Lester Chan has come up with a detailed Users Online with statistics for WordPress. This is an extension of my “Online Users” idea. Check out the implementation here: http://www.lesterchan.net/blogs/wp-online.php Download more information here: http://www.lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/wp-useronline.zip

Rss Readers Roundup: Via Carthik, this is a wonderful RSS readers’ resource. Mucho comprehensive!

Listing templates for editing in WordPress

Import BookMarks will help you import your browser bookmarks into your wordpress weblog’s link manager. Please read that article for details.

When I wrote WPBlacklist 1.2, I was aware of one problem – the fact that if you had URL with a folder path, the blacklist plugin threw up a whole bunch of errors because the URL screwed up the regular experssion matching. I did a temporary fix for that in the initial version because I couldn’t think of a way to fix this for all such instances. The fix involved modifying any known URL in the blacklist which could cause this problem. Unfortunately, a new URL was added to the blacklist a couple of days ago which causes this problem and I realized that I should come up with a permanent fix which would handle all such URLs in the future. After some tinkering and lots of testing, I’ve finally got WPBlacklist 1.21. This release has only one change – the addition of code to create a regex safe URL […]

This plugin adds a “Delete comments as spam” button to the mass editing of comments page. When used to delete unwanted comments, the email address, url, and IP address of that comment will be added to your spam words list. Future comments matching any of those items will automatically be moderated. You can download the .zip file or view the source. Leave any bug reports as comments to this post.

If you’d like to beta test this plugin, leave a comment on this thread, including your email address (never shown to the public) and I’ll send you the .zip file. The install is easy, add a line to wp-comments.php upload 4 files, run the installer, and you’re done. The interface is a popup window that asks to add the email address entered in the comment form to the mailing list. It check if the address is already subscribed to the post, and if the address is on a site-wide banned list. If not they’re subscribed and will receive a mail everytime a comment is added to the post. A word about the banned list. If someone is subscribing email address other than their own, this is a way for them to stop your site from sending any email to that address. I doesn’t stop the abuse, but gives the victim […]

Using WordPress to Power Your Non-Blog Website: Another tutorial to power your non-blog with a blogging tool (?!?!).