Archive for February, 2009

February 27th, 2009

New Plugins
CB-Featured
CB-Featured is a highly customizable featured content plugin which will display your selected posts with a nice scrolling and bouncing effect anywhere within your Wordpress theme. The plugin was created from jCarousel and developed by CyberBlog.net
SexyBookmarks
WP Social Bookmark Menu (aka: SexyBookmarks) is a Wordpress plugin that inserts menu of social bookmarking site icons in each of your blog post to make it easier for your reader to bookmarks your blog. You can watch this plugin in action in this blog.
Admin Show Sticky
Adds a new column to the posts table in the admin to display if a post is sticky or not. Determining what posts are sticky or not should be easier than editing each post or comparing a list of posts displayed on your site to the list in the Edit Posts table in the admin. This plugin will add a new column titled `Sticky` and place a check [...]

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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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WordPress Theme Releases for 02/26

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Ajay

February 26th, 2009

WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

Soho Serenity

It’s a Multi Column (1 sidebar, 2 main content colums, 2 right hand sections and 3 footer sections all widgetized) fixed width theme loosely inspired by the art galleries of Soho New York and is perfect for a showcase/portfolio or scrapbook type site. It features an author info page and gravatars along with Custom Archives, Sitemap, Blog Post and full width No Sidebars page templates.
BlogTimes

The BlogTimes WP theme includes an magazine style layout, twelve recent posts and an options panel for the front area, that gives you full control over the frontpage content.
Angley

2 Column, advertisement ready theme with dynamic page navigation and included PSD.
Aligned

Fixed width, Two column, Widget ready theme with rotating headers, placement for Google Adsense and 125×125 ads in sidebar
Theme author? Submit your theme for our daily releases.

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(8 votes, average: 3.63 out of 5)

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 02/25

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Ajay

February 25th, 2009

WordPress Plugins

New Plugins
PJW Query Child Of
Allows you to use query_posts to list the children of a page.
Christian Jokes
Christian Jokes widget will fetch the latest or random joke from christian-jokes.net website, and display them on your blog.
wp-starbox
This plugin adds voting functionality for posts. Visitors can vote for the post and against.
My CDN
Helps you offloading javascript, css and theme files to your own CDN network. This plugin only handles url rewriting not actual file transferring.
Estimated Reading Time
This plugin estimates the time it would take for a slightly below average reader to a slightly above average reader to read your post.
PJW Page Excerpt
Allows you to edit excerpts for Pages.
Align RSS Images
Scans your RSS feed and ensures that every image has the correct alignment and margin settings.
30bwidget
A simple plugin that provides shortcodes and sidebar widgets to integrate 30Boxes.com calendars within your Blog.
AntiVirus
AntiVirus for WordPress is a smart and effective solution to protect your blog against [...]

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(4 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

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WordPress Theme Releases for 24/02

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Ajay

February 24th, 2009

WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

Yashfa

Yashfa is 2 columns layout and created with simplicity and grid based design with a lot of featured and good looking layout. Widget and gravatar ready with support for threaded and paged comments, separated trackbacks and comments and custom header support.
WhiteBeans

WhiteBeans is simply a Wordpress theme framework. Currently is a simple white and orange two column theme. Actively being developed.
Indy Premium

Indy Premium is SEO-optimized, 3-column, ad-ready, WordPress 2.7 compatible with widgetized sidebars and footer.
Magazeen

Two column, feature rich magazine style theme
Zack 990

Zack 990 is a variation on Ocular Professor. Inspired by the Boston Globe’s Big Picture, Zack 990 is designed exclusively for photo and video bloggers.

Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to us.

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(2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

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The manual Excerpt in WordPress. What, why, how, tips and plugins

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Mark Ghosh

February 24th, 2009

WordPress, WordPress Hack, WordPress Plugins

The manual Excerpt in WordPress. What, why, how, tips and plugins.: Demetris has a written a very nice, well illustrated and explained tutorial on the WordPress excerpt and how to manipulate it to take full advantage of it.
WordPress excerpts, which are not excerpts, make a WordPress site easier to browse and its content easier to discover. In addition, when also used as META descriptions, good excerpts bring more and better traffic from search engines.
Topics discussed include:

What is the WordPress excerpt
Why write excerpts in WordPress
How to write excerpts
WordPress Excerpt Editor
Excerpts as META descriptions
Notes, Miscellaneous
Links

In Demetris’ style, the tutorial is very well written and well fleshed out.

