New Plugins Synected Synected enables shortened URL creation on your own blog. Synected lets you easily create and use short links based off your own domain. This releases you from dependence on a third party — a server error on tinyurl no longer prevents visitors from reaching your site. In addition, it strengthens your brand, keeping your domain name in view of your audience even on Twitter and other micro-communication platforms. Hello World Generator The Hello World Generator is a plugin which provides the blog author two new shortcodes. Each shortcode will display a random Hello World code snippet from a database of approximately 350 different snippets. Each snippet is in a different programming language. WP SimpleMail SimpleMail is a plugin that allows you to access an Email account from your dashboard. OSM OSM is a plugin that focuses on OpenStreetmap and geo data in your wordpress blog. Simply by […]

I am a huge fan of simple plugins that add functionality to my website using WordPress.  Some are quite simple and as was discussed in the comments on the Admin Links Widget review I did last week, many can be done via hacks within your WordPress theme files. Now, I have been known to edit my files in the past to get a bit of functionality on my site but I much prefer to use a plugin that does the insert for me and then is easily deactivated if necessary or translates over to other themes without having to edit another group of theme specific files. That brings me to a follow on discussion I mentioned in my Download Monitor plugin review a few days ago. You  need something that will keep visitors coming back to your website. On this website it is the daily theme and plugin update entries […]

New Plugins Theme Tweaker Theme Tweaker displays the existing colors from your current theme, and gives you a color picker to replace them. It also lets you change them in bulk, like invert all colors, use grey scale etc. LinkingPress This plugin provides your WordPress blog with relevant, contextual, non-reciprocating links from other WordPress blogs. WPML Turn any WordPress or WordPressMU site into a full featured multilingual content management system. WPMU can do this without any hacks and without breaking anything. DiggBar Remover DiggBar Remover checks HTTP referrers and if user has DiggBar, serves JS code to redirect to the actual page. This makes it faster than using just the framebreaker JavaScript code that we all know. Related Websites After installing the plugin you will receive related posts from member sites that will be displayed posts at the end of your posts. DiggBar Killer DiggBar Killer adds a little snippet […]

Fancy Bright colors, WP 2.7 compatible, 3 columns design, adsense ready. Swiss Mono Simple, black and white, two column theme with a widgetized sidebar, 125×125 sidebar advertisement support and theme options. Funny Squares 2-column design with widget ready sidebar, pure CSS layout, no tables used Deepest Blue A 2 column magazine style WordPress theme featuring a featured content slider and integrated sidebar video, adsense and social bookmarking

When you build a website – what is your goal?  Most of us want to get visitors and provide a product that our readers and visitors will enjoy.  One of the ways you can add some value to your website is to offer downloads.  These downloads an be pretty much anything you want them to be – the goal of course would be having something that people want. So whatever that download is you certainly want to keep track of it and see how many people are finding value in your provided download. I am currently using the Download Monitor plugin from Mike Jolley and it provides me everything I need to setup my websites downloads and keep track of them easily. Once you have installed the plugin from the WordPress Plugin directory – head into your Admin panel and activate the plug in. You will now find a menu […]

New Plugins WP Frame Breaker Uses a short JavaScript to remove any containing frames around your WordPress site. The Digg toolbar now adds frames to sites, affecting site owners traffic stats and SEO. Using “WP Frame Breaker” will force your site out of the Digg containing frame. Private Tags The “Private Tags” WordPress plugin allows users to specify a list of tags or categories to keep hidden from the public – all posts within the specified tags/categories, and the tags/categories themselves, will not be visible to anyone but the original author. Traffic Exchange Install this plugin to your WordPress blog, enter your Traffic Exchange List username into the plugin settings page, and automatically when you write about the traffic exchanges listed it will make the names links to the Traffic Exchange List page with your referral link. Blog Audit Blog Audit is a WordPress plugin which helps you audit your […]

A neat way to spice up your WordPress search page is to highlight search terms within your search results. I’ve seen some tutorials on the net on how to do this, but I haven’t found one that highlights both title and post content and is a drop-in modification for WordPress. Today I will bring you this drop-in hack for highlighting search terms on your WordPress blog. Installation 1. Copy and paste the following code into your theme’s functions.php file: function hls_set_query() { $query = attribute_escape(get_search_query()); if(strlen($query) > 0){ echo ‘ <script type=”text/javascript”> var hls_query = “‘.$query.'”; </script> ‘; } } function hls_init_jquery() { wp_enqueue_script(‘jquery’); } add_action(‘init’, ‘hls_init_jquery’); add_action(‘wp_print_scripts’, ‘hls_set_query’); If you are having issues with copy-paste from this blog, here is a link to the same code in a txt file: Code to insert into functions.php 2. Copy and paste the following code into your theme’s header.php file (just before […]

Dark Strict 2-column design with widget ready sidebar Typogriph Typogriph is a minimalistic WordPress theme, with a strong focus on content, typography and further customization. The strict XHTML is valid and SE optimized. The layout is grid-based and liquid. It uses a minimal color scheme (white, dark, shades of gray, khaki and burnt red – for mouseover events). Typogriph is widget-ready and supports all the WP 2.7 features. Swiss Widgetized sidebar with 125×125 sidebar advertisement support and support for theme options, with inbuilt page templates. The Buffet Framework The Buffet Framework is a theme framework designed not only for the theme developers who will be using the theme actions and filters to create the child themes, but also for the end users who would be able to add and remove what they want. Night City 2-column design with widget ready sidebar