Author Archive

12/1/2008 ↓

WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/01 5comments

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New Plugins

WP-CopyProtect

A simple plugin that will disabled right-click and prevent selection of text on your blog.

Ciao Box

Allows the user to display a Ciao Box in the sidebar.

Autodownload

Autodownload is a WordPress plugin that enables your blog to provide downloadable files either in your posts or pages.

Show authors without posts

Shows the authors page even if the author has no post.

Updated Plugins

Cronjob Control

This plugin shows you all active WP cronjobs (scheduled tasks) of your weblog in the “Site Admin” area and if you want, you can stop the cronjob(s).

ProjectManager

This plugin is a data manager for any recurrent datasets. It can be used to manage and list a DVD collection,to to present portraits (e.g. athletes of a team) or anything you can think of.

Collapsing Archives

This plugin uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapse the set of months for each year and posts for each month in the archive listing.

phpbb_recent_topics

This plugin grabs your recent phpBB forum topics for you to display in WordPress.

Send2Press

Displays news items from selectable Send2Press RSS feeds, inline, as a widget or in a theme. Multiple feeds allowed. Local caching.

All in One Video Pack

This plugin allows you to add an interactive video player that includes an upload/import tool and a web-based video mixer.

NoFollow Free

NoFollow Free removes the “nofollow” attribute from your WordPress blog’s comments (precisely from the author’s links) and/or from the comments text links and it inserts (if you want) an image band at the top of your pages with the phrase: “NOFOLLOW FREE”.

WP Wall

WP Wall is a “Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately (without reloading the page).

Art Direction

This plugin allows you to have global archive and single page archive per post styles.

Lifestream

Lifestream displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it on many of the social networking sites.

11/30/2008 ↓

WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/30 4comments

New Plugins

Add to Feed

Add to Feed is a feed enhancement plugin that allows you to easily add a copyright notice and custom text/HTML to your WordPress blog feed. The custom text can be entered before and/or after the content of your blog post.

Amazon Plugin

Amazon shop plugin that allows a blogger to add products with Amazon associate ID embedded in it and earn revenue by showing Amazon products right into the blog posts.

Related Blog Links

This WordPress plugin will display the blog links related to your posts and pages.

Techytube XHTML

This plugin allows you to embed YouTube videos on your blog.

ZD YouTube FLV Player

Display FLV and YouTube Video in you blog in a Custom Player.

WordPress Gallery Slideshow

This plugin adds the JW Image Rotator to the WordPress Media.

Easy AdSenser

Easy AdSenser provides a very easy way to insert Google AdSense code into your existing blog posts.

Feed Comments Number

Add an image that displays the number of comments to your feed items.

Updated Plugins

Formbuilder

The FormBuilder plugin is a WordPress plugin that allows the blog or website owner to easily and quickly create forms for display on their sites.

SendFeed

The SendFeed Plugin for WordPress allows you to send your latest post from your RSS feed to an external Mailing List Manager in both text and HTML formats.

AmazonFeed

This plugin will allow you to turn your WordPress website or blog into a money making machine while at the same time offering valuable additional related materials to your visitors. It will automatically search for and display products from Amazon.com which are specifically related to the topics you write about.

Quiz

Authors can write a new Quiz question and answer for each post, fall back on a default question, or have no question at all. Commenters must correctly answer the question before their comment is submitted.

CaPa Protect

Protects Categories, Pages and Posts for specific users & anonymous visitor.

Side Content

Side Content enables you to create widgets which have different content on different pages.

Easy LaTeX

Easy LaTeX provides a very easy way to display math and equations in your posts.

WP-DONATORS

Wp-Donators offer a smart donation function to auto-leave the sponsor information in a container after payment. Sponsor can donate and submit name/URL or TextLink ad, the information of the latest donors are displayed in the cloud. The more a person donations, the bigger their link will be.

Useful 404’s

Create more useful 404 error pages, including email notifications for bad links.

11/28/2008 ↓

WordPress Theme Releases for 11/28 5comments

Journalized v2

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Journalized is a one, two or three column theme available in six different themes, with threaded and paged comments with an administration interface.

Wasteland

wasteland

It’s a 5 Column (main content, 2 sidebars and 2 top sections), widget-ready fixed width theme in soothing Creme and Brown colors featuring an author box, author info page, gravatars and with Custom Archives, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates.