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(4 votes, average: 3.25 out of 5)

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 02/23

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Ajay

February 23rd, 2009

WordPress Plugins

New Plugins
Public Post Preview
Enables you to give a link to anonymous users for public preview of a post before it is published.
Add Twitter RSS
Adds a link to your Twitter feed in the header of your WordPress Blog.
Favicon Generator
This plugin will allow you to upload an image file of your choosing to be converted to a favicon for your WordPress site.
AJAX Login Widget++
A clean AJAX-based login, registration and lost password retrieval widget.
Wordpress/Plugin Upgrade Time Out Plugin
Wordpress/Plugin Upgrade Time Out Plugin allows you to modify the files download time out value (mainly used for upgrade of Wordpress and Plugins).
WoW-Character-Display
The WoW-Character-Display plugin shows many informations from the WoW armory in a widget or post. Highly configurable and for multiple characters!
oxyXML generator
This plugin creates a XML file from your last posts.
WP Favorite Posts
Allows users to add favorite posts. This plugin use cookies for saving data so unregistered users can favorite a post.
Updated Plugins
Branded Admin
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(3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)

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Plugin Review: Post Avatar

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Ajay

February 22nd, 2009

Weekly Plugin Review, WordPress Plugins

I always thought that I was the only one who had a problem with the WordPress Upload manager. Seems like, I’m not alone. The author of Post Avatar plugin for WordPress also had similar feelings, which was one of the reasons he wrote this plugin.
Description
This plugin simplifies including a picture when writing posts by allowing the user to choose from a predefined list of images. The image can be automatically shown on the page or output customized with the use of a template tag in themes.
Features

Easy selection of images in the Write Post screen.
Scans images in sub-directories of the image option folder.
Allows the following file types: .jpg, .jpeg, .gif and .png.
Settings display avatars automatically or through the use of template tags.
Customize html output of avatars.
Does not display missing images.

Demo
For an example of what this looks like you can check out the author’s site and notice the 100×100px size images before [...]

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(15 votes, average: 4.27 out of 5)

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WordCamp India is On!

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Mark Ghosh

February 21st, 2009

Business of Blogging, General, wordcamp

WordCamp India is On!. The list of speakers is quite impressive and includes both Matt and Om for various talks including Matt’s famous “State of the Word“. It looks to be a fun and information filled event with quite interesting fare such as SEO, IP rights and other both techie and non-techie topics. As luck would have it, I am going to be traveling though Dubai and India next weekend (days late, dollars short) and will not be able to attend.
From the list of sponsors, the list of attendees and the list of speakers, the enthusiasm for blogging and WordPress in India is not lost on me. If you have not checked out the Delhi Bloggers Group or one of the many other blogging groups and partnerships mentioned and you are an Indian blogger, you might be missing out. I am hopeful that the turnout will be fantastic and I [...]

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(2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 02/20

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Ajay

February 20th, 2009

WordPress Plugins

New Plugins
Wordpress Twitter Bot
Post your Wordpress blog updates to your Twitter account
WordPress Wiki Plugin
The WordPress Wiki Plugin adds Wiki functionality to your WordPress powered website.
Plugin List
Lists current WordPress plugins used inside of page/post content.
Custom Logo
Replace WordPress default login/register page logo with custom one.
WP_ImageMation
ImageMation lets you put a set of sliding images with captions on any of your WordPress page.
Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Tool
Improves your blog’s search engine optimization by “noindexing” pages you choose.
Faster Image Insert
Integrates media manager into edit panel meta-box, avoid having to reload it separately in thickbox pop-up, suitable for precise image control.
Custom Post Background
Create custom backgrounds or styles for your posts and pages.
Share On Facebook
This plugin adds a footer link to add the current post or page as a Facebook link.
Fast Tube
Fast and easy way to insert videos from YouTube right into your WordPress blog posts or pages.
Updated Plugins
Plugin Wonderful
An easy way to place your Project Wonderful ads [...]