I love FeedBurner and I have been using their service for quite some time. I love their statistics and though I do not pay for the “Secret HallPass and Handshake” I really benefit from understanding subscription and and click patterns. However, Feedburner and consequently the FeedBurner Feed Replacement plugin suffers from a major flaw that has become quite irritating of late. The feed replacement plugin and Feedburner have very little granularity, a flaw that WordPress does not suffer from. As a matter of fact, WordPress’ feed versatility is one of the best in the industry and though the system is not without its weaknesses, it provides some of the most useful and varied options to distribute feeds. When I use Feedburner, I completely lose that versatility. Unless I can come up with a pain free method of re-instating the versatility (and it does not look good), I feel that the […]

WeblogToolsCollection is now available in Deutsch and in Español. We are planning further feature enhancements such as direct linking from this blog to translated posts and cross posting of news. We will also add a few more languages in the future if these two translations become popular AND readers see a benefit from such translations. The first two languages were chosen based traffic patterns of this blog and past user requests. Since I am quite inept at both these languages, I would appreciate it if a couple of my readers would do me a favor in spreading the word and post the links to these blogs in the respective WordPress Forums along with a small explanation of the purpose. Thanks for your help and please let us know what you think.

Snap Preview Anywhere Plugin will display Snap Preview Anywhere on your WordPress blog. v2.1 includes support for the latest SPA update. Add User Photo allows adding a photo to a user profile. Dunstan-style Error Page allows you to create the same 404 error page that Dunstan uses on 1976design.com. BP Bookmarks adds feed syndication and social bookmark links to your blog. Twitter Update Status lets you set your status for Twitter via the Write panel in WordPress. Cloudy dynamically generates word clouds based on your blog content. FireStats is a feature rich web statistics system. This plugin integrates the same on WordPress. Hansel and Gretel Breadcrumb Plugin works through accessing the requested URL and transforming it into a well-formed breadcrumb trail. DieOnSpam is an anti-spam plugin for non-English blogs. Comments which don’t contain a non-English character are automatically discarded.

Miss Liberty is a two column, widget ready patriotic theme by Ivan Minic featuring Statue of Liberty and Central Park; uses tables. Old Fuenteria is a two column theme with a vintage style and uses Headlines Image plugin to replace titles with images. Sunflower is a two column, widget ready theme with a sunflower field in the header. HemingwayEx is feature added version of Hemingway with support for asides, UTW, horizontal navigation among others. Glow is a three columnm widget ready WordPress theme with two right-hand sidebars.

Permalinks are an important key for search engine optimization. Bots such as Googlebot have gotten a lot smarter where they can index links even if they’re using a query, such as example.com/?p=535, but that’s not search engine friendly at all. There are really two angles you can look at when setting up your permalinks. The first angle to look at it is from the Bot’s point of view (“POV”). The bot is looking at the permalink and it first tries to recognize what that page is about by what the permalink says. If a permalink just has domain.com/article/798724, the bot knows that it’s an article and…well, that’s about it really. But let’s say that you had something like what WLTC uses here: http://weblogtoolsc…gle-subscribers/. The bot knows that it’s about feedburner, google, subscribers, and that it’s an archived page on that site. Not to forget it also knows the date of […]

Fluid2 is a 3 column wordpress widget friendly theme with a fluid layout based on a template by Dave. Nature is a two column theme with a green header. TheSpeedBlog is a fun two column WordPress theme with a widget enabled right-hand sidebar. Great for a motor racing fan of any kind. Adsense theme is a widget ready theme filled with Adsense ads. Salt and Pepper is a three column, fixed width, widget ready theme by Headsetoptions. geepressed is a simple, green, two column Theme for WordPress 2.0/2.1. Space Future is a search engine optimized two column theme. Blueline is a 3 column widget ready theme by GPS Gazette with one sidebar on the right and one to the left of the content area that uses a soft color scheme and very few images.

TikiGraffiti is a plugin that uses graffiti and street art to generate captchas for WP comments. URL Absolutifier changes all relative URLs in posts to absolute URL, to make the entries work in feed readers that don’t work with relative URLs. Google AJAX Search Plugin adds Google AJAX Search to your site. Included by default is a Blog Search, Web Search and a secondary site search Add Related Posts to Feed uses UTW or W-a-s-a-b-i Related Posts to add related posts to your feed. PostPost will allow you to insert ads or just about anything else before or after your post in your feed. Pandora Feeds for WordPress help you to place Pandora-feeds freely anywhere in your theme-templates. SPS-Suite enhances your page-list and your archive-list in the sidebar as well as your search function. Video Tags is a translated version of Viper’s Video Quicktags. Mocha provides localisation tools for WordPress, […]

TextMark SMS Alerts TextMark is going to announce a paid service that sends SMS alerts for breaking news from a blog. I simply cannot see people paying upto $9.99 for this service. TechCrunch says that the bloggers get to keep a third of the subscription charges but in this world of RSS and River of News why would …. ? Oh, well. Thats not the crux of this post. I already run a service where users can send ringtones, pictures, applications and text messages to their cell phones from a browser as long as they have access to the Internet on their phones and can receive SMS/text messages. The code is really surprisingly simple and it has been running for years with very little input from me. Over a 20,000 unique cell phones have received files and messages from this service since the beginning of this year alone. The point […]