I flew solo for episode 35 while Keith cranked out some college work. In this episode, I interviewed Mark E. who is just about ready to release the first beta of his comprehensive WordPress Security plugin called Maximum Security. During our discussion, it was easy to see that this plugin contains just about everything except the kitchen sink as it relates to security and WordPress. If you don’t believe me, view the long list of features this plugin has with more on the way. We also discussed security through obscurity, basic WordPress security practices and much more. Mark has 15 years of experience in network and system security and within this episode, he gave us about 4 years worth of experience in less than an hour! Plugin Of The Week:Comment Luv – Comments are a wonderful thing to receive on your blog and while adding the dofollow plugin is one […]

New Plugins Improved Plugin Installation Improved Plugin Installation is an improvement to the current wordpress 2.7 plugin installation methods. It allows you to install one or more plugins simply by typing the names of the plugins or the download URLs. This means you can install all your favorite wordpress plugins in one go! Align RSS Images Makes image alignment work in RSS feeds. Tiny Contact Form Little form that allows site visitors to contact you. Tiny Spoiler Use [spoiler name=”top secret”]shows/hides this text[/spoiler] to create spoiler text Readme Parser Shows any plugin readme.txt file on a page/post. Pathless Category Links A WordPress plugin to remove the base category, e.g. the /category/, folder from your category links. 301 Redirects are added for old links. WordPress Membership Site Plugin Memberwing MemberWing is a WordPress Membership Plugin that allows to convert any self-hosted WordPress blog into membership site. Free and paid versions available. […]

Well, that is Happy New Year in Bengali. So we wish all our readers a Happy and Prosperous New Year! Our little blog grew slowly but steadily in the last year and our editors, authors and well wishers have made it possible for us to not only provide you with the most useful and up to date WordPress news, but we have been able to organize and support our Annual WordPress Plugin Competition, have been able to visit a couple of WordCamps around the US and have started a couple of new services around WordPress. If you want to know what the team is up to, be sure to check out the Weblog Tools Collection Crew LifeStream. As always, we have been trying to improve our content, add more features and services, be good citizens of the WordPress world, all the while trying to increase our readership and our distribution. […]

Gumball Special Two column, gravatar ready, magazine style theme with custom image fields. Simply Ornate Two column, blue and black theme with support for Flickr, tabbed sidebar. The theme displays four posts on the homepage. Christmas Light Template consists of two columns, fixed width layout, supports widgets, comments, is static in size. In the pattern dominated by red and blue color. Shocking Theme consists of two columns, supports widgets and gravatars, comments, fixed width. Viewport Viewport, a free WordPress theme created by Paul Bennett is focused around a clean and simple, content based layout. The aim is to grab the user’s attention and draw them straight into the content. On the single post page the content is laid out clearly in full, with post controls and a widget-enabled sidebar. The theme also allows the blog owner to change the background image and color, and the image of the ‘Where Next?’ […]

Wordmobi: WordPress Client for S60.: Wordmobi is a WordPress client for the Symbian S60 series of devices. You do need to download and install Python on your device for this client to work. 30 Excellent WordPress video Tutorials lists a lot of good videos including videos for administration of WordPress, getting started, theme development and WordPress tools. Blogo is a blog editor for the Mac and Mashable has a nice review for the application. The new release also adds comment moderation for WordPress 2.7 or higher, improved Safari integration, and offline editing. I personally never got into desktop applications for blogging but I happen to find some sort of creative solace in the WordPress admin interface. 🙂

New Plugins Profiler Profiler is a plugin for generating and displaying profiles for the registered users on a WordPress site. It is intended to be a “set it and forget it” plugin. You do not have to have any programming knowledge to use this plugin. TrackThis A plugin by Yotify.com, a personal web scouting service enabling users to track anything on the Internet and enlist their friends to help. DandyID DandyID is a free service that enables you to easily connect all of your online identities. Simple Shortcodes Simple Shortcodes provides an easy to use mechanism for creating and using custom shortcodes. clikStats clikStats is a wordpress plugin that automatically logs the number of clicks within a post. Bird Feeder Tweets your about your posts when they are published. MagpieRSS Simplified MagpieRSS is already integrated with WordPress, this plugin will allow you to implement it easily within your theme. Updated […]

Top 10 WordPress Plugin Developers takes a look at the top plugin authors ranked by the number of downloads from the WordPress Plugin Repository. Also includes a few other statistics. You can check out the more exhaustive Top 1000 list. What’s your rank?

This is part two in the best of WeblogToolsCollection.com series (view part one here). The following links are posts which were published during 2008. These posts range from special news articles, guides, tutorials, reviews, opinion pieces and more. We look forward to continue bringing you the best WordPress information from across the web and wish you and yours a very safe, happy new year. July: How many Queries are too many? Evolution of WordPress: B2/Cafelog to WordPress 1.0 NEW WordPress Theme Directory WordPress iPhone App Now Available How to get featured in our Daily Releases Features Planned for WordPress 2.7 August: WordPress 2.7 Plugin Uninstall Methods If, Then, Else WP Plugin: “Where did they go from here” Updated What Does the Blurb on Top of Plugins Link Mean? Be Kind, Educate Safest Way to Include Plugin Code in Themes Stop Blaming The WordPress Team Tackle Plugin Compatibility Issues While Using […]