Archive for January, 2008

WordPressGarage is being scraped! I want to stop them…now!

| January 10, 2008 | 29 Comments

This very blog, WordPressGarage.com, is being scraped by an annoying, lazy SOB who is republishing posts from a range of blogs writing about WordPress and making money off of stupid ads on their site. How dare they expect they can make money off of my hard work without contributing any value. Do ... View Post

Manually order your Pages with My Page Order WordPress plugin

| January 10, 2008 | 4 Comments

Recently I wrote about a WordPress plugin that allows you to exclude certain pages from appearing in your list of Pages without coding your template files. The My Page Order WordPress plugin gives you additional Page flexibility by allowing you to manually order your Pages without coding. Update Feb. ... View Post

Smashing Magazine comes through again with 100 WordPress themes

| January 9, 2008 | 0 Comments

Smashing Magazine has an amazing gallery of 100 excellent free WordPress themes. The themes listed really are excellent. 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes from Smashing Magazine View Post

Interview with Yedda’s head of Community Marketing about new Feedflare modules for bloggers

| January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments

Yedda is an Israeli start up with a web-based questions and answer service that is generally agreed to rival that of Yahoo Answers. Yedda's technology powers many independent Q&A services as well, including ePals and TheJobNetwork (via ... View Post

New WordPress contact form plugin from Perishable Press

| January 9, 2008 | 4 Comments

Perishable Press has released a new contact form WordPress plugin called Contact Coldform. The main selling point behind this plugin seems to be its "sqeaky clean" PHP, and the fact that it's standards compliant. Here are the features that I think are the most significant and unique:

Customizable anti-spam challenge question to

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WordPress sucks, WordPress sucks not. Which one is it?

| January 9, 2008 | 3 Comments

Mark from 45n5.com has posted a short and pointed video about WordPress, and how it sucks. The video is aptly titled "WordPress sucks," and here it is for your viewing pleasure: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0BTz-hTvOg[/youtube] David Peralty has responded with his own video on BloggingPro arguing that ... View Post

Exclude categories from certain pages with WordPress plugins

Miriam Schwab | January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments

There are many situations where you want to make sure that certain categories only appear on some pages, and not on others. Here are a few WordPress plugins that can help you do this without having to hack your template files: Front Page Excluded Categories WordPress plugin - this plugin ... View Post

Get rid of bandwidth image theft once and for all

| January 8, 2008 | 0 Comments

Herself Webtools gives us the recipe for a .htaccess file that prevents hotlinking images on your site. Get rid of bandwidth image theft once and for all View Post

Offset your blog’s emissions with CO2Stats WordPress plugin

| January 8, 2008 | 0 Comments

It seems like this WordPress plugin is not a joke, although it took me a while to figure that out. CO2Stats claims it will detect how much electricity is being used to power your site, and "offset" the emissions by investing in renewable energy projects. Who pays for these investments?

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Make IE7 standards compliant with javascript tool

| January 8, 2008 | 2 Comments

Wired.com reports on a javascript tool that "makes Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser and, perhaps most notable for the designers among us, the scripts add transparent PNG support for both IE5 and IE6. " In order to get it to work, ... View Post