Archive for June, 2007

WordPress Theme Releases for 6/08

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Pride is a three column, hybrid, rounded edge, lighweight, blue and yellow theme for WordPress that is very Blogger-esque. The theme elements have a comic like quality and looks very polished. Pride is authored by Small Potato and is released under the GPL. Prosumer is a three column, widget ready, white background, somewhat bare theme for WordPress by Jauhari. The “somewhat bare”ness of the theme is made up by the nicely placed accent graphics and the smooth flow of the theme. Clean Copy is a widget ready, two column, well spaced out, somewhat light theme for WordPress with blue and white colors and five random header graphics. SilkStream is a dark, three column, blue on black theme from Milo. It is widget ready, has a sideblog , recent comments, related posts and flickr RSS. Spiritual Journey is a three column, left and right sidebar, widget ready theme for WordPress with […]

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How important is search?

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Very important! If you have noticed, I wrote up a small heat map to be displayed in the sidebar and on the main search page of this blog. The search and data collection process is a slightly intelligent and tries to match up search terms and group them by usage. It then chooses all searches performed within the past 24 hours and displays them in a heatmap sorted by propensity of the search phrase. The 24 hour time period keeps the search phases in the heatmap turned over regularly and retains the interest of returning visitors. Why did I do this? I put it together because I believe that there is a lot of power (and thus clicks, pageviews, eyeballs) in searches. I had noticed the Eurekster Swiki on TechCrunch and was impressed by the power of the system. I tried to emulate it on weblogtoolscollection.com with little success. To […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 6/08

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June 8th, 2007
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WordPress, WordPress Plugins

WP CSS-Streamliner: Streamline and optimize and compress your CSS file with this WordPress plugin to improve your blog’s performance. Blogroll Page Plugin: Publish your blogroll on a page rather than your sidebar with this plugin. Do Follow Trackback: Use this plugin to show linky love to other bloggers that actually link to you when they send you a trackback. Much like the trackback validator. Excerpt Editor Update: Tweak and pamper your excerpts to your hearts’ content with this editor. This update includes bufixes, better security and classier code. Get it, classier …? never mind! WP-Simpleviewer: Incorporate SimpleViewer Flash galleries into WordPress. For those that are not aware of SimpleViewer, it is a free and ersatile Flash based image display application. It helps build beautiful and smooth galleries. This plugin is also an entrant into the WordPress Theme Competition 2.0. WP-Filemanager: Highly versatile file management plugin for WordPress that will allow […]

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GaMerZ WordPress Plugins Updated

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June 7th, 2007
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WordPress, WordPress Plugins

GaMerZ WordPress Plugins Updated: Lester (GaMerZ) has updated most of his plugins to work with WordPress 2.2 Some of the updates are bugfixes while others have new and requested features. WP-Polls now features multiple options, future poll scheduling, poll data log mining and some parts of the admin backend are now AJAXed. WP-PageNavi has been revamp in terms of looks and options as you can see at the bottom of this page, it features digg style design navigation with the use of style sheet and now almost all the options can be set in “WP-Admin -> Options -> PageNavi”. There are some new features in WP-Ban, like banned by referrers url, banned by specific IP range, exclude a specific IP from being banned and the ability to preview banned message. He has also added a scheduler to WP-DBManager, the ability to optimize, backup, backup and email the database dump file […]

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How strong is your password?

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June 7th, 2007
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LinkyLoo, WordPress

How strong is your password? Even though this post from Donncha on the WordPress.com blog might have been written for the benefit of WordPress.com users, I believe that this is highly relevant for ALL bloggers. I could not find a WordPress plugin for the password strength meter without JQuery but that would be a very useful tool to have. Remember, the weakest link in our security chain is the common stuff we tend to overlook. Please make sure your password is not easily guessable.

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Global Variables and the WordPress Loop

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June 6th, 2007
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WordPress FAQs, WordPress Tips

My name is Ronald Huereca and am a new author here at WLTC. I come from a technical and business background with a degree in EET and a MS in Business Administration. I hope to share with the WTLC readers some of little intricacies of WordPress, whether it be theme or plugin related. I have written a few plugins, one called Feed Styler and the other Ajax Edit Comments. I currently write for my personal blog, the Reader Appreciation Project, and Devlounge. I am open to any and all feedback, so if there is something you’d like to see me write about, please let me know. When coding a WordPress plugin, one thing that must be quickly mastered is that of the WordPress loop and global variables. Once mastered, a plugin author can tell which global variables are accessible, and which are not. With certain WordPress Action and Filters, it’s […]

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Movable Type Open Source Project

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June 5th, 2007
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Blogging News

Movable Type Open Source Project: I know I had read this news a couple of times today but it obviously did not sink in until now. The light in my brain finally flickered on when I read through the RWW post in detail. Moveable Type announced the long awaited Version 4 of their publishing platform and along with that came the announcement that they would release a GPL’d Open Source version of their software in Q3 2007. That is a significant decision considering some of the past tribulations of the platform and in my mind validates the dual revenue model of Open Source Software based companies. According to the MTOS website, they are really committed to the commercial version of MT and are just replying to customers’ repeated requests for an Open Source version. This sounds like a highly calculated business decision. I wonder what results Six Apart is hoping […]

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WP Plugin: Where did they go from here?

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June 4th, 2007
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WordPress, WordPress Plugins

If you have been paying attention to Amazon’s single product pages and if Amazon’s engineers have been doing their job well, you have most likely clicked on one of the links in the group of deep links called “Customers who bought this item also bought”. This plugin tries to create a similar group of links for your blog. If you have enough links in your theme (Contextual Related Posts plugin comes in handy) for readers to explore, then as and when readers click on links, this plugin checks to see if it was referred from your blog, checks to see if it can identify a post or a page from the information it has and then adds a link to the referring page. I have been testing it on this blog for a few days while I iron out the bugs. Check out the pages and what grabs readers’ attention […]

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WordPress Plugin Competition Started

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June 1st, 2007
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Blogging News, WordPress Plugins

As announced, today is the first day of the WordPress Plugin Competition. Plugin authors should register at the Plugin Competition Blog and start posting their ideas, future plugins and everything else about the competition. I have already received a bunch of requests for sponsorships and prizes. So here is a list of resources for the competition: Plugin Competition Prizes: If you have promised a prize or have paid already, it should show up on this page, more details to follow Plugin Competition Blog: This is where all the announcements and code should be posted. Contact Form: Use this form for sponsorship questions and submissions. Preliminary Rules: Most of the rules are listed here. More to follow on a separate page. All competition entries must be submitted with the final version of code to mark at wltc dot net. This can and should be done towards the end of the competition […]

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