New Plugins WP-Honeypot Add Project HoneyPot traps to your blog to help catch these spammers and comment spammers. Eventr Use your blog as an event management tool. You can create an event – the plugin will let people sign up for the event – it can also show a list of all the attendees. Once the event is done, you can deactivate the event and no more sign ups will be allowed. Shared Items Post Shared Items Post is a WordPress plugin that automagically creates a blog post from your Google Reader Shared Items feed. You can schedule the post to go out daily, weekly, or monthly and even set the time of day. Author Avatars This plugin provides a widget which allows you to show avatars of blog users. Resize At Upload The plugin affects the uploaded image while it is uploaded. Straight after it is uploaded, it will […]

Instapundit which is one of the most highly trafficked political blogs on the net recently confirmed that they have switched from Movable Type to WordPress. The site doesn’t appear to be hosted on the WordPress.com VIP network but instead, is using a self hosted install of WordPress 2.6.3. Hat Tip to Doug Stewart.

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New Plugins Content Finder Quickly Add – Free Keyword Targeted Content to your Word Press Blog. Advanced Code Editor Integrates the EditArea advanced code editor into WordPress. This adds real time syntax highlighting, line numbering, full screen editing, and more to the code editor in the “Add New Post” and “Add New Page” screens. Makes editing posts in HTML much easier! WordPlurk Integrate WordPress with Plurk. WP-WOMM Automatically inserts a link to share and tell a friend about the post or page as well as provide a link for visitors to subscribe to the RSS feed. Get Picasa Albums Gets a listing of Picasa Web Albums and displays album thumbnails on your page. Automatic SEO Links Forget to put manually your links, just choose a word and a URL and this plugin will replace all matches in the posts of your blog. Get Flickr Thumbnails Get Flickr Thumbnails plugin can […]

Help test the new version of WordPress for iPhone using the iPhone simulator by downloading the latest 1.2beta1 code from the WordPress trac. Details about the features of the new version and the download links are available from the WordPress for iPhone blog. Thank TUAW and The Blog Herald. A nice roundup of photoblogging themes and plugins available for WordPress was published by WPCandy. Many of the links are collections themselves. Definitely worth a looksee if you are looking for a nice photoblog. Nathan Rice posted a Definitive guide to Sticky posts in WordPress 2.7 complete with screenshots, style suggestions, code examples and custom loop suggestions. He even outlines a method to ignore stickies completely. Intense Debate, recently acquired by Automattic, is back with a stronger product and a much more integerated and user friendly WordPress plugin that makes the task of switching back and forth from ID easier and […]

Keith, Andrew, Mark and I discussed the news of the week. With guest contributions to the show, we went in-depth on a number of topics including the icon survey and much more. Don’t forget to tune in to hear our plugin picks of the week. Come back next week for more action packed WordPress discussions! 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: Project Icon IntenseDebate Reopens Drag And Drop Tutorial Guide To Sticky Posts 10 Tip Optimization Guide Cool Way To Display Archived Posts Feedback: We encourage you to leave a comment whether it be feedback, questions, rants, or corrections then tune in and see if your comment made it on the air! […]

Black Magic The theme has 2 columns and is based on grungy wooden textures and has a cool top menu which includes RSS. The psd source file of the logo has also been included in the package. Journalized Three column theme with six built-in skins, administration interface with support for widgets, tags and gravatars and custom header. Snailbird Themes Includes three themes Purple Prose [Demo], Evening Stars [Demo] and Paper Trail [Demo].

John Kolbert of Techlyzer has produced a great screencast explaining how to create the collapsible and movable option boxes within the WordPress 2.7 write new page/post screens. The tutorial starts off by creating a dummy plugin which you then add functions to which give it the draggable/collapsible options within the Administration panel. John provides a sample plugin to use as well as a link to the article on the Codex that explains the add_meta_box function. This tutorial is mainly for those aspiring plugin authors as well as for those who would like to add this type of functionality to their own plugin. John should rename this video to add_meta_boxes explained in plain English because even I understood and learned a thing or two. Final though is that I would absolutely love to see more screencasts like these in the future and have them embedded into their respective Codex articles. How […]