Archive for March, 2007

What’s in My Blogging Toolkit?

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March 15th, 2007
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What’s in My Blogging Toolkit? I read this post from Ian via Problogger and since I am always interested in finding new tools and applications, I wanted to ask my readers on what they use to make their lives easier. Of course, a post such as this is incomplete without my own input. Here is a small subset of what is on my computer and my primary tools for blogging. WordPress, of course: Quintissential, versatile blogging and CMS platform. Firefox, latest: ALL of my browsing is done via this browser. I carry a USB key with portable apps Foxmarks, latest: Synchronize my bookmarks across computers Bloglines: Read and read some more Statcounter: Almost all my stats needs Feedburner: Feed stats Google Alerts: Versatile email alerts Google News Search: Highly versatile news search, I love the search by date feature Techmeme: Hot tech news aggregator. Though this blog has never had […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 3/15

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March 15th, 2007
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Adsense Manager allows you to create, modify and position Adsense Ads from within the WordPress admin panel. Inline Ajax Page displays an excerpt of your post (the same way WordPress does when you use the_excerpt or a <!–more–> tag), but rather than making the user go to another page to read the remainder of the post, this plugin uses Ajax to download and display the rest of it when the user clicks a link to read more. Ask the Oracle displays the random answer to a question in Magic 8-ball fashion.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 3/15

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Orange Sunrise is a widget ready, 2 columns WordPress template with a professional look by Headsetoptions.org and MandarinMusing based on design by dcarter. This theme has a orange sunrise header, fixed width and a right sidebar. Furry Palms is a simple greenish theme with 2-columns, Georgia base font, elegant almost old looking background. Cliff is a bright and fresh widget ready theme with an outdoors feel. Milo has released New Yorker and Sushi.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 3/14

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March 14th, 2007
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Noembedder inserts a noembed section into any embedded content (videos, etc.) in your posts. It inserts a customisable message, and for Youtube videos, a thumbnail too. Dahnielson’s Footnotes adds footnotes to your posts. Language Plugin allows you to create a bilingual or multi-lingual blog, using WordPress. The way it works is that you will write the content for your blog in multiple languages, using special HTML tags. ScoreRender renders inline sheet music fragments inside posts and comments into images. It supports ABC, GUIDO, Lilypond and Mup music notations. bib2html enables to add bibtex entries formatted as HTML in wordpress pages and posts. Skinner adds skin selection and editing to WordPress for Skinner compatible themes.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 3/14

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RockinSuckerfish is a modern web 2.0 looking theme with suckerfish dropdowns instead of sidebars. Straightlaced is a 2 column theme for WordPress 2.1. Straightlaced uses no-nonsense, simplistic lines to produce a theme that is suitable for the businessperson, student, or anyone else who wants a masculine, businesslike blog. iFoney is a 2 column theme for WordPress 2.1. Based on the new iPhone by Apple, iFoney uses dark colours and rounded portions to make it look like an iPhone. Pseudo Shui is a two column, pixelated, minimalist looking theme using the colours red, black and white to give a high contrast. Rounded is a simple 2 column widget ready WordPress template by Headsetoptions and MandarinMusing based on a design by Mitchinson.net. Unlimited is a 2-column fixed with wordpress theme, with Custom Header Image.

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SXSW: Scaling Your Community

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March 13th, 2007
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Blogging News, WordPress

SXSW: Scaling Your Community: Good summary of Matt’s talk on scaling the WordPress community and his insights into the process of building one of the most powerful Open Source models. I have never had a chance of hearing Matt speak outside of podcasts and the occasional video (maybe at WordCamp this year) but his insights are definitely worth the read. I wish Matt was podcasting his talks. In related questions, do you have WordCamp plans?

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 3/13

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March 13th, 2007
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Running Time outputs your blog’s age in date range, days, weeks, months or years. InstantUpgrade is a plugin for WordPress, which will perform automatic upgrades of a WordPress installation with a single click. The Webdezine Pure CSS Dropdown Menu turns your default WordPress navigation into a cross browser multi-level nested css drop down menu, that can be displayed across the top of your header area. Expand Comments uses AJAX to add support for comment display on the front page, all without leaving the page. More Tag Modifier will take whatever is in a file you designate and put it wherever you insert the more tag in your article. Tailhitter is a WordPress Plug-in for automatic insertion of HitTail Tracking Code in all the posts & pages of your blog. Google Sitemap Parser generates the output from the sitemap.xml to the sitemap page. The Advanced Search Lite is a drop-in replacement […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 3/13

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Refreshing is a two column widget ready theme with a broad sidebar. Darn Slick Gadgets is a two column is a clean, two column, widget ready theme. Fog is designed with a three column fluid layout and a custom glass painting as a background. jquindlen has released MusicJam and BlueBusiness. crystalx is a sleek new WordPress template with a Bright Blue header and rounded corners by headsetoptions.org and Mandarin Musing based on design by Nuvio.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 3/12

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Just Wood is a soft-tone, natural 2-column theme which features a natural wood header and subtle stripes on the background layer. BlueSpot is a combination of 2 themes, Aquablue and Coffeespot (both can be found on http://www.wpthemepark.com) by Gurdit. It’s a clean, fixed-width, 2 column blue and white theme. Dirtylicious is a soft-colored, bright and somewhat dirty two-column theme with widget support. Ornamental Black is a two column classic theme, in shades of black and white. RockinGreen is a 3-column, green, white and grey, clean and simple theme designed for easy reading and customization with sidebars on the right of the main content. SEO Simple is a simple two and three columns theme. Carrots Anywhere is a two column theme featuring carrots (there’s also a blue bunny). Kaushal has released Tick Tock Blue, Orange, Green and Purple.

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