New Plugins Simple Referal Stat This plugin is a simple blog stat. You can see where does your traffic come from and how many page view. Twitter LiveBlog Twitter LiveBlog integrates with Twitter and lets you liveblog on your WordPress blog. Image Optimizer Reduce uploaded images’s size with Optipng and Jhead. There is no option for this plugin. Silverlight for WordPress Silverlight for WordPress allows a WordPress user to specify a Silverlight application (XAP) to embed within their WordPress content Link Hopper Easily set up links like /hop/google/ to redirect users to www.google.com. This can be useful in masking your affiliate links. If your affiliate link needs to change, you can just change the HOP values in a single place, without having to search your site for outdated links. Updated Plugins GD Star Rating GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image […]
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Archive for 2009
Dion Hulse a.k.a. DD32 who is a very active WordPress contributor created a ticket in Trac about eight weeks ago outlining his proposal for a new theme to be based on the current WordPress codebase. It’s long been known that a majority of themes that are created for WordPress end up using Kubrick as the base theme. In this day in age, that is not such a good idea as this leads to themes that are not easy to customize, little documentation, and possibly ugly code. DD32’s proposal for a new base theme contains the following suggestions: Uses clean markup Has a basic style included, Which is designed to be replaced. The default style should be able to be used by itself, But it should be in such a way that its simple to be customized Doesn’t rely upon fixed width styling, or fixed background images Uses limited JavaScript Uses […]
[Continue Reading...]What is cSprites for WordPress? cSprites for WordPress plugin helps speed up your blog by reducing the number of requests made for images. When activated all images within a post will automatically be stitched up and displayed properly as compressed CSS sprites. Screenshots Before activating, all images within a post are being retrieved using separate requests. After activating, all images are stitched together into one compressed image and retrieved using only one request. The plugin then uses CSS magic to display these image sprites properly within the post. Features Quality and style settings let you specify the compression level for the stitched up image sprite. Ability to include/exclude certain types. Cache expiration tuning. SEO Options for SEO nerds. What I Like About It cSprites for WordPress was written to do one thing (convert all post images into compressed image sprites to speed up your blog) and it does it very […]
[Continue Reading...]Jeff Chandler over at WPTavern.com recently published an interview with Andrew Ozz. Andrew is the man responsible for the integration of TinyMCE into WordPress. He’s also a core committer for the WordPress project. In his interview, Jeff asked a number of questions that I believe are on the minds of many who have used the visual editor. Here is an example: Jeff – TinyMCE is labeled as a WYSIWYG editor. However, in my experience most times what I see is not what I get. For example, I’ll be in the visual editor and block quote a piece of text. But when I press enter to begin a new line, my cursor is stuck within the blockquote tag. This also works for any other styling elements as well. Why is that? I think the WYSIWYG a.k.a. RTE (rich text editor) comes from the early implementation of support for editing in the […]
[Continue Reading...]Like most of you, I have experimented with many WordPress plugins. I have seen a lot of great plugins and also a lot of bad plugins. I am a bit of a WordPress plugin developer myself, and I admit that I borrow many ideas from other good WordPress plugins. From that experience I have consolidated these good ideas into a checklist that you can follow when reviewing or coding a new WordPress plugin. Here are my picks of the top characteristics that make a great WordPress plugin. 10. Easy Installation I have seen plugins that require you to modify code after plugin activation to be able to get it to work properly. The instructions were documented clearly in the readme.txt file, but most of the users seem to have missed it (I could tell from the frustration in the plugin support thread). Not everybody reads the installation instructions inside the […]
[Continue Reading...]Manifest Manifest consists of a clean and streamlined layout that focuses on the content and not the distractions. It utilizes a single column, 500 pixel wide layout. Aether A new freechild theme for Thematic 0.9: Aether. A single column layout, Twitter plugin ready, configurable via an option page. The Integrity Theme Clean, simple, minimalist, professional and usable. Several options for the blog index, including a static + tab approach, or a traditional blog approach. The design has it’s own control panel. The design will be modified as time goes on to include more sidebar options and usability choices. Shades of Blue Shades of Blue is a 2-column theme created for WordPress. The sidebar and the footer are fully widgetized, and the navigation is coded for drop-down menus. Shades of Blue has been developed to accommodate threaded comments and sticky posts.
[Continue Reading...]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 […]
[Continue Reading...]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.
[Continue Reading...]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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