Amit Agarwal informs us that FeedBurner has upgraded the FeedSmith plugin for WordPress to plug a potential security vulenrability, which means that it is an required update. The upgrade is really simple. Even if you are using the older version, just disable it, delete the older file, upload the new one, enable it and you are good to go. [Continue]
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ifacethoughtsWorpress.com Stats Plugin
Automattic has released the blog statistics tools available for Wordpress.com blogs as a plugin. Andy Skelton fills in with the behind-the-scenes workings and provides good answers. The plugin is JavaScript based, using an image that does counts the hits. [Continue]
Redirecting To Feedburner
I have started using Steve Smith’s Feedburner Plugin to ensure that all subscribers get the same experience. It redirects the Wordpress feed subscriber for posts and comments of this blog to the Feedburner feed for posts and comments both. It will also help me implement at least one of the suggestions for reducing the bandwidth usage. [Continue]
Now Supporting OpenID For Comments
This blog now supports OpenID for comments. I got a favorable response and that was enough for me to use it here. I am using the wpopenid fork created by Will Norris. [Continue]
Readability Test
This is about content readability which finds its way in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Douglas Karr mentions the readability test at Juicy Studios. This readability test is based on the Flesch and Flesch-Kincaid Methods and the Gunning Fog Test. [Continue]
Wordpress Widgetizer
I had been meaning to build a widgetizer - something that could widgetize any plugin for Wordpress. But Erik Rasmussen has beaten me to it (via Blogging Pro). It might look like just another text widget, but it executes the PHP code typed within it. [Continue]
Problems With Widgets In Wordpress
I had not thought a lot about the impact of widgets in Wordpress until I started developing this theme. The Advantage Well, let me first put down the advantage of widgets, as I see them. Wordpress provides a neat drag and drop interface to include and adjust widgets in the sidebars. [Continue]
An Update On Moving, From Beta To Gamma
Since I have moved I have been gathering all the nuts and bolts to construct this blog. It was fun earlier to try out all the plugins and develop my own theme, but it started eating up my time in which I could have actually written. I will not fiddle with the blog setup any more. [Continue]
Random Quote Widget For Wordpress
WP-Quotes is a simple yet elegant Wordpress plugin for displaying quotes, including random quotes. Random Quote Widget is a Wordpress widget built on this plugin to comply with the new widget framework provided by Wordpress. The widget lets you customize its title and spews out a friendly error message if the WP-Quotes plugin is not installed or activated. [Continue]
Interesting Plugins For Wordpress
I have come across some interesting plugins for Wordpress, which are not always for core functionality or high priority, but they provide value in the niche areas. Word Statistics Plugin The primary purpose of this plugin is to show readability statistics about the post currently being edited. It does this by modifying the post editing screen to show a brief line of statistics beneath the quicktags bar. [Continue]
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