Archive for May, 2009

WordPress Theme Releases for 05/31

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Vista84 3 column, widget ready, adsense friendly template with space for a 468×60 banner targeted at technology blogs Garland Revisited A flexible, three-column theme with customizable colors. WPBlue 3 column, gravatar ready theme with two widget ready sidebars, RedTime The theme is in magazine style and features an absolutely massive “Twitter FollowMe” icon, which is not only extremely attractive but quite useful too. Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get featured here.

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Five Ad Manager Plugins for WordPress

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May 29th, 2009
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Next up in the “Five” series for plugins is a snapshot of five advertisement related plugins for your WordPress site. Once you have done the work to build your site, create the content and get the visitors streaming in it may then be time to monetize your site and maybe create a little income stream.  Now I am not talking get rich schemes here – just simple and easy ways to place ads in and around your site.  They may never make you a ton of money but they might create just enough of an income stream to make you a few bucks in the process.  I have a day job for paying the bills so the trickle I get from my site is mad money for tech stuff. How do you spend yours? So on to the “five”. WP125 – This is a great plugin that can be used […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/29

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May 29th, 2009
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New Plugins Grooveshark for WordPress Made to make music easy to add to any post, Grooveshark for WordPress takes the trouble out of mixing music with your blog. Just install, then enjoy instant access to literally millions of tunes you can use to make your blog posts even cooler. Create playlists of one song — or hundreds — and add them to any part of your WordPress blog as a Grooveshark Widget. Linkubaitor Search engines determine a website or blogs popularity according to the amount and quality of backlinks pointing to a website. The Linkubaitor WordPress Plugin displays HTML code for website visitors to copy and paste to their site. Updated Plugins Easy Adsenser Easy AdSenser manages all aspects of Google AdSense for a blog: insert ads into posts and sidebar, and add a Google Search box. Easy and complete! It is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Belarusian, Indonesian, […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/27

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May 27th, 2009
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New Plugins BookLinker A WordPress plug-in that converts existing affiliate links into a list of book resources: Amazon, Powells, and IndieBound affiliate links, WorldCat library searches, and LibraryThing book pages. Link Harvest This plugin will go through all of your posts and pages and compile a list of all external links. Then it will create a linkroll for you based on your actual linking activity. Best Post Page Best Post Page is a WordPress plugin, that utilizes optimization algorithms to chose the best posts based on criteria such as views and comments. This plugin automatically generates a page called ‘Best of Posts’ that displays the top 10 posts from your blog. The list of the best posts is automatically recalculated. All you have to do is download and activate the plugin. Google Analytics Stats Deluxe Link removed due to it being paid A big step up from the Standard Version […]

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What can WordPress do for you?

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May 27th, 2009
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I receive questions about WordPress from various sources and I love answering them. I serve on the technical advisory board for our local University and recently ran into one of the other board members who had been using WordPress for some time. He wanted his WordPress site to do a few things that he could not get to work and his email to me ended with “I think I have hit the end of WordPress’ capabilities.” I respectfully disagreed and proceeded to give him links to solutions that I had found. He found them really useful and is going to use them in his re-design. This perception of “reaching the end of WordPress” is somewhat common. At a recent WordCamp, I had the distinct feeling (after talking with a bunch of the attendees and from feedback) that they were looking for cool things to do with their WordPress blog to […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 05/25

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Adsense WordPress Themes Three column, non-widgeted sidebar, gravatar ready with three ready made adsense ads and SEO friendly tags. City Finance The theme is a quick set up finance related WordPress theme. Completely widgetized and Adsense ready. Tested up to WordPress 2.8. Tembesi Tembesi is 2 columns, widget and gravatar ready theme with threaded comment support and for those who love Helvetica. Journic Three column, completely widgetized theme, with a settings page, complete with advertising management section. Louisebrooks LouiseBrooks is a fixed-width, 2 column with right sidebar theme, with a little Deco styling, not too much… and the theme is now fully updated for WP 2.7 functionality, threaded and page comments etc

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/23

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May 23rd, 2009
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New Plugins Mass Custom Fields Manager Mass Custom Fields Manager (MCFM) is a plugin for people who use WordPress to manage their post’s custom fields with ease. Simple Video Embedder Easily embed video within your posts. Adds a widget to the posting screen that enables you to post videos by simply providing the URL to the video hosted on common video sharing websites. Simple Post Thumbnails This plugin adds a widget to the posting screen that allows you to add a post thumbnail by uploading an image from your computer or via a URL. The thumbnail is scaled and cropped to the correct size automatically. GD Simple Widgets This plugin contains several widgets with simple functionality. Some of them are based on standard WordPress widgets but with extended options and rendering. You can also disable default WordPress widgets if you choose to use Simple Widgets versions. Google Analytics Stats It […]

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Five Image Related Plugins for your WordPress Site

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Our next “Five” entry is for plugins that you can use to highlight images on your website.  As always we look forward to your comments (51 responses on the last “five” entry – thanks!). With the advent of high speed Internet for so many in the world now images are an even bigger part of the presentation of your webpage.  WordPress is no exception with 285 image related plugins at the WordPress Plugin Directory. Lets take a look at five of these plugins and see what they can do for your WordPress based website: Dynamic Headers: This plugin was just made public in late April of this year and it is extremely popular having been downloaded 3,770 times in the last three weeks.  The Dynamic Headers plugin allows you to manage what media is shown in your header on each page and/or post.  This plugin allows the use of any […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 05/21

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DynaBlue A truly dynamic theme that is constantly changing. This is a very current and stylish design for your WordPress blog. The header banner rotates through your latest 4 blog posts constantly until a user clicks on a story to pause and read more – a new feature in our themes. Galleria Child theme for the Hybrid theme based on Chris Wallace’s Gallery theme. Natural Gloom A gloomy and artistic two-column theme supporting widgets and nested comments.

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