BuddyPress 1.0 Has Arrived.: Andy announced the release of BuddyPress 1.0 on the BuddyPress community Blog and there was much rejoicing. This was an excellent opportunity to get my WLTC Community project off the ground and I was an like installation fiend as soon as I finished work on my day job. So without further ado, especially if you want to play around with BuddyPress, please head over to the shiny new WLTC Community and register for either a username or a blog. I hope to meet you there!
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Archive for April, 2009
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New Plugins Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments Adds the ability to do an in-place expansion of comment excerpts on the admin dashboard ‘Recent Comments’ widget. Ads for Old Posts The Ads For Old Posts plugin will automatically insert an ad block in your posts once they reach a certain age. The idea is to not bother your regular readers with ads, but display the ads for people who may find your posts months and years later. WP Cartoon This plugin lets you integrate the daily web cartoon from http://www.danscartoons.com/ for non-commercial websites. It adds a button to the TinyMCE Editor in your wordpress installation so that you can integrate the cartoon with one click on any page or post you like. Twounter Twounter is a WordPress Plugin that fetches the number of followers for a twitter profile and returns it in plain text format. Twounter uses Twitter API to ensure that […]
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The other day, I was thinking about how easy it is to make a mess on the web. For example, purchasing a domain that you attach an email address to that is used for a year only to end up wanting to use a different domain. This means you have to go to every site you registered an account with and change the email address if you plan on letting the old domain retire. There are also a host of other issues as well which in the end, just seems like a giant mess. For this reason alone, I believe hosted blogging solutions will always have a market because you don’t have to worry about moving around or managing a domain. Typically, all you have to do is register an account and blog. However, users of WordPress.com have an awesome benefit that not many other blog hosting providers can match […]
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It is that time of the year again. We will be holding another WordPress Plugin Competition. The Plugin Competitions held in the past years have generated a tremendous amount of interest in WordPress and our entrants have come up with fantastic plugins such as WP Comment Remix, Manageable, Who Sees Ads and of course OneClick in addition to hundreds of others that were voted upon by readers like you. We have distributed thousands of dollars in prizes, helped popularize hundreds of plugins and have even prompted the adoption of various peices of code into the WordPress core. With WordPress 2.8 around the bend and the Google Summer of Code, I have very high hopes for this year. Here are some links for those that have not yet participated or looked into our past WordPress Plugin Competitions: WordPress Plugin Competition 2008 Winners WordPress Plugin Competition 2007 Winners WordPress Plugin Competition 2005 […]
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Dreams Two column, widget ready, gravatar ready theme Acosmintech Two sidebar, widget, gravatar and tag ready theme with SIFR for headings and an included PSD file Corp Corp is a free WordPress theme, with a double-column right sidebar and a business style – a riot of black and grays in other words… except that link and hover colors are fully customizable from the admin. Compatible with WP 2.7 threaded comments etc. Niukita The Niukita WP theme, corporate styles with the Niukita WordPress theme, loaded with a “presidential” blue/white colour scheme and an options panel for full control over the frontpage layout, featuring a two column fluid layout with built in options panel, frontpage news slider and automatic SEO titles. ThemptationPress Two column theme, with four widget areas, dropdown menu, six background variations and ad management system Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to us.
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How to use the WordPress image uploader to create thumbnails.: Brian explains how to automatically generate thumbnails (and resize images into various sizes) for your pictures using the WordPress image uploader. How to embed WordPress functions outside of WordPress.: WP Engineer explains how to embed WordPress functions into code that is outside of WordPress. This can be very versatile and can help extend the usefulness of any WordPress install but would obviously require custom code. How to widgetize your page menu in WordPress.: Justin explains a simple method to widgetize your menu of pages on your WordPress blog. Once you do that, the page menu can be treated as any other widget. Reality Check: You are not going to make money from your blog.: Penelope’s interesting take on the views of the numerous MMO blogs out there and worth a read for everyone thinking of making a ton of money […]
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Undercon UnderCon is a customizable WordPress Domain Parking theme. It includes a theme options page that allows you to customize the title, description and logo. Easy Feedburner integration. Yaveo Two column, widget ready, simple white and grey theme. Garland Revisited A flexible, three-column theme with customizable colors. Minimalist Love Widget ready, two column, WordPress 2.7.1 compatible theme. BlackCat BlackCat is a two-columns free WordPress theme, with widgetized sidebar, fixed width, a minimal white-gray-black color scheme and a cute cat in the header. Callisto Callisto contains Two Widget Ready Left and Right sidebars, with a shining glossy look. The theme is available in 4 unique flavors; Red, Blue, Green and Gray. Users have the leverage to choose their own favorite color. Highly Search Engine and Adsense Optimized with easy to use interface. iRedlof Inspire An inspiring 2-Coloumn Black, Blue coloured theme tabbed for a revolutionary better browsing style with admin panel […]
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How To Blog Anonymously And Maintain Control Of Your Personal Privacy.: Robin Good puts together a nice writeup on how and why to blog anonymously. If you do not have Robin on your reading list, he should be. I like his general writing style and his visual clues. 10 Exceptional WordPress hacks from Smashing Magazine.: Smashing Magazine has another list of nice hacks for WordPress including resizing images on the fly and automatically including the first image in your posts for your home page. These lists amaze me. Some of the more popular design sites and larger blog houses such as Smashing Magazine and Mashable have become very adept at using lists to link bait. These lists tend to get Dugg very heavily and bring in a lot of traffic for them. I still cannot look away from a good list about WordPress! 3 tools to track and defeat content […]
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9 Ways to Make Your WordPress Blog “Smart”
Many of you might be confused by the title and the term “smart”. To me a “smart” blog is a blog that behaves differently depending on its visitors’ behavior and characteristics. A simple example of this is a blog that displays a list of today’s most popular posts on the sidebar. The list changes based on visitors’ behavior so to this is definitely a smart blog feature. There are plenty of WordPress plugins out there that do this for you automatically (e.g. Top 10), but that is not the point. The point here is that having the ability to morph your blog per visitor activity can assist you in meeting your conversion goals (whatever they may be). A list of popular posts is quite a simple feature, so let me take you to another level by showing you more ways to make your blog smart. List of “Smart” Features to […]
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