GaMerZ WordPress Plugins Updated: Lester (GaMerZ) has updated most of his plugins to work with WordPress 2.2 Some of the updates are bugfixes while others have new and requested features. WP-Polls now features multiple options, future poll scheduling, poll data log mining and some parts of the admin backend are now AJAXed. WP-PageNavi has been revamp in terms of looks and options as you can see at the bottom of this page, it features digg style design navigation with the use of style sheet and now almost all the options can be set in “WP-Admin -> Options -> PageNaviâ€. There are some new features in WP-Ban, like banned by referrers url, banned by specific IP range, exclude a specific IP from being banned and the ability to preview banned message. He has also added a scheduler to WP-DBManager, the ability to optimize, backup, backup and email the database dump file […]
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How strong is your password? Even though this post from Donncha on the WordPress.com blog might have been written for the benefit of WordPress.com users, I believe that this is highly relevant for ALL bloggers. I could not find a WordPress plugin for the password strength meter without JQuery but that would be a very useful tool to have. Remember, the weakest link in our security chain is the common stuff we tend to overlook. Please make sure your password is not easily guessable.
[Continue Reading...]Movable Type Open Source Project: I know I had read this news a couple of times today but it obviously did not sink in until now. The light in my brain finally flickered on when I read through the RWW post in detail. Moveable Type announced the long awaited Version 4 of their publishing platform and along with that came the announcement that they would release a GPL’d Open Source version of their software in Q3 2007. That is a significant decision considering some of the past tribulations of the platform and in my mind validates the dual revenue model of Open Source Software based companies. According to the MTOS website, they are really committed to the commercial version of MT and are just replying to customers’ repeated requests for an Open Source version. This sounds like a highly calculated business decision. I wonder what results Six Apart is hoping […]
[Continue Reading...]If you have been paying attention to Amazon’s single product pages and if Amazon’s engineers have been doing their job well, you have most likely clicked on one of the links in the group of deep links called “Customers who bought this item also bought”. This plugin tries to create a similar group of links for your blog. If you have enough links in your theme (Contextual Related Posts plugin comes in handy) for readers to explore, then as and when readers click on links, this plugin checks to see if it was referred from your blog, checks to see if it can identify a post or a page from the information it has and then adds a link to the referring page. I have been testing it on this blog for a few days while I iron out the bugs. Check out the pages and what grabs readers’ attention […]
[Continue Reading...]As announced, today is the first day of the WordPress Plugin Competition. Plugin authors should register at the Plugin Competition Blog and start posting their ideas, future plugins and everything else about the competition. I have already received a bunch of requests for sponsorships and prizes. So here is a list of resources for the competition: Plugin Competition Prizes: If you have promised a prize or have paid already, it should show up on this page, more details to follow Plugin Competition Blog: This is where all the announcements and code should be posted. Contact Form: Use this form for sponsorship questions and submissions. Preliminary Rules: Most of the rules are listed here. More to follow on a separate page. All competition entries must be submitted with the final version of code to mark at wltc dot net. This can and should be done towards the end of the competition […]
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Prizes Weblog Tools Collection (p) $1000 WPMU / WPMUDEV $1000 BuySellAds $200 White Shadow (p) $150 WPWebHost $500 Ozh $100 Techtites $100
[Continue Reading...]Big news this evening is the launch of Google Gears which is an “Open Source Toolkit for offline web apps”. Pretty neat idea with lots of possibilities. TechCrunch has a nice writeup and so does Scoble. After some initial apprehension, I decided to download Google Gears and try the posterchild Google Reader app. After following a few steps of relatively simple instructions, I had downloaded all of the new items from Google Reader to my computer for offline viewing. This will be an awesome tool for travelling or to catch up on some extra reading during lunch at the local greasy spoon. I can see a lot of possibilities for Gears. A blog posting app that caches posts offline and then submits them when a connection is made is the first one that comes to mind. The new mashup editor has lots of possibilities as well. While we are on […]
[Continue Reading...]If you or someone you know is using the Vistered Little theme from Windy Road, a vulnerability has been found and you need to upgrade your theme to version 1.7.3 as soon as possible (or revert back to the another theme for the time being and delete the vistered little theme folder). The latest version that fixes the bug/vulnerability is 1.7.3 while versions 1.6a through 1.7.2 are all vulnerable.
[Continue Reading...]How Scoble reads 622 RSS feeds every morning: Vlog of how Scoble organizes his feeds using Google Feedreader and filter and sifts through them to find the relevant information he wants to track or read about. The number of feeds he follows is staggering to me. I read approximately 200 feeds and rotate them freuqently. In spite of the smaller number, I have a hard time keeping up with the rush of information from feeds and other sources. Although in my defense, my 24″ vertically rotated monitor really helps with the reading (I run two monitors, 1 x 20″, 1 x 24″ rotated, Ultramon) and blogging is not my day job. Also of interest, is the Better Google Reader Firefox extension that I find quite useful. I started using Google Reader a few months ago and have yet to switch back. The linked video was choppy for me but Scoble’s […]
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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