We’re one month into the plugin competition, so I thought I should write in and ask you how plugin development is going on? Are you ready with a plugin? If so, then it is time to create an entry on the Plugin Competition Blog. If you do not have author access then create an account and contact us to upgrade your account. Don’t forget to mention the plugin page on your site. Are you still hunting for ideas? Take a look at a post I made a while back. Need some questions answered? Ask away 🙂 Looking to sponsor the competition or donate some prize money? Please contact us. Donating money is easy and quick and it helps out the WordPress community. Remember we have just another month to go before the end of the plugin competition.

is_human() is_human() is the simplest yet most extensive human verification system available on the WordPress market. Users can choose one of three verification types, or have the script show one at random on each page-load. WP Comment Remix WP Comment Remix allows you to reply and quote links for commentators and also provides a full upgrade to the edit comments pages in the admin panel. WP-Help WP Help is a plugin that allows you to create a simple help or instructional page in the WordPress Admin that will display customized information of your choosing. Image Upload HTTP Error Fix Fixes the media uploader HTTP Error that some WordPress (2.5+) configurations suffer from. Photo Galleria Photo Galleria is a simple, yet elegant, plugin for photographers, designers and WordPress 2.5 users alike who want to beautify their WordPress photo galleries using the jquery framework. WP Movie Ratings WP Movie Ratings is a […]

Twitter, the micro blogging service which allows you to submit messages that are 140 characters or less has become an excellent communications tool. A large number of people are using Twitter on a daily basis to keep up with the world as well as communicating with their friends and family members from almost any location. As luck would have it, a large number of WordPress faithful are also using Twitter. I have at times, indulged in a conversation or two with those who are making a name for themselves within the WordPress community. I use my Twitter account to pass on links to cool themes, news stories and plugins I come across via my FeedReader. With that being said, I’d like to present you with at least 30 people to follow on Twitter. Each one of these people are doing something significant within the WordPress community and some of them […]

Bloggers are Dangerous: I followed a chain of posts to the Innovation Creators blog to finally find the original author of the picture below. The linked article actually talks about how bloggers are perceived to be dangerous by various companies and their executives and Rod investigates the social and technological implications of blogging on the Enterprise. If you are into that sort of thing, it might be an interesting read. However, the picture of the various blog gang signs interested me the most. Afterthought: I wish more people credited the original author instead of linking to the last place they found an article of interest, especially when there is a CC license involved. Post name via oneplusinfinity On completely unrelated news, I found a WordPress Theme Design Book by Tessa Blakeley Silver that might be of interest to theme designers. Looks like the book is also available as an eBook. […]

One Column Themes Revolution-X Revolution-X is a one column theme with three customizable widgetized sidebars at the bottom. The theme has a featured article section and built in transparency for linked images. Two Column Themes Dieanel Dieanel is a simple two column widget-ready theme. The theme makes use of blue colors intelligently blending the theme nicely. Loopy Rainbow Loopy Rainbow is a two column widget-ready theme, the theme is simple and comes with a sidebar to the right side. As the name suggests the theme comes in 7 colors and you can choose from blue, black, red, purple, pink and rainbow colors. Valid Blue Valid Blue is a two column widget-ready theme which makes use of darker shades of blue color. The theme is XHTML / CSS valid. Three Column Themes Pistachio Pistachio is a three column widget-ready theme with unique icons. The them is Gravatar ready and also highlights […]

Richard Hooper of WP Project.com has published an interesting post which explains how to create dynamic sidebars. As it stands, there is no way to assign widgets to only appear on specific pages of your WordPress Powered blog in the back end. Using Richard’s method, you can create your own sidebar.php file and assign various widgets or plugins to only show up on specific sections of your blog. This is great if you want to display a widget on a SINGLE post template versus the front page. Richard also adds that Aside from creating a dynamic sidebar, this approach breaks up your sidebar code into smaller, more manageable chunks. Perhaps we should coax Richard into turning this into a plugin in which normal users can then assign widgets to appear on certain page templates. Here is a question I have. You can use this method to assign plugins/widgets to appear […]

Ever deactivate a plugin, only to have it crash your blog? Typically, this will result in a “Fatal error: Call to undefined function.” which is then displayed on the front end of your site. According to John Lamansky, the reason this error occurs is because the theme is still calling on the plugin you deactivated. John Lamansky has put together a list of steps that you should perform to alleviate this issue entitled, What To Do If Plugin Deactivation Breaks Your Blog. Typically, deleting the plugin file from your plugin directory usually solves most problems. However, John’s list of steps guides you through the process of determining which bits of code from the failed plugin are causing the errors and then removing those lines of code. If you have ever gone through the experience described above, please let us know how you went about fixing the issue.

Google AJAX Libraries API Plugin The Google Ajax Libraries API Plugin is designed to make it easy to use the Google hosted libraries without the need to mess with your theme and plugin code. Get The Image This plugin will allow you to have full control over images displayed, or it takes the power of WordPress and uses its image cropping methods. MW Adminimize This plugin pares down the page-topping links interface that shows up on every WordPress administration page. MW Latest Tweet This one does what you’d probably guess: shows the latest tweet. Be sure to check out the release page as it offers more than just displaying the latest tweet. BT Active Discussions This is a recent comments plugin that displays customizable number of blog posts with recently updated comments. The output is very similar to phpBB’s View Active Topics and vBulletin’s Today’s Posts functions. User Rank Plugin […]