Underground

underground

Fixed width, three columns, widget ready theme

Weblog Magazine Theme

Weblog-Magazine_red

Widget ready, three columns, fixed width theme with adsense / advert ready areas which are easily edited for ease of use and monetization. Available in 10 colors.

11/27/2008 ↓

WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/27 3comments

New Plugins

WP-Niceforms

Niceforms is a script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones.

K2 Hook Up

K2 Hook Up exposes the seven hooks in K2 theme to the admin as friendly input boxes, where you place any HTML, CSS, JavaScript or PHP code (including template tags, other WordPress functions, or even code from other plugins) that you like.

Custom Post Template

Provides a drop-down to select different templates for posts from the post edit screen. The templates replace single.php for the specified post.

SuperSlider-Show

Animated Gallery slideshow uses Mootools 1.2 javascript replaces WordPress gallery with a slideshow.

Use Google Libraries

A number of the javascript libraries distributed with WordPress are also hosted on Google’s AJAX Libraries API. This plugin allows your WordPress site to use the content distribution network side of Google’s AJAX Library API, rather than serving these files from your WordPress install directly.

Chitika | Premium

This plugin will automate adding Chitika|Premium to your blog posts. Chitika|Premium is an AdSense Alternative/Compatible search targeted ad solution.

AmazonFeed

This plugin enables you to automatically advertise products from Amazon.com which are specifically related to the topic you are writing about.

Addynamo

Display Addynamo ads before, after or in the middle of a post without modify the theme. This plugin inserts and embeds the code into your website.

Simple Social Bookmarking Plugin

Will add bookmark icon for each post and page to share with popular social bookmarking sites.

Updated Plugins

Webcollage

Displays a collage or quilt of screen shots of the websites that you link or specify in your WordPress blogroll. After installing and activating the plugin, insert the tag “[webcollage]” (without quotes) in any post or page where you’d like to display the collage. Webcollage uses websnapr.com’s screen shot generation service.

FTP Plugin for WP Database Backup Plugin

This plugin adds a fourth way to save the database backup files from the WP DB Backup Plugin of Austin Matzko, Scott Merril and other authors. With the standard WP Database Backup plugin you can save the database tables of your weblog a file. This backup file can stored on the server of your weblog, send to an email account or saved (manually) to your local harddisk.

Viper’s Video Quicktags

Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box — easy as that. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, colors, alignment on the page) and much more. Your site will even stay (X)HTML valid unlike with the code provided by most video sites.

JS AntiSpam

Simple antispam plugin without questions on Javascript-solution. Without JS-Solutions give it an textbox.

Breadcrumb NavXT

Adds breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor’s path to their current location.

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.

Stumble! for WordPress

Stumble! for WordPress extends WordPress to support a “random article” feature, similar to StumbleUpon’s StumbleThru and Wikipedia’s (Mediawiki’s) random article feature.

CompactRSS

This plug-in makes it possible to exclude certain parts of your posts in your feeds.

11/25/2008 ↓

WordPress Theme Releases for 11/25 3comments

Sirup

sirup-theme

Sirup is a magazine and blog layout for WordPress 2.5 and above. It has a fixed width, is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, supports Gravatars and Sidebar Widgets. You can customize the appearance of your site with an options page.

Quoting You!

QuotingYou

A light two column design with sleek and clean lines and cool colors.

Olivia

Olivia

Two column, gravatar and widget ready theme with seven different styles.

 Equilibrium

equilibrium

Clean and simple magazine styled widget ready theme.

CognoBlue

cognoblue-10-wordpress-theme

Three column, widget ready, with right and left sidebar SEO theme optimized for Google Adsense.

Floral Prints

FloralPrints

A light three column design with an elegant topper with floral prints and cute little butterfly subjects.

Rainy Days

RainyDays

A rainy two column design full of the cool wet air of a fresh thunderstorm.

11/24/2008 ↓

WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/24 7comments

New Plugins

Strip

Strip! is a WordPress plugin that allows you hide links from a given comment. Unlike other plugins that do the same purpose, you can restore the links anytime you want.

JournalPress

A cross-poster supporting multiple LiveJournal Server journals.

Speed Test

This widget makes it possible that any visitor of your blog can test his bandwidth speed. The widget ist hosted on Amazon S3 storage and checks the speed from the nearest server worldwide. (Page in German)

Quizzin

Quizzin lets you add quizzes to your blog. This plugin is designed to be as easy to use as possible. Quizzes, questions and answers can be added from the admin side. This will appear in your post if you add a small HTML snippet in your post.

