Good morning everyone. Hope you all had a great weekend. Here are a few new plugins to try out as well as a few updated ones.
New Plugins
Agent Storm IDX WordPress Plugin
IDX (Internet Data Exchange) is a real estate search site that allows users to search for properties in a given area. With this plugin, you can display IDX listings directly on your blog without iframes or other hidden containers. Requires an account with Agent Storm which is free during the BETA period.
Canonical Link Plugin
Automatically adds canonical link code into the header of your blog so you don’t have to manually add the rel=”canonical” attribute to every link.
DynamicWP Pop-Up Menu
A cute way to show off your links to pages, categories or anything else. Once activated, the plugin will place an image at the bottom right corner of your blog. Clicking the image will cause the links to smoothly expand. Includes icons.
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Original post by Len Kutchma
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Good morning everyone and welcome to the latest installment of WordPress Theme Releases. Let’s get right to it.
Voidy
Voidy comes to us from Niyaz of Diovo.com and sports a crisp and clean minimalistic design. That combined with the large typeface makes it easy to concentrate on the content. From the theme’s options page you can set a custom logo, include a Twitter link and offer an email subscription via Feedburner. You can also select some custom text to display in the sidebar.
Paino
Polaraul.com brings us Paino, a simple and generic theme featuring a widgetized left sidebar and dressed in an easy-on-the-eyes pastel colour palette. It has breadcrumb navigation built-in.
Clean Simple White
Another simple and clean-looking design. The use of blue for hyperlinks fits in nicely with the general appearance of this theme. It features a widgetized right sidebar as well as a widgetized 3 column footer. From the options page you can set […]
Original post by Len Kutchma
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I have been thinking about this post for a while. It really started to come to me after I went through a server move of my own website which I discussed on this site last month – Moving Your WordPress Site and Database.
I did a lot of manual cleaning of my database to get rid of orphaned tables that had been in the database since the day I first set up a WordPress based website.
The majority of these defunct tables were from either themes or plugins that I had used at different points in the life of WindowsObserver.com. As you all know you try out a lot of stuff on your site – mine had 3 years worth of it in there!
Of course I had uninstalled the theme or plugin but a majority of these do not remove the information they leave in your database.
Now I am not a […]
Original post by Richard Hay
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These WordPress themes may be tiny, but they pack a big visual punch. These themes are great for sites with audiences with limited access to broadband, or any blog that wants to focus on speed and clean design.
Baughxie – a polished but very lightweight two column theme.
Mini – Minimal and elegant three column theme.
Simple Green – Very professional and very fast.
R755 – Simple yet sophisticated. Can be either two or three columns.
Swift – This is actually more of a theme framework than a theme. It has a theme options page with layout, font, and color options. Nicely done.
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Original post by Klint Finley
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Good morning everyone. Hope you all had a great weekend. Fortunately for me it is a long weekend here and I sure can use the extra day off.
Here are the latest plugins fresh from the oven.
New Plugins
Work-from-home Projects
Once activated, this plugin will create a widget displaying various work from home opportunities. From the options page you can type in your own keywords to select which opportunities to display or go with the default. The appearance of the widget is also customizable.
Export OPML
This plugin will export the visible items in your blogroll to a OPML file in your blog root. Then you need only create a link to it somewhere. Handy if you have a large list of links and don’t want to clutter your blog.
Mouse Eye Tracking Service
The plugin will tap in to PicNet’s Mouse Eye Tracking Service, a web analytics service which tracks user activity on your site and […]
Original post by Len Kutchma
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Perennial Weblog Tools Collection community favorite Who Sees Ads can be used to show ads only to certain visitors – such as people who have arrived on your site from a search engine. It’s a useful way to improve your click-through-ratio, and please your regular readers by hiding ads from them.
This is a quick introduction to using the plugin. Showing ads only to search engine visitors is extremely simple – Who Sees Ads can do much, much more. Check out the links at the end of this article for more information.
NOTE: Although the plugin says it’s for WordPress 2.5, it works fine with WordPress 2.92. I haven’t been able to test it with 3.0 yet because I don’t have any 3.0 test sites indexed in any search engines yet. Anyone else know if it works with 3.0?
If you don’t want to do this with a plugin, you can do it […]
Original post by Klint Finley
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Good morning everyone and welcome to the latest installment of WordPress Theme Releases proudly brought to you by Weblog Tools Collection.
Photo Theme
Photo Theme is the newest release from Blogging Inside and much like their other themes features a soothing colour palette. This theme comes with a 300px wide sidebar (perfect for your ads) and a whopping seven widgetized areas. It is also localized and comes with the language files for English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Russian.
Magnitade
Magnitade comes to us from Jing Xuan and sports a crisp and clean look. Although it is meant to be used as a gallery theme it can easily be adapted for other purposes. It requires the WP-PostViews and WordPress Related Posts plugins to function, both of which are included in the ZIP package.
Diabolique Fountain
Diabolique Fountain, from Diabloique Design, is a nice looking dark theme which sports a horizontal navigation menu for displaying pages including […]
Original post by Len Kutchma
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Original post by Nick La
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Hello everyone. You may or may not know me. My name is Len and I normally toil away in the forums here at WLTC testing all of the theme submissions before they make it here to the main site. Our regular theme author Perurry is away for a while so I will be pulling double duty in his absence. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please feel free to drop them in the comments section below.
With that said, let’s take a look at some of the latest and greatest theme releases from the WordPress community.
Oceanic Flight
Oceanic Flight comes to us from JB WEBDEV. It sports two widgetized sidebars, horizontal navigation above the header image and a large search box in the header area. The theme comes in a wide-screen format with its main colours being white, gray and a soothing off-brown. It is easily customizable.
NaturalPaper
NaturalPaper is the latest […]
Original post by Len Kutchma
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The three components of information security are: Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA). If you’ve followed the steps my previous tutorial, you’ll have come a long way towards ensuring all three. But you’ll always need to keep an eye on things – remember, no site is hack proof. Here are some tools to verify the integrity of your data.
Monitoring
In my first article on WordPress security I mentioned Open Source Tripwire as an option for monitoring your WordPress install for unexpected changes. A reader pointed out that it wasn’t the best solution since it’s no longer maintained and suggested a couple other alternatives. Since then, I’ve discovered a much easier way of monitoring your WP install: WordPress File Monitor.
What it does: monitors all the files in your WordPress directory (except the ones you tell it not to) and e-mails you whenever something changes. This means nothing changes without you knowing about it. […]
Original post by Klint Finley
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