WP Comment Template Deconstructed: Ever wonder how ColdForged.org does their cool comment templating or how the comment template in WordPress works? This might be the tutorial you are looking for. Check the blog for other parts in this series.

Everyone does know that the plugin competition is underway …. right? Shame on me for not mentioning it here, but the WordPress Plugin and Mod Competition officially started on April 15th and has been gathering steam. Some good plugins have been submitted and plugin authors have been very responsive! There are a couple of requests for plugins on that blog and people have been visiting the wiki to get more information and to add their names to the list. If you are a plugin developer, sign up and sign in on PluginBlog to request plugin ideas, beta test requests or to just announce a plugin. Thank you to everyone that is participating and everyone that is helping. In spite of a good response from developers, we still need more participants and more plugins. There is a lot of money, praise and appreciation to be won! If you know of someone […]

FireFox JS console in sidebar: A quick tutorial to load the Javascript console in Firefox in the sidebar. For javascript developers this console is just the ticket and I can safely say it has saved my hiney a bunch of times. Now I can leave it open all the time if I want!

Name your plugin after yourself. If you have a name for it already, add your name to the beginning or the end. This will make your name stand out, make your plugin more recognizable and it will build your reputation for you. This is a suggestion for all plugin developers participating in the WordPress Plugin Competition and is applicable, in my mind, to almost every other non-mainstream mod/fix/plugin. I understand that every project and/or program cannot be named after the developer. I doubt that a project like Mozilla could ever (or should ever) be named after a single developer. However, consider the following example. Do you know who Steve Minutillo is? A lot of you might know of him already because of FOF, but I would wager that an even larger number of you have never heard of him. A project like “Feed on Feeds” would work perfectly fine as […]

Google ToolBar Beta3 Spellcheck: Topic header says it all. Get your spellchecker now via the Google Toolbar.

Video Blog Upload and Hosting Comparison: Video blogging product comparison and discussion of pros and cons. Good read if you have been thinking about videoblogging.

Instructions to build a WP Photoblog: Step by step instructions on what this innovative WordPress user did to build their own “Cam Diary” and it sounds much like Pictorialis I. This is exactly why I believe in documentation and good readme’s. I hope a few other people can use this experience.