- Plugin: Customise Your Wordpress Dashboard’s RSS| 1 Comment
Ever looked at the default Wordpress dashboard RSS and wished you could put something else there? Well, thanks to Brian Gilham’s plugin “Own the Feed” you can. Originally designed to allow users to display the 9rules feeds on their dashboard, the plugin has been taken one step further to completely customise your dashboard.
- Two Column Modular Theme| Comments Off
Spiffy is a two column, blue and green theme with a difference. Not only does it support widgets, but has support for skins and has promised some new skins to come soon. This theme is completely ideal for new bloggers who don’t know about themes but still want to have a chance at rearranging and [...]
- Kevin Rose Started Digg From Elance?| 1 Comment
Can someone actually go to Elance, hire a programmer, and make a couple of million bucks?
Yes they can, according to Elance. Here’s the quote on their site:
“In 2003, Kevin had a big idea. He came to Elance to post a project and look for a PHP programmer, selected Owen Byrne… and worked with him to [...]
- PayPerPost Announces New Disclosure Policy| 2 Comments
What happens when a new idea shakes up the entire marketplace?
It gets critised and condemmed.
Such is the case of PayPerPost, a service that provides an opportunity to both bloggers and advertisers to make the most out of the blogosphere. Advertisers pay bloggers to post reviews and snippets about their product on their blogs. A [...]
- Hemingway Based Green and Grey Theme| Comments Off
4u is based very much on Hemingway, with a few cosmetic changes; such as the green accent colour and darker header and footer. The content is laid out similarly the same as Hemingway, with the categories, recently and about sections at the bottom. The navigation is a green bar below the header and the sidebar [...]
- Free Buttons for your Blog| Comments Off
Buttonator is a completely free Drag and Drop button making service. There are loads of button background to choose from, you can edit the text on the button, the colour, font and size of the text and the background that the button sits on, and then download the button as a .gif format for use [...]
- Plugin: Add Extra Buttons to your Wordpress Editor| Comments Off
The Sawchuk Buttons Plugin enables you to add customised buttons to your Wordpress WYSIWYG Editor. For instance, if you had three styles of blockquotes; red, blue and green, you would have to manually add in a class name to each of your blockquotes after entering it using the Wordpress Editor. The Sawchuk Button Plugin allows [...]
- Wordpress “Ronan” Released| Comments Off
Wordpress 2.0.5 has been released and named Ronan, in honour of Ryan Boren’s new son. The release includes around 50 bugfixes, which can be reviewed on the WordPress dev tracker here. The bugfixes include plugins now being sorted by their plugin name, rather than their file name, improved security in the wp-db-backup plugin and multi-line [...]
- Compact Blue Theme| Comments Off
Sonia is a neat and compact theme Ported for Wordpress by This ‘N That, based on a design from LanVacation at OpenWebDesign.org. The theme could happily be used for a business site as it is very easy to understand and use, with bold navigation on the sidebar and the same navigation at the top of [...]
- Simple, Big and Bold Theme| Comments Off
Pressrow is described by it’s maker as a “Simple, Big and Bold” (so there’s no prizes for where I got the title from) and simple, big and bold it is. It features a bold Newspaper style site name, with a space underneath for a picture, which can change randomly, whilst on different pages or not [...]
- Plugin: Nine Rules Quotes| 1 Comment
The Nine Rules provides a little daily inspiration to those who religiously follow each and every one of Nine Rule’s… well, nine rules. It displays one of each of the rules at the top of your Wordpress Dashboard (a little like the famous “Hello Dolly” plugin- it’s also based on his code) coloured with one [...]
- Most Popular Posts| 1 Comment
Most Popular Stuff on This Blog:
MySpace Marketing Podcast Interview
Wordpress Forum Integration with bbPress
Mapping Default RSS Feeds to Feedburner
RSS2Blog Video – Post Content Automatically
Automate Social Bookmarking – Software
- MySpace Marketing Tactics Podcast With Matthew Sherbone| 9 Comments
Can MySpace really be used as a source of traffic to your existing websites, or as the main site to promote your business to thousands of eager buyers?
I found out from MySpace Marketing expert and author of “MySpace Cash Machine” Matthew Sherbone that it’s not only possible; it’s also a duplicable and low-cost marketing system.
In [...]
- Wordpress Forum Integration With bbPress| Comments Off
Can you integrate a simple forum into your Wordpress blog and allow users to have the same login for the blog and the forum, all without messing around with Wordpress plugins and theme modifications?
Yes, you can. The answer, as I discovered on Lorelle’s blog, is NOT a Wordpress plugin.
It’s bbPress, another venture by the same [...]