Thumbnail For Excerpts Thumbnail For Excerpts search the post for the first image. If exists, than it will search for the thumbnail created by default by WordPress for the image, if it was uploaded from WP administration area. Interactive Video Enhance your blog with both basic and advanced video capabilities. Upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix video content, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and much more… Progressive License Progressive license is a plugin that gives authors an opportunity to put Creative Commons or Custom Licenses on their content. TxtVox TxtVox connects mobile subscribers with blogs, newsletters, podcasts and other information sources through an innovative combination of advertising-supported text messaging and personalized mobile pages. FotoViewr Embed 3D Flick Photo Galleries in the WordPress sidebar. Enjoy the same 3D immersive FotoViewr experience in your WordPress blog. TwitterCounter Integrate TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog to […]

Agregado Two column theme with custom archives page, animated JavaScript dropdown menu, widgetized sidebar and bottom bar and several other features Going Pro Converts WordPress into a photo gallery Google Chrome A light weight two column, fixed width, widget and gravatar ready theme Business Class and Beautiful Blue Two column, widget ready themes On the topic of themes, take a look at The Normal Person’s Guide to WordPress Themes

Sudoku Add a Sudoku game to your blog with this WordPress widget. (Page in French) Wordbook Wordbook is WordPress plugin designed to integrate Facebook in your blog and your blog into Facebook. WP-Figlet WP Figlet allows you to draw ASCII art in your posts and page source. Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on your blog. This helps reduce the amount of spam aimed at old posts. Insights Insights brings a powerful new way to write your blog posts. It increases productivity and at the same time the appeal of your posts. DivvaFlip Make your gallery more glamorous with a flipping engine

WordPress 2.6.2.: This release is in response to a recent warning to developers from Stefan Esser about the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and weaknesses of mt_rand(). The issue at hand that forced the release is discussed in detail on the WordPress.org blog post linked above. Basically the attack is complex, is dependent on open registration being turned on in your blog, but can be executed in theory and turns out to be more of an annoyance than an actual exploit. If you have open registration on your blog, the WordPress.org team recommends that you upgrade your install to WordPress 2.6.2 A handful of other fixes are also included in this upgrade. Here is a list of changed files.

ACMS It’s a fixed-width, 3 column theme with a content management system look Retromania Retromania is 2 columns green-yellow-red, widget ready wordpress theme. Cool Grey 3 columns theme, using only grey series of colors, widget ready, tested in WordPress 2.6.1. Chrome Tweaks Three column, widget and gravatar ready blue theme that uses SIFR for headlines. Synthpop 2 column fixed-width, free WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets.

When WordPress 2.3 was released into the wild, one of the new features was an update notification which told you when there was a new version of WordPress or a plugin available for download. This was possible thanks to the API service called api.wordpress.org. Earlier this year, I had the privilege of attending WordCamp Dallas where WordPress 2.5 was unveiled to the world. I’ll personally never forget that day, but when Matt showcased the automatic plugin upgrader, it confirmed my suspicions back when 2.3 was released as to where at least some aspects of WordPress were headed. During some downtime at the event, I pulled Matt aside and asked if him if the team was going to end up heavily using the API to not only upgrade plugins, but upgrade the core and also install themes. I don’t remember exactly what he said, but never the less, that is indeed […]

1000 things I’ve learned about blogging from the Online Journalism Blog.: An interesting and long-ish list of lessons that the author (I could not figure out who wrote this article from their list of authors. I am assuming it was Paul Bradshaw. Multi-author blogs really, really need to think about adding the name of the author to their templates/themes.) has learned from blogging. Some of them are absolute gems such as “First knowledge, then analysis, then ideas” and “A blog without comments is broken“. More food for thought would come from the conversations surrounding such a list. I will add one of my own. If you consider others’ opinions, you will have involved and returning readers. What have you learned about blogging?

Vipers Video Quicktags Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box — easy as that. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, colors, alignment on the page) and much more. Your site will even stay (X)HTML valid unlike with the code provided by most video sites. WordPress Category Posts WordPress Category Posts is a plugin for WordPress that creates a linked list of the posts in a specific category. Web Collage Webcollage displays a collage or quilt of screen shots of the websites that you link or specify in your WordPress blogroll. After installing and activating the plugin, insert the tag “[webcollage]” (without quotes) in any post or page where you’d like to display the collage. Webcollage uses artviper.net’s screen […]