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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

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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Exclude categories from certain pages with WordPress plugins

| 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

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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Page Link Manager WordPress plugin: exclude Pages without coding

| January 8, 2008 | 2 Comments
The Page Link Manager WordPress plugin creates a place in your admin where you can select which Pages will appear in your list of pages, and which will be excluded. This means that your clients can easily do this themselves, and it saves you a bit of trouble too.... View Post

Unique and useful WordPress Plugins at Urban Giraffe

| December 31, 2007 | 0 Comments
Urban Giraffe has a list of amazing plugins that the guy behind the site, John Godley, developed. Many of these plugins are really unique, and I haven't seen anything like them anywhere else. Here are the ones that I find most interesting, and I hope to try out soon: ... View Post

Make your WordPress comments more user friendly with a mini TinyMCE editor

| December 30, 2007 | 16 Comments
WordPress comment boxes tend to be dry, text editors. That's kind of ok for people who know HTML, but even I get frustrated when I want to add a link in someone else's comment box. Here's a really easy and pretty solution: Advanced TinyMCE Editor. This editor add a simple yet useful toolbar ... View Post

Let it Snow WordPress plugin for self-hosted WordPress blogs

| December 25, 2007 | 0 Comments
Not to be outdone by WordPress.com's announcement that users can add falling snow to their blogs until January 2 in honor of the holidays, widgeo.us has "whipped up" a falling snow plugin (who whips up a plugin?) for self-hosted users of ... View Post

Hello Dolly WordPress plugin with a new and darker twist

| December 24, 2007 | 7 Comments
We all know (and love or hate) the Hello Dolly plugin that comes bundled with every WordPress installation. In case you aren't familiar with Hello Dolly, it places snippets of lyrics from the songs in the Hello Dolly movie in the corner of your admin. While ... View Post

Importing RSS feeds as posts in WordPress, and managing your twitter, facebook, tumblr and WordPress lives in one fell swoop

| December 17, 2007 | 8 Comments
I am constantly finding links that I think are not worth a whole post, but I would like to mention here anyways. So I wanted to find a quick and easy way to display short links that would become part of the blog stream, without causing clutter. I also wanted to do this in a ... View Post
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