WordPress 2.5 was just released a few months ago and WordPress 2.6 has been in development for some time to be released very soon. Not only does WordPress 2.6 add more zing to a platform that has already won hearts and made blogging a wonderful experience, there are few features in WordPress 2.6 that many have requested and some that caused a little controversy. Let’s get to know a few things about WordPress 2.6 that will definitely raise few eyebrows albeit a few of them in the wrong way. Post Revisioning I have been a Software developer for quite long now and know how important CVS or SVN is to maintaining different versions of a file. WordPress 2.6 brings the same functionality to posts where you can have different revisions for posts. In lay terms this means that no matter how many times you make changes to the post, you […]
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Archive for June, 2008
Semi-manual Breadcrumb Navigation This plugin allows you to add breadcrumb navigation to your WordPress installation. Unlike other WordPress breadcrumb plugins, this one allows you to manually control the breadcrumb structure. At the same time it takes care of a few things automatically, hence the name. WordPress Exploit Scanner This plugin searches the files and database of your website for signs of suspicious activity. It will not stop someone hacking into your site, but it may help you find any uploaded or compromised files left by the hacker. When a website is compromised, hackers leave behind scripts and modified content that can be found by manually searching through all the files on a site. Some of the methods used to hide their code or spam links are obvious, like using CSS to hide text, and we can search for those strings. Drop Caps Adds mark-up to your posts and pages which […]
[Continue Reading...]There appears to be a WordPress meme going around (started by John at WordPress Expert) where members throughout the community are tagging other blogs along with mentioning three plugins which they feel are under rated. Although I don’t have access to the plugins used here on WLTC, I would like to bring about three under rated plugins I use on my own blog. DiggThis – This plugin was written by Aviran Mordod This by far my favorite DiggThis plugin because it only displays on posts which have been submitted to Digg. My opinion, which is shared by many others is that, it’s better to show a DiggThis button when the article has been submitted to Digg rather than showing a Digg button next to every article. Unless you are ReadWriteWeb or some other mainstream blog, those buttons will show 0 diggs and will possibly hint to the content not being […]
[Continue Reading...]Google Trends: weblogtoolscollection.com provides (slightly) interesting facts on your blog. Though the product is free, signing in is required to see the number estimates. Not all sites seem to have a lot of data in Google Trends but it was fun to browse the various links. Most interesting to me were the “also visited” section and the “also searched” section. Matt Cutts had an interesting writeup on Google Trends for websites a little over a week ago.
[Continue Reading...]One Column Theme Grunge Superstar Grunge Superstar is a simple one column theme. The theme uses dark colors and you can add in additional information in the footer area. Linquist Linquist is a simple one column theme which can be used to display portfolios. The theme comes in light and dark styles and has built-in lightbox and gravatar support. Two Column Themes Brightness Brightness is a magazine style 2 column widget-ready theme. You can control the layout of the theme using settings in the Admin Panel. WP Pixels WP Pixels is a two column widget-ready theme. The home page has no sidebars and uses loops for three different categories. Three Column Themes Voodoo Empire Voodoo Empire is a three column widget ready theme. The theme makes use of dark colors. Both the sidebars are to the right of the content. Elements of SEO Elements of SEO is a 3 column […]
[Continue Reading...]James Dimick, author of the Easy Admin Color Schemes plugin for WordPress has released a color scheme based exclusively on WordPress 2.3. Now, when you install this plugin, the default color scheme selected is called “For the Love of 2.3” which will take the new WordPress and make it look like the old. Something many WordPressers have wanted since the release of 2.5. However, James mentions that: It isn’t a completely faithful recreation but I think it’s pretty darn close. The scheme was created purely from CSS with no modifications to the core code. So while you might not be able to make WordPress 2.5 look similar to the way WordPress 2.3 did in terms of the user interface, you can at least slap on old faithful for that nostalgic look.
[Continue Reading...]Kym Huynh is a songwriter and is writing a song about WordPress (just for fun I have been told) and has offered to write a song and record it professionally in a studio for the winner of the WordPress Plugin Competition! What an amazing prize! I love it when WordPress Samaritans offer their thanks in their own way. It has been added to the growing list of prizes for the competition. Thank you Kym! For those that have not noticed, we have eleven plugins entered/announced for the plugin competition already, with many more in the works. Have you signed up yet?
[Continue Reading...]Increase Sociability Increase Sociability shows customized messages to users who visit your site through StumbleUpon, Digg. The messages enhances your chances to gain better traffic from social networking sites. Hoard Hunter Hoard Hunter is an online treasure map game designed and developed for people who would like an easy (and fun) method of fund raising online. Nofollow Links in Posts Nofollow Links in Posts plugin enables you to add the nofollow attribute into links in a post within a specified category. Newspaper Style Posts Newspaper Style Posts is a simple plugin that splits your post into two columns, as you find in newspaper articles. SEO Smart Links SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags. Platinum SEO Platinum SEO offers all the features of All in One SEO plugin plus more. You can import your settings from […]
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