Author Archive

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »

SezWho: Commenter Reputation Plugin

10
responses
by
on
July 24th, 2007
in
Cool Scripts, Weblog Add-Ons, WordPress Plugins

SezWho Offers Portable Reputations : Web Worker has a thorough writeup on the SezWho service which allows commenter reputation and rating across the web. Installation is really simple with their WordPress Plugin (also for MT). Web Worker seemed cautious about professing the success or viability of this service. However Read/WriteWeb, who is already using SezWho, was a lot more upbeat about the prospects. WeblogToolsCollection on the other hand, has been bitten hard by third party services and their scalability issues and I am going to shy away from this one for now. Sadly, it is quite hard to determine the dependability of a remotely hosted service from just their SLA and their promises, especially if their financial model is shaky.

[Continue Reading...]

WordPress Plugin Competition Updates

3
responses
by
on
July 23rd, 2007
in
WordPress Plugin Competition

The WordPress Plugin Competition is rapidly headed towards a fantastic close. If you were planning on entering a plugin, get registered on the Plugin Competition Blog and post your entry there. Remember, in order to be considered as an entry into the competition, you have to post an entry on the blog and send in the final code to me via email by July 31st. Some fantastic entries have already been released for the competition and we have about $1000 in cash and other cool sponsored prizes. Thanks to all the sponsors and the donors. There is still time to throw in a few bucks to help sweeten the pot (look for the ChipIn Widget). I have also added a rating feature for the entries on the Competition Blog. If you have not rated your favorite plugins, head over to the Plugin Competition Blog and help decide the best plugins. […]

[Continue Reading...]

WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts

52
responses
by
on
July 22nd, 2007
in
Blogging, WordPress Hack

Thanks to TipMonkies for the idea via Lifehacker Bold: Alt+SHIFT+b Italics: Alt+SHIFT+i Link: Alt+SHIFT+a Blockquote: Alt+SHIFT+q Code: Alt+SHIFT+c Read More: Alt+SHIFT+t Unordered List (ul): Alt+SHIFT+u Ordered List (ol): Alt+SHIFT+o List Item (li): Alt+SHIFT+l Here are a few of the others that I have featured here in the past: Advanced Editor: Alt+SHIFT+v Publish the Post: Alt+SHIFT+p ins: Alt+SHIFT+s del: Alt+SHIFT+d Unquote/outdent: Alt+SHIFT+w Undo: Alt+SHIFT+u Redo: Alt+SHIFT+y Edit HTML: Alt+SHIFT+e Align Left: Alt+SHIFT+f Align Center: Alt+SHIFT+c Align Right: Alt+SHIFT+r More from the comments: Headers: Ctrl+[number] to get various header sizes on highlighted text. Thanks Henk Have any more to share with us that we might have missed?

[Continue Reading...]

WordCamp 2007

1
response
by
on
July 21st, 2007
in
Blogging, WordPress

WordCamp 2007 starts today (well, there were some festivities yesterday) and since I have to miss it again this year, I hope some visitors record the presentations and provide podcasts for the rest of us. The speakers list includes some pretty cool people that I would have liked to listen to and meet but C’est la Vie. I hear there is going to be some cool schwag as well. If you are at Wordcamp, did you hear or see anything cool? Are you having a good time? Please contact me with reports if you think they are bloggable. Just a word of warning, I am on the road, so response/posting will be slow.

[Continue Reading...]

Best uses of Ajax in WP Plugins

2
responses
by
on
July 21st, 2007
in
LinkyLoo, WordPress Plugins

Best uses of Ajax in WordPress Plugins: Ajaxian links back to a Mashable post on the best use of Ajax in a WordPress plugin. The Mashable post is called 30+AJAX Powered WordPress plugins. The plugins are divided into plugins aimed at the blogger and plugins aimed at the reader. The list is nice and GamerZ has a heavy presence in the lsit (as he should). I sparingly use AJAX on this blog beside the rating plugin from GamerZ but that is a personal preference.

[Continue Reading...]

Pure CSS Asides for WP

2
responses
by
on
July 17th, 2007
in
LinkyLoo, WordPress Hack

Pure CSS Asides for WP: Alister has written a post on how to setup pure CSS asides (or Linkyloo in my case, such as this post) on a WordPress blog. The technique is quite interesting and can only be achieved in themes that use the Sandbox as the core. Andy also came up with a similar hack for WordPress.com

[Continue Reading...]

Turning the other cheek

29
responses
by
on
July 16th, 2007
in
WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

My previous sponsored theme post followed by Matt’s support has generated a lot of buzz in the WordPress and blogging communities. Weblogtoolscollection.com readers’ opinion and the WordPress community’s opinion on this move are mostly positive and I appreciate your understanding and support. The sponsored theme community however, has been overwhelmingly negative and their dialog has degenerated into name calling and nastiness directed towards Matt and myself. Unlike Matt, some of the people that have berated me, called me names and disparaged my work, are people that I respect, who were in touch with me frequently and on whom I have spent a lot of time and effort on promotion in the past (and for the record, will continue to promote in the future). The negative responses were not fun to read through but the positives were also very heartening and encouraging. Let me say that it is very hard for […]

[Continue Reading...]

WordPress Plugin Generator

7
responses
by
on
July 14th, 2007
in
Cool Scripts, WordPress Plugins

Speaking of the WordPress Plugin Competition and writing new plugins, here is a WordPress Plugin Generator. Intriguing name, isn’t it? No, it does not write all WordPress plugins for you on demand and no it does not have AI. This tool will help you create a template for your own WordPress plugin. and it literally does just that. If you are new to WordPress or to writing plugins and you want a quick and dirty template with some of the fixin’s, the WordPress Plugin Generator is your ticket to your plugin’s inception. The tweakable features include the name of the plugin, some rudimentary and commonly used locations for result insertion on your blog, the framework for a config page, wpdb integration and comment and GPL in the header. It is definitely a good starting point. A word of friendly warning, the page’s style is completely broken on my Firefox. Thanks […]

[Continue Reading...]

WordPress Plugin Competition Updates

4
responses
by
on
July 13th, 2007
in
WordPress Plugin Competition, WordPress Plugins

The WordPress Plugin Competition is going strong with 15 plugins announced and actively being developed and at least five more in the works. I am hoping that more developers will throw their hats into the arena in the next couple of weeks. Remember the last date of the competition is the 31st of July. That means that if you are planning to enter the competition, you will need to have submitted your plugin to me via email by the end of that day. I have added a ChipIn widget to the competition blog to collect donations for prizes and I thank every sponsor and donor. We have some really great sponsors for the competition and so far the prizes are eclectic and pretty cool. We have also collected almost $900 $1000 from various donors as prizes for the competition. I am hesitant to put together the final three sets of […]

[Continue Reading...]

« PREVIOUS POSTS
NEWER POSTS »


Obviously Powered by WordPress. © 2003-2013

css.php