As many of you know – plugins can add significant functionality to your website. For instance there is a plugin that will add an entire forum to your site (Simple:Press) and there is another one that will allow your visitors to contact you via a customizable form (Contact Form 7). What if you were just looking for a few plugins to fancy up your site a little bit or maybe add a small piece of functionality or info? Well they exist as well and sometimes it is the simple touches that really finish a site off. Here are a few of my favorites: - Shockingly Simple Favicon changes your sites favicon – that is the small graphic that shows up in the address bar of your web browser when your on a site. This even sticks when you switch themes after installing it. - Simple Feed Copyright inserts a copyright […]
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Archive for 2009
Go Green Two column, widget ready theme with built-in ad management and support for Twitter. Tonight We Party “Tonight we party” is a fixed background, flexible width, cross-browser compatible free WP theme. One column layout. Has a collapsible sidebar on the left, always visible to the user and extendable on click. Twitheme Widget ready, gravatar ready, 2.7 ready, two column theme using custom field for thumbnail. Panorama Panorama is a two column theme with a right widgetized sidebar and a main gimmick of a customizable header image… Facebook Addict Three column, widget ready, Facebook style theme.
[Continue Reading...]I Like Content Two column, widgetized theme with a narrow sidebar in order to focus on content. VoodooEmpire2 It’s a DJ influenced black and red 3 column theme. The sidebars are on the right. There is a customizable greeting message that can be configured from the Theme Options area in the admin menu. Also there are now 3 widget columns in the footer area that can be set up in the normal widget area. Inksplash [REMOVED, SPONSORED THEME] A bi-color (navy-blue/tan) simple WP theme. Fluid layout. Cross-browser compatible. Gives the user the option to resize the font size (no plugin needed). 2 columns, sidebar on the right side. Paper pattern. Red Carbon and other themes Red Carbon is a two column widget ready WordPress theme with header that mimics red carbon. Carrington 2.0 Two column theme with support for threaded comments, custom colors and header images with lightbox for galleries. […]
[Continue Reading...]40 WordPress Optimisation tips – Yoast – Tweaking Websites.: Joost De valk has the slides for his talk on 40 WordPress optimization tips up for everyone. This is from his presentation at A4UExpo in Europe. If you do not follow Joost or use his plugins, you might be missing out. We have recently started using his Tweetbacks plugin on this blog (with some minor tweaks for load). To test it out, just Twitter this post and you will see it appear as a comment. The dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack.: The dotMobi WordPress Mobile pack is a set of plugins to make your WordPress blog easier to use on mobile devices. This pack includes the following: Mobile switcher to detect mobile visitors and provide an appropriate experience Base mobile theme for quick-and-easy XHTML-MP compliance Extended mobile themes so you can unleash your mobile creativity Transcoding and device adaptation to optimise the […]
[Continue Reading...]Jane Wells recently put the call out to the WordPress Professionals mailing list asking for recommendations for Women WordPress developers. That is, those who develop plugins or patches for WordPress, not bloggers. Personally, when I think of women involved with WordPress, I think of Lorelle VanFossen, Lisa Sabin Wilson, and a few others. Other than Lisa who develops themes, I can’t think of any women off the top of my head that contributes routinely to the development of WordPress or plugins. If you are a female WordPress developer and you live on the West Coast, preferably around San Francisco, CA get in contact with Jane Wells as soon as possible. You may end up with the opportunity to present at WordCamp San Francisco.
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins WP-Table Reloaded This plugin allows you to create and manage tables in the admin-area of WordPress. You can then show them in your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode. That way you won’t have to bother with HTML in your editor. Dynamic Headers It allows you to create highly dynamic header space on your WordPress site. WP Private You will be able to mark a part of your post as private and the rest will be available to public and a register or login link will appear where your privatized content is supposed to appear. Once the user logs in they will be able to see the whole content (Great for membership sites). Now you can show off parts of your site to visitors and reserve parts for registered users. WP PHP Quick Profiler WP-PHPQuickProfiler is a WordPress plugin that uses a […]
[Continue Reading...]The WordPress Plugin Compeition 2009 was underway on the 1st of May. This precludes the fact that any plugins developed or released after the 1st of May (but before the 31st of July, inclusive) can be entered into the compeition. There has been a lot of interest in the competition but no entries on the Plugin Competition Blog yet. If you are interested in posting on the blog but do not have a registration, please register there and we will give you the proper permissions. Please use this forum topic on the WLTC Community to ask for or request ideas for plugin development as part of the competition. As for the prizes, over $2300 have been pledged towards prizes for the competition this year, which is awesome. We are looking for more corporate and personal sponsors for the comeptition to make the prize purse as attractive as possible. If you […]
[Continue Reading...]Various tutorials on installing BuddyPress correctly and integrating bbPress with BuddyPress, make mention of a plugin called “WPMU Enable bbPress Cabpabilities” written by Michael Eagan. It simply adds a type of usermeta to the WPMU user tables for bbPress to pick up on. The plugin page says pretty clearly that this plugin is compatible with bbPress version upto 1.0-alpha-2. With the recent release of BuddyPress 1.0 and bbPress 1.0-alpha-6 (which has some very cool WordPress integration capabilities), this simple plugin developed a huge bug. Since it makes very little sense to release another version of this plugin, I wrote up a simple fix for it on our Community Forums. Speaking of our WLTC Community, we are up to 68 users who are actively making friends, posting on their blogs and writing up forum topics. I can’t say this often enough, but BuddyPress and WordPress have amazed me once more. It […]
[Continue Reading...]About the Author
- Richard Hay
I have served for 26 plus years in the Navy and am a Master Chief Petty Officer. My work background in the Navy is telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well in what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena. My first website - AnotherWin95.com - came online in 1996. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and have all the GeoCities “stuff” to show for it! I have progressed from a single page, link-filled, static html page to using PHP, databases and coding to make my pages.
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