My Tag Cloud

My tag cloud provides you with a widget that actually gives you the ability to list the tags of your posts in a diiferent way than a tag cloud.

Exhibit to WP Gallery

Convert your ancient Exhibit 1.1b galleries to modern WordPress attachments / galleries

No Follow Tags In Posts [REMOVED DUE TO SPONSORED LINKS]

No Follow Tags In Posts Links searches for links to large websites that use the ‘nofollow’ tags for external links, and puts the same tag on your links to those sites.

Gravatar Shortcode

This is a simple plugin that just lets you use a shortcode in your WordPress Pages or Posts to quickly and easily insert a Gravatar.

Delete-Revision

Delete revision post from Database.

Krusty MSIE Body Classes

Once activated this plugin will use the ‘body_class’ filter to add Internet Explorer browser classes to the body tag of the sites front end, (public), pages. The reason this is needed is because Internet Explorer has a long history of incorrectly rendering css styles.

Updated Plugins

Hide Admin Icons

Hide Admin Icons hides the admin icons when the menu bar is expanded. The icons remain visible when the menu is in its collapsed state.

Featuring CountComments

Counts the number of comments by user IDs or author names (display name).

GD Star Rating

Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating system for pages and/or posts in your blog. Also includes the widget for displaying votes and rating statistics for all posts and pages with votes.

ZdMultilang

ZdMultilang is a Multilingual plugin for WordPress allowing you to blog in more than one language. You can define multiple languages and translate posts/tags/categories using the interface that will be added to your blog’s administration panel.

Albumize

By organizing your galleries as multiple child pages of one parent page, you can use this plugin to see a preview thumbnail and description of each gallery.

WP Widget Cache

Cache the output of your blog widgets. Usually it will significantly reduce the SQL queries to your database and speed up your site.

Secure WordPress

Secure your WordPress Installation with small functions.

ProjectManager

This plugin can be used to manage any number of projects with recurrent datasets (e.g. portrait system, dvd collection)

11/22/2008 ↓

WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/22 2comments

New Plugins

Quartz

Show random quotes/tips/links/pictures/something to visitors. These quotes can be added from the admin side. You can add the quotes one by one - or you can bulk import the stuff from a text file.

YouVersion

This plugin takes marked-up scripture references and pulls the verses from YouVersion.

CMS Navigation

Out-of-the-box support for full CMS navigation in your WordPress site including drop down menus, breadcrumbs trail and sidebar navigation.

Wordpress Politically Correct

Turns any blog into a haven of safe politically correct content.

Assign Missing Categories

Assigns the default category to all posts that have no category after you’ve converted your categories to tags.

Artists ilike

Displays the artists you have “ilike’d” from your ilike.com profile on your blog.

Updated Plugins

zeList

zeList is a plugin to run a directory on a WordPress power website.

Get Flickr Thumbnails

Get Flickr Thumbnails plugin can get thumbnails for photos on your site that from flickr.com

WordPress Link Directory

WordPress Link Directory is a link directory plugin for WordPress which allows you to keep a directory of links and allow other webmasters to add their link to your site.

Thumbnail For Excerpts

Thumbnail For Excerpts allow easily, without any further work, to add thumbnails wherever you show excerpts.

Snazzy Archives

Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site featuring an unique way to display all your posts.

Live Blogroll

Shows a number of ‘recent posts’ for each link in your Blogroll in a popup box, using Ajax.

AmazonSimpleAdmin

Lets you easily embed Amazon products into your posts by use of [asa]ASIN[/asa] tags. Supports the use of templates.

Collapsing Categories

This plugin uses JavaScript to dynamically expand or collapsible the set of posts for each category.

Smart YouTube

Smart Youtube plugin allows you to insert full featured YouTube videos into your post, comments and in RSS feed.

11/21/2008 ↓

WordPress Theme Releases for 11/21 5comments

Hybrid

hybrid

Hybrid is a WordPress theme framework that has been actively developed on WordPress 2.7 but is compatible down to 2.5. It removes the need to use SEO plugins. It was developed with child themes in mind, so you’ll never have to lose your customizations with a theme update. The theme comes packaged with 13 page templates and supports 15+ plugins out of the box. You can run anything from a small family blog to a complex site with thousands of visitors.

Google Chrome for WordPress

chrome

Two column, fixed width, widget ready that looks just like Google Chrome.

