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Category: Plugins

Automatic thumbnail image resizing options

Miriam Schwab | June 1, 2008 | 10 Comments

I manage a few blogs that use thumbnail images to spruce up the appearance of the site, and make it more enjoyable for readers. As we've discussed here in the past, an efficient method for adding thumbnails to your ... View Post

Audio Player WordPress plugin automatically adds audio player to posts

Miriam Schwab | February 25, 2008 | 16 Comments

Amazingly, I have never had to deal with podcast or audio files before in a WordPress blog or site. But a recent client needed a way to easily and attractively add mp3 files to her posts. At first I tried the Podcasting plugin, but I didn't have much luck. ... View Post

Use WP-Sticky WordPress plugin to easily create feature or “sticky” posts

Miriam Schwab | February 19, 2008 | 10 Comments

The WP-Sticky WordPress plugin allows you to easily choose to "stick" certain posts at the top of your blog. This can also be done via code, as I explained in a post a few months ago where I ... View Post

Easily add unwidgetized WordPress plugins to widgetized sidebar with Custom Function Widgets plugin

| February 8, 2008 | 2 Comments

One of the reasons I hesitated to use widgets is because there are many useful plugins that aren't widgets and demand that you add a snippet of code to your sidebar, something you can't really do with widgets. Well, now you can widgetize your sidebar and add both widgets and non-widget plugins to it with ... View Post

Now you can add a favicon to your WordPress admin with a plugin

| January 18, 2008 | 2 Comments

About two weeks ago, I wrote about a tip I came across at Simply Basic about how to add a favicon to your WordPress admin by adding a snippet of code to wp-admin/admin-header.php. As you probably have noticed, the WordPress admin ... View Post

WordPress plugin for better admin from iPhone (and other mobile devices)

| January 15, 2008 | 0 Comments

Here is a WordPress admin plugin for better access to the admin in mobile phones, in particular the iPhone. Here is the plugin description:

Mobile Admin adapts the WordPress admin UI to be more friendly to mobile devices, specifically phones. The iPhone is the primary target (and only supported device)

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Apply different themes to different categories with WordPress Themed Categories Plugin

| January 11, 2008 | 15 Comments

I've never come across a situation where I would need this feature, but I'd like to have this on record in case it ever comes up. Mike has developed a WordPress plugin, Themed Categories that allows the user to select different uploaded themes for different categories. According to the ... View Post