Archive for April, 2009

WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/22

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New Plugins Solr A WordPress plugin that interacts with an instance of the Solr search engine. This plugin allows you to index pages and posts, perform advanced queries and enable faceting on fields such as tags, categories, and author. Adds special template tags so you can create your own custom result pages to match your theme. Configuration options allow you to select pages to ignore, features to enable/disable, and what type of result information you want output. Inject Query Posts Inject an array of posts into a WP query object as if queried, particularly useful to allow use of standard template tags. Admin Post Navigation Adds links to the next and previous posts when editing a post in the WordPress admin. Show Pending Comments Count Display the pending comments count next to the approved comments count in the admin listing of posts. WordPress File Monitor Monitors your WordPress installation for […]

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Upcoming Interview with Jane Wells WordPress Designer

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April 22nd, 2009
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I have some terrific news – Jane Wells has been gracious enough to agree to an interview with me about some WordPress related topics. We are going to discuss bug hunts, WordPress 2.8 and what it is like to work on interface and experience design for WordPress. It is possible that if you have ever attended a WordCamp then you might have heard Jane speak about WordPress as she travels a lot for those.  I have not had that opportunity yet but am looking for an event close by to be able to attend. One other area of the interview that Jane is willing to take questions on is from you, the readers of weblogtoolcollections.com. So if you have a question you would like me to ask Jane as part of the interview please post it in the comments of this post and we will select a few to ask […]

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Automattic buys Blo.gs

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April 21st, 2009
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Yahoo Spins Off Blo.gs To Automattic: WordPress parent company Automattic has bought the blo.gs pinging and blog trackback service from Yahoo. Sounds like a good deal for everyone involved, including Yahoo’s recent attempts at tearing down their “Wall of Shame” of failed products. Matt has more details and so does Toni.

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WordPress’ Raanan in Iraq to help country use new media

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April 21st, 2009
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Twitter, WordPress execs in Iraq to help country use new media – CNN.com. Interesting piece on CNN today about Raanan Bar-Cohen, one of nine technology executives, who begin their third day in Iraq on Tuesday as part of a U.S. State Department-led trip on how the war-battered country can effectively use new media as it rebuilds. Go Raanan! He has posted a couple of entries from Baghdad and has a few photos up on Flickr.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 04/20

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Dusk An appealing theme, with plenty of whitespace around the text, layered on top of a dark, textured background. Vector Bubbles Two column, widget ready, grey theme with a bubbled header DotEU Blue A clean and simple but powerful WordPress theme. Two columns, widget ready, theme options and many more. You can enable/disable sponsors block and category/comments/tags block from theme options page. Facebook Lovers A three column WordPress theme designed to mimic Facebook. TheCloud Two columns, left widgetized sidebar, blue theme with support for gravatars Theme authors can submit your theme to us.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/19

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April 19th, 2009
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New Plugins Synected Synected enables shortened URL creation on your own blog. Synected lets you easily create and use short links based off your own domain. This releases you from dependence on a third party — a server error on tinyurl no longer prevents visitors from reaching your site. In addition, it strengthens your brand, keeping your domain name in view of your audience even on Twitter and other micro-communication platforms. Hello World Generator The Hello World Generator is a plugin which provides the blog author two new shortcodes. Each shortcode will display a random Hello World code snippet from a database of approximately 350 different snippets. Each snippet is in a different programming language. WP SimpleMail SimpleMail is a plugin that allows you to access an Email account from your dashboard. OSM OSM is a plugin that focuses on OpenStreetmap and geo data in your wordpress blog. Simply by […]

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WordPress Add Twitter RSS Plugin Review

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April 15th, 2009
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I am a huge fan of simple plugins that add functionality to my website using WordPress.  Some are quite simple and as was discussed in the comments on the Admin Links Widget review I did last week, many can be done via hacks within your WordPress theme files. Now, I have been known to edit my files in the past to get a bit of functionality on my site but I much prefer to use a plugin that does the insert for me and then is easily deactivated if necessary or translates over to other themes without having to edit another group of theme specific files. That brings me to a follow on discussion I mentioned in my Download Monitor plugin review a few days ago. You  need something that will keep visitors coming back to your website. On this website it is the daily theme and plugin update entries […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/15

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April 15th, 2009
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New Plugins Theme Tweaker Theme Tweaker displays the existing colors from your current theme, and gives you a color picker to replace them. It also lets you change them in bulk, like invert all colors, use grey scale etc. LinkingPress This plugin provides your WordPress blog with relevant, contextual, non-reciprocating links from other WordPress blogs. WPML Turn any WordPress or WordPressMU site into a full featured multilingual content management system. WPMU can do this without any hacks and without breaking anything. DiggBar Remover DiggBar Remover checks HTTP referrers and if user has DiggBar, serves JS code to redirect to the actual page. This makes it faster than using just the framebreaker JavaScript code that we all know. Related Websites After installing the plugin you will receive related posts from member sites that will be displayed posts at the end of your posts. DiggBar Killer DiggBar Killer adds a little snippet […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 04/14

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Fancy Bright colors, WP 2.7 compatible, 3 columns design, adsense ready. Swiss Mono Simple, black and white, two column theme with a widgetized sidebar, 125×125 sidebar advertisement support and theme options. Funny Squares 2-column design with widget ready sidebar, pure CSS layout, no tables used Deepest Blue A 2 column magazine style WordPress theme featuring a featured content slider and integrated sidebar video, adsense and social bookmarking

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