Very important! If you have noticed, I wrote up a small heat map to be displayed in the sidebar and on the main search page of this blog. The search and data collection process is a slightly intelligent and tries to match up search terms and group them by usage. It then chooses all searches performed within the past 24 hours and displays them in a heatmap sorted by propensity of the search phrase. The 24 hour time period keeps the search phases in the heatmap turned over regularly and retains the interest of returning visitors. Why did I do this? I put it together because I believe that there is a lot of power (and thus clicks, pageviews, eyeballs) in searches. I had noticed the Eurekster Swiki on TechCrunch and was impressed by the power of the system. I tried to emulate it on weblogtoolscollection.com with little success. To […]
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WP CSS-Streamliner: Streamline and optimize and compress your CSS file with this WordPress plugin to improve your blog’s performance. Blogroll Page Plugin: Publish your blogroll on a page rather than your sidebar with this plugin. Do Follow Trackback: Use this plugin to show linky love to other bloggers that actually link to you when they send you a trackback. Much like the trackback validator. Excerpt Editor Update: Tweak and pamper your excerpts to your hearts’ content with this editor. This update includes bufixes, better security and classier code. Get it, classier …? never mind! WP-Simpleviewer: Incorporate SimpleViewer Flash galleries into WordPress. For those that are not aware of SimpleViewer, it is a free and ersatile Flash based image display application. It helps build beautiful and smooth galleries. This plugin is also an entrant into the WordPress Theme Competition 2.0. WP-Filemanager: Highly versatile file management plugin for WordPress that will allow […]
[Continue Reading...]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 […]
[Continue Reading...]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...]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...]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...]Impact is a fixed-width, 2 column theme with right sidebar, compatible with WP 2.2 Dream in Infrared is a fluid width, light on dark theme with lots of CMS features. “Soho” is a widget-ready WordPress theme designed with a three column fluid layout. Demo. Two mini loops are retrieving their posts from different categories at the frontpage. One loop in the main post showing latest post, one loop beneath the main area showing one post. “300” is a widget-ready WordPress theme with three columnd fluid layout and an edgy footer from 300. Two mini loops are retrieving their posts from different categories at the frontpage. One loop in the main post showing latest post, one loop beneath the main area showing one post. Deziner Folio is a two column, fixed width theme with support for several plugins. Rocking is a very light colored 3 column theme. (Contains Sponsored Links)
[Continue Reading...]FeatureMe is an easy way to manage and show a featured entries list. DJ-Email-Publish will send the post to your other blogs (such as msn spaces) via email. babel allows you to write your blog in multilanguage, and switch between these with a simple click on a flag. MBLA is an acronym for ÂgMyBlogLog AvatarsÂh and is a plugin for WordPress. It can add avatars from MyBlogLog to posts and comments. The Copyright Plugin automatically keeps your WordPress page copyright notices up to date. 1 Bit Audio Player is a very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion. It’s main purpose is to act as a quick in-page preview for audio files you link to from your blog. Add Script Hook finds all hooks in your themes and allows to add some javascript IMM Meta Tags allows you to edit and manage your meta tags. Comment […]
[Continue Reading...]Spiritual Journal is a two Column, widget ready, sharp and clean theme with a notebook feel, designed to be a personal journal for pastors, ministers and other believers. Soveryn is a three column, fixed width, widget ready theme. Greed is a 3 to 5 columns hybrid theme with 10 widget-ready sidebars, fixed-fluid width, rotatable columns, switchable banner and colors (via theme options page). It’s compatible with WordPress 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 and is also compatible with over two dozen plugins. Velle Elle is a 2 column theme with pink and white colour and talk bubble sidebar. LoveTime is a pink layout, 2 column with right sidebar, header and footer theme. (Contains Sponsored Links) Darkstripe is a three column, fluid theme. (Contains Sponsored Links) One Night in Paris is a single column, fixed width theme. (Contains Sponsored Links) Ygo Sea is a 3 column wordpress theme with cool see type look […]
[Continue Reading...]About the Author
- 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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