Addpile allows your visitors to submit your blog posts to Addpile.com. AdKit24 is a small and user-friendly plugin to create your own adbar for your WordPress weblog. Ajah Comments caps the number of comments shown on any post to 50, which makes the post load much faster. Author TinyMCE enhances the author description field with the TinyMCE Editor. Batch Validator uses the Markup Validator Web Service API. Contact Widget adds a contact form to your sidebar. Disk Usage gives you an overview on which files and directories are using up your webspace. Google Maps Quicktag makes it convenient to open the Google Maps web site while editing, where you can generate your map and copy the needed code to paste into the editor. WP-Guestmap maps visitors with Google Map. Live WordPress lets you keep track of what your readers are doing on your blog in real-time. Meta Robots prevents indexing […]

WordPress as a resource and the talent and innovation of the people behind WordPress continues to amaze me even to this day. The two plugins I would like to feature today have been written out of necessity. One of them is far reaching with a large amount of resources behind it while the other is simpler, itch and scratch software. However, they are both very innovative, quite useful and made me go Hmmmmmm. Incidentally, Matt celebrated the second birthday of the inception of WordPress.com yesterday. Congratulations to him and his talented team for the phenomenal growth of their service and a sincere thanks for their work. The first plugin comes from Brian McConnell of Worldwide Lexicon. WWL is an open source project that creates collaborative translation tools for websites. WWL enables a website’s readers to translate posts (and edit/score translations) to any of the languages they speak. This is a […]

WP Theme: Retro MacOS This theme is quite well made and nostalgic to me. So if you have used MacOS 6 in the past and remember what it used to look like (and how much better it was than anything else at that time), head over to Stuart’s blog and check out his Retro MacOS theme. Though this theme might not win awards for beauty, it is definitely unique and eye catching. Thanks for a trip down memory lane Stuart.

Internet Commenter Business Meeting: (NSFW) Satire of commenting on the Internet. This video reminds me of why so many people (including me) have stopped reading Slashdot. It surprises me to read some of the inane comments left on TechCrunch before I realize that they are just spammers who are trying to make their comments look related to the topic at hand. However, I take the good with the bad. I love comments and I try to actively engage people to comment. To me an interactive blog is an active blog and an active blog is a useful blog and is more fun to read. For example, I like Jonathan Swartz’s Blog a lot more now that he allows people to post comments.

Code Markup makes it easy to include program code samples in your posts. You can even include HTML markup in the code sample. GMeyshan gives your users an option check Gmail and Gmail for your domain right from your blog. NG Primary Category allows WordPress users to define one category (termed primary category) that will be used to generate the post permalink, overriding WordPress choice by clicking a radio button next to the categories checkboxes. NoIndex Follow Search prevents search engines from indexing your search result pages if people link to them. Tiny Link creates an alternate TinyURL link to your article or post permalink. Top Cat allows you to specify a main category for your posts. Widgetbox Widget allows your users to use up to 9 Widgetbox widgets in their sidebars.

Email Users allows you to send an e-mail to your registered blog users, based on their role. iCal Posts creates an iCal feed from your blog posts, which can be added to pretty much any popular website (such as Google Calendar) or application (such as Microsoft Outlook). IIS Authentication allows WordPress to recognize IIS authentication methods, allowing the user to log in with an IIS authentication method such as Windows Authentication, Basic Authentication, or the ASP.NET forms authentication. Leprakhauns Character Count uses javascript to count the visible characters in a post. Meta Description Updater helps you easily update your description in header meta tag. (English download page.) WP-PTViewer includes interactive panoramas inside posts and pages. Short Permalink includes short permalinks on each post to use in microblogging, emails, IM or another notes. Shutter Reloaded is an image viewer for your website that works similarly to Lightbox, Thickbox, etc. but is […]

Blue Green is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with a minimal, clean layout. BlueSands is a 3-column, widget-ready theme that provides support for built-in asides and Ultimate Tag Warrior. Clean is a 4-column, fluid white layout with with a newspaper style. mintLight is a single-column, minimal theme with two sidebar columns in the footer. Morning Mountain is a 3-column, widget- ready WordPress theme. PlainBox is a 2-column, simple theme with built-in Flickr and last.fm modules. Screenis a 3-column, fluid black layout with an edgy style. Torn is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with a torn-paper style header. Typographic is a Tumblelog-like theme for WordPress.

I recently bought myself a Treo 755p with an unlimited data plan and had the itch again to resurrect my moblog. Since I had hacked up scripts in the past to be able to directly moblog to WordPress from SprintPCS phones, I thought about recurrecting them again. However, I also had purchased a Flickr Pro account a couple of months ago and I figured that I would look into Flickr before I went any further. Sure enough, Flickr had something in place already, though the instructions were a little scattered and hard to find. So here is what I used: Flickr account Latest WordPress code on a blog that is setup already Camera phone with data plan (Sprint in my case) Steps to setup your moblog: Visit your Flickr account, log in. Sign up for a free account if you do not have one. Visit http://www.flickr.com/blogs.gne and setup your blog. […]