The Washington Post has an article called Be More Than a Blip in the Blogosphere which is on how to make your blog more popular. I used to like linking to a couple of these in a month but lately “write a better blog” articles have turned into “how to make affiliate money online”. This one from the Washington Post however, is down to earth and easy to read and follow, which are important qualities in How To articles.

The WordPress Help Cheat Sheet: Is a nifty little collection of code snippets and helpful bits of information aimed directly towards theme and template developers who need a reminder once in a while. Nice to print out and put somewhere handy. If you get lost looking for the link to the actual PDF download, look for it at the bottom of the post, towards the right under the word link. (yes, the authors need to make the most important content of a post easily visible and identifiable)

bbPress Post automatically posts new blog entries as new threads in your bbPress forum. Custom Query String Reloaded replaces Andy Beard’s Custom Query String UTW Edition which worked with pre-2.3 WordPress version and the UTW plugin. WP Custom Title Colour gives you the ability to customise the title colour for any post via a panel in the sidebar of the write page. WP-Debug uses the Krumo framework for debugging allows WordPress developers to see everything that’s going on behind the scenes. WP DigiClock embed a flash digital clock into your wordpress blog, either in a post or page, or within your blog’s template (in the sidebar / header / footer etc.). Dynamic Tags Widget takes all the categories from your blog and automatically generates a dynamic 3-D tagfield. Explore is a Windows Explorer-like plugin that is useful for navigating through sites that have a complex page hierarchy. Get Recent Post […]

Business Sense is a 2-column theme perfect for a business blog or site. Extended is a 2-column theme with a Web 2.0 look and bright colors. Fotosky is a 3-column theme with 3-column footer that features a clean and simple design. Lizard is a new dark skin for the Shifter theme that allows you to choose between 4 page widths including fluid width New Yorker is a 3-column, fluid, newspaper-style theme with lots of window dressing. Tech Moz is a 2-column theme with beautiful lines and colors.

Daniel Cuthbert has written a paper on ModSecurity and WordPress. While I praise the work and the effort, I am not sure why they did not find it in themselves to protect the PDF document that they are distributing using some sort of an SHA1 checksum or the like to ensure the integrity of the download. Now I know that these guys know what they are doing but I have a problem with security related papers, help documents, scripts and other items when they cannot be verified with the source and the source itself cannot be verified with the original author of the product. I have always been a big proponent of mod_security and I think it provides a comprehensive layer of web security without as much overhead. Although I have never thought of WordPress’ security to be as weak as the BlogSecurity folks have claimed it to be. mod_security […]

I have added a few plugins and tweaked a bit of the code on WeblogToolsCollection to keep things fresh and new. Here is the list. WhoSeesAds: I have been meaning to wean out the Google AdSense ads for my regular visitors and Ozh’s plugin was the ticket. If you have not used it yet, you are missing out. It is one of the finest pieces of useful and well thought out code for WordPress bloggers. I have the ads set so they only show for posts older than 30 days or if you are not a regular visitor. I like the lack of distractive AdSense blocks. There is also a distinct benefit that I had not anticipated. The best paying AdSense block on this blog has also been the most obnoxious that regular readers have complained about. I can now display those ads to people that happen to stop by […]

MyTwitter allows users to display their recent Twitters on their WordPress site. WP Tag Manager aims to provide tag management that seamlessly integrates into your WordPress admin. XmasB lets you add and show random quotes to your WordPress blog with ease.

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