The name of the linked post is actually 24 Noble WordPress Plugins To Determine The Performance of your Blog, but it is safe to say that you would artificially kill the performance of your blog if you were to install of them (read: don’t install them all). However, if you are a stats junky like me, you might be interested in some of the plugins mentioned in the App Sheriff post such as Feed Statistics, Live, Post and Comments Time and Social Traffic Monitor. Now most of the information provided by these plugins can be derived from regular statistics sources but the filters can be interesting for some folks. Head over to the App Sheriff and see what you *might* have been missing! We use WordPress.com stats, Statcounter and Google Analytics on this blog. I know that is two too many, but what can I say, I am a stats [...]
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Archive for January, 2010
Elegance Lite Elegance Lite is a 2 Column light weight theme with right sidebar. This stylish theme has Admin Options to easily change the Header Logo and Background Color of Theme. Apart from all regular features, it also has support for Threaded Comments and Sticky Post. Comments have Gravatar Support. Gunungkidul Two column, widget ready grid based theme with 960.gs framework Clear Blue Sky A modern sky blue, two-columns theme with a clear, fresh look. TweetPress Two column theme to make your blog look exactly like your Twitter profile
[Continue Reading...]The other day, I had asked plugin developers to dish out their wish list for the plugin repository. Olivier published a comment recommending a plugin called WATS or WordPress Advanced Ticketing System as a way of handling support on your own website. After installation, users need to visit the Wats Options page within the Settings menu to configure the plugin. The top of the settings page has a donate button if you want to send a little coin to the plugin author which is not intrusive or bothersome. While configuring the plugin, you can click on each menu title to show detailed information about that settings group. The only problems I met when configuring this plugin is the user interface. Like I mentioned above, you can click on the settings title to show a hidden message that gives more details for the settings group but it’s not obvious this can [...]
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins NdB Currency This plugin is used to exchange currency values online. Main use is for American weblogs to convert their Dollar amounts into Euro currency values. It’s an easy to install, activate and forget wordpress plugin. WordPress Loop The WordPress Loop widget was written to allow users that don’t know their way around PHP to easily show their content in any way they’d like. The widget has over 35 options to choose from. Customize your WordPress loop by one or more post types, categories, tags, custom taxonomies, authors, dates, custom fields, and a whole lot more! Q2W3 Screen Options Hack Demo This is a demo for WordPress plugin developers. It shows how to create your own form for Screen Options panel. CMS A collection of plugins to make WordPress feel more like a CMS. It has some small adjustments and some bigger ones. Also includes some other plugins [...]
[Continue Reading...]For all of you looking to register your new blog domains, GoDaddy is having another domain sale as they often do. Just enter BOWL2010 in the coupon form to see the discounted price of 99 cents along with the additional 18 cents ICANN fee. If any of you are aware of other coupons to lower the price, please post in the comments. Thanks SlickDeals While we are on the subject, how did you name your blog? Was it based on the domain name you could register or did you think about it for a while?
[Continue Reading...]Simple Magazine Red Three column, fixed width, widget ready and gravatar ready theme TNT Dark Green Golden Temptation Two column, widget ready theme (12 widgetized areas including 3 footer widget ready areas) with easy integration with twitter and FeedBurner 5 Free Wedding WordPress Themes Two column theme gravatar-enabled, widget-ready, and perfect for posting wedding pictures Are you WordPress theme developer? Submit your themes to get them listed in these release posts.
[Continue Reading...]Back in October, we told you about the new compatibility box that was added to the plugin pages within the repository. However, we’ve learned that this feature has one major drawback which is the crux behind this idea proposed by shinephp. I propose to add the field e.g. ‘Problem description’ required for input if visitor click ‘Broken’ button in the Compatibility widget. I’ve talked with a number of plugin developers and they have all said the same thing. The compatibility box is useless if feedback can not be tied to the rating. Sure, a support topic can be opened for the plugin but there is nothing tying that forum post to the broken rating. Mark Jaquith weighed in with an even better idea. They should get a chance (or a mandate) to provide feedback, and that feedback should open a new support thread. However, first, plugin authors need to be [...]
[Continue Reading...]I have hard time understanding the basis of this article but I wanted to link to it because I know many in the WeblogToolsCollection audience are coders themselves and it would be interesting to see the conversation that arises from Andrew’s post. WordPress coders have no class. At least, that’s what Andrew says in his post that discusses object oriented code being used in a non-object oriented environment. What do I mean by a non-object oriented environment? Well, firstly WordPress still does not require PHP5 for core code so there are limits to how many of the techniques it can use anyway. Secondly, WordPress has been around for a long time and has been developed by many contributors looking to achieve specific things with each patch without having a particular architecture imposed, except by committee. WordPress developers tend to start as users who learn PHP in fits-and-starts when they need [...]
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- Youth Theme (cjblythe)
- Flower House Free WordPress Theme (gestroud)
- WordPress Download Manager Plugin v2.2.0 released (Shaon)
- WPMarketplace - WordPress MarketPlace Plugin v1.2.1 released (Shaon)
- [New Plugin] Compact Taxonomy Checkboxes (benhuson)
- Aqua Theme (cjblythe)
- Tokin Manager WordPress Plugin (VectorXY)
- Win Everything from AppThemes (ThemeSorter Birthday Giveaway) (Gliebster)
- Shortcode press - wordpress plugin for fast and easiest way for use shortcodes (shaid)
- Unauthenticated Flaws in Network Protocols (Suvham)
- Fabric Shortest Path First (Suvham)
- [New Plugin] Google AdSense and Google Analytics Remover (gestroud)
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Are You Spamming Comments Inadvertently?
In a blog post titles “6 Steps to Kill Your Community“, Matt listed “Allow Spam Through” as the second step and “Don’t Participate in Comments” as the fourth step to killing your community. We treat comments and reader participation very seriously at Weblog Tools Collection. We highlight commenters, try to identify the frequent comments who participate willingly and heuristically remove nofollow tags from the links of commenters who participate in the community. I have personally chosen and thanked frequent commenter by providing them deeper access and rights to the various portals, elevating and applauding their presence within the community and have chosen most of my co-authors based on their participation and passion within the communities that I purvey. In short, I agree with Matt in that relevant comments and passionate participation are the lifeblood of any community. But our little blog gets a lot of attention from spammers. We are [...]
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