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WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/27

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November 27th, 2007
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aStickyPostOrderER allows you to re-arrange the order that WordPress displays posts. ClickQuote will wrap selected text in appropriate tags and insert it into your comment reply box. Limosin Status Line displays a line of text at the top of your blog page. PowerBlogroll allows you to display a blogroll with name and favicon. Simple Feed Copyright will add a simple copyright notice at end of full text articles in your feed.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 11/27

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November 27th, 2007
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3Grey is a 2-column, stylish theme with third column for advertising. Amber is a 4-column, fluid-width theme with light colors. B3 is a single-column, no-frills rebuild of the minimalistic Bare theme. Blue Paradise is a 3-column theme that provides support for WP-Ratings and Subscribe To Comments. Also check out HateMate by the same author. Crzy Blu is a 3-column, lightweight theme with support for Gravatar and MyBlogLog. Gluttony is a 2-column, grey theme in SmallPotato’s Seven Deadly Sins series. LinearEX is a 2-column theme that provides some visual tweaks from the author’s Linear theme. Marc is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with customizable header image.

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Where do you read Weblogtoolscollection.com from?

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November 25th, 2007
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I have always wanted to ask this question from my readers since I believe that the answer would help me provide more ways receive the information that is posted on this blog (and help WordPress users). Since I came across this cool app for Facebook that allows you to attach polls to your Facebook pages, I added it to the weblogtoolscollection.com Facebook fan page. With that in mind, where do you read weblogtoolscollection.com? The poll embed code is not behaving. If you want to vote, please visit the facebook fan page, click on “View polls for weblogtoolscollection.com” and vote there. I should have used a better polling plugin like the one from GamerZ. When I get the polls plugin installed, I will update the post with the right information. Till then, please leave a comment. Thank you for being patient and I apologize for the confusion!

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WordPress Post Thumbnails

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November 24th, 2007
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Giving each WordPress post a thumbnail, and display the thumbnail on the home page: Interesting tutorial on creating thumbnails for each post on your blog and using Custom Fields to add and display them on your front page. A word of warning: the process is hand crafted and labor intensive. Think of them as SnapShots for your WordPress posts, hosted on your own blog. I think this could be a very cool plugin that automagically builds thumbnails for your posts and stores them on your blog. Then a custom function that behaves like “recent posts” could display thumbnails of your posts on the front page. I see this feature being really useful for those who post a lot of multimedia such as videos and pictures. Thanks HackWordPress [EDIT] Also, check out another Custom Fields thumbnail tutorial.

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Comment Stupidity Filter On Its Way

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November 23rd, 2007
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Comment Stupidity Filter On Its Way: Interesting site pointed out by WebProNews about a comment stupidity filter that could differentiate between sarcasm and stupidity (and I presume spam is stupid). Apparently, stupid comments (as opposed to stupid people) tend to use more consonants and more clever comments use more vowels. This can get pretty offensive! CNN Money, where this was originally noticed, must have been having a slow day. The solution we’re creating is simple: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English…. we’re collecting a ranked corpus of stupid text, gleaned from user comments on public websites and ranked on a five-point scale. Interesting. I hope the StupidFilter folks have spent some time thinking about internationalization of comments and encoding standards in their upcoming WordPress plugin. I can see spam comments in the form of a bunch of vowels and/or commenters being really self-conscious about [...]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/22

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November 22nd, 2007
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Collapsible Categories Widget allows for collapsible category lists in the form of a widget. DualFeeds turns your feed into two separate feeds (full post and summary), allowing your readers to subscribe the feed of their choice. (Upgraded to v. 1.1) Duplicate Post allows you to create a draft copy of a current post. GigPress is a WordPress plugin built specifically for touring bands, allowing them to list shows, tours, Google maps, and more. Obfuscate makes email addresses in your posts and pages obscure, thereby reducing the chance of your email address getting picked up by a web crawler or bot and used as a spam target. Trustworthy XHTML lets you control how much auto-formatting WordPress does both while using the Rich Text Editor and after posting articles.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 11/22

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November 22nd, 2007
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Atlantia is a 2-column theme with striped background and sea-worthy header. DivClear is a 2-column, light theme with third column for advertising. RevolutionCars is a dark, 3-column theme with Adsense readiness.

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Visiting China

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November 21st, 2007
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I will be traveling in China through the earlier part of December. This is a great opportunity for me to meet some of my Chinese readers, fellow bloggers and WordPress aficionados. If you are interested in meeting, are knowledgeable about the area or could provide some tips, please leave a comment or contact me directly. As the itinerary stands, the following times are open for me. Beijing: December 2nd, Evening Qinhuangdao: December 3rd and 4th, Evening Shanghai: December 6th and 9th, Evening Hangzhou: December 7th, Evening Judging from my reader statistics, I have quite a few readers in China. If you are reading this blog from China, where do you live?

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Lijit: Search Stats for your Blog

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November 20th, 2007
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Lijit is a search tool/widget that you easily install on your blog. It lets you provide a comprehensive search of almost everything that you want, including integration with popular social networking tools such as Facebook. Lijit creates custom Google searches with your search items and then, I assume, puts up their own Google Ads in the searches. I happen to think search statistics are very important for a blogger to understand user trends, likes and dislikes. I noticed Lijit for the first time while reading about Kindling on A VC and the name Lijit reminded me of Lijjat (which is a snack from India). I did setup an account to test out the services and you can see it at work on the sidebar of this blog. The popular search cloud and pretty cool set of stats are the killer set of features I was looking for. Give it a [...]

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