Archive for June, 2007

WordPress Theme Releases for 6/15

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I’m pleased to be joining the contributing staff here. My name is Jim Stitzel, and I’ve been a blogger for nearly four years. I cut my blogging teeth in the Xanga community before discovering a much larger blogging community when I “accidentally” ran the auto-installation for something called WordPress on my hosted site. It was the best mistake I’ve ever made. Since then, my own website has undergone several iterations and now runs almost entirely on WordPress. I’m a self-taught coding geek who’s proficient in HTML/CSS and is learning more and more about PHP everyday. I’m a writer by passion (who hopes to one day make a living doing so), but I work as a data analyst at Purdue University in order to pay the bills. I’m an avid Halo/Halo 2 fan and a loyal member of the TTL Gunslingers, where I head up the management of the news portal […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 6/14

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June 14th, 2007
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Trackbackers is a plugin that allows you to link back to the domains that send the most trackbacks to you, much like top commenters. It might be a good idea to run some kind of trackback validation or Akismet with this plugin. High Keyword density Plugin checks for the user-agent and removes certain common words from the post text accordingly. So when Googlebot visits your page, it won’t be seeing these words, while your readers can still read your meaningful sentences. I am not sure of the viability or the effectiveness of this plugin but it might be on the border of being Google un-friendly. Please use at your own risk [EDIT] We choose not to promote this plugin. Please see comments below. AJAX Edit Comments 1.1 allows admin and users to edit comments from a post. Users see a countdown timer when editing a comment. Admin can now also […]

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WP Plugin: Listen Button

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June 13th, 2007
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WP Plugin: Listen Button: Create instant podcasts from your blog text with this plugin from Odiogo.com. It creates a “Listen” button on your blog that people can click to listen to the text of a post. The content is read by a machine and the voice stream is linked in a flash player format on your blog. The mp3 resides on the Odiogo server and can also be downloaded. Weblog Tools Collection can now be downloaded in a podcast format with the help of this service. You can do the same for your blog by signing up for their podcast service. I am not sure this format makes sense for the staccato delivery of this blog but it might be a cool feature for blogs with longer articles and lesser linked content. At the very least, it is a novelty  for any blogger that always wanted to hear themselves type […]

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Adding Custom WordPress Hooks

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June 13th, 2007
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LinkyLoo, WordPress

Adding Custom WordPress Hooks: This migt be an interesting article for Theme and Plugin authors looking to enhance the functionality of their themes and plugins. Though the procedure is not complex, most of the questions I get surrounding plugin development centers around WordPress hooks.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 6/13

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Bruce is a three column fluid layout theme that is widget ready with multiple columns at the front page. There is also a cross fader built in. Row is a also a three column fluid layout theme in the magazine style with two mini loops displaying two separate categories. Both themes are artsy and designed by Milo. Dimension is a two column, somewhat two dimensional theme for WordPress designed in gray and black. Lovecraft is a three column, blocky simple, colorful and widget ready theme for WordPress. It is Garry’s first theme. Ministry is a two column, wide, clean and clear theme for WordPress in shades of lighter blue. The design reminds me of some Drupal themes. Gathering has been updated from the inside out. Now it is a modern, subdued theme with two columns, a fixed width, sidebar widgets ready, and will work with WordPress 2.0 and above. Stockholm […]

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Definitive collection of RSS Tools

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June 12th, 2007
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The Ultimate RSS Toolbox – 120+ RSS Resources from Mashable. Overwhelming at first but the list will be useful later. Flickr also has many such lists of tools and they come in handy when you need a tool and cannot remember the Web 2.0 name for the service.

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reinvigorate Desktop Analyzer

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June 12th, 2007
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Blogging News, Cool Scripts

reinvigorate Desktop Analyzer: reinvigorate is offering an application that provides real time streaming web events from your blog or website to your desktop. They call this application Snoop. I really missed this feature that existed in past incarnations of reinvigorate. I have said in the past that I am a sucker for stats and this just tickles the stats funny bone. reinvigorate, if you are not aware, already provides a whole bunch of analytics that rival Google Analytics in features and performance.

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11 Jobs

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June 10th, 2007
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Blogging Essays

11 Jobs: I was writing an article/paper on social media and blogger jobs and by some unknown quirk of fate, I decided to search Monster for jobs with the word “blogger” in the title. It returned 11 jobs (!?!!?). The number of results left me dumbfounded. Is corporate America really that naiive? Is blogging still a fad that cool CEOs just happen to do when they feel like berating their closest competitor? Is blogging a niche that only matters if you happen to be in an industry that directly benefits from it? Are we, as a community of bloggers, doing enough to tell the corporate world that blogging is important, useful and finally a very powerful and personal means of communicating directly with your customers? I believe that much of corporate America still thinks that blogging and bloggers provide a slight competitive advantage and nothing more. There are some people […]

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50 signs you’re a blogaholic

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June 10th, 2007
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Blogging, LinkyLoo

50 signs you’re a blogaholic : I stay away from these normally but Jonathan blames the last few on Weblogtoolscollection, so I had to check them out. 🙂

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