This hack can be used by any PHP enabled blog/site to display their Technorati Link Cosmos. You can see it at work on the right and the instructions can be downloaded here. #EDIT# Now updated with a better automatic cache mechanism!!

Much like my breadcrumbs hack for WordPress which used cookies and text files to keep track os users while and after they were visiting your site, here is the Breadcrumbs for WordPress 1.01 hack. Very user friendly and nice. You can see it on Mindful Musings (with some extra modifications).

I wrote a little script to fight comment SPAM much along the lines of Jay Allen’s MTBlacklist filter (but for WordPress). This really simple script is compatible with all versions of WordPress and uses a powerful master blacklist from Reflective Reality. I would really like to get some people to try and install it and see how well it works. So if you are using WordPress and have been receiving some SPAM in your comments, please help me in testing this script. WordPress 1.0+ will even allow you to view the SPAM comments without them ever being displayed on your blog (using moderation) which would mean that if you do receive SPAM and the filter catches it, you will know that the script is working. Here is a link to WPBlacklist.

I really wanted to see what was inside those .xpi files that I install as plugins for Mozilla and I hacked the Blog This plugin from Phil Ringnalda to be compatible with WordPress. The installation can be a little confusing, but it sure is worth it for me. I might write a php packaging script for WP if I get bored (much like YABBOB). In the meantime, enjoy the Blog This for Mozilla hack. PS: Rightful credit goes to Ted Mielczarek for the original code and idea. Thank you!

[EDIT] In its present incarnation, it WILL NOT work with WordPress 1.5 This script allows every post that you publish on your WordPress blog to also be reflected (or added) to your LiveJournal blog automatically. This script only emulates publishing to your LJ blog, you cannot edit LiveJournal entries once they are published (through the WP admin page). If there is enough interest, I could come up with edit functionality as well as others such as moods and music. Here is a link to the hack instructions. The items sent to LiveJournal are your post title, your post content and the date and time of your post. Enjoy. Please post bugs to http://weblogtoolscollection.com/

I really liked the “Top 10 Posts” on Jeremy Zawodny’s Blog and wanted it for mine as well. So I wrote a small hack which keeps track of the number of times a particular post is clicked on (using the database) and then makes a list of these posts with the number of clickthroughs. You can see it in work on the sidebar. Here is a link to the hack instructions. This is WordPress 0.72 and 1.0+ compatible.

I was looking for a nice way to show how many people are looking at my site at a given time and I found a couple of different solutions, the easiest of which was not going to work in my case (because of caching and php accelerator). So I wrote a little hack for WordPress and other php based sites (using MySql) to tell “Who is Online right now?” Download the hack instructions here.

Most of the WordPress hacks that Alex had written have been upgraded by him to support WordPress 1.0 Platinum (and later releases). These include: WordPress Mobile Edition – A PDA friendly interface for your blog. It’s (almost) XHTML compliant. Since Last Visit – Shows the number of new posts and comments (including indicators showing what posts and comments are new) since a visitor last came to your blog. WP Photos – This hack automates including photos with your blog posts. WP Group – This hack is lets you group a selection of posts on a single page. This hack is compatible with WordPress .72 as well. Send him a thank you if you use his work.

Matt (another Matt) has created a Photolog Hack for WordPress That gives MT another run for its’ money!