Archive for February, 2005

2/23/2005 ↓

  • Wordpress 1.5 Theme: CleanBreeze

    Wordpress 1.5 Theme: CleanBreeze: Clean interface with lots of extra features such as support for popular plugins. (2)
  • BitfontMaker

    BitFontMaker: Painstakingly create your own fonts by clicking on small squares on a grid. Awesome for those that have a LOT of time on their hands but a cool application nonetheless. Created fonts can be downloaded. Thanks LifeHackther through Kottke (0)
  • New Wordpress theme: headspace

    New Wordpress theme: headspace by Fernando_Graphicos is a Wordpress 1.5 theme based wholly on Kubrick but looks very different. Two columns. (0)

A few good people 4comments

Author: Mark Ghosh Category: General

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I need a few good people to help beta test something I have been working on. Some sticky requirements include the need to be somewhat available through email or on IM or IRC to provide live feedback and a working Wordpress 1.5 install to play with. I foresee testing times between 6 and midnight tonight, times are EST.

Please leave a comment or email me if you are willing to participate and thank you if you are.

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  • How to Write a Simple WordPress Plugin

    How to Write a Simple WordPress Plugin: Step by step tutorial on how to write a Wordpress plugin. Owen includes a lot of code snippets and the tutorial is littered with “try this” and “what about that” which is what makes for a good teaching tool. Good job! (3)

2/22/2005 ↓

  • Wordpress PolyGlot Plugin

    Wordpress PolyGlot Plugin A plugin for complete and easy localization of your blog into several languages. Polyglot is actually just enhanced version of Language Picker. Better PolyGlot resources for Wordpress here. Great plugin for easy localization of parts of your blog. (0)
  • Multi User Weblogging: An Overview

    Multi User Weblogging: An Overview A very good overview of the multi-user blogging arena. The author covers a the most popular, latest tools available and provides some pros and cons for each. Anil weighs in with his support for the MT community in the comments. (0)
  • Wordpress Plugin: Post Updated

    Wordpress Plugin: Post Updated Post the last update date and time of each post on your Wordpress blog. Installation requires modification of core files. A suggestion to the author is to use one of the many new hooks in Wordpress 1.5 to create the text. On the same note, I wonder if Alex King has updated his “New Posts and New Comments” hack as a plugin. Thanks BloggingPro (2)

2/21/2005 ↓

  • Flash Embed - WordPress Plugin

    Kimili Flash Embed - WordPress Plugin: Easily insert Flash components with this plugin which uses a Web standards compliant Javascript Flash detect and embed script from Geoff Stearns. Look for the Textpattern plugin as well. (0)
  • Refspoof : Spoof your referer

    Refspoof: Spoof your referer on Mozilla browsers I have no idea why a normal user would find browser referer spoofing useful or even need to be so covert, but this plugin is proof that it can be done quite easily even from the client/browser level. (3)
  • Using FeedDemon 101

    Using FeedDemon 101: An interesting step by step screencast on how to download, install and successfully use the excellent FeedDemon newsreader. Not only is the content of interest, the method of delivery (screencast) is also of interest to me. If you know of any good screencasting software/methods, please leave me a pointer. (8)
  • Kubrickr: Header Pic Switcher

    Red Alt - Kubrickr Kubrickr is a tool that lets you replace that giant blue blob at the top of your WordPress 1.5 blog with a nice photo from Flickr. Thanks Lee (0)

2/20/2005 ↓

Simple PHP Gallery 7comments

Simple PHP Gallery: A very simple PHP gallery system that requires GD. Caching, simple upload to folders and a relatively simple install make this one to watch. I see a lot of similarities between this and something I have developed professionally. Could be easily integerated with a Wordpress install.

[EDIT]: Special version of Simple PHP Gallery that is pre-configured to pull the gallery into a Wordpress template.

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  • WordPress Plugin: GetWeather

    WordPress Plugin: GetWeather: Display the weather from a vertain zip with this simple but effective plugin. The author also provides a method to cache the information which makes the script much more usable. Thanks BloggingPro (2)

2/19/2005 ↓

Three Strikes Spam Plugin Updated 15comments

Author: Mark Ghosh Category: WordPress Hack

I want to release a beta version of the Three Strikes Plugin exclusively written for Wordpress 1.5. Newer comment spam features built into the 1.5 code needed to be exploited and this plugin makes use of one such feature.

New features include:

  • Better Bayesian Filtering - the bayesian code has been updated a little to train better, fixed some bugs
  • Better training on install - Used some of the new features in WP 1.5 to train the filter at install
  • More bugfixes and workarounds for Wordpress 1.5

Please leave bugs/suggestions as comments. Thanks for trying it out.

Download link for Three Strikes 1.5 Beta Plugin for Wordpress 1.5

[EDIT] I left a debug statement in the code which would have borked commenting, fixed in the download.

[EDIT] As a suggestion for testers/users of this plugin, get some good and some spam comments first before you install it. The plugin does not work well on brand new blogs, by design.

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  • WordPress Email Notification Plugin v2.0

    WordPress Email Notification Plugin v2.0 The Word Press Email Notification Plugin from Watershed Studio has been updated to version 2.0. Updates to this version include extra options, an install script and configuration area, import/export of email lists etc. (1)

2/18/2005 ↓

  • Cool Firefox Statusbar Extensions

    Cool Firefox Statusbar Extensions : Especially useful is the ColorZilla color picker for FireFox, I use it anywhere and everywhere. FYI Pete is quite the ColdFusion guru and has some really cool insights into new stuff in ColdFusion/CFMX 7 (0)
  • Technorati: Tag: Wordpress

    Technorati: Tag: Wordpress What’s all this? This page shows all kinds of goodies from the web about Wordpress. To contribute, just make a post to your blog about Wordpress and include the link below. Web collaboration at some of its best. (2)
  • Find Dropped Domain Names

    Find and register Dropped or Expired Domain Names: Good tool if you are looking for that unque name for your blog or website. Those elusive three and four letter domains are also available for search. (2)

Web Spam Summit 1comment

Author: Mark Ghosh Category: General

Web Spam Summit: More precisely, a web spam squashing summit is being organized by Technorati and hosted at Yahoo! Sunnyvale. I could have exchanged some valuable insight and information but am stuck here on the East side of the island! Oh the desire to move to the West! :)

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