Although tentatively scheduled for November, WordPress 2.7 looks to be as big of a release since WordPress 2.5, perhaps even bigger. Before reading the rest of this post, please keep in mind that what you see in the following screenshots is by no means a representation of the final product. Also keep in mind that WordPress 2.7 should not be used on a live blog as 2.7 is no where near stable. What you see here is not necessarily what you’ll get. This post will highlight WordPress 2.7 at its current stage of development. Please keep this in mind as you read through the post and make comments. Also, click on any of the thumbnails to see the full size of the image. Back End User Interface: Right from the get go, you’ll notice that just about every facet of the dashboard has been changed. There is now a left […]
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Archive for 2008
Keep It Simple Two columns, widget ready, elegant theme. Fat Mary Fat Mary is a green-like, three column, rounded corners theme with the header and footer in the main column. Urban Life Urban Life is 2 columns green-gray, widget ready WordPress theme. Square Splatter Single column theme with information at the bottom Prologue Gaboogle Inspired by social networks such as twitter, Jaiku, plurk, and Pownce, the Prologue Gaboogle? WordPress theme is an extended version of Automatic’s Prologue theme for WordPress. It’s perfect for bloggers wanting to offer social streaming with a few of the standard WordPress bells and whistles readily available. Scuba Scuba consists of a fixed two column outfit with a header image rotator built in: widgetized sidebar and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel. Horoscope Two column fixed-width, free WordPress theme, with […]
[Continue Reading...]commonspace: Mark Surman, incumbent Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation is now blogging on WordPress (.com) after having mostly successfully moved his Typepad blog to WordPress. If you take a look around Mark’s blog and read his musings, the incessant flow of energy, the unending passion for the Open Source movement and the push for community, conversation and collaboration in various forms become quite evident. Good luck in him in his new position and welcome to WordPress!
[Continue Reading...]Apache Google 404 AskApache Google 404 is a must-have WordPress plugin that uses some ajax and a couple tricks to display a very helpful and SEO Error Page. The default displays Google Search Results for images, news, blogs, videos, web, custom search engine, and your own site. Regenerate Thumbnails Regenerate all attachment thumbnails in one-click. Useful if you change your thumbnail dimensions (either the small one or the medium one) after uploading images. Amazon Wishlists Show the contents of any Amazon wishlist in the sidebar on your blog Smart Archives Reloaded Customize how your archives page should look like WP-Scribd Add Scribd docs inside a post Mobilize by Mippin The Mobilize by Mippin WordPress Plugin is a configuration free add on. Once installed any cell phone accessing your URL will be redirected to the Mippin rendering of your blog. Agenda Create and manipulate events like you do on Google Calendar. […]
[Continue Reading...]Extended Categories Widget A replacement of the category widget to allow for greater customization of the category widget. Protected Post Password Hint Traditionally all password protected posts contain a boiler-plate password form without any hints. Without any capability to change the string, one must provide the hint in another post, which is a bit clumsy. Not to mention, people viewing the single protected post only will be unable to see the hint at all. With this plugin protected posts are more usable. Babel It allows you to write your blog in multiple languages, and switch between these with a simple click on a flag. No Href in Comment Author Disable HREF URL linking in the comment author of your WordPress posts Lijit Search The Lijit search ‘wijit’ allows your visitors to search through not only your blog content, but also your extended social network. WordPress Flag Comments Allows readers to […]
[Continue Reading...]Transport It’s dark, and stylish, with a static patterned background, it’s grey with a dash of blue. It has two columns, and is widget ready. White 2 cols it is plain, simple, and grey and white. Blue Simple two column, blue theme. Green Island Two column, green and blue theme. This theme uses the frontpage as a summery of the blog/site. Not only can you see the latest posts, you can also see the about-page, the categories and the tags.
[Continue Reading...]Well there are two links that showcase 11 and 10 fixes and hacks respectively. Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes: Noupe lists 11 commonly requested WordPress hacks and elegant fixes for them. They include avoiding duplicate content, having category specific menus, sidebar login boxes, most wanted categories etc. 10 WordPress Hacks to make Your Life Easy: Jai lists another 10 hacks to play with. His hack tutorials include adding gravatars to comments, Twitter, image gallery, author bio etc. Some of these are just tutorials on how features work within WordPress and how to incorporate them into existing themes while others are all our modifications of code in themes and in various other places. None of them look too difficult and some of them can be accomplished with plugins. However, all of them are worth checking out.
[Continue Reading...]I recently got a email from a plugin developer, with regards to him having compatibility issues with one of the plugins I had developed. It turned out that both our plugins used a popular library called PclZip for adding archiving features. Due to the compatibility issue, accessing his plugin would cause a fatal PHP error saying that the PclZip class cannot be re-declared, when both our plugins were activated. The compatibility issue arose because of two things; A mistake on his part while checking for existence of class objects in the code. A mistake on my part of using custom libraries, instead of using those provided by WordPress core. Here is a code snippet used to check for class existence. if(! function_exists(‘class_name’)) { require_once(‘myclass.php’); } $object = new class_name(); The above code is wrong, since: Class names cannot be accessed as functions. The internal methods of a class are […]
[Continue Reading...]ScoreRenderer This plugin renders inline sheet music fragments inside posts and comments into images. It supports ABC, GUIDO, Lilypond and Mup music notations. Submit Your Blog A new WordPress plugin has been created that will have direct links to 20 different places to submit your blog. These twenty blog submission directories are popular places to advertise your new WordPress blog. They appear as links inside the back office of your WordPress blog. MarkItUp WP MarkItUp! is the WordPress plugin that replaces the old “quicktags” toolbar with MarkItUp!, a lightweight jQuery plugin that allows to turn any textarea into an highly customizable markup editor. XHTML, Textile, Wiki, Markdown and BBcode toolbars are already provided out-of-the-box, but even your own markup syntax can be easily implemented with this system. Top Friends Top Friends is a WordPress blogroll enhancement plugin. The plugin will fetch your friends’ feeds, and then display the feed’s name […]
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