WP Plugin: Dschini Bot Checker detects the search engine bots that visit your site and gives information like the pages visited, the most active bots and most tracked pages.

WP Plugin: No HTTP: Author Plugin is a tiny plugin that detects if the Username in a comment contains HTTP: and if so it sets the “spam” flag on the comment for further processing by spam plugins. I’m not sure if this is neededbut, if you’re being bogged down by this kind of spam and Akismet or SK2 is not detecting it, then it’s worth giving this plugin a shot.

WordPress 2.0.6 has been released. The release includes critical security fixes and it is highly advisable that you upgrade to his version. Besides this, other updates to 2.0.6 include: HTML quicktags now work in Safari browsers. Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog layout. Compatibility with PHP/FastCGI setups. New anti-XSS function called attribute_escape(), and a new filter called “query” which allows you filter any SQL at runtime. Download the latest version of WordPress »

Thanks to all of you that have liked the new design. It has really helped page views and lots of people are finding tools that used to get ignored. All of those are good things. However, the new theme might have caused certain problems as well. I have heard complaints in two general areas: This blog is broken on Internet Explorer 6.x . Not sure if and how I can fix it since I do not have access to a machine with IE 6 and IE 6 is on its way out. I have received screenshots from a couple of helpful readers, but they only go so far to help. Any ideas or suggestions on fixes would be greatly appreciated. Google seems to have lost most of its interest in WeblogToolsCollection. My Google traffic has dropped down to a single referral yesterday. I checked the Google cache to make sure […]

WP Plugin: ClassyBody Add a class to the body tag of your WordPress blog depending on various parameters such as single page, page, post, category etc. In other words, it gives you the power to control the look and feel of your blog using CSS but dependent on the condition of your blog that your visitor is viewing. You could make your single pages look different or a single post have a festive theme with modification of the CSS.

Fake Pages with Plugins is a detailed tutorial with sample code on creating a plugin that creates a fake page. The page won’t exist in the database but when a user visits the page url, it will be detected and displayed.

WP Plugin: Fotobook lets you “Import” your public photos at Facebook. Extremely useful if you have all your photos hosted at Facebook and would like to display the same in your WordPress blog, without having to upload them again.

WP Plugin: unAPI Server unAPI is “a tiny HTTP API for the few basic operations necessary to copy discrete, identified content from any kind of web application.” Use this plugin to implement the final version of the unAPI specs. The specification makes use of LINK tag auto-discovery and an unendorsed microformat for machine-readable metadata records.