Embedded Video with Link is made for easily embedding videos from YouTube, Google Video and many many others into a blog post. Link Optimiser queries search engine with your post title, for top ranked urls and place them underneath your post content. This ensures that your post has relevant external links in it. Custom Comment Text allows the customization of comment text (e.g. “5 Comments”) generated by Template Tag comments_popup_link(). The customization is set per Post basis; the Posts whose comment text are not customized will use default comment text output by that Template Tag. WordPress creates a .htaccess file on your web site which can disable WebDAV publishing in some setups. WebDAV Publish Enabler updates the Permalink RewriteRules each time they are generated allowing WordPress to play happy with WebDAV. Shortcut Macros auto-expand shortcuts you create to the longer text you have specified for the shortcut. Download and details.

HAL is a three column fluid layout, widget ready with a custom header and support for Sweet titles and IBox. Bluish Cloud is a 2 column wordpress theme design, with the appearance of a blue sky by WP Theme Gallery. Small Potato has released See You At The Beach and Total Liquidation GlossyBlue is a theme with high-tech glossy Mac style with Web 2 Mini icons. Intra Blog is a two column theme based on a template from Template World. TheTapestry.org has released three themes viz. New Wave, Trust in the Lord and Harvest is Ready.

Filosofo Filosofo JavaScript Extract reveals blockquote sources by making a link from the cite attribute, and it turns image alt or title attributes into visible captions. Filosofo Home-Page Control allows you to put pages on the same Permalink level (or higher) as the blog’s directory and set which page you want to be the “home” page. Filosofo Comments Preview is a WordPress plugin that lets you preview comments on your blog before you submit them. Free Multiplayer Games lets you add all the existing Multiplayer Games from Dimensione X on your own web site. Guestbook Generator has been updated for WordPress 2.1. It generates a guestbook for WordPress blogs. Thumbnail Viewer implements CSS and Javascript from the Image Thumbnail Viewer from Dynamic Drive. Bible Verse of the Day fetches the daily verse from Good New Publishers (The English Standard Version) or BibleGateway (NIV, KJV, etc.). WordPress Todo List lets blog […]

The Blogging Essay Competition ended on January 14th but I have been giving the latest few entries some time to catch up in the number of votes. People were still voting on the entries till about a week ago when interest dropped. If you have not read through the entries or voted, I am sure the authors would appreciate your encouragement. I will tally the results at the end of this week and post the winners on Sunday. If I have not said so already, thank you for your participation. [EDIT] Since there is some confusion, we are not extending the competition, but extending the judging time to get all the entries similar exposure to reader reviews.

Yet another threaded Comments lets users to reply to comments on your post. Comments can selected from a dropdown box. Another Title optimizes your single post titles, removing any redundant stuff like ‘Blog Archive’. Flickr Widget is a wrapper round the badge functionality of Flickr Full Text Feed prevents WordPress 2.1+ from adding a more link to your website’s feed. Latest Comments With Avatars Reloaded show the commenter’s MyBlogLog Avatar rather than their name in the latest comments list. Sjeiti Librarything will cache the javascript from Librarything which contains the references to the last 200 books from your collection at Amazon. IM Online is a neat little WordPress Widget to show your current online status on your blog. The plugin is powered via onlinestatus.org and supports most IM services including AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber (inc. Google Talk), Skype and ICQ.

Primitivo is a three column WordPress theme in a black and green color scheme. Preview. Empowered is a two column blue schemed theme with inbuilt support for Google Adsense and Ultimate Tag Warrior. Preview Internet Center is the WordPress port of the theme at Solucija. Sunset Birds is a two column theme with a light gray and blue scheme. Preview. Ocean Life is a 2-column,widget-ready,fixed width theme that is based on a design by Free CSS Templates. Preview. 3 Column Cutline is a three column version of Cutline, modified by GPS Gazette. Preview.

This blog is now running WordPress 2.1 Ella and I am impressed. This server was running a much older version of MySql and since Ella requires MySql 4.1 support, I could not upgrade right away. I was somewhat apprehensive of upgrading MySql on Plesk and wanted to put aside some time for the upgrade in case things went south. This morning, I upgraded MySql, this blog, all the plugins and performed some much needed tweaking and maintenance. For those that are on Plesk servers and would like some instructions on how to upgrade MySql safely, this post should help. The upgrade was simple, the instructions made sense and were complete, and the upgrade itself went without a hitch. After the upgrade, I tweaked the query cache (sorely missed in MySql 3), upped the key buffer and the thread cache sizes and optimized all the tables. I am satisfied with the […]

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