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I had previosly made a comment that the competition would end at the end of May, and I was off by a couple of weeks. I would like to clarify my dates. The WordPress Plugin and Mod Competition will end on the 15th of June, exactly two months after it started. All entries will have to be posted by then and I will provide instructions for submission very soon. A question was raised about the “mods” part of the competition and what the limitations were. As long as your “mod” has used WordPress as the core, it is eligible to be entered into the competition. If anything is unclear about the competition or I have messed up on something (like the dates) please leave me a comment and I will respond as soon as I can.

I didn’t realize that the thirteen listed were the entries. (plus scores of “Developers wanted” and many more plugins already listed) We need to advertise this contest more. (please, please, please, help me get the word out) Come on, if you are holding back on your plugin entry – stop holding back. This is a great way of giving back to the WordPress Community. Sure wish I had the time and stuffing to do a plugin, but cheers on all who are participating!!! GO GO GO GO GO GO! –Lorelle I’ve found some really terrific plugins through the competition. I am now looking into being able to donate toward the prizes 😉 ….just donated 🙂 – Jenn Miller

I am testing out the Agkamai.com Cat2Tag plugin. I have the need for some more folksonomy for WordPress and might whip something up this weekend. Till then, how well does this work?

WP Theme: Identification bands Very interesting two, three and four column themes for WordPress 1.5 Definitely worth a good look. I personally really like the four column newspaper like look.

Judging the response from community well wishers, I feel very strongly about the competition and I think I would like to hold this bi-annually. Give developers a good chunk of six months to write their code and then reward their outstanding work with recognition and some prizes. If we decide to follow that schedule, we could start a new competition at the end of this one (say in June) and let it carry over till the end of the year. The pluginblog and pluginwiki could become permanent as a place for plugin developers to get instant recognition by a very interested audience and it could also become the launching pad for sponsors and clients looking to advertise with this audience. Prizes for the competition would be the only weakness of this plan. In that respect I would like to invite ideas and offers from the community. The other weakness of […]

Twilight: Fade Anything is an implementation of the popular, pretty, and generally kick-ass Fade Anything Technique (FAT) for WordPress, basically it allows you to implement this effect simply without editing templates, always useful for anyone who doesn’t want to have to change all the code when they change their look. Twilight: Fade Anything also adds a pulse effect in addition to the default fade. Implementation is as simple as making sure the element has an id and a class of fade or pulse. A demo is available on the plugin’s homepage. Hopefully more plugins will start using this useful technique to draw a users attention to something. It is already implemented in Twilight: AutoSave.

Oberkampf – Flickr Gallery: Create a complete and highly customized gallery using photographs and thumbnails from Flickr with your own php code and simple functions from Oberkampf. Some of the examples look delicious! Thanks Carthik