Searching through my feeds today, I came across a very cool plugin/application combo. It’s called Moderator and was written by Daniel Dura. Moderator is a combination of a WordPress plugin and an Adobe Air Application. With the Adobe AIR app, you can: Viewing unmoderated comments. Dock and system tray notifications of the number of unmoderated comments. Accept, delete, and spam comments from within the desktop client. Close application window, or minimize it to the system tray while running. Shows the Gravatar icons for the user who posted the comment. After installing and then activating the plugin, I installed the application. Installation went smoothly and now I have access to my comment moderation queue right from my desktop. An additional touch is that, my Windows taskbar now has an icon that mimics the comment moderation bubble graphic with a number that represents the amount of comments in the moderation queue. Pretty […]

New Plugins Google Maps Geocoder WPGMG will create a custom fields on any post containing custom fields of street, city, state, zip and will add two new custom fields to the post: lat & lng. lat being latitude. lng being longitude. WordPress Carbon Footprint WordPress Carbon Footprint is a simple plugin for WordPress which works out and displays the carbon footprint of your blog. It works out how many words and images are on your blog and then calculates how many sheets of paper it would take to print a copy of your blog. ConveyThis Language Translation Plugin Allows your users to translate your blog into many different languages. The button is added to the bottom of every post. Updated Plugins Side Content It enables you to define a set of widgets which are effectively placeholders. Each one is empty until you assign content to it when editing a page. […]

In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Keith and I dissect the news of the week. We discuss why commenter’s and bloggers should use Gravatar, our thoughts and opinions on the new 2.7 dashboard mock up, Akismet 2.2.1 with stats and much more. We try to solve a problem which was submitted to us by Nicolas and before the end of the show, we give you our plugin picks of the week along with the job of the week. Don’t forget that next Friday, (Halloween) our special one hour guest will be Jane Wells who works for Automattic in the usability/experience department. As you can imagine, we’ll be focusing the conversation on WordPress and usability. 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. Those of you who continue to download the show and share it […]

New Plugins Hangman Allows you to add the popular game Hangman to your blog Slayer’s Custom Widgets This plugin will make your widgetized sidebars so flexible that you will almost think that your running a more advanced CMS system and not WordPress. WordPress Referrers WordPress Referrers is a fully automated, self running referral tracking script. Mini RSS Reader Just like the plugin Twitter for WordPress, this plugin reads an RSS feed and displays the time, title and trimmed description. Landing sites When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, the plugin is showing them related posts to their search on your blog. WP-Donators Wp-Donators provides a smart donation function to autoleave the sponsor information in a container after payment. People can donate and submit name/URL or TextLink ad. The information of the latest donors are displayed in the cloud. Updated Plugins WP Super Cache WP Super Cache […]

Independence Day Simple three column theme with the colors of Independence. Small Business SEO Blue and gray combined to create a professional-looking SEO-optimized theme perfect for small businesses. Supports rotating 125×125 sidebar ads, widgets, gravatars, and microformats. Valid XHTML and CSS. Based on Sandbox. Includes an SEO options panel. Colorful Fruits Colorful Fruits is an 3-Column, fixed width, widget ready WordPress theme Upstart Blogger Swiss Swiss is a free minimalist magazine style WordPress theme in the international typographic style. Easy to modify, no plugins required.

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Comscore recently released their monthly analysis of the top web properties for September. Thanks to the volatile economic conditions across the globe during the month of September, business/finance sites as well as news/research sites saw a substantial rise in visitation. However, despite all of that, WordPress came in at number 33 in the list of top 50 web properties for the month. The numbers were comprised of total U.S. (home, work, and university locations). According to Comscore, WordPress saw 23,125,000 visits during the month of September. Although Comscore says WordPress, I am inclined to think that they are discussing WordPress.com and not .org. Congrats to Automattic and team for continuing to operate one of the webs top properties, month after month.

RSS Link Tagger for Google Analytics Modifies RSS permalinks to include utm query parameters, used by Google Analytics to track non-adwords advertising campaigns. login required Permit access to your blog only to the logged in users J Post Slider Show your post in fancy jQuery box, rotating images, with show-up text box with post description. WP Hide Dashboard WP Hide Dashboard is a simple plugin that removes the dashboard link and prevents dashboard access to users assigned to the Subscriber role. This is useful if you want to allow your subscribers to edit their own profiles, but don’t want them wandering around the rest of your WordPress admin section. Wikipedia Autolink Link automatically all the highlighted words with the syntax [w:{term}] on the definition from Wikipedia. Backlinks A simple function to show blog posts linking back to any article, similar to Google Backlinks Admin-only Category This simple plugin allow you […]