Archive for March, 2009

WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/26

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New Plugins 3DArmory 3DArmory for WordPress is a simple but effective plugin for players of the popular Massive Multiplayer Online game World of Warcraft. In few words, it renders players in-game World of Warcraft character as 3D Model on their blog. The model is zoomable and rotatable. Template Tag Shortcodes Template Tag Shortcodes is a plugin that turns WordPress template tags into easy-to-use [shortcodes] that can be inserted into your posts and pages. This release is packaged with 40 shortcodes to use. 12seconds Widget Adds a sidebar widget to display http://12seconds.tv video status updates. For those of you who are familiar with Twitter; 12seconds is like Twitter, but with video instead of text updates. Amazon QuickTags Plugin Adds a few buttons to the “Edit Post” page — both the TinyMCE / WYSIWYG version and the HTML version — to easily add links to Amazon items with your affiliate ID. WP […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 03/25

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WP Smashing Greg Johnson’s theme WP Smashing is also an example for such kind of themes. The main goal of the theme was to display WordPress posts in calendar format. The theme is widget-ready, WordPress 2.7 compatible, has an integrated configurable calendar functionality and a configurable contact form. Installation guidelines are provided in the package. The .PSD-source file is included as well. Woogle Turns your blog into a Google Search Engine on April Fool’s Day. BlueSkool A blue, 2-column theme designed to be easy on the eyes. Theme author? Looking to get featured in our release posts? Submit your theme to us.

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Microsoft Web Platform Featured App: WordPress

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March 24th, 2009
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Microsoft Web Platform: Microsoft has added WordPress, Drupal, DotNetNuke, Gallery and a few other applications to the Microsoft Web App Gallery. The Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 installs PHP and includes WordPress and other PHP applications by default. What is not immediately obvious is whether this version of WordPress has been modified to work with SQL Server Express and IIS that is included with the Web Platform or whether MySql is included as part of the install. If you have installed the Platform, what are you impressions? The Industry Standard has an interesting take on this bundling as well.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/23

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March 23rd, 2009
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New Plugins Admin Log Displays a list of all the admin pages accessed in the Blog admin area. This is updated every time a page in the admin area is accessed. Information displayed includes: admin page accessed, user, and time of access. Add URL to Feed It is designed to make sure all feed readers know where the feed post content has come from. All too often feed content is scraped, re-used and then distributed on other sites without acknowledgement to the original author. Stock Quotes This WordPress plugin allows you to easily display stock quotes on your website. The output of the plugin is designed to be minimal – the stock symbol, last price, and change amount are shown. You can configure the output in the options page for the plugin. The data is retrieved from Yahoo finance. GalleryShot GalleryShot SW is a WordPress plugin (sorry, no blogger version […]

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Plugin Review: WordPress Filter

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Do you have filters set in your email program, be it Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail or even Outlook? Anyone who uses filters knows how their ability to improve productivity by getting basic things done easily. So, why not take the power of filters and integrate it with our very own WordPress? This is what Matt Walters’ plugin WordPress Filter hopes to establish. Description: WordPress Filter is a comprehensive post filtering & template system. It allows the user to define a set of simple “Catches” (criteria) to be met by a post, and then have a set of “Actions” applied to the post. This plugin takes action whenever a Post is published inside of WordPress (including Posts coming in via XMLRPC). It can be used for many tasks, including creating your own mini plugins without ever having to leave your WordPress administration area. Screenshot: Review: Working with this plugin is extremely […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 03/21

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Inuitypes Two column theme with ability to display Feedburner counter, adsense ready, ability to exclude pages from the header, fully widgetized with support for paginated and threaded comments. Muted Colors Two/Three column theme with 13 widgetized areas, twitter integrated, dynamic header, with threaded comments. Elegant Touch 3 columns, right sidebar, tab sidebar, widget ready, support Gravatar, threaded comment ready Simple Love A Simple Love is a minimalistic, lighthearted 3 columns Thematic child theme with dashes of light blue and dark pink here and there. The goal is to provide better readability, less visual clutter, and simply to be pleasing to look at.

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New WordPress Plugin: Better Search

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March 20th, 2009
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Have you tried searching for anything out here on Weblog Tools Collection? What about the Heatmap we have at the bottom of the page? If you haven’t searched for anything here yet, let me explain the difference between the search results out here and the results on other WordPress blogs. On other blogs, when you use the inbuilt search, WordPress finds the posts that contain the search term as is and lists them out. Out here, when you conduct a search, the posts which are most relevant to the search term are listed out in order of their relevance. This ensures better search results for your search term. The solution we have here is manual and customized for this blog. So, in order to extend this all WordPress users, I’ve converted the same into a WordPress plugin titled Better Search. When you install Better Search, it will automatically replace the […]

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How to write a good plugin review

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When we launched our Reader Review series, I’m sure we created a few doubts in your mind about: How do I write a review? Will my review be accepted? What if my review gets trashed by readers? Is it really worth the effort? And so on… We published a list of reviews from our readers, so that is a good starting point. I’ll guide you through a few tips on writing a good review. Step 1 – Select the Plugin The first step to starting the review, is well finalizing on which plugin you want to review, then downloading and installing the same on your blog. This could either be a dummy blog dedicated for this purpose or maybe your production blog itself. Do you really need to install it? Well, the answer is obvious. Yes, you need to. Because without getting a hands on experience, you will never be […]

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IE 8 and WordPress

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March 19th, 2009
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So on the day of the release of the much [add verb of choice here] Internet Explorer 8, we would like to know what happens to your WordPress blog in IE 8. Does anything look different? Does anything work? How about the Dashboard or the admin interface? Did you find any problems? Are you tearing your hair out or are you grinning from ear to ear? Would you suggest that everyone upgrade or would you suggest that we stay away? This is one of those times that I wish we allowed the posting of screenshots along with the comments on this blog but links to screenshots would be much appreciated. Anyone know of a plugin that allows posting of screenshots in comments?

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