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Archive for February, 2007

Four Blank WordPress Themes

| February 25, 2007 | 1 Comment
So you want to create a WordPress theme from scratch. But most blogs or sites have a similar layout - a main column for the content, and a sidebar on the right or left side for blog-related links like categories, pages, archives, etc. So why not start with a template that at least takes ... View Post

An Ajax variation on WordPress excerpts

| February 25, 2007 | 0 Comments
The default WordPress excerpt allows you to display a short text from your posts that is easier taken from the post itself, or from the excerpt that you enter in the Write Posts page. At the end of the excerpt, there is a link that takes the reader to the complete version of the ... View Post

I don’t like AdSense

| February 25, 2007 | 1 Comment
As both a publisher and a reader of blogs, I don't like AdSense. As a reader, I find that the ads look too much like the content and I have to scan pages until I find what I really want to read, and what I really want to ignore (the AdSense!). People trying to ... View Post

16 AdSense Optimized WordPress Themes

| February 25, 2007 | 0 Comments
Dosh Dosh says that if you want to make any significant amount of money from ads on your site, the ads needs to be placed properly. This post has a collection of 16 themes that are optimized for AdSense so that you can make easily make sure that your ads are ... View Post

The Excerpt Reloaded

| February 24, 2007 | 11 Comments
Update June 6, 2007: There is a problem with closing HTML tags in Kaf's Excerpt Reloaded Plugin. This means that if you define <ul> as one of the HTML tags you want to preserve in your excerpts, you may end up with a page of excerpts that is one big list, since the closing ... View Post

Just One Category

| February 24, 2007 | 0 Comments
This plugin will cause WordPress to display on a category archive page only those posts which are direct members of that category, i.e. this plugin will exclude from that category page all posts which belong to any of that category’s subcategories but do not belong to the category itself.
The writer of this plugin says ... View Post

Upload+ to automatically change uploaded file names

| February 23, 2007 | 3 Comments
Update June 7, 2007: Pixline has released a new version of the Upload+ plugin. Their changelog says that they added more options. You can also now download the plugin from the WordPress.org plugin page. If you are building a site for clients based on WordPress, you want to make ... View Post

CoolPlayer 9 for WordPress

| February 23, 2007 | 0 Comments
This media player plays everything:
This version supports those types of files: rm, rmvb, ra, rv, ram, smil, smi, rtsp, rpm, asf, wm, wma, wmv, wax, wvx, ogg, ape, avi, mid, midi, wav, mms, m3u, asx, mov, qt, mqv, m4v, m4a, m4b, mpeg, mpg, m1s, m1v, m1a, m75, m15, mp2, mpm, mpv, mpa, flc, fli,
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Random posts generator

| February 23, 2007 | 0 Comments
As bloggers we try to provide fresh content on a frequent basis. But this means that our older content disappears deep into the archives, rarely to be heard from again. This Random Posts plugin displays random posts from your blog. This is a good way to get value from all your past hard work.... View Post

LinkedInABox

| February 22, 2007 | 0 Comments
LinkedInABox™ is a simple widget that can be embedded on any web page and provides a summary of your personal profile, as presented in your LinkedIn account. LinkedInABox>> View Post
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