Preview Frame adds the inline Preview window that was removed in WordPress 2.2 Buy Me a Beer – PayPal Donations Plugin allows your blog readers to donate money to you via PayPal. wp-forecast shows the weather-data from accuweather.com (Page in German) Spider Trap converts email address in your page header, title, content and comments into HTML conform ASCII values. TinyMCE Advanced enables most of the advanced features of TinyMCE, the WordPress’ WYSIWYG editor and adds 12 plugins to TinyMCE. FireFox Popup displays a link to IE users asking them to download Firefox. You can use also use you adsense referral buttons. gWatchMyBack24h checks an incoming comment/trackback against the existing of a valid backlink (trackback) or against a very small list of keywords (Hooray-Jobs/BBCode). If it fails the comment/trackback will shown as spam to you in the admin management of your WordPress installation. WenderHost Subpages Widget is a widget for displaying […]

Since there are a couple of interesting news items, I have consolidated them into one post. The Blogging World is agog over the (confirmed) news that Feedburner is being bought out by Google for 100 million. My congratulations to the Feedburner team and the VCs who thought this was a good investment. However, I have also been reading some disturbing rumors/thoughts that Feedburner might inject Google Ads into feeds. I cannot see Google imposing this on Feedburner users but if they do, they will lose me as a user. I choose to keep my feeds ad free and I will look elsewhere. Google is reported to be cracking down on websites and blogs that have little content and lots of ads (or made for adsense type websites, a form of arbitrage). The NY Post reports that a number of users have been notified of being dropped from the AdSense program. […]

TruBar 3.0 (Lessen) is a plugin that asks anonymous users to click on a link before posting a comment or registerering on a weblog. Downloads Suite lets you manage downloads on your wordpress site. Files can be uploaded and organized into groups, linked to specific pages. Their access can be restricted to registered users with a specific user level. Manages both uploaded files and external resources (link via URL). Alternate Comments Form allows you to add an extra contact form to your websites. EasyBan will allow you to ban people from your site temporarily or permanently. Rank allows you to create a “ranking” system for your regular blog commenters. 7 Social Services Plus is really simple plugin that will add bookmark links of Digg.com Netscape.com Reddit.com Del.icio.us Stumbleupon.com Google.com Socialogs.com and Socialposter.com

Check out the refreshed Technorati: David Sifry unveiled a new version of Technorati today with improvements made in usability, design and scope of search. The greatest change is the look of the homepage and I cannot get over the difference. I completely failed to recognize the page and it looked like a MFA (EDIT: Made for Adsense) MySpace theme page at first glance and the ticker at the top is almost completely useless to me since it is almost unreadable. I am sure the technological innovations will be welcomed and the elimination of the “search silos” will make them more competitive against Google Blogsearch, but I think that brand recognition should not be wiped away completely but much rather phased in an out to benefit the novelty and retain customer comfort in the brand. Techcrunch has a writeup on the news. I am a frequent user of Technorati, especially since […]

Plugin: Simple Forum Description A full-featured forum plugin for WP that does just about most stuff a forum ought to do. Features – Integrates into WordPress as a Page – Most features that a forum should have – Spam protection – Recognizes WordPress User Roles and Permissions – Available in several languages Review Let me begin by saying that this plugin is being featured today simply because of its functionality. I haven’t personally tried it out and most probably won’t be using it, only for one reason: I run my forum on a seperate domain and using SMF, with no plans of integrating the same into my blog. However, I’ve been going through the documentation of the forum as well as seen the demo etc. to get a good feel for the same. Simple Forum allows you to create a full featured forum which you can embed into your existing […]

Ngatini is a widget ready, two column theme. Alike is a three column, widget ready and adsense ready theme. I like Windows is a two column, fixed width, widget ready theme. What the Hell is a two column, fixed width theme. (Contains Sponsored Links) Dark Carbon is a two column, blue, fixed width theme. (Contains Sponsored Links)

Reset your lost WordPress administrator password: Say you have forgotten your admin password AND the WordPress “forgot your password?” link in the admin login screen does not work for one reason or another (such as wrong email address, spam, etc.), you have no access to the database and cannot rattle off MD5 hashes from memory, then you could be in a jam. If you find yourself in this mess, you may upload this highly insecure script to your server, visit the page specified on your blog and follow simple instructions to reset your password to all its previous glory. The admin is sent an email to make sure things are kosher. Also, please remember to delete the file off your server. I can see this turning into a hack epidemic.

NoEmbedder inserts a noembed section into any embedded content (videos, etc.) in your posts. It inserts a customisable message, and for Youtube videos, a thumbnail too. Gadu Gadu Plugin provides your Gadu-Gadu status (statusu) and allows people to add you to their list of contacts (kontakt). PXS Mail Form is an advanced contact form based on Ryan Duff’s Contact Form, but with several inbuilt checks to prevent spam. Picasa Web Album widget is a widget designed to visualise a predefined number of random images of your picasa account. Embedded Stock Data is a WordPress plugin for placing stock data directly into posts. Data comes from Yahoo Quote Server, and is refreshed when browser is refreshed. Kaccordion Multipack is an implementation of jQuery, interface, jReflection and Accordion. ScoreRender renders inline sheet music fragments inside posts and comments into images. It supports ABC, GUIDO, Lilypond and Mup music notations.