WeblogToolsCollection.com has vanished from the Technorati index. I have sent support emails and have received nothing more than the canned responses. This blog shows up fine in my watchlist and it is also displayed correctly under “My Blogs” on the homepage but that is where I lose it. The blog page says that it is not indexed and I have quit trying to fix it. This is one company I have a hard time figuring out. They seem to yo yo between very useful, fully in control of their fortunes and their company to down in the doldrum dumps with very little direction within the blink of an eye. I imagine the people that work there must also go through similar vacillations in their work lives and it must be very difficult to endure. I have had contact with many of the folks at Technorati over the years and all […]

So after an email conversation with Tony, I was reading the Sphere blog this morning and noticed Matt giving Cisco, IBM and indeed the rest of the world a glimpse at the Super Secret WordPress Gangsign. Word! Thanks to Tony for the picture.

Amazon Links Pro adds relevant and contextual links to Amazon.com products to your site. wpLinkMentor hooks into the XML-RPC interface of WordPress and adds three functions for remote management of links (blogroll) – wpLinkMentor.getLinks, wpLinkMentor.deleteLink and wpLinkMentor.updateLink. Multiple Social Bookmarking lets you bookmark a site into several (more than 50) social bookmarking services. (English download.) Plugins Viewer makes it possible to post the list of the plugins which you installed on your blog. (English download.) Slimbox is a 7kb visual clone of the popular Lightbox JS v2.0 by Lokesh Dhakar, written using the ultra compact mootools framework. Visitor Counter Widget is a simple access counter implemented as a widget. YouTuber lets you add videos from YouTube and adjust the size of the videos to fit your blog.

Be Right Back is a simple theme that allows you to quickly and easily put your blog into maintenance mode. Blueberry is a 3-column, dark-colored theme themed after its namesake and built on Sandbox. Tiffany Blue is a 2-column theme with an upper-class appearance that is also built on Sandbox.

Localizing a WordPress plugin enables your plugin to reach widest possible audience. Fortunately, WordPress makes it rather simple for plugin authors (and theme authors) to ensure their work is available in many languages. This post will go over the steps that are necessary from a plugin author’s end to make it easy for others to translate a plugin. For those then wishing to translate, I will go over a program called poEdit, which will allow you to translate the plugin for your use and for others. The Benefits of Localizing a Plugin The more languages your plugin is in, the more people that can download and understand it. If a plugin is popular enough, you’ll have people volunteering to translate in order to adhere to a different part of the world. The hard way would be someone going through your code after each release and translating word for word. However, […]

The following are the results for the WordPress Plugin Competition, in reverse order. Consolation Prize The consolation prize winner is Ozh for Who Sees Ads. WhoSeesAds is a wonderfully useful plugin that lets WordPress users determine whe sees the ads on your blog. Ozh wins hosting from Pajama Mommy and a free 48″ wallhog from Wallhogs.com Third Prize The third prize winner is Keith Dsouza for WordPress Automatic Upgrade which lets you automatically upgrade WordPress from your admin interface with this Plugin. Keith wins a Baby Hosting Plan for 1 year (Valued at $134.40) from Hostgator, a copy of Translator Pro 5.0 and $200 in cash. Second Prize The second prize winner is Barry for MyDashboard. MyDashboard lets you customize your WordPress Dashboard with this plugin and lots of cool gadgets. This plugin also makes the Dashboard skinnable. Barry wins a Swamp Hosting Plan for 1 year (Valued at $194.40) […]

AuthImage automatically distinguishes between real comments and spam through random codes in an image associated with each comment. IMDB Movie Information Tag frabs information from IMDB about a movie and adds it to your blog. Move Comments allows comments to be moved from one page or post to another. Slickr Gallery uses AJAX discretely to load lots of Flickr thumbnails on demand and uses lightbox javascript to present the images. Trustmeter for Google shows how your host is indexed in Google and if it trusted or not.

There is a conference in London called The Future of Web Apps. It takes place October 3rd – 5th. There are lots of speakers and Matt is one. So, seeing as he’s here, want to meet up? The venue will be Excel London. They have bars we can use, their site lists travel links and if there are others at the conference they would be close by. Date will be October 4th, maybe October 5th too. Interested? (cross-posted from my blog because more people read this! I’ll followup any other details on my post there.)