Stripe Generator: While you are waiting for the WordPress Theme Generator to dig itself out of the digg effect, check out this “ajax diagonal stripes background designer”. At first I was wondering what use cool looking candy stripes would be until I read the Striped Designs post on their blog. I love the subtle gradient stripes! Thanks to a ping from ScriptyGoddess for the WordPress Theme Generator post.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Theme Generator: There used to be some very good ones out there but they seem to have dropped out of favor. This new one offers such conveniences as instant previews, lots of layout, color and gradient settings, custom header graphics and download of individual files as well as a neatly packaged zip. This could be a good starting point for WordPress bloggers who want to play around with colors and layout and do not want to muddy their hands with code. I like the instant gratification and appreciate Yvo’s hard work.
[Continue Reading...]Plugin Page Organize Series Description The Organize Series plugin helps with the organization and presentation of articles/posts you write as part of a series. It helps make it easier for readers of your blog to discover all the series you’ve written and also to easily find post that are part of the same series. Features Integrates with the category system of WordPress Robust administration options menu for the plugin that allows you to control much of the output of the plugin to suit your own tastes without having to open the plugin file and edit things manually. Automatic tag insert for displaying a "container" on the full post page that will show what series it belongs to and other articles in the series. A custom .css file (orgSeries.css) accompanying the plugin to make it easier to make changes in the display of various elements (for those familiar with .css). Two […]
[Continue Reading...]Tom has put together a WordPress Theme Viewer with 39 themes. Many of these themes have been announced here before and before anyone asks, Tom has no plans to update the viewer with new themes. You can download the themes in his viewer from this list. Another reason for this post is to draw attention to some of Tom’s work and the reason I want to garner that attention is because I believe that his work can be really helpful to novice bloggers. He is a technical writer and podcaster and has a lot of good things to say on and about WordPress. He has written on themes (on which the theme viewer was based), plugins and various other WordPress and blogging tips and tools.
[Continue Reading...]Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires? The lack of open source software billionaires is by design. It’s part of the intent of open source software — to balance the scales by devaluing the obscene profit margins that exist in the commercial software business. . . . There are real millionaires– even billionaires– who built companies on open source software. Just ask Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Or the YouTube founders. The real money isn’t in the software. It’s in the service you build with that software.
[Continue Reading...]I love bloggers, they are very good people. But even the most kind hearted and best intentioned bloggers sometimes either misinterpret or misread information and the piece ends up very different from where it started its life. This somewhat macabre movement of information from one person to other with slight mutilations is very interesting to me. All of us have studied or read about it in one form or fashion. Now here is the idea for the meme: Read through the following news paragraph and recreate a post on your blog from memory if you will. Encourage your readers to do the same with a link back to your post. Now, imagine throwing video into that mix. By the time I got the headphones on and the video downloaded, I’d be on to designing some new feature (or, more likely, answering more email). I’d only get to hear three words […]
[Continue Reading...]Plugin Page: http://blog.no-panic.at/projects/flickrss Description: Flickrss is a WordPress plugin that displays the latest comments of your Flickr account in your Sidebar. Features – Shows latest Flickr comments in Sidebar – Links back to Flickr or optionally to your own Blog if FAlbum is installed. Future Plans Some more Options to alter the way the comments get displayed in the sidebar by choosing which HTML tags get put before and after the entries. Review Installation of this plugin is normal as well. You needa do the extra step of adding code to your sidebar.php or wherever you want the images to show up. There isn’t much to state about the plugin, as it is built for one purpose and does the job well, i.e. it fetches your comments and displays them. The plugin uses Magpie RSS which is a well established script and used by many, so the plugin comes with […]
[Continue Reading...]Plugin Name AntiLeech Plugin URL http://redalt.com/Resources/Plugins/AntiLeech Description AntiLeech does not prevent the splogger bots from accessing your site. It produces a fake set of content especially for them that includes links back to your site and sends it only to them. Review AntiLeech is a perfect plugin to hit back at scrapers and it is the primary purpose that the plugin is built for. The plugin can detect a splogger bot using its User-Agent string or by IP address. You also have the option of adding your own set of IP addresses to which you want to “feed” the fake content. Whenever the banned bot with the banned user-agent or IP address tries to scrape your content, Antileech detects this and gives them some fake content. Regular visitors will have normal browser agents and they will see the correct content. i.e. they won’t even realize you have some kind of […]
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