The new version of WordPress for iPhone (and iPod touch) app is now live and available for download in the iTunes App store. This version has a lot of fixes/enhancements that many people (including me) have been waiting for. I’ve been playing around with version 1.2 for a little bit and here are some of my first impressions. New Features (and Some Comments) Landscape mode with extra wide keyboard This is probably the most desired feature for this application simply because it is physically painful to type a full length blog post in the iPhone portrait keyboard. I am glad that the portrait keyboard restriction is now a thing of the past! Link creation help I wasn’t sure where this feature was hiding at first, but I soon found the trick to invoking this feature. Basically anytime you are writing, you can type something that resembles a link (for example […]
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Archive for March, 2009
New Plugins Query Posts Description: This widget gives average users the ability to show off their posts in any way they’d like. Nearly 40 options are available to show posts from the widget controls. The widget can also be used an unlimited number of times. Related Websites The Related Websites plugin is the Blog Traffic Exchange. By a blogger for bloggers. No advertising on member blogs. Just a pure, highly relevant blog traffic exchange. Think of it as a related posts for the blogosphere. To Do List Maintains a to do list in the admin area. This can be viewed in the admin area, and edited/saved etc. It is saved as a text file in the Plugin folder. Blog owners can keep track of tasks and activities, and any other information necessary. AVH First Defense Against Spam The AVH First Defense Against Spam WordPress plugin gives you the ability to […]
[Continue Reading...]Titan Titan is a clean brown and white, two column theme. CrushPress Three column, fixed width, with a image rotator with a large content area for big photos or videos. Concrete Concrete is a 2 Column stylish wordpress theme with some transparency effect and a grungy stone like background for that i named it “Concrete“. It’s a simple yet appealing theme giving your blog impressive look by beautifully used icons, content and twitter widget integration which automatically picks 3 last tweets from your twitter account and displays it with animated effect achieved using jQuery. It is fully WordPress 2.7 ready and well designed by every aspect such as search form buttons, comment area and quote style. Typography WP A WordPress theme, using simple lines and nice typography. Some of the futures: drop down menu, threaded comments, control panel, different color scheme, different backgrounds and much more. Simple Paper Simple Paper […]
[Continue Reading...]Some of you may remember that back on January 15th, I asked if you had ever published a blog post via email. Many of you in the comments let me know that you enjoyed using Postie but wished it contained some of the same features that are found with the Posterous service. According to Robert Felty who has taken over development of the plugin, the new version of Postie enables the following: Postie offers many advanced features for posting to your blog via e-mail, including the ability to assign categories by name, included pictures and videos, and automatically strip off signatures. It also has support for both imap and pop3, with the option for ssl with both. The latest version which is 1.1.5 contains the following feature set: Added option to have postie posts be pending review, published, or draft Settings panel only shows up for administrators Need not be […]
[Continue Reading...]We hate spam. We hate it so much that we always find solutions to spam. So, this week we continue our Weekly Plugin Review series with a review of an Akismet alternative called Mollom. Description: This plugin makes it possible to use the anti-spam services provided by Mollom on your own WordPress blog. What is Mollom? It’s a free anti-spam service that was founded by Dries Buytaert (Drupal) and Benjamin Schrauwen. The plugin can be used as a substitute for Akismet, Defensio, Spam Karma and others. What does it do? Mollom works much like Akismet: comments are sent to a central server which uses intelligent, self-learning algorithms to determine wether or not a comment is spam or not. Spam-classification isn’t a binary process and as a result, common anti-spam services perform bad when handling false positives. Mollom takes care of this. If it can’t clearly classify a comment, it will […]
[Continue Reading...]Having launched our new User Reviews process for plugins, I didn’t give most our readers any time to get their plugin reviews across to me. In spite of this, we received a total eight plugin reviews for five different plugins. Here’s the list. Do check out the links and read what the reviewer has to say. Did you like their review? Comment and tell them. Share your experiences of the plugins with them. WP Greet Box We reviewed WP Greet Box on January 18. WP Greet Box is a simple plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer URL. WP Greet Box topped our list with three reviews of the eight reviews we received. JayPee had this to say: WP Greet Box not only helps you promote your RSS feed and increase your RSS feed readers but having these targeted suggestions on […]
[Continue Reading...]New Releases GD Press Tools GD Press Tools is a collection of various additional administration tools. Plugin is still under heavy development and over time number of tools will grow. JuLiA JuLiA (Just a Linguistic Algorithm) is an automated comment moderation plugin for WordPress that uses machine learning and natural language processing techniques to recognize abusiveness in comment content. gooseGrade Plugin Allow your readers to become citizen editors. gooseGrade is a free service that allows your readers to post spelling, grammar, factual, and other errors straight to you. After you or any other WordPress admin approves the edit, the gooseGrade plugin will automatically fix the error. It’s like magic. Simple Image Grabber Retrieve and display images from a WordPress post. Folding Menu Plugin Create a folding menu for WordPress built in Pages widget using jQuery. PeoplePond PeoplePond provides the tools needed to take ownership of your online identity and reputation […]
[Continue Reading...]You must be aware that we’ve launched a new series where every reader of Weblog Tools Collection can contribute and get featured in return. We’ve asked you to pick a plugin from our Weekly Plugin Review posts and review the same and then email us the link. Since, the launch, we’ve already received a few entries. The plugins you can choose from: Simple:Press Forum – (Our Review) Referrer Detector – (Our Review) WP Greet Box – (Our Review) WP125 – (Our Review) MailPress – (Our Review) Yawasp (Yet Another WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin) – (Our Review) Post Avatar – (Our Review) Improved Plugin Installation – (Our Review) Feed Reading Blogroll – (Our Review) View complete details of the how to submit your reviews » Remember your entries must reach us by Saturday, March 14 – 11.59pm EST
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How to Track RSS Subscribers in a Blog Contest
Let me start off by saying that this post will not talk about how to get sponsors, how to determine prizes, or how to determine rules for a blog contest. This post will talk about how to tweak your WordPress blog to solve the biggest problem in running a blog contest to gain RSS subscribers. Problem The issue here is that there is no easy way to track if each contestant has actually subscribed to your RSS feed. Without the ability to confirm RSS subscription, anybody can just claim that they have subscribed to your feed and get a free entry into the contest. Solution A known solution to this problem is to include a special contest code into your RSS feed and not have this code visible on your website. That way each contestant will be forced to grab the code from your feed and submit the code via […]
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