WP hack: elegant cat visibility V 0.1: This plugin uses advanced filters to exclude post categories from your blog pages and the WordPress options system to keep track (so it doesn’t add an insane amount of queries).

Google and Craigslist Mashup: Talk about cool code. If you have not seen this before and are into programming or business, this is definitely worth a clickthrough. Programmers never cease to amaze me, ever! Paul Rademacher has taken Google maps to a whole new level. Use the above link to look for property for sale and rent in the major cities from Craigslist. I don’t know for sure if Paul realizes the potential of his development but I know of quite a few local and national realtors who would be chomping at the bit to be able to use this technology to show off their listed properties. Think of the possibilities. Imagine combining the power of the relatively open MLS database with the combination of Google map overlays with nice thumbnails of each property accessible through the map and you have a realty powerhouse that can and will draw millions […]

WordPress Press It! Bookmarklet for Opera: I use this all the time in Firefox. If you are an Opera user and would like to use the bookmarklet on your blog (and the original does not work on your Opera install), this is your chance to get it.

Spammers Getting Braver: I guess that is up for discussion, but Jay Allen was recently made part of a forged email scam. Interesting news.

Import from blogware to WordPress Some good suggestions to import Blogware XML files into WordPress.

WP Plugin: lr2ImageSnag: checks to see if the first line of your post is an url to an image. If it is, the image is fetched using curl, resized using ImageMagick, and the url is replaced with an image tag.

If you are looking for a cool plugin to write, I believe that it would be really useful to be able to message inside the WordPress admin pages. I have multiple authors and I would like to leave them messages which they would see when they log in and be able to leave comments/critiques on drafts and even as a QOTD or an MOTD for all users of the blog. This idea could be further expanded to share messages within a certain peer group of blogs. If you have my PeerID, you could receive and read internal messages from my blog that were added to your username on my blog. This should be relatively easy to do if login names remain the same across blogs. I imagine that I would log onto my dashboard to see all the messages/comments that people have left for my login on all the blogs […]

WP Theme: Sculpt: A pretty light gray (?) gray theme. Download and Preview available.