WordPress Category Map is a PHP script to draw a chart of your categories, given the number of posts you have in each (example chart at Podz’)
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Category Map is a PHP script to draw a chart of your categories, given the number of posts you have in each (example chart at Podz’)
[Continue Reading...]Alexa Web Info Service: A beta web information service providing programmatic access to information collected by Alexa’s web crawler Via: Photomatt
[Continue Reading...]MessageCast, Inc. has a product called LiveMessage Blogger Edition which provides new post alerts for blogs (among other things). The full range of services is listed on their website but the free blogger Alerts allows counting of clickthroughs generated via LiveMessage and ease of setup. The basic utility of LiveMessage is to have the ability to route messages (alerts of any kind) to customers’ messaging devices by intelligently detecting the preferred (and active) mobile device to send the message to (thus eliminating Spam etc.). Consider this another way to distribute blog updates for your readers and in the process, pick up a bunch of new visitors to your blog. [EDIT] Here is the link to get MessageCast for this blog
[Continue Reading...]Newsbrew: Get your news fix from a common aggregator. I use Google News Exclusively, but this looks quite promising (and zippy) ! Via: Raymond Camden
[Continue Reading...]Sifry’s Alerts: New Technorati Toolbar for Firefox: Get Technorati at your fingertips (well, at least as a toolbar in your FireFox browser)
[Continue Reading...]E4X: JavaScript for XML – The JavaScript Weblog – javascript.weblogsinc.com: A Javascript implementation for XML. The main article is written by John Udell and he mentions that the code in his article is written for Rhino which is Mozilla’s Java based Javascript interpreter. This technology is very cool and has a lot of possibilities, both incredibly useful and sinister. I can think of a bunch of exploits that could be very harmful, but I have not looked at the code in-depth.
[Continue Reading...]The Definitive Post on Gzipping your CSS: If you are having bandwidth problems and your CSS is growing out of control, GZIP your CSS (along with your markup of course) [EDIT] Matt points out some flaws with this method which could make your bandwidth situation worse. Read comments for more information
[Continue Reading...]Thanks to Poonam for pointing this out to me. If you have visited my post on the “hacked” WordPress Javascript Quicktags you might be aware of a Mozilla bug that forces the page to jump to the beginning of a textarea when a tag is inserted. Alex first wrote about this bug in WordPress and fixed it and I have fixed my own version of the quicktags as well. To remind my readers, the quicktags give you the ability to add: Automatic CSS dropshadows for images Automatic CSS dropshadows for text Capitalization (can be used for many purposes) Small size and large sized text Left or right floating pictures and text etc. Download the modified WordPress Quicktags hack from here Find more information, helpful hints and discussion on this post.
[Continue Reading...]Click Counter plugin for Wordpress
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