Archive for 2007

WARNING: TemplatesBrowser dot com

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This is about a theme distribution site called Templatesbrowser dot com. I intentionally do not link to them. They are showcasing various authors’ themes and providing direct downloads for them. To make things much worse, they have added code to the footer of these themes that call the original site back and add hidden links to the themes once they are installed. It could also be used to run other malicious code. I strongly suggest that users stay away from downloading and using anything from them. This is pretty darn shady. Thanks to Milo, Derek and others for staying on top of this.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 8/3

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August 3rd, 2007
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WordPress Plugins

Include Me In That (html) includes any file into the body of any WordPress post or page. Care should be taken with files as their content will be transferred directly into the HTML of your WordPress Blog Site. Include Me In That (website) is a website link generator plugin that provides a thumbnail, description and link to a website of your choice that you can embed into any WordPress post or page. Mini-Slides is a lightweight image gallery plugin that integrates smoothly with the native WordPress upload feature and with the Lightbox 2 plugin. Snippet Highlight puts the focus on PHP, CSS, JS code and more. Those Were the Days is a featured posts plugin that provides configurable links to posts that you want to highlight on your blog. The output from the plugin can be displayed as a widget in the sidebar of your WordPress 2.2+ blog. Wikisearch is […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 8/3

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Dot Dot Dot is a 3-column, minimal theme. Envy is a blue, two-column, widget-ready, WordPress theme with overlapping tab menus and rounded corners. Fadtastic is a 3-column, SEO-optimal theme designed for fluid width flexibility.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 8/2

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August 2nd, 2007
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WordPress Plugins

Blog Majordomo displays a customizable scrolling message in the sidebar to blog readers. Dynamic Del.icio.us uses Javascript to display a collapsible list of links from your del.icio.us account. This allows you to share your recent bookmarks without causing search engines to single your site out as a spamlog. Link Summarizer creates a list at the end of a post of all the link referred to in the post itself. The plugin can be configured in the admin to exclude certain links from the link summary. Mabber sets up the instant messaging client as a WordPress widget. Short URL allows you to create shorter URL’s and keep track of how many times a link has been clicked. It’s useful for managing downloads, keeping track of outbound links and for masking affiliate URL’s. Smiley JS Buttons allows you to display all the smilies in the default WP set as images next to […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 8/2

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Fusion is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with some SEO packaging built in. Hello 2007 is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with a photoshopped header. Requires Ultimate Tag Warrior to be installed and activated on your blog. (English page for theme download can be found at WPSnap.) Spin Me is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with a stylish design and light colors. Xenoria is a 2-column theme with the professional, stylish feel.

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50k blogs equals $500mil Revenue

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August 1st, 2007
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Business of Blogging

Top 50k blogs had $500 million in 2006 Revenue: TechCrunch has an interesting link to a study performed by a couple University of Texas Ph.D students in association with Chitika. The study claims that the top 50,000 blogs made somewhere near the astronomical total of $500 million in revenue in the 2006 fiscal year. The linked PDF is very short and the double exponential model that was used to fit (model) the values looks sloppy enough in the short description that it would not stand up well to a peer review. Chitika’s presence and promotion via this study is also quite evident. Frankly, I am surprised that The University of Chicago has allowed their name to be publicly associated with this study considering their heritage and authority in the statistics and economics educational disciplines [EDIT] I stand corrected, the study is from the University of Texas. Thanks AJay in the […]

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Sweet, Sweet Akismet

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July 31st, 2007
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Blogging News, WordPress

Akismet has protected your site from 2,000,396 spam comments. WeblogToolsCollection.com also reached the 10,000 comments milestone a couple of weeks ago. So, for comparison’s sake, at present there are 10,577 comments on this blog. Huzzah! [EDIT] I forgot to ask, how is Akismet treating you?

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Plugin Competition Last Day

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July 31st, 2007
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WordPress Plugin Competition

Today is the last day of the WordPress Plugin Competition. So today is the last day for you to submit plugins to the competition. If you were planning on submitting a plugin, please email the final version of the code to mark at wltc dot net. I must receive your code by the end of today for your plugin to be eligible as an entry into the competition. If you, as a plugin user, have not checked out the competition entries and tried out some of the incredible plugins, head over there right away. Once you have downloaded and used the plugins, make sure you come back to the competition and rate the plugins that you have used. Your ratings will go a long way in helping us determine the best entries into the competition. Thanks again to all the sponsors and donors that have made this competition a reality.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 7/31

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ACMS is a 3-column theme designed to turned WordPress into a Content Management System. Blog Oh Blog is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with minimal design. Hope in Dark is a 2-column, widget- and adsense-ready theme with orange and black colors. Moo-Point is a 2-column, widget-ready theme built on the Sandbox theme. Recycled Canvas is a 2-column, experimental WordPress theme designed to gather and share mouseclick data via a specialized plugin for academic research in how people share designs, use blogs, and a variety of other purposes.

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