As most of us know, WordPress development happens at a record pace and trying to keep up with everything is a daunting task. However, the team here at WLTC does a great job filtering all of the WordPress related content on the web to bring the best to you. During the course of a year, this content adds up. Some of it being news posts, how-to guides, reviews, breaking news, etc. So, since it’s near the end of the year, I thought I would take a trip through the WLTC Archive and revisit come classic posts from 2008. This series is broken up into two parts. The first part covers the months of January-June while part two takes care of July-December. When you browse through the links, let us know which one was your favorite or perhaps, which one has been the most helpful to you. January: Install WordPress Locally […]

New Plugins CubePoints CubePoints is a point management system designed for WordPress blogs. Custom Taxonomies Custom Taxonomies provides a full administrative interface for creating and using taxonomies beyond the standard Tags and Categories. Amazon S3 Expiring URL Generator Generate a Amazon S3 expiring URL based on your key and secret. Prevents hotlinking to your media. Recent Trackbacks / Pingbacks by Entry Widget Display recent trackbacks and/or pingbacks list simply on sidebar sort by entry. Top Twitter Links by Twitturls Widget that displays currently popular links from Twitter. Recent Comments by Entry Widget Display recent comments list simply on sidebar sort by entry. 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, templates, trend calculations, has a widgets build in and shortcode support. Page Management Dropdown Easily list your individual pages […]

Inter Milan A new free football theme for WordPress. Milan Internatzionale WordPress Theme. Template consists of three columns, supports widgets, comments. The original design for all Inter fans. Atahualpa 3 Fluid, fixed or hybrid width. 1, 2 or 3 columns. Rotating header images, favicons, jQuery effects and more. Miscellany It’s a 3 Column, widget-ready fixed width theme featuring an extended footer (non-widgetized), author info page, gravatars and highlighted author comments in the comments section along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates. Fully compatible up to WordPress 2.7. Green Light Two column, fixed width, widget ready in the pattern dominated by green. Also check out Blue Sea by the same author.   Are you a theme author? Read how to submit your theme for our release posts.

Let me take this opportunity of wishing all the readers of Weblog Tools Collection a merry merry Christmas and happy holidays! Our long time readers would remember two months in 2007 when we reviewed one WordPress plugin a day. The last 18 months has seen a lot of changes in the world of WordPress. We’ve had several version updates including few really major upgrades since then as well as the introduction of the WordPress Plugin Repository. With several new plugins being released everyday and several more updated regularly, we’ve decided it’s time once again for a plugin review. However, this time instead of a daily review, we’ll be focusing on the reviewing a plugin a week. So, every Sunday, from next year, starting 4th of January, we will pick a plugin to feature. So, how do we pick? Just like we did the last time; through recommendations and requests. Are […]

Thankfully, WordCamp Columbus is being held in Ohio rather than any of the other states that have a city named Columbus. In all honesty, I didn’t know this event was going to be in Ohio until I checked out their advertising graphics. If you are going to host a WordCamp event, please be sure to include city and state on the About page so that people know exactly where the event will take place. Or you’ll end up clueless like me. With that said, I’m happy to see that a date has been nailed down for WordCamp Columbus, that being May 16th, 2009. I hope the event lasts during the entire weekend and not just on a Friday. The event looks to be taking place at Columbus State Community College. Unfortunately, due to WordCamp Mid-Atlantic occurring during the same weekend, Matt will only be doing a keynote session at the […]

New Plugins WordPress Download Counter A counter that you can add in your sidebar to show off the number of official WordPress downloads Media Library Gallery Automatically creates a gallery with every images posts have in attachment. (a) Slideshow This is plugin based on (a)Slideshow jQuery Plugin Sapo OpenID Header This plugins had the needed code to the header of your blog, to detect your OpenID account at http://openid.sapo.pt Explore pages Explorer-like plugin for walking through the pages Kavychker It’s normal typography plugin for WordPress Get My Tweets Simple plugin to return a user defined number of tweets from Twitter. Updated Plugins Sliding Posts A plugin for wordpress which shows latest 10 posts with carousel sliding effect which is SEO friendly. User can set the height, width, and the time duration of the slide show. Post will be shown with the link by clicking on it user can view particular […]

A recent discussion has popped up on the WordPress Testers mailing list revolving around using the list as an area to receive support. Over the past few weeks, users have been publishing support questions which in many aspects, would be better served in the WordPress.org support forums. The problem with that is, the testers list is maintained and operated by people who have a knowledgeable background with the WordPress software, there are less users, and receiving answers is typically a speedier process. With this in mind, I’ve decided to whip up a guide on how to maximize the use of the WordPress.org forum. It’s not exactly as cut and dry as you would think. This list of steps was comprised mostly by Michael E. Hancock with additional tips provided by Otto and myself. 1. A new user may want to read the Forum Rules 2. Report inappropriate posts/threads by adding […]

Teel Teel theme is a clean, classy web 2.0 style WordPress theme. It features dynamic page navigation and a widgetized sidebar with fancy rollover effects and an overall clean appearance that will work perfect for blogs of all kinds. Technology Society Two column, white and blue, tag, gravatar and widget ready theme. Make Money Online Blue Make Money Online Blue is a Clean and simple aqua blue theme with both the sidebar and footer widgetized.   And, if you are using the Journalized theme, you can download the X’Mas skin for it.