Archive for February, 2009

WordPress Plugin Releases for 02/27

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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 [...]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 02/26

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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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WordPress Plugin Releases for 02/25

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February 25th, 2009
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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 [...]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 24/02

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

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February 24th, 2009
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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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WordPress Plugin Releases for 02/23

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February 23rd, 2009
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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. [...]

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Plugin Review: Post Avatar

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February 22nd, 2009
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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 [...]

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WordCamp India is On!

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February 21st, 2009
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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 [...]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 02/20

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February 20th, 2009
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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 [...]

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