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WordPress Theme Releases for 11/2

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November 2nd, 2007
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WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

Business Sense is a 2-column theme perfect for a business blog or site. Extended is a 2-column theme with a Web 2.0 look and bright colors. Fotosky is a 3-column theme with 3-column footer that features a clean and simple design. Lizard is a new dark skin for the Shifter theme that allows you to choose between 4 page widths including fluid width New Yorker is a 3-column, fluid, newspaper-style theme with lots of window dressing. Tech Moz is a 2-column theme with beautiful lines and colors.

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ModSecurity and WordPress

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November 1st, 2007
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Blogging News, WordPress Security

Daniel Cuthbert has written a paper on ModSecurity and WordPress. While I praise the work and the effort, I am not sure why they did not find it in themselves to protect the PDF document that they are distributing using some sort of an SHA1 checksum or the like to ensure the integrity of the download. Now I know that these guys know what they are doing but I have a problem with security related papers, help documents, scripts and other items when they cannot be verified with the source and the source itself cannot be verified with the original author of the product. I have always been a big proponent of mod_security and I think it provides a comprehensive layer of web security without as much overhead. Although I have never thought of WordPress’ security to be as weak as the BlogSecurity folks have claimed it to be. mod_security […]

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WeblogToolsCollection Plugin Housekeeping

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October 30th, 2007
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Blogging News, Business of Blogging, WordPress Plugins

I have added a few plugins and tweaked a bit of the code on WeblogToolsCollection to keep things fresh and new. Here is the list. WhoSeesAds: I have been meaning to wean out the Google AdSense ads for my regular visitors and Ozh’s plugin was the ticket. If you have not used it yet, you are missing out. It is one of the finest pieces of useful and well thought out code for WordPress bloggers. I have the ads set so they only show for posts older than 30 days or if you are not a regular visitor. I like the lack of distractive AdSense blocks. There is also a distinct benefit that I had not anticipated. The best paying AdSense block on this blog has also been the most obnoxious that regular readers have complained about. I can now display those ads to people that happen to stop by […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/29

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October 29th, 2007
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MyTwitter allows users to display their recent Twitters on their WordPress site. WP Tag Manager aims to provide tag management that seamlessly integrates into your WordPress admin. XmasB lets you add and show random quotes to your WordPress blog with ease.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 10/29

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October 29th, 2007
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Bloomingday is a 3-column, green theme with flowery header. Brownie is a 2-column theme with a header image guaranteed to tickle your sweet-tooth. DGA Design 01 is a 2-column, Adsense-ready theme with blue color scheme. Godfrey is a single-column, gray-and-red theme with custom shaped content areas and dual bottom information areas that display Recent Posts, Categories, Search Bar, Blogroll, and Meta Information. InKarm is a 2-column theme with red, black, and white colors predominant. Star’eve is a 2-column, dark theme with minimalistic design. WordPreciousss is a 2-column, minimal theme that uses skins to change, layout, and format.

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ProjectWonderful ads for your blog?

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October 28th, 2007
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Business of Blogging

I decided to use Project Wonderful for a month before I would say anything about the service so that I could talk somewhat intelligently about it. Project Wonderful lets you sell ads on your blogs in a new way. They use something called an “infinite auction” model that allows you to continue to sell your ad even after it is sold one time. In other words, the ads are sold on a per day basis and the highest bidders’ ads are displayed on your blog. The system has its weaknesses but it does work. You sign up just like any other advertising service and wait for them to approve your blog. Then you decide what kind of ad blocks you would like to display, setup the code and then add the code to your blog. The process of setting up ads and displaying them is a learning experience, but more […]

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Easy Asides for WordPress

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October 26th, 2007
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LinkyLoo, WordPress Hack

Easy Asides for WordPress: Daniel has come up with another way to easily add “Asides” to your WordPress install. I use the category LinkyLoo (Of which this post is an example. If you are reading this is a feed reader, you are missing the effect) to the same effect. His method is WordPress 2.3 compatible and though it involves code modification, it is not very complex to implement.

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The science of blog reading

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October 25th, 2007
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Blogging Essays, Business of Blogging

The science of blog reading: Nick Carr gives us an executive summary of an article by a team from CMU (and Nielsen) and he explains their thesis with the following foreword: The problem of detecting contaminants in a public water system is analogous to the problem of figuring out what’s going on in the blogosphere. Any article that claims that the blogosphere is essentially a sewer, is worth the read. I whole heartedly disagree with the list of 100 blogs that “everyone should read” but the concept is amusing and the principles behind their claims might have some merits. But then again I disagree with any and all such lists because all blogs and their readers do not have the same interest in all subject matters. Also as an astute commenter on that post points out, some of the blogs on that list aren’t even updated anymore and thus their […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/25

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October 25th, 2007
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WordPress Plugins

Category Posts Widget displays the most recent posts from a specific category. Easy Gravatars makes it simple to add Gravatars to your blog. Hiddy is a captcha-like plugin to help fight spam comments. Highlight Author Comments automatically displays comments made by a post’s author in a distinctive style with no need to edit your template files. Random Categories with Random Posts picks random entries from random categories to display on your blog. (For WordPress 2.2.3 and lower.) Sensitive Tag Cloud provides a tagcloud that shows tags depending of the current context only.

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