Loans

Loans

Two / Three column, SEO theme based on CSS framework “Blueprint”

Weblog Magazine

Weblog-Magazine_red

Three column, fixed width, red, white and blue, widget ready theme.

11/20/2008 ↓

WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/20 6comments

New Plugins

Blibahblubah

This plugin allows the blog owner to customize the tag cloud so that any reader mousing over the tag cloud will see the words in the tag cloud flicker with a customizable effect. This is just a fancy bell and whistle to add to your blog.

Wordpress Popular Posts

Adds a widget to show the most popular posts in your WordPress blog.

Comments Count Filter

Makes the comments from post author not to be counted. The post author must login before giving a comment.

Surveys

Add surveys to you blog. You can let the visitors take surveys and see the result from the admin side.

Pollin

Create and add polls to your blog. It can be shown to your visitors who will be able to vote in the poll.

wpSLEEP

Create posts in advance have them automatically publish when you’d like. You can then set when different parts of a post are viewable.

.html on PAGES

Appends .html to the URL of PAGES when using permalinks

Comment Move

Adds the ability to move comments between posts / pages to the comment edit page.

Peter’s Blog URL Shortcodes

Use shortcodes for blog URLs and post URLs, so that your posts always have the correct internal links.

Updated Plugins

Countdown Timer

This plugin allows you to setup a series of dates to countdown to in terms of years, days, hours, minutes, and/or seconds.

WordPress Exploit Scanner

Search the files and database of your WordPress install for malicious code or spammy links left by a hacker.

SmoothGallery

Embed JonDesign’s SmoothGallery into your posts and pages.

WP Tuner

Easily, powerfully, discover why your blog or plugin is slow or cranky. Comprehensive time and database access analyzer.

MobilePress

MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Returns a list of the related entries based on a unique algorithm using titles, post bodies, tags, and categories.

11/19/2008 ↓

WordPress Theme Releases for 11/19 7comments

Clean Press

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Clean Press is a 2 column WordPress theme that’s designed to focus on the content, rather than the design, and it’s the theme that powers this site.

iQ2

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iQ2 is a fixed width, widget ready, photoblog theme that fully integrates with the PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin.

Night Light

NightLight

Fixed width, two column, widget ready theme with a left sidebar

Carrington

Carrington

Three column, widget and gravatar ready theme

11/18/2008 ↓

WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/18 2comments

New Plugins

WP-Honeypot

Add Project HoneyPot traps to your blog to help catch these spammers and comment spammers.

Eventr

Use your blog as an event management tool. You can create an event - the plugin will let people sign up for the event - it can also show a list of all the attendees. Once the event is done, you can deactivate the event and no more sign ups will be allowed.

Shared Items Post

Shared Items Post is a WordPress plugin that automagically creates a blog post from your Google Reader Shared Items feed. You can schedule the post to go out daily, weekly, or monthly and even set the time of day.

Author Avatars

This plugin provides a widget which allows you to show avatars of blog users.

Resize At Upload

The plugin affects the uploaded image while it is uploaded. Straight after it is uploaded, it will be resized physically to the given width. There is no original image or backup left.

mmyYouTubeHQ

This plugin allows you to insert high quality and YouTube videos and also video in normal quality.

Autofields

AutoFields will auto fill the Excerpt and add an Image custom field based on the data you entered into the contents editor.

Bayesian top title learner

Display links to your most ‘interesting’ posts, where interestingness is determined automatically by a Bayesian learning algorithm.

Embed Iframe

Allows the insertion of code to display an external webpage within an iframe.

Twitter Status

Get the current Twitter message for your blog authors.

Updated Plugins

GoCodes

GoCodes lets you create shortcut URLs to anywhere on the internet, right from your WordPress Admin.

AllWebMenus WordPress Menu

The AllWebMenus WordPress Menu add-in & plugin combination is designed to retrieve information from your blog (such as posts, pages, etc.) and import it into the AllWebMenus application to create stylish menus based on the structure of your blog.

Email Users

A plugin for WordPress which allows you to send an email to the registered blog users.

Post Templates

A plugin that allows you to create and use templates in order to facilitate writing of similar posts/pages.

Twitter Tools

Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

Add Post Footer

Add Post Footer automatically add any custom paragraph, html code, ad code, Technorati tags and/or related links list to the end of every posts.

Last Viewed Posts

This plugin displays the posts (and pages - if you want) that have been recently viewed by the visitor (single view).

