Social Bookmarking; we’re all guilty of it these days. But where does WordPress fit into it? If you’ve done any amount of WordPress plugin browsing within the last few years you’ve undoubtedly come across at least one or two so-called social bookmarking plugins. You can find them on an increasingly large amount of websites all across the web. Today I want to talk about the best of the best. The best plugins I’ve found for social bookmarking with WordPress. Sociable I chose Sociable as my #1 social bookmarking plugin because of its utter simplicity and easy control over the look and feel of the overall output. Most social bookmarking plugins I’ve come across have a pre-defined way of outputting the bookmarking links that is not as easy to control. In fact, more and more plugins of this type are moving to a drop-down format with complicated CSS. I love Sociable […]

You have a role of doing something wherever you are at or at whichever position you are, those roles are pre-defined and involve certain things that you can do and cannot do, some times we do break rules, however with software we usually cannot.

New Plugins Post Videos and Photo Galleries Post videos and photo galleries plugin is a professional tool for webmasters and bloggers to add streaming videos, image galleries and music playlists to their site, it includes uploading, transcoding/resizing, a selection of players and media hosting on a dedicatedstreaming servers at cincopa.com. BuddyPress Author Exposed Display metadata about post author: name, email, website, and BuddyPress profile. Post Views Dashboard Post Views Summary is a dashboard plugin that shows the 10 most and least visited posts and pages. (Page in German) User Messages A plugin to facilitate communication between your users. HTML Page Sitemap Adds an HTML (Not XML) sitemap of your blog pages (not posts) by entering the shortcode [html-sitemap], perfect for those who use WordPress as a CMS. Recent Commented Posts Displays most recently commented posts with thumbnail images (optional) by customizing easily. Updated Plugins DashboardZone This plugin will help you […]

Sol Sol is a fixed-width, two column Thematic child theme with a focus on attractive and clear typography. It is fully widgetised and plugin ready FabricPress Two column, widget ready theme available in three color schemes Just Grey 3-column flexible-width theme in gray and blue. Featuring an Author Info page and gravatars along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and Full-Width No Sidebars page templates. There is an options page for setting the text in the Info Text Box. Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get listed in these releases.

Old WordPress Versions Under Attack: Older version of WordPress are being attacked and characters are being added to the permalinks. Sure signs of the attack include strange characters in your permalinks (single posts do not work) and an extra administrator account in the users control panel which you cannot see. Look for the administrator count in brackets at the top. Is the number there what you would expect on your blog? Please upgrade your WordPress blog to the latest version ASAP. Our own PluginBlog was vulnerable and was compromised (shame on me for not having upgraded from a really old version). Our blog had registration turned off. After upgrading your blog and changing your password to a strong one, you can visit Lorelle’s post to find more ways to secure your install and remove the extra admin account that might have been created as part of the attack. I removed […]

How to Write with a Knife: I have been a big fan of CopyBlogger for some time and I try to read their articles as often as I can, though not as often as I would like to. The above article, followed by another one in the series called “Do Long Blog Posts Scare Away Readers?“, have some really good advice for bloggers. I have implicitly tried to follow some of them because my past training and weakness for the English language, but having them spelled out succinctly is really helpful (I already caught myself making one of the mistakes mentioned in the article, can you tell which one?). In addition to the above suggestions, I would like to add a few of my own. Please feel free to add others in the comments. Make your titles short, sweet and eye catching. Long titles lose their punch. Proof read. As […]

New Plugins Appointment Scheduler – Appointy Plugin Appointment Scheduler – Appointy plugin allows you to accept appointments from your clients 24x7x365 directly on your wordpress powered websites. It has a powerful yet simple Ajax interface which allows one click booking. With just one click your clients can see your availability in the entire month. Formatted post This plugin is for the users who need to post with fixed format regularly BNS Corner Logo Widget to display a logo; or, used as a plugin displays image fixed in one of the four corners. Delete Duplicate Posts Easy way to delete duplicate posts on your WordPress blog. Updated Plugins YouTube Video Plugin This WordPress plugin will make it easy to embed a YouTube video in a WordPress post/page or sidebar widget. You can see a demo of the plugin if you look at the YouTube video under the AdWords logo in the […]

Pure Magazine Pure Magazine WordPress theme is, as its name suggests, theme with pure, minimalistic and usable layout, structured to focus readers attention on content and ads, rather than designer graphics. It is built for large news sites that want to highlight important content and retain readers after their first visit. Pesta Blogger Two column, widgetized theme with ability to resize images on the fly, designed with the 960.gs CSS framework. Simple Magazine A simple and lightweight magazine styled theme. Supporting two sidebars, widgets and nested comments. There is a two column version available as well. Featuring Two column theme, with Jquery navigation menu, automatic resize of pictures from index page using TimThumb, wordpress 2.7+ comments compatible, but will also work for older versions. Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get listed in these posts.