis Language Translation Plugin
Allows your users to translate your blog into many different languages. The button is added to the bottom of every post.
Updated Plugins
Side Content
It enables you to define a set of widgets which are effectively placeholders. Each one is empty until you assign content to it when editing a page. This enables you to extend the content of the […]
Original post by Ajay
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In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Keith and I dissect the news of the week. We discuss why commenter’s and bloggers should use Gravatar, our thoughts and opinions on the new 2.7 dashboard mock up, Akismet 2.2.1 with stats and much more. We try to solve a problem which was submitted to us by Nicolas and before the end of the show, we give you our plugin picks of the week along with the job of the week. Don’t forget that next Friday, (Halloween) our special one hour guest will be Jane Wells who works for Automattic in the usability/experience department. As you can imagine, we’ll be focusing the conversation on WordPress and usability.
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Original post by Jeff Chandler
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