[EDIT] Thanks for the catch, the date was wrong. Links remain same, but the date changed. 10 Rules for your Small Business Website: Having worked for a small business for some time and with WordPress being such a widely used tool for building small business websites, I think most of these are well thought out and make a lot of sense. My ex-employers website violates almost every rule mentioned. Spotback provides you with a small script to embed on your posts to provide centralized and socialized ranking for almost anything. Visitors will also receive personalized referrals and recommendations from your site or blog. No WordPress plugin available but I am sure the plugin programmers out there can whip something up quite easily with the WordPress hooks available. Perils of Problogging ia points out the Perils of “Problogging” and when I was notified of the entry, I almost felt like I […]

A Plugin A Day (APAD) in Chinese: Denis had asked to be able to translate our APAD series into Chinese and you can read the fruits of his labor at his blog.

Plugin Name Author Adsense Plugin Page http://www.kinkydress.com/php-scripts/author-adsense/ Description This plugin allows blog authors to enter their Google Adsense Publisher ID and have ads displayed on their own posts generating revenue. Features – Ability to set ratio of author to admin ads – Default fallback to admin Publisher ID in case authors’ ID is blank My Review I decided to test this plugin on my technology blog since I am thinking of opening it up to other authors. Installing the plugin is normal. You can set the admin publisher ID and individual authors can set their IDs in WP-Admin itself, which ensures that there is no messy editing of files. Admins can set the ratio of how much their ads are displayed to that of author ads. However, one feature lacking is to customize this ratio by user. Currently you’re stuck with a fixed ratio, so you can’t give your better […]

Orange and Maroon Web Effect is two column theme based on the Yahoo! UI for cross browser stability and functionality, 950px wide, has a widgetized sidebar, tested in Safari, Firefox and IE6 and uses official Virginia Tech colors. The theme also has a memorial 04.16.2007 banner. Modern Paper is a three column theme ideal for journalism sites. Organic is a two column, fixed width, widget ready theme based a template by Free CSS Templates. Sly is a three column, fixed width, widget ready theme. IntraBlog is a subtle, neat and clean, white, 2 column, widget ready WordPress theme with a right sidebar and a professional look. (Contains Sponsored Links) WordPress Gray Bird is a 2 column, widget ready theme with a sidebar on the right. (Contains Sponsored Links) Green Delight is a two column, green and white widget ready theme. (Contains Sponsored Links)

Plugin Name: Live Comment Preview Plugin Page: http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/LiveCommentPreview Description: Live Comment Preview is the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site. Review: Live Comment Preview is not a necessary plugin for your blog, but it is definitely one which enhances your user experience a great deal. It performs the simple job of displaying a preview while the commenter is typing the comment. It thus provides a simple method for the user to check how his comment will appear on your blog. The installation of the plugin is extremely easy; all you have to do is upload the plugin and activate it. You may need to manually add code to your theme file, if it lacks the necessary code. However, the true power of the plugin is released if you customize its output to display exactly as the comment would appear on the blog. This will require you […]

Comment Email Responder provides a simple method to automatically email commenters whenever the blog’s administrator responds to their comments. Comment Rankings displays stars in a post’s comments next to the comment’s author. Each star represented 10 comments that the author had made on the blog so far. List Subpages with Description lists a WordPress Page’s subpages in an unordered list with a description of each one. Block Countries uses the IP2Country database to easily enable you to block certain countries from your blog. Availability Calendar and Booking Management provides property booking management functionality to the administration area of WordPress and can output a fully customisable availability calendar, as well as public and private RSS and iCal feeds. DF FileConf is a plugin to be used when you are moving your blog to a different url. DF FileConf prevents the configuration update until you are confident that your changes are correct. […]

Cubes is a two column, fluid width, blue theme with big fonts. 2Colours is a WordPress theme designed with a three column fixed layout magazine style. Three mini loops are retrieving their posts from different categories at the frontpage. Additional footer, Sweet titles and flickr RSS support built in. QPwilm is a three column, widget ready theme in shades of blue, white and gray. Aqueous Plus is a highly customizable, two column theme with sidebar widget support and auto update features. Hatschimi is a two colummn widget ready WordPress theme with a nice pattern in the background, a drawing of the face of the mysterious ancient creature Hatschimi. Independance Day is a clean 2 column red, white, and blue theme. Minimal Web 2.0 is a Black, white, and blue theme, with 2 columns. (Contains Credit/Sponsored Link) Dubai is a blue, fixed width, widget ready theme. (Contains Sponsored Links) Rockin Clouds […]

Name: Snap Shots Plugin (Formery Snap Preview Anywhere) Plugin Page: Snap Shots Plugin Description: This plugin, now in version 1.3, lets you display small thumbnails for your linked pages. This plugin received a lot of attention since it first was released and has been downloaded over 10,000 times. Snap Shots is currently also available on WordPress.com Features: Generates perfectly valid XHTML code All options can be set via WP-Admin. Options can be changed at anytime to customize the preview. The plugin can automatically add the code to the footer Changelog Version 1.3: Plugin name changed from Snap Preview Anywhere Plugin to Snap Shots Plugin in accordance with the name change of the service. Code added to footer is now XHTML 1.1 compliant as well. Blocks of Links behavior has been deprecated. You can now set if you want only PreviewShotsâ„¢ to be displayed LOADS of options to play with! Future […]