This post is not written by me but is reproduced, with permission, from a post in the Weblog Tools Collection News Forums. It was written by Weathervane. Since Frank has downloaded 530 plus plugins, and most of his thoughts are well expressed and documented, this post might trigger some good conversation. Please chime in. As a new WordPress blogger, I wanted to customize my installation, so I began a review of the available plugins. My first installation of WordPress was version 2.3.1. Because this version was a significant change, there was a list of v2.3.1-compatible plugins, of which I downloaded and tried most of them. Since then, I’ve downloaded 530± plugins (this was what’s left after deleting extensions of commercial services), and tried/tested most of them. Five-hundred± is an incredible number and rivals, I think, Photoshop actions or plugins—and there are lots of those. The WordPress plugins community is impressively […]
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Archive for January, 2008
CoverItlive.com is a free (for now) service that allows you to live blog events and publish items directly to any publishing platform. Now this is pretty commonplace and can easily be done with WordPress (and a few extra plugins) but CoverItLive makes it easier and quicker to embed a variety of media and interact with your readers in real time. There is also an instant replay function, which as inane as that might be, might become handy at some point. Now I barely ever liveblog anything, but I can see a lot of use for this at conferences. Have you liveblogged anything before?
[Continue Reading...]About a week ago Smashing Magazine released an article covering 100 free WordPress themes. And just yesterday they released an article covering premium WordPress themes. My questions to the reader is: what makes a WordPress theme premium? Is it the Features? What features does a theme have to have to be considered premium? What are you looking for that will immediately tell a premium theme apart from a non-premium theme? Is it the Design? Are premium themes designed any differently than their non-premium counterparts? What design elements does a premium theme have that others don’t? Is it the Support? Do premium themes offer more in terms of author support and upgrades? Or Something Else… Please weigh in on what you feel makes a WordPress theme premium.
[Continue Reading...]First off, I want to thank each and every one of you who put your thinking caps on and came up with some awesome ideas and solutions for this perplexing problem. I think its time to consolidate the ideas that we came up with, and review what the underlying problems are. Nick was first out of the gate For both of my plugins, I provided uninstall capability. Whenever the user deactivates the plugin, it is effectively uninstalled, removing all data related to the plugin. The user could then do whatever they wanted with the file containing the plugin. It was easy to do it this way because WordPress provides a hook for action upon deactivation of a plugin. The problem that I and many others have is that, deactivating a plugin should not have the same affect as uninstalling it. This is wrong. Who wants to reconfigure their plugin after […]
[Continue Reading...]NewsGator Makes Client Apps Free: NetNewsWire 3.1, FeedDemon 2.6, and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0. and NewsGator Inbox 3.0 are now free to download and use. FeedDemon is a desktop news aggregator that I helped beta test and I have used off and on and Bradbury is a tremendous developer. If you were looking for a powerful desktop aggregator that is easy to use, FeedDemon might be the ticket.
[Continue Reading...]In response to Jeff’s post regarding uninstalling plugins, Andrew Rickmann has created a tool that adds an uninstallation option on the plugins page. The uninstall option will only show up if the plugin has been deactivated and if the plugin author has created an uninstall file. Click image for larger size — Uninstall Option for Hello Dolly Andrew is unsure of the demand for a tool like this, so please let him know your thoughts on having an uninstall option on the plugins page. Update Jan 11: Andrew has released a second iteration of the uninstall tool. Click here to check it out.
[Continue Reading...]Antropov is a 3-column, light-colored theme built on the Cutline theme. Brilliance is a 2-column theme with a very simple, clean layout and design. Deadwood-lite is a 2-column, minimal theme primed for writers who want to focus their online efforts on readability, pull quotes, and clarity. Dilectio is a 3-column theme with artistic stylings. Hardcover is a 2-column theme with crisp design and typography. Landis is a 2-column theme with two customizable options for the site title and tagline. SparkWP is a 2-column, minimalistic, light-on-dark theme. Webdesign is a 2-column theme with light-blue colors. (Download page is Dutch.) Why walk alone? is a bright beachscape theme available in 2- and 3-column varieties.
[Continue Reading...]Comment URL Control will allow you to remove unwanted author-URIs entered by a commenter with one single click of your mouse. WP-Crontrol lets you take control over what’s happening in the WP-Cron system. Language Linker allows you to link sister pages that are written in multiple languages. RelatedPosts provides a variety of options for displaying posts that are related through tags.
[Continue Reading...]When you think of uninstall, do you think of completely removing something? The official definition for the word is as follows, (uninstall) To remove completely from a system. I ask this question because I have discovered a problem that needs to be addressed by WordPress plugin authors. Over the lifespan of a WordPress installation, there may be a number of plugins that are installed and subsequently uninstalled. Typically, the installation of a WordPress plugin consist of uploading files, folders and then activating the plugin within the admin panel. However, some plugins include a bonus. These are the plugins that create database entries either in the form of tables or data. I’ve used WordPress for over 7 months now, and for those 7 months, I believed that when I deleted the folders and files that were attributed to a plugin, that it was in fact, uninstalled. Only now have I come […]
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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