Feet up, eyes closed, head back

soderlind.no / WP-DenyHost
This is a plugin that will block a spammer if he already has been tagged as a spammer. I use it together with the Akismet plugin. Akismet tags the spammer, and wp-denyhost prevents him from adding more comment spam.

The Ultimate WordPress CMS Plugin - Fresh Post // Freshout : Philadelphia Interactive Web Development Agency - “Here are some of the new features”:

- Custom Write Pages
- Snipshot Integration and Native Cropper
- Image Thumbnail Preview
- Date Picker
- Audio Player
- CSS Class for Images
- Add Custom Write Panels for Pages
- Large File Uploads and Retrievals
- Lots of Confusing UI/Process Clean-up
- Lots more in the works… it’ll be a nice surprise

Also of interest: Role Manager 2.2.1 released

Answers to Questions about Version 2.5 « Weblogtoolscollection News by Michael H - “These questions and answers were gleaned from the wp-hackers and wp-testers e-mail lists over that last several weeks.”

If you’re of a mind to get involved, there’s Michael’s wiki version “FAQ” on Codex.

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In the mood for some dense geekish goodness? Check out Andy Skelton’s “Cache with Versioned Tags“. (”Just another WP hacker” … yaaaa right! *grin*)

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p.s. my begging bowl is out: GroundPlane.wordpress.com

• 5 things we love about WordPress 2.5 | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone (This reads like it was knocked off by someone who was wey wey rushed … I think that’s kinda rude.)
• Matt’s 2.5 write-up at .org/development/ - (233 pingbacks already; 4PM MDT 31MAR0 1,422 “blog reactions” listed at technorati

-more to come-

Software: TDO Tag Fixes WordPress Plugin - “Some fixes and extensions for WordPress tags such as a tag cloud using only tags found in a specific category and also tag and category intersection.”

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Ward references Ryan Boren’s “Taxonomy Intersections and Unions“.
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I gotta tell you, on the subject of corporate culture, there is something that really really really pisses me off about that sort of document. (Who am I to talk, you ask? I’ve been working on technical documents since 1972. And I’ll say there’s only a very slight probability that you have any clue what “heavy lifting” is really all about. MIL-SPEC FMECA, NORAD/SAC comms, TELCO … mind-bendingly difficult, and all of it has to be written squeaky clean.) I don’t want to be insulting, but there’s a way of writing something in 15 minutes that leaves 90% of the readers in the dark … “hermetic” … and it could be clarified with another 30 minutes spent on clarification.

A reference document stands and works for weeks and months. “Too busy” to do it right in 45 minutes? Snotty crap … plausibly-deniable passive aggression. Take your “too busy” and shove it you.know.where.
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Amazon S3 plugin for WordPress : tan tan noodles :

“This WordPress plugin allows you to use Amazon’s Simple Storage Service to host your media for your WordPress powered blog.

Amazon S3 is a cheap and cost effective way to scale your site to easily handle large spikes in traffic (such as from Digg) without having to go through the expense of setting up the infrastructure for a content delivery network. Startup companies are embracing it for their online storage solution, and even bloggers are starting to use it to host their images and other static media (such as mp3 files for their podcasts).”

Now, really, is that impressive or what?!

Nerdaphernalia » Override single WordPress pages with .htaccess -

“With this modification to the basic WordPress .htaccess rewrite, you can now put a hard-coded file in a particular place in the hierarchy.
How Does it Work?

For an example, let’s look at this page in a typical WordPress site …”

A real nice walk-through.

Dashboard Widget Manager at WordPress Plugins by Viper007Bond:

“WordPress 2.5 introduces a widgetized dashboard, but unfortunately no manager for it to rearrange and remove widgets. This plugin fills that need by creating a new admin page very similiar to the new sidebar widget manager.

I was just spidering “plugins” to find what’s what with threading comments … honest, that’s all I was intent on!
But I found myself with a whole flock of tabs … so here’s the bufferdump (as it stand this moment … I’ll prolly update this in the next few hours).

• WordPress Plugins and Tutorials | Developer Toolbox
• from HackWordPress.com: Best WordPress Plugins (big list, sorted by function) and Collection of WordPress Hacks; also Feature Posts with the WP-Sticky WordPress Plugin
• from HeadSetOptions.org: Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme - Part 1 “The Loop” (11JAN0 and Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme - Part 2: DOMTab, Tabber, more (19JAN08); see SlickMania.com as example of sidebar tabs
• from DarrenHoyt.com: Creating Two-Tiered Conditional Navigation in WordPress - “Here is a common navigational scheme, with parent pages on top and child pages (if they exist) on bottom”

Noupe.com has really blown my socks off:

Most Popular Posts

• 101 CSS Techniques Of All Time- Part 1
• The 7 CSS Hacks that we should use
• 101 CSS Techniques Of All Time- Part2
• 13 Awesome Javascript CSS Menus
• 47+ Excellent Ajax CSS Forms
• 37+ Great Ajax, CSS Tab-Based Interfaces
• 70+ Visually Impressing Header Graphics
• 7 Advanced CSS Menu, A Great Roundup!!
• Best of Ajax, Dhtml and Javascript- part1

Also from Noupe.com:

50+ Amazing Jquery Examples- Part1 Posted in: jquery (20DEC07) and 45+ Fresh Out of the oven jQuery Plugins (05MAR0

Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques - part 1 of 4 part “Guide to Master”

Multi-plugin Plugin - “a very simple script that allows you to add small bits of PHP scripts, such as WordPress filters, without having to make a plugin for them.”

To the WP-Hackers mail-list Aaron Harun wrote, “Just drop that in a new plugin file. I also have a very dangerous plugin that allows you to eval snippets and add functions for little things like this. The “plugin” is officially unsupported and may eat kittens.”

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see also from anthologyoi.com: AJAXed WordPress (AWP) - “formerly know as INAP, is an extremely powerful AJAX plugin that harnesses the power of AJAX and WordPress to improve the user experience, the administration capabilities and the design potential of any WordPress based blog.”