Archive for August, 2008

August 30th, 2008

Extended Categories Widget
A replacement of the category widget to allow for greater customization of the category widget.
Protected Post Password Hint
Traditionally all password protected posts contain a boiler-plate password form without any hints. Without any capability to change the string, one must provide the hint in another post, which is a bit clumsy. Not to mention, people viewing the single protected post only will be unable to see the hint at all. With this plugin protected posts are more usable.
Babel
It allows you to write your blog in multiple languages, and switch between these with a simple click on a flag.
No Href in Comment Author
Disable HREF URL linking in the comment author of your WordPress posts
Lijit Search
The Lijit search ‘wijit’ allows your visitors to search through not only your blog content, but also your extended social network.
WordPress Flag Comments
Allows readers to flag WordPress comments as inappropriate and then allow an administrator control [...]

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(2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

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WordPress Theme Releases for 08/28

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Ajay

August 28th, 2008

WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

Transport

It’s dark, and stylish, with a static patterned background, it’s grey with a dash of blue. It has two columns, and is widget ready.
White 2 cols

it is plain, simple, and grey and white.
Blue

Simple two column, blue theme.
Green Island

Two column, green and blue theme. This theme uses the frontpage as a summery of the blog/site. Not only can you see the latest posts, you can also see the about-page, the categories and the tags.

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(13 votes, average: 2.08 out of 5)

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WordPress Hacks: 21 tips to make you smile

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Mark Ghosh

August 28th, 2008

WordPress, WordPress Hack

Well there are two links that showcase 11 and 10 fixes and hacks respectively.
Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes: Noupe lists 11 commonly requested WordPress hacks and elegant fixes for them. They include avoiding duplicate content, having category specific menus, sidebar login boxes, most wanted categories etc.
10 WordPress Hacks to make Your Life Easy: Jai lists another 10 hacks to play with. His hack tutorials include adding gravatars to comments, Twitter, image gallery, author bio etc.
Some of these are just tutorials on how features work within WordPress and how to incorporate them into existing themes while others are all our modifications of code in themes and in various other places. None of them look too difficult and some of them can be accomplished with plugins. However, all of them are worth checking out.

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(9 votes, average: 4.22 out of 5)

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Tackle Plugin Compatibility Issues While Using Popular Libraries

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Keith Dsouza

August 27th, 2008

WordPress Tips

I recently got a email from a plugin developer, with regards to him having compatibility issues with one of the plugins I had developed. It turned out that both our plugins used a popular library called PclZip for adding archiving features. Due to the compatibility issue, accessing his plugin would cause a fatal PHP error saying that the PclZip class cannot be re-declared, when both our plugins were activated.
The compatibility issue arose because of two things;

A mistake on his part while checking for existence of class objects in the code.
A mistake on my part of using custom libraries, instead of using those provided by WordPress core.

Here is a code snippet used to check for class existence.
if(! function_exists(‘class_name’)) { require_once(‘myclass.php’); } $object = new class_name();

The above code is wrong, since:

Class names [...]

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(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/27

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Ajay

August 27th, 2008

WordPress Plugins

ScoreRenderer
This plugin renders inline sheet music fragments inside posts and comments into images. It supports ABC, GUIDO, Lilypond and Mup music notations.
Submit Your Blog
A new WordPress plugin has been created that will have direct links to 20 different places to submit your blog. These twenty blog submission directories are popular places to advertise your new WordPress blog. They appear as links inside the back office of your WordPress blog.
MarkItUp
WP MarkItUp! is the Wordpress plugin that replaces the old “quicktags” toolbar with MarkItUp!, a lightweight jQuery plugin that allows to turn any textarea into an highly customizable markup editor. XHTML, Textile, Wiki, Markdown and BBcode toolbars are already provided out-of-the-box, but even your own markup syntax can be easily implemented with this system.
Top Friends
Top Friends is a WordPress blogroll enhancement plugin. The plugin will fetch your friends’ feeds, and then display the feed’s name and status icon base on last update [...]

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(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)

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WordPress Theme Releases for 08/25

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Ajay

August 25th, 2008

WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

WP Plasmashot

Two columns, widget ready, left side bar WordPress theme.
miniBlog

Simple two column white and grey theme
OneNews

Turn WordPress into your personalized news aggregator.
Teal

Simple two color theme made up of two colors, teal and white.
AcosminTECH

Three column, widget, gravatar and ad ready theme
mts Journey

A classic 3column, widgetready, gettexted and flexible width theme that supports print and PDAs.
Ocular Professor

Ocular Professor (OP) is a WordPress theme designed expressly for photobloggers. Designed to incorporate the new gallery features of WP 2.5+, OP also includes a widget-enabled footer; a “Featured Post” section that, when enabled, allows posts to sit outside the normal flow of blog posts; special formatting, such as drop-caps and image captions; and author comment highlighting.

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(5 votes, average: 3.60 out of 5)

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Stop Blaming The WordPress Team

August 24th, 2008

Disclaimer: I am not a plugin author. This post is filled with my own opinions and is taken from an end user point of view. If you are a plugin author, be sure to add your point of view in the comments.
Traversing through my feed reader after a major version of WordPress is released is always interesting to me because I’ll never know what types of reactions I’ll find. Unfortunately, I’ve been noticing a trend that is unacceptable. The basis of this post will be focused around a line of thought which I find to be anger inducing.
The biggest problem lies in the fact that Wordpress is continually pushing updates too often without much in the way of testing with the most popular plugins. Podpress is huge! how could they have released 2.6 without seeing if one of the most popular plugins will work? To me the fault lies [...]

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(57 votes, average: 4.63 out of 5)

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/23

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Ajay

August 23rd, 2008

WordPress Plugins

Plugin Manager
Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from WordPress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin.
Yoast Breadcrumbs
This plugin allows you to add breadcrumbs to your theme.
Lijit Search
The Lijit search ‘wijit’ allows your visitors to search through not only your blog content, but also your extended social network.
Movie Quotes Widget
Wordpress Widget will take the latest, random or top rated quotes from this website, and display them on your blog
Share This
This plugin will allow your visitors to share your content via social bookmarking sites and/or e-mailing the post to a friend.
WP Super Cache
WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.
FTP Plugin for WP Database Backup Plugin
With the FTP Plugin for the WP [...]

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(7 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

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WordPress Theme Releases for 08/22

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Ajay

August 22nd, 2008

WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

Dust

A fluid three column outfit with a header image rotator built in: widgetized sidebar and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Delicio bookmarks, Twitter and Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel.
Brown Stitch

2 columns theme with widget ready on right sidebar. The bottom 3 columns were fixed though.
Notepad Chaos

The theme has 2 columns, a quite vibrant design including “personal” design elements such as handwritten headings, stick-it-notes, clips and pins.
WhiteWash

A fast loading theme without distractions, images and cluttering. WhiteWash is easy to customize and it’s ideal for users who don’t want a blog with many colors or stuffed with features. Because of the wide spaces, this Theme is easy to read. Image-styling, when a picture is linked with a larger image or URL, there’s a nice hover-effect.

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(5 votes, average: 4.20 out of 5)

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