11/17/2008 ↓

WordPress Theme Releases for 11/17 0comments

Glamour

Glamour

Fixed width, three columns, widget ready theme

Blue Blog

blue-blog

Fixed width, widget ready, two column, right sidebar theme

Think Me

think-me-theme

Two column, fixed width, widget ready theme with pingbacks and trackbacks separated from comments.

Simply Great

SimplyGreat

This is a free, simple WordPress theme with a smooth clean layout, however the true beauty of this template lies in the Admin panel. This template has a built in options page where you can control just about every aspect of the themes colors, fonts and even layout without touching any code!

 

Are you a theme author? Read how you can submit your themes to us.

11/16/2008 ↓

WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/16 8comments

New Plugins

Content Finder

Quickly Add - Free Keyword Targeted Content to your Word Press Blog.

Advanced Code Editor

Integrates the EditArea advanced code editor into WordPress. This adds real time syntax highlighting, line numbering, full screen editing, and more to the code editor in the “Add New Post” and “Add New Page” screens. Makes editing posts in HTML much easier!

WordPlurk

Integrate WordPress with Plurk.

WP-WOMM

Automatically inserts a link to share and tell a friend about the post or page as well as provide a link for visitors to subscribe to the RSS feed.

Get Picasa Albums

Gets a listing of Picasa Web Albums and displays album thumbnails on your page.

Automatic SEO Links

Forget to put manually your links, just choose a word and a URL and this plugin will replace all matches in the posts of your blog.

Get Flickr Thumbnails

Get Flickr Thumbnails plugin can get thumbnails for photos on your site that from flickr.com

WP-Stats-Dashboard

Displays the WordPress.com STATS graph directly in your Dashboard. No more tiresomely opening the Blog Stats tab and manually logging in.

Comment Validation

This plugin adds client-side validation to the Wordpress comment form, using the jQuery validation plugin.

Updated Plugins

WP Greet Box

This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url.

WP-Cumulus

WP-Cumulus displays your tags and/or categories in 3D by placing them on a rotating sphere.

WP-Codebox

WP-CodeBox provides clean syntax highlighting and AJAX advanced features for embedding source code within pages or posts.

Different Posts Per Page

Show different number of posts in home, category, search or archive page.

Psychic Search

Secretly discover what your readers want to read in your blog.

Multi Author Comment Notification

Get email notifications for comments made at other author’s posts as well.

MaxBlogPress Favicon

Easily add favicon to your blog without editing any wordpress files.

Are you a plugin author? Read how to submit your plugin to us.

11/14/2008 ↓

WordPress Theme Releases for 11/14 4comments

Black Magic

BlackMagic

The theme has 2 columns and is based on grungy wooden textures and has a cool top menu which includes RSS. The psd source file of the logo has also been included in the package.

Journalized

journalized-theme-2_7

Three column theme with six built-in skins, administration interface with support for widgets, tags and gravatars and custom header.

Snailbird Themes

PurpleProse

Includes three themes Purple Prose [Demo], Evening Stars [Demo] and Paper Trail [Demo].

11/13/2008 ↓

WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/13 1comment

New Plugins

Albumize

By organizing your galleries as multiple child pages of one parent page, you can use this plugin to see a preview thumbnail and description of each gallery.

IntenseDebate Comments

IntenseDebate comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog. Build your reader community, increase your comments, & boost pageviews.

WP Cache Inspect

Enables you to inspect how the builtin cache is working.

WP Simple Adsense Insertion

Easy to use Wordpress plugin to insert Google Adsense to your posts, pages and sidebar.

WP Digg This

Selectively adds Digg button to your posts. Use ‘digg’ = ‘1′ custom field in the post to promote.

Draw Comments

This plugin allows your visitors to draw an image as extra comment.

Referrer Detector

Helps your blog detect where the user comes from and automatically displays the corresponding greetings.

Paranoid911

Checks WordPress installation (database and files) for changes and emails admin if any changes took place.

Updated Plugins

All in one Video Pack

This plugin allows you to add an interactive video player that includes an upload/import tool and a web-based video mixer. You can also allow your readers and subscribers to add video comments to your blog posts. (Requires registration to download)

Interactive Video

The plugin enables you to enhance your blog with both basic and advanced video capabilities. Upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix video content, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and much more… (Requires registration to download)

Twitter Tools

Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin

Turns WordPress into a photoblog. Allows queue based photo management, batch uploads and automatic posting of photos at regular intervals.

Theme Switch

With this plugin you can switch to a totally different blog template when you are logged in to your WordPress dashboard.

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