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I’d been looking for a better way to manage and display photos on my blogs when I ran across Alex Rabe’s fantastic NextGEN Gallery plugin. It provides a comprehensive interface for managing photos and images through a set of admin pages, and it displays photos in a way that makes your web site look very [...]
Dougal Campbell upgraded his Easy Gravatars plugin to include some of the features I added to my version. He didn’t include a couple features I added, however, so I’m finally getting around to merging his changes into mine. His version added:
Display image as a link to the comment author’s web site.
Allow the image to be [...]
The Weblog Tools Collection blog written by Jim Stitzel brings interesting themes and plugins to the attention of WordPress bloggers through the WordPress Dashboard. A plugin that he blogged about recently was the Your YouTube Favorites by Ozh. It provides functions and a widget for displaying your favorite YouTube videos on your sidebar.
Overall Grade: A-
Plugin [...]
I’ve been accumulating files that I’ve been making available for download from my site. Initially I simply created a page and added a link each time I added a file, but this became rather cumbersome very quickly. Add to that it was difficult to add a reference to the download in all the places I [...]
I’m in the process of working on improved widgets for the sidebar. The main theme I’ve been working on for a while now (FallSeason by Sadish Bala) has a nice sidebar section for feeds that displays an RSS icon next to the link for the two main feeds, and the Meta widget doesn’t display these. [...]
I know that Stephen Rider is coming out with an update soon, but I needed another feature that I felt was useful enough to release publicly. I was using the Exec-PHP plugin to embed a call to the print_virtual_sites_list() function in a post on my root site (http://DPotter.net/), like this:
<ul><?php print_virtual_sites_list(); ?></ul>
This worked great, displaying [...]
I’ve noticed on some blogs that when the author of the post comments on the post (e.g. in reply to another comment) that those comments stand out from the rest of the comments. I really like this feature and would like to have this on all my themes. What would be ideal is if I [...]
Dougal Campbell provided a much nicer implementation for adding gravatars to your comments called Easy Gravatars. This solution doesn’t even require you to modify your theme files. Very cool!
I made a few improvements to his solution:
Improved admin page layout, including more verbose descriptions of each of the options.
Added Reset button to the admin page to [...]
I finally decided to spend a little bit of time to integrate Gravatar support into my blogs. Admittedly I was spurred on by Matt’s posting which showed up on the WordPress dashboard. I like the idea of seeing pictures of the folks commenting on my blog.
Matt’s Solution
Matt’s solution is to hard-code the Gravatar support right [...]
I find that I reference other posts on my blog all the time. I always found it to be such a hassle because of URI information that had to be entered. Then, since I use permalinks with the name of the post in the URI, I am always in danger of breaking myself if I [...]
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