At last check, there were 6,769 plugins available on the repository. Many of these plugins overlap each other providing similar or the same exact functionality. Over the past few months, I’ve heard developers tell me about particular plugins which were gaining in popularity in the repository were nothing more than ripoffs of their own creation. But, plugins on the repository are filed under the GPL meaning modifying and redistribution of code is completely valid. To make matters worse, many of the plugins that make use of another plugins code do not contain any form of credit acknowledging the plugin author or where the code came from. I know this because I’ve taken a look at the source code of some of the plugins in question and if you didn’t know any better, they wrote the entire thing themselves. While I could ask the same questions regarding themes, I would like […]
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Archive for September, 2009
Adsense Ready Three column, widget and gravatar ready theme with Google Custom Search integrated. Rente Two column, widget ready, fixed width theme Gray and Square A gray, square and smart WordPress theme with eight color schemes Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get listed in these posts.
[Continue Reading...]Over the years I’ve tried pretty much every contact form plugin available for WordPress. Some were pretty bad, some were almost there, and a select few really shined. Today I’m going to list those few that really do the contact form job right. Lets begin… Contact Me Widget I really love the Contact Me Widget. I think this plugin takes the simple contact form to a whole new level. Not only does it have a contact form but also an IM function and a place to put all your other contact info. All in one neat little package. Do note though that this plugin relies on the ContactMeButton.com service. So, you may not want to depend on it as the sole option for your visitors to get in contact with you. If the ContactMeButton site were to go down or something, well… I’m sure you can imagine plenty of horrible […]
[Continue Reading...]And the winner of the Grand Prize of the WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 is: Section Widget by Godfrey Chan Godfrey’s plugin provides a way to display section specific content on your WordPress sidebar with an easy to use interface. This new version comes with tabs support, so creating your tabbed section widget is just a few clicks away. Plus, with shortcode support, the possibilities are limitless! This plugin is well rounded, consistently preferred by all of our judges and reviewers and was well liked by the audience as well. Congratulations to the Grand Prize Winner! Thanks to Keith D’Souza, Ozh and Jeff Chandler for taking on the mammoth task of judging the competition and helping me put it all together. These people have done it all for the love of the community and their passion for WordPress, and I commend them for all of their efforts. Along with the judges, […]
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins CDN Rewrites CDN Rewrites allows a WordPress user to specify two important variables: an orgin host (says http://www.yoursite.com) and a “destination host” (like http://www.static.yoursite.com). It will then find all the static contents from that orgin host and rewrite them into the destination so that they will be delivered from there. skaDoogle Integrate skaDoogle.com tools with WordPress, including skaDoogle Link Sense that dynamically links keywords in your blog to Top paying products from Clickbank and PayDotCom. Instantly turn static content and articles into a Cash Pulling Magnet. Updated Plugins SEO Ultimate This SEO plugin can handle titles, meta, noindex, canonical tags, 404 monitoring, linkboxes, and robots.txt. Version 1.0 fixes bugs, reduces database usage, and adds a new canonicalization feature. AVH Extended Categories The AVH Extended Categories Widget gives you two widgets for displaying categories. One is a replacement of the default category widget to allow for greater customization. Socialize […]
[Continue Reading...]So after much deliberation by our judges, tallying of the votes from readers, after coming up with an algorithm for all of this to come together, we finally have the results for the Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Competition. The competition was very close with year with, and as one of the judges put it, quite a few gems were found in the rough. There are two runner ups in the competition this year with the exact same scores and a final Grand Prize winner who eked past their competition by a single point. The runner ups will win a cash prize of $500 each and the Grand Prize Winner will receive a cash prize of $2000! To break from tradition, we will release the runner ups today, followed by the release of the Grand Prize Winner on Monday. The following runner ups are in no particular order since they had […]
[Continue Reading...]404 errors suggest that a user has landed on a page that does not exist. Most of the times it occurs due to a bad permalink, either while linking on your own site or by someone else linking to a non-existent link on your site. This may also occur when you make changes to the post slugs or permalinks on your site.
[Continue Reading...]Elegante Two column, widget ready theme with sIFR support and highlighting of search keywords CopyBlogger Upgraded This is an updated version of the redundant, but very popular Copyblogger theme that was once originally used by Brian Clark of Copyblogger dot com. It now supports Threaded comments and other WordPress 2.8 features. The default look can be changed to a more modern layout with a few clicks of the mouse in the Custom CSS file where most of the customizations are done. Still as SEO friendly as the original. Channel Three/four column, widget ready, gravatar ready theme with automatic thumbnail creation, Flickr and feedburner support and a theme control panel Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get listed in these release posts.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress tips are available everywhere but we can’t get enough of it yet. One of my favorite tech writers and ardent programmer, Gina Trapani, has written a really comprehensive post of tips to get the best out of your WordPress blog.
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