Spyware: Spyware is software that gathers information about a computer user, often without that person’s knowledge or consent. Spyware watches what users do with their computers (such as what websites they visit), and sends that information back to a central location (usually the company that produced the spyware). This information is often given to other companies, who then target the user for their advertisements. Especially bad spyware can gather information about email addresses, passwords, and even credit card information and transmit it to other companies. Spyware is often installed as bundled software. Under StopBadware.org’s guidelines, spyware is considered badware if it does not tell the user about the data that it will collect and how it will use that data. I started using WordPress back around version 2.2 in 2007. Shortly after, WordPress 2.3 was released. This version of WordPress introduced the pre-cursor to automatic plugin upgrades in the form […]

knGreen knGreen is a WordPress theme with 2 sidebars, clean design, several language supported, multi-levels menu and some effects as ThickBox and some shortcodes as for inserting YouTube videos. GreenFrog GreenFrog is a free WordPress Theme with two Sidebars. There is an Option Page to populate the Footer. (Page in German) cleanRoar Released with a Christmas celebration look. It featuring a bold Christmas skin with build-in snow effect option. GreenSkyline GreenSkyline is a WordPress Theme with two Sidebars, one Topbar for Ads or whatever you want to place there and Widget Support. There is an Option Page to populate the Footer. (Page in German) Akira Fixed one column layout with widgetized sidebar Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get listed in these posts.

New Plugins WP Plugin Installer Adds advanced plugin installation options to WordPress. Allows the user to install the development version of a plugin. Adds a link to the top of the plugin install page to install the development version of the plugin. If the development version is not available then a message is displayed at the top of the plugin install page. My Snippets The My Snippets plugin displays custom snippets in the widget area of your choosing on a post-by-post basis. It allows you to easily display contextual content. Google Analytics Visits This plugin uses Google Analytics API to fetch data from your analytics account and displays user visits from each country in the widget. SocialGrid The SocialGrid widget makes it easy to include attractive links to your various social media profiles on the web. Updated Plugins Feed Reading Blogroll The plugin adds a cool new blogroll that is […]

While I was going through the developer feed on WordPress, I saw a pretty interesting thing, which could mean that WordPress 2.9 will be out pretty soon.

Publish The Feed Later: WP Engineer provides a nice tutorial on how to publish your post to your feed a few minutes (configurable) after you publish your post. These few minutes can help you find errors or bugs in your post and fix them before they get sent out via your feed to all your readers. The “hack” requires you to change your theme’s functions.php file and add the code snippet provided. Alternatively you could also use a plugin written by our very own Keith, called Feed Pauser. I see no compatibility information on this plugin (maybe Keith could chime in and let us know) but it does offer further functionality such as the ability to prevent individual posts from appearing in your feed. A useful hack/plugin for those like me who have an itchy post finger.

Functions.php should generally be used when you just want to add a minor feature that requires a single function or few lines of code. However, you cannot use functions.php to run code in the actions such as “plugins_loaded”. This is by design and should be too, as each theme will have their own functions.php file and should only perform functions that relate to displaying the website.

SimpleBlog Doesn’t contain many features nor does it have preloaded plugins other then WP-PageNai. It has a small option page where you can edit the logo and favicon url’s, from this page you can also add your feedburner url and twitter account that will be displayed on the custom sidebar widget called: RSS Feed Suscribe. It has all the basic html elements styled for posts and the sidebar is widget ready. BlueSkyLine BlueSkyline is a simple WordPress Theme with one Sidebar and Widget Support. There is an Option Page to populate the Footer. RedCity RedCity is a WordPress Theme with two Sidebars, one Topbar and one Footerbar for Ads or whatever Widget you want to place there and Widget Support. There is an Option Page to populate the Footer. Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get it listed here.

The code editor. One for plugins and one for themes. If I were using tracking software, it would register me as rarely venturing into that part of the WordPress administration. I’ve used WordPress for two years and I’ve burned myself enough times by using these code editors that I neglect to use them anymore side from looking but not touching code. The biggest problem I have is that it doesn’t contain any revisions. Also, when you click the save button, it reloads the page and causes the scroll bar in the code window to go back to the top meaning I have to remember which line of code I was editing and also remember the change I implemented so I can remove it if I don’t like the desired effects. I’ve really come to appreciate using Control Z on my keyboard to undo changes I don’t like. You can’t do […]