News Plugins External Files External Files provides a shortcode [external] that wraps around a file path or url. The contents of the file/url are imported and outputted in an xhtml-friendly way. What’s more, the plugin auto-guesses the syntax of the file (by looking at the extension of the path or the content-type of the url). WordPress Console It provides an in-browser interactive console for the WordPress environment. SEO Blogger Whether you blog about business, politics or the hot topic of the moment, SEO Blogger allows you to find the most sought-after keywords for your subject without ever leaving your blog editing screen. SearchTerms Tagging 2 The function of this plugin is to displays some of the last unique keywords (default is 30, adjustable from plugin admin page) that visitors used to find the blog post from search engine. Each keyword will be changed into a link to that page. The […]

WordPress 2.8 just crossed the 1 million download mark today, you can see the live counter for WordPress downloads on the download counter page.

Short answer? It is jumpin! Have you checked out the Plugin Competition Blog recently? There are six new plugins announced for the competition and all of them look fantastic. The comments have been very positive and visitors have been actively rating the entries as they come in. Here is what we have so far: Tweetable: Another Twitter integration plugin for WordPress (we really need to consolidate these, but there is feature differentiation) Live Blogging Plugin: Setup a live blog within minutes, needs Meteor ImageShack Offloader: Move your image hosting to ImageShack Max Image Size Control: Finer granular control of image sizes in WordPress WP Devel: Add a whole bunch of debug options to your WordPress blog WP Update Message: Tweak and refine the update messages in your WordPress admin panel In addition to these plugins, I know of at least 10 others that are being developed for the competition and […]

The Federal Trade Commission is planning to crack down on bloggers who review or promote products while earning freebies or payments, the Associated Press reported Sunday. “New guidelines, expected to be approved late this summer with possible modifications, would clarify that the agency can go after bloggers–as well as the companies that compensate them–for any false claims or failure to disclose conflicts of interest,” the article explained. via Report: FTC to go after blogger freebies | Politics and Law – CNET News. While I am not a big fan of government scrutiny and general “big brother” mentality, I do believe that this will add to the believability and authenticity of the blogging medium. We at Weblog Tools Collection try very hard to keep commercial interests completely out of the content that we generate and only rely on what we consider to be ethical ads to make ends meet. We also follow […]

Many of us seldom visit the admin dashboard in WordPress, even if we do we may not really pay attention to the updates available to the plugins we use, one of our twitter followers for @weblogtooltips Avaz tweeted this. Taking cue from that I quickly wrote a plugin that will do what Avaz suggested, it will send out updates via email to administrators whenever there are new plugin updates available to install. You can setup the updates to go out daily, weekly or monthly and also choose to receive intimations for deactivated plugins. The plugin requires you to setup the options before it actually works, you will see a message in the admin header to setup the option if you haven’t done that at-least once. For for information and downloading visit the Plugin Updates Email Notifier homepage. We keep a hawk eye on our twitter account, so don’t forget to […]

When the first thing you do at a new blog is scroll down to see who did the theme, you might be a WordPress Geek. via @SherryDedman When you mention Dexter Gordon, you have to qualify that he is a saxophonist and not the WordPress release, you might be a WordPress Geek. via Matt More than one of your Twitter saved searches includes the word “wordpress”, you might be a WordPress Geek. You read Weblog Tools Collection daily and have withdrawal when we do not have a release post, you might be a WordPress Geek. You visit a well known publisher and can instantly recognize the permalinks as created by WordPress. Heck, if you know what a permalink is, you might be a WordPress Geek. If all your vacations are to WordCamps, you might be a WordPress Geek. If the word “dashboard” reminds you of the WordPress admin panel, you […]

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