I love bloggers, they are very good people. But even the most kind hearted and best intentioned bloggers sometimes either misinterpret or misread information and the piece ends up very different from where it started its life. This somewhat macabre movement of information from one person to other with slight mutilations is very interesting to me. All of us have studied or read about it in one form or fashion. Now here is the idea for the meme: Read through the following news paragraph and recreate a post on your blog from memory if you will. Encourage your readers to do the same with a link back to your post. Now, imagine throwing video into that mix. By the time I got the headphones on and the video downloaded, I’d be on to designing some new feature (or, more likely, answering more email). I’d only get to hear three words […]

Plugin Page: http://blog.no-panic.at/projects/flickrss Description: Flickrss is a WordPress plugin that displays the latest comments of your Flickr account in your Sidebar. Features – Shows latest Flickr comments in Sidebar – Links back to Flickr or optionally to your own Blog if FAlbum is installed. Future Plans Some more Options to alter the way the comments get displayed in the sidebar by choosing which HTML tags get put before and after the entries. Review Installation of this plugin is normal as well. You needa do the extra step of adding code to your sidebar.php or wherever you want the images to show up. There isn’t much to state about the plugin, as it is built for one purpose and does the job well, i.e. it fetches your comments and displays them. The plugin uses Magpie RSS which is a well established script and used by many, so the plugin comes with […]

Plugin Name AntiLeech Plugin URL http://redalt.com/Resources/Plugins/AntiLeech Description AntiLeech does not prevent the splogger bots from accessing your site. It produces a fake set of content especially for them that includes links back to your site and sends it only to them. Review AntiLeech is a perfect plugin to hit back at scrapers and it is the primary purpose that the plugin is built for. The plugin can detect a splogger bot using its User-Agent string or by IP address. You also have the option of adding your own set of IP addresses to which you want to “feed” the fake content. Whenever the banned bot with the banned user-agent or IP address tries to scrape your content, Antileech detects this and gives them some fake content. Regular visitors will have normal browser agents and they will see the correct content. i.e. they won’t even realize you have some kind of […]

Plugin Name Feeder Plugin Page http://xubz.com/weblog/2007/03/feeder-wordpress-plugin Description Feeder is a RSS Feed aggregator which parses the feed and displays them in <li> tag. Features – User can control how many links and characters to show. – Can cache the given feed on your server My Review Feeder is a simple to use plugin. The installation process is just like any other plugins. However, you do not get a management interface which would have been ideal for beginners. You will need to edit your template files (e.g. sidebar.php) and add the necessary code. This is where you will pass an RSS2 feed url to the function. You can also pass several other parameters like number of items to display, XHTML tags to use etc. The system to pass the url is good as you will need to pass different feed urls, however, it would have been better to have a management […]

Lucency is a three column, fixed width, customizable theme with transparent mainframe, roll-over subpage menu and Flickr integration. Love is Here – TE is a two column WordPress Theme, ideal for Love contented blogs. (Contains Sponsored Links) Luxury is a two column, fixed width theme ideal of Real Estate blogs. (Contains Sponsored Links) Thrifty Scot is a two column, fixed width theme for Financial blogs. (Contains Sponsored Links) Spunky Orange is a two column, orange and black, fixed width theme. (Contains Sponsored Links) RockinBlack is a black and white, clean and simple, three-column theme designed with little elements for the minimalist in mind, includes an easy-to-replace graphical header. (Contains Sponsored Links)

My Youtube Favorite Videos displays your latest favorite videos from Youtube. No Life grabs a list of links from your approved comments and turns them into a random blog show. SimpleTwitter allows WordPress blog owners to add Twitter messages to their templates. WP-ExternalFeed displays links from del.icio.us, Technorati and Reddit that is relevant to the current category of your blog. PhoneGnome Updater automatically updates your PhoneGnome public profile when you create, publish, or edit a post on your WordPress blog. BP Bookmarks adds feed syndication and social bookmark links to your blog. w3images gallery adds an image gallery to your WP. WP-Highslide is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily use Highslide by automatically inserting the necessary javascript into your posts or pages. Chess By Blog is a plugin for WordPress 2.0 that adds graphical chess functionality to your WordPress blog.

Plugin Name IImage Browser Plugin Page http://fredfred.net/skriker/index.php/iimage-browser Features – Create and browse directories – Upload images and create thumbnails – Delete files – Generates code to insert the image into the post Review I’ve been using this plugin for a long long time, right from the 1.5 days. Even with the new image uploader in WordPress 2.0 and 2.1, I have continued using the plugin. The installation process is a bit cumbersome in my opinion, because it requires you to dump one php file in the plugins folder and another php file in the wp-admin directory before you get the plugin to work. The plugin adds a button to the quicktags toolbar (which is also the toolbar in Code view of the WYSIWYG in WordPress 2.1). Clicking this button launches the image browser, where you can upload images, create directories, create thumbnails, generate the code or delete the images. IImage […]

1 Bit Audio Player is a very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion. It’s main purpose is to act as a quick in-page preview for audio files you link to from your website or blog. Pagebar adds a nice page bar for selecting indivual pages instead of just the previous or next page. wpSEO plugin rewrites your blog title, META description and META keywords so these are more user and search engine friendly. (Page in German) Amazon Book Picture allows you to include a simple tag with a books asin or isbn in your posts which is replaced by an image of that book from Amazon. Fancy Pullquotes is a simple plugin for wordpress that allows you to effortlessy obtain a nice pull-quote of a specified text. The pull-quote will be formatted with a fancy nice style, exactly like one of those you can read […]