Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/11

New plugins Beautiful Image Widget allows you to display random image from Beautiful Landscape’s huge high-quality image collection on the sidebar of your blog. WP Overview shows overview and memory usage on your dashboard. Updated plugins Gravatar Signup Encouragement encourages users without a Gravatar to make one. Highlight Search Terms is a lightweight search terms [...]

Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 10/09

Friendly Fast is both fast loading and optimized for our search engine friend Google. Parquetry is a simple 2-column right sidebar WordPress template with a woodgrain background and an eye-catching header graphic. PurpleSatin was designed using stylish purple colors and a slim design. Tweet View full post on WordPress Planet

Weblog Tools Collection: 2010 WordPress Honors Seeking Submissions

The 2010 WordPress Honors launched earlier this week and is currently seeking submissions and votes for your favorite WordPress plugins, themes, sites, and personalities. Final voting will begin once the nominees have been announced in mid November, and the winners will be announced in early January. What’s your take on award ceremonies like this? Will WPHonors [...]

Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress. com Makes it Easy to say Goodbye

The WordPress.com team has now made it even easier to leave your WordPress.com blog for a self-hosted WordPress blog. The new offsite redirect upgrade allows you to easily redirect your blogname.WordPress.com blog and all of its permalinks to your new domain. The previous redirection method was a five-step process that had a tendency to cause [...]

Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 10/05

ClassRoom Blog is a free WordPress theme for Teachers and Educators to use for a class blog. Speed is a magazine style theme for a BuddyPress community powered site, based on a three column fluid layout enabled with custom fonts with a beautiful jQuery powered full width slider. Toolbox is an ultra-minimal set of super-clean, [...]

Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/03

New plugins Admin Menu Tree Page View allows you to get a tree view of all your pages directly in the admin menu. Blue Screen of the Dead is a replacement for your WordPress 404 error page. Facebook Members is a WordPress social plugin that enables Facebook page owners to attract and gain Likes from [...]

Weblog Tools Collection: Deleting WordPress Revisions

WordPress 2.6 introduced a post revisions feature, which automatically saves a draft as you begin to write a post or page and saves a revision for each change made afterwards. That’s right, every time you make even the slightest alteration to a post or page, a new revision is saved. Now don’t get me wrong, [...]

Weblog Tools Collection: IE9 Pinned Site Plugin

Microsoft recently released a public beta of their newest web browser, IE9, that has quickly become very popular.  In its first 48 hours of availability it was  downloaded 2 million times. You know what that means – more users are visiting your WordPress site using IE9 everyday. So why not take advantage of a feature [...]

Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/25

New plugins Bungie.net Tools is a series of shortcodes for adding information from Bungie.net to WordPress sites. Haiku is an exceptionally simple HTML5-based audio player that inserts a text link to control playback. ImageMagick Engine improves the quality of re-sized images by replacing standard GD library with ImageMagick. Ozh’ Tweet Archiver allows you to import [...]

Weblog Tools Collection: Using a Native WordPress Gallery

There are many gallery plugins out there for WordPress, but did you know that WordPress has had its own gallery system since the release of version 2.5 over two years ago? To get started with a native WordPress gallery, you’ll need to create or edit the post or page that you want the gallery to [...]