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GaMerZ’s WordPress Plugins Updated

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September 30th, 2007
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GaMerZ’s WordPress Plugins Updated: If you are a fan of Lester’s plugins and have updated your blog to WordPress 2.3, you might want to check them out again. If you have never seen his list of plugins, it might be time to take a gander. I use a few of his plugins and have had nothing but good things to say about them. He has updated all his plugins to make them WordPress 2.3 compatible though some of them are not backwards compatible anymore. The 2 new plugins that he added to this mass release are WP-DownloadManager and WP-PluginsUsed.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 9/28

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September 28th, 2007
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Classy wp_list_pages adds classes to the LI tags generated by WordPress f wp_list_pages() function. Cleaner Dashboard removes WordPress News and Other WordPress News from your dashboard and makes the dashboard sidebar more horizontal, with four columns instead of the default one. Tags4Page allows you to insert tags on pages. Who’s Linking Me? shows backlinks to your blog from Technorati. WordPress Upgrade Preflight Check attempts to check your other plugins and themes for problems that may cause errors when upgrading to WordPress 2.3. WordShout creates a live shoutbox, using AJAX as a backend.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 9/28

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September 28th, 2007
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Autumn is a 2-column theme with a very seasonal look. Enlighten is a 2-column theme with customizable header image that comes in AJAX and non-AJAX flavors. GenkiTheme is a 2- or 3-column, widget-ready theme. Pinkbird is the 3-column Bluebird theme modified for Pink for October. SEO Streamliner is an SEO-ready theme. Tumble Hybrid is another tumblelog theme built on Sandbox.

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Blogs and the Mobile Web

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September 27th, 2007
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Five Reasons Why The Mobile Web Sucks and the counter arguments from Russell (warning, littered with expletives) made me think about blogs, mobile web and the proliferation of blogs on mobile phones and mobile browsers. Since I am closely involved with many of the technologies that are being bolstered or criticized on those posts, I have my own opinions about some of them. Wireless carrier networks are SLOW: I am not so sure. Sprint has decent speeds and I can surf just fine on my phone or by using it as a modem. It is not as good as my 17 Mbps cable modem, but when I was stuck in a hospital and needed to call my parents in India using Skype via Sprint through my 755p, it worked like a charm. My VPN back to work and most surfing done over the phone was painless and got me through […]

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BlogBackupOnline

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September 26th, 2007
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BlogBackupOnline: I found out about this service while reading through Leo Laporte’s latest post in which he talks about how he used BlogBackupOnline to import all old VOX posts from his old blog and restore them onto WordPress. From their help PDF, Techrigy’s BlogBackupOnline allows users to create a full blog backup, schedule automatic daily backups, and restore or export a blog. The service is free for the first 50 MB (while in Beta) and backups can be scheduled and restores can be incremental. This service can be used to import blogs, restore single posts, export blogs from one platform into another among other features. Supported platforms include Blogger, WordPress, Friendster, LiveJournal, TypePad, Serendipity, Windows Live Spaces, Movable Type, Terapad, Vox and Multiply. A worthy tool indeed. Priced right, it could be a silent soldier that everyone depends upon.

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Upgrading to WordPress 2.3 Dexter

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September 25th, 2007
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Now that WordPress 2.3 Dexter has been released, it is time for everyone to upgrade and check out what the hoopla is all about. Just as in the WordPress 2.3 pre-release coverage, there are a lot of really good resources that discuss preparing your blog for it to be ready for the 2.3 upgrade. Since there is a bigger (relative term, bigger than upgrades in recent memory) chance that many of your plugins and themes might stop working with this new version, checking compatibility and making sure that everything will work as expected is even more important. Here are some resources that might help you make that leap. The WordPress Development Blog has a good article on Preparing for 2.3 I particularly like the list of compatible and incompatible plugins I also like the idea of switching your WordPress install to use Subversion for quick and painless updates Blog Security […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 9/24

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September 24th, 2007
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Facebooked is a 3-column, widget-ready theme based on the social networking site. Loopy Red is a 3-column, red theme. Love is a 2-column, widget-ready theme that pays homage to WordPress. Pigments is a 2-column, blue-and-green theme. Pink for October is a 2-column theme with pink, black and white colors created for breast cancer awareness month in October. Ranting Daily is a 2-column, widget-ready theme. Saur is a 3-column, widget-ready theme that features a random image, big search bar, and comment counter. T1 is a nice-looking Tumblelog theme with styling classes for several different types of entry.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 9/24

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September 24th, 2007
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Configurable Tag Cloud is a WordPress 2.3 widget that gives you a very nice set of configurable options for your sidebar tag cloud. Global Post Password enables you to set a global password for all your password-protected posts, and switch password protection on or off from the writing screen with just one click. Headspace 2 manages meta-data and handles a wide range of SEO tasks, including tagging your posts, creating custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, changing the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and a whole lot more. Page Category Plus is a WordPress 2.3 plugin that allows for pages to be assigned categories in the same manner as posts. WordPress 2.3 Related Posts will generate a list of related posts via WordPress 2.3 tags. Tag Suggest Thing is another tagging plugin for WordPress 2.3 that adds a box to the sidebar that will […]

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AirPress: Video Blog from your Desktop

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September 22nd, 2007
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AirPress: This post has been sitting in draft for some time, waiting for me to actually produce a video post but time has run away from me. AirPress is an Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) based desktop blogging client that is still in beta but has a few cool features including video blogging right from the desktop with a simple webcam. At first glance I had thought that AirPress lets you post “webcam streaming” to your blog, which would have been tres cool (albeit very hard to manage) but I must have misunderstood the somewhat sparse instructions on the AirPress site. At this time, you can add flash, video, music, pictures etc through AirPress. I would have given them five thumbs up if they would have concentrated on media blogging instead of trying to be another desktop blogging client, but it definitely has potential but it also is buggy. Thanks David

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