Plugins: Comment License

Comment licencing is likely to become a growing issue as ‘user generated content’ becomes more and more important to all media, but in particular blog. I was pleased as the proverbial punch when reading Techquila Shots to find one of my comments on TechCrunch (yes, it was about twitter) being linked directly.
A timely reminder for […]

Popularity: 5% [?]

Finding WordPress Plugins

One great way to find WordPress Plugins is when you aren’t even looking for them. You see something being done well on a blog, you check to see if it’s running WP, then you have a peek at the source to check for any plugin credits. Sometimes they are there, sometimes not. When not I […]

Popularity: 8% [?]

Plugins: Category Icons made Easy

Sometimes it’s the smallest touches that lift a design and hammer home a feel of quality and attention to detail. A few well placed and well designed icons can make all the difference.
I noticed the icons on this site: theinterchangedesk.com

I asked the author what plugin he was using to run the icons. He wasn’t using […]

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Plugins: Twitter sidebar up

In some ways this is a test to see if the Twitter toolbar from Alex King works, and in some ways a flag to readers that it’s live. Either way - twittering commences! What fun.
If you haven’t looked at this plugin before, this plugin provides a two way connection between your Wordpress and Twitter accounts. […]

Popularity: 10% [?]

Cache defence

One of the criticisms WordPress is often on the receiving end of is that it performs poorly under load. By load we mean a Digging. And it’s true - most WordPress sites will collapse pretty quickly under pressure of a lot of concurrent traffic.
I think 90% of the problem is in the repeat visits to […]

Popularity: 6% [?]

Wordpress plugin template

The best way to learn is often to simply take a starting point and play. For me it’s always a finished item I respect, which I pull to pieces, replace the pieces, and then build up again. But for many a bare template is the prefered starting point.
Despite having a ’so hideous it’s somehow cool’ […]

Popularity: 8% [?]

No more passwords - hurrah

A number of projects are active at the moment to free us from the dreaded password. Only the most geeky of us have a genuinely unique password for every service we use, and even then if someone gets into our email I’m sure most services will be at risk. I often sign up for a […]

Popularity: 3% [?]

Twittering sidebar plugin

Twitter is getting mountains of coverage at the moment. Twitt-Twoo 1.0 plugin for Wordpress is a plugin which displays your twitter status in the sidebar of your blog, and lets you update it in the sidebar too.
A few examples to see this in action: look for “Mi estado en Twitter” on the right of this […]

Popularity: 3% [?]

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