10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress: A quick link to a set of tools, tips and tricks aimed towards offering a more personalized RSS feed for your WordPress blog from Smashing Magazine. Some of these have been hashed in the past but a few caught my attention including the hack that makes it very easy to display a feed from another blog with next to nothing in code or the one to “cleanly” get rid of RSS feeds from a WordPress blog.

New Plugins email2friend email2friend plugin is the easiest way ever to add send to friend functionality to your WordPress blog. Image List From Custom Fields The “Image List From Custom Fields” plugin displays a list of images from a recent number of posts and links back to them. This plugin is similar to other image list plugins with one main difference, instead of causing increased server load by searching for and pulling an image from the post it pulls the image from the custom fields specified by the author when he/she writes the post. By doing this a much clearer image can be displayed rather than showing a stretched or skewed image from the post. Fun without Cliches Fun without Clichés highlights clichés in your post when you preview it. It doesn’t change or remove any content allowing you total control over whether to keep the cliché in or alter […]

New Plugins WordPress Case Insensitive Login Overrides the WordPress function for login authentication with a very small tweak to accept a case-insensitive username. WPMarketer A powerful suite of tools that extend the WordPress platform, enabling you to manage and track all of your online marketing and advertising efforts directly from your WordPress admin panel. Manage all of your affiliate links and conversions without having to use multiple tools to set up ads in posts and landing pages, manage your inventory and track results. Now you can manage your online marketing with greater control and ease of use than ever before. WP Server Date Time This plugin is useful when you want to know what date time is it on server where WordPress is hosted if you are in other timezone. Drop-in .pdfList Creates a list of thumbnails (created on-the-fly by ImageMagick) linking to .pdf attachments. Also creates thumbnails for .zip […]

Due to some obligations which sprang up, Keith was unable to make it for this episode. So while schools, automakers, and banks ask for bailout packages, I had to do the same thing and you delivered. Special thanks to those who called in and turned what would have been a boring show into a great discussion on a number of topics. Ad Copy: WordPress Weekly is brought to you by the fine advertisers on WeblogToolsCollection.com. Without their continued support, this show would not be possible. If you are interested in advertising on WordPress Weekly, please contact me at wpweekly at gmail dot com.. Stories Discussed: 10,000th Changeset Reached 2.7 For WP.com, Soon For Self Installers My Idea To Manage Widgets In WordPress Should You Install WordPress Via Fantastico? Pros And Cons Feedback: We encourage you to leave a comment whether it be feedback, questions, rants, or corrections then tune in […]

ASCII One Four column, grey, white and yellow theme with two widgetized sidebar. WP Simple Blue Three column, fixed width, widget ready theme Clean Clean consists of a fluid two/three column outfit with widgetized bars and footer column, custom fields enabled, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. The frontpage shows the latest posts followed by footer action. Flickr, Delicio is enabled in the themes options panel. Mortgages Two column, widget and SEO ready theme with options page for customization Igloo Two column theme with several adsense ready ad blocks, featured posts on the homeage, with social bookmarks and featured posts. Munchen Two column, widget ready, Blue, Gray, White, Light Blue theme Win7blog Two column, widget ready theme styled in the new Windows 7 look. Christmas Days [EDIT] Removed due to copyright violations. Two column fixed width theme with a Christmas theme. WP Pressident Two […]

New Plugins Entries on Page X Generates a link back to the archive page the current entry is on. Makes it easier for users to retrieve the chronology of a blog. GreyBox Integrator GreyBox is a script can be used to display websites, images and other content in a beautiful way. GreyBox Integrator provides a one-click installation of GreyBox on your WordPress blog. VB Simple YouTube A simple way to add a YouTube video. Just put youtube::video_id:: and you’ll see the video in the post. WordPress Flowplayer This plugin adds flowplayer to your WordPress blog, it comes pre-configured and is very easy to use. The excerpt re-reloaded Customize the excerpt to be displayed by selecting the maximum number of words and link text. In the Loop The plugin provides an options panel with two input boxes. One is for content you want to appear before your post, the other for […]

WordCamp Chicago: WordCamp is coming to Chicago in 2009! Since I am so close (Toledo), I would love to attend. I know that Jeff is planning to be there as well. Past WordCamps that I have attended have always turned out to be fun events that are a great place to meet people, learn about the latest goings on in the WordPress world, generate and fan new ideas and make new connections within the WordPress community. WordCamp Chicago is being organized by Lisa Sabin-Wilson, Brian Gardner, Wendy Piersall and Cory Miller. The details of this WordCamp are up in the air but the organizers are looking for sponsors, attendees, speakers and any other help that you can provide. If you are a WordPress enthusiast, have never been to a WordCamp before and are from the Chicagoland area, this is your chance. Are you going?

Over the weekend, I caught word of a brand new WordPress theme generator that was written by Ryan Hellyer of Pixopoint.com. The generator lets you configure various aspects of a WordPress theme such as the sidebars, headings, footer, etc. Once you’re finished, you can export the files and use the theme on your own blog. I got in touch with Ryan over the weekend and this is what he had to say. What is the PixoPoint template generator and what is it capable of doing? The PixoPoint template generator is an automated web based system for creating WordPress themes. By using the control bar on the left hand side of the template generator you are able to modify a wide range of features on the website. I’ve included some standard templates to start people off, but the sky is really the limit. By changing images, colours, widths, number of sidebars, […]