Weblog Tools Collection is now available for subscription on the Kindle. There is a 14 day free trial if you would like to just try it out. So if you are a Kindle owner and a WLTC fan, please subscribe and let us know what you think. While I wish we could offer it for free, the charge is $1.99 (we get 30% of this amount). If you want to publish your blog on Kindle, you can do it too! Be sure to let us know what you think of the experience if you choose to publish your blog on the Kindle. The Kindle forums are a little sparse at this time and the whole publishing page/venue is in beta so you might have some trouble. It was a breeze for us. Thanks to BloggingPro for the idea.

Funny how things can get connected quite quickly on the web.  Check this out. I wrote a blog entry for WLTC just two days ago about Five Nifty Sidebar Widgets for your WordPress Site.  Babs then commented on that post and said: Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many plugins it takes to break a WordPress site? *laughs* This comment then prompted Mark from here at WLTC to write a blog entry asking visitors to Guess how many Plugins we have active on the website and comment on how many active and inactive plugins they have on their own websites.  This is a small contest that will earn the correct guesser a one year Flickr Pro membership. It is a very active thread right now (78 replies as of this posting). So as I am watching the guesses stream in over the last 24 hours or so it reminded […]

Berita Business Three column, widgetized theme with seven custom widgets  and spots and a featured slider on the homepage. Dark Cherry It’s a well managed color palette color integrated into a most used blog structure with two columns. Here you have a lot of space to fit any ads, plugins or whatever you need. WPElegance WPElegance2Col is SEO-optimized, ad-ready, WordPress 2.7 compatible, two column theme with widgetized sidebars and footer. TweetMeBlue Two column, easy to use theme with support for featured posts, Twitter, Adsense and more…

The first person to correctly guess the number of active plugins and the number of deactivated plugins on this blog will win a Flickr Pro membership for a year from us. We have more deactivated plugins than activated ones and the numbers aren’t astronomical. Thanks to babs for the idea. Authors/contributors on this blog are ineligible in this guessing game. 🙂 While we are at it, how many plugins do you have activated and how many are deactivated? Do you have any that you activate once in a while when the mood strikes? Which number is higher?

Can you say that title five times very fast? 🙂 In my last post I discussed WordPress plugins that can spruce up your WordPress based website. What I would like to do in this one is point out five sidebar widgets that you can put to use in your own sidebar to expand its capabilities and add additional functionality to your site for your visitors. -  Sidebar Login: This plugin is not only a widget that you can drag onto your sidebar in the admin interface but also provides a template tag that you can use anywhere in your site to show a login box.  Once your visitor logs in via this form they will be returned to the page they signed in from instead of into the admin panel (unless they are an admin then they log into the admin interface). Not logged in Logged in as Admin -  […]

New Plugins Free eBay Store Allows you to automatically display eBay listings on your blog. You just add a simple tag to a post or page, along with your eBay Campaign ID, and the relevant keywords for the products to be displayed. You can also optionally specify the number of rows and columns to specify the layout of your eBay store. Why pay to build an eBay store when you can build one for free? ImageShack Offloader Allows you to have your images uploaded to and served from ImageShack to save server resources. Display Name Author Permalink Replaces the username for author permalinks with the users display name. Returns a 404 if the author permalink using the actual username is used. Updated Plugins GD Star Rating GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, […]

Stefan Vervoort of WPToy.com has published a new and improved version of his WordPress Theme Development Checklist. This new checklist is provided in PDF form but it’s very easy to print. The checklist covers the following points: General Stylesheets Browser Compatibility Pages Styled Everything? Standard CSS Classes Validate WordPress Code Blog Elements This is one of those guides you could put up on the wall to serve as a quick reference.

Over the past two years, I’ve had the privilege to talk with a number of different plugin/theme developers. While they each have their own unique style of getting things done, one thing they all have in common is providing support. Michael Torbert author of the All In One SEO Plugin wrote a great blog post published on WPTavern.com providing up to twelve things you can do to help make the support process go as smoothly as possible. You may not agree with what’s on the list and in fact, if you have anything you’d like to add, say so in the comments. Considering the AIO SEO plugin is the most downloaded plugin on the repository, you can bet Michael has had his share of support queries and then some. Before you ask for support, use Google. Make a concerted effort to search for resolutions to your issue. This will help […]