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LibDig

Adds a Lib Dig box to WordPress posts and pages

scrnshotsRSS

This plugin for WordPress allows you to show Scrnshots.com captures on your sites

eFiles Backup

This plugin for Wordpress allows you to download backups of your Uploads, Themes and Plugin directories. It also allows you to download the entire wp-content directory. Not suitable for WPMU without alteration, or for large sites.

WP-UDIF-Entrecard

This plugin enables a simple method of displaying an Entrecard Widget on your Blog and will also display a “U Drop I follow” Image below it for members of the U Drop I Follow Moment

Updated Plugins

AVH Amazon

The avh-amazon WordPress plugin gives you the ability to add a widget which will display a random item from your Amazon wish list, baby registry and/or wedding registry.

Related Posts by Category

Display related posts based on their category. (Page in German)

DasboardZone

Displays statistics about your posts and post frequency on the WordPress Dashboard

Event Calendar 3

Manage future events as an online calendar. Display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar.

Alt Link Text

Alt Link Text adds “Alternative Link Text” and “Alternative Title Attribute” fields to the Write Page and Manage Page screens.

Pods

Pods is a Wordpress plugin that adds CMS abilities to blog posts.

Drain Hole

Drain Hole is a centralized download manager with full monitoring, statistics, versioning, SVN support, and proper SEO download URLs

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This is the second part of a 2 part interview with Ian Stewart on child themes. Enjoy.

5. Speaking of child themes and theme frameworks, can you explain how one would upgrade a child theme when a theme framework is involved?

From the end users perspective there’s really no change in how you use a Child Theme as opposed to a regular theme and there’s really no change in how you upgrade that theme. Even if a theme framework is involved.

But the process of upgrading that Child Theme can be improved on. One thing I do in the pre-designed Thematic Child Themes I release commercially is add in a function that looks for a “variant.css” file in the wp-content directory. That function lets you make minor changes like adding background images and changing colors within variant.css without touching the original Child Theme CSS, making it ready to be upgraded itself without headache or incident—just like the framework it’s building on top of.

6. How do you see theme frameworks and child themes affecting the premium theme market?

Hugely. I see theme frameworks affecting the commercial theming market hugely. Frankly, if you’re making money through WordPress themes, either by selling pre-designed themes or creating custom ones for individual clients, and you haven’t taken a good hard look at using Child Themes in your business you’re wasting your time.

Consider this scenario: your company, or Theme Club, or who-knows-what, releases a GPL Theme Framework through the WordPress Themes Directory that the whole community can enjoy. You create a WordPress Child Theme for an individual client that builds on top of that framework, or maybe release a pre-designed Child Theme for it commercially on a Theme Club site. And because you’re awesome, money rolls in.

Now, when WordPress eventually changes—for the better, of course—you’re going to have to update some of that theme code. But! you’re probably only going to have to update the code in your Parent Theme—just like I mentioned in the example earlier with ThemeShaper.com and Thematic. What does that mean for your business? Because you’ve released the framework through the Themes directory every one of your clients will receive automatic notification of the upgrade and—thanks to changes in WordPress 2.7—they can download and install the upgraded theme almost instantly with the click of a button in the WordPress admin. Now, if you’re cutting theme maintenance down you’re freeing up more time to work on other areas of your business. Like, designing more Child Themes and making more money.

And even if you’re not releasing your theme framework through the WordPress Themes Directory, frameworks and Child Themes are still going to make your life easier. As professional WordPress theme developer Darren Hoyt says, “anyone who builds a quantity of WordPress sites throughout the year would be crazy to not already have their own baseline theme” (http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/09/18/exploring-wordpress-frameworks-and-child-themes/). And the easiest way to make changes to that baseline theme, while treating it like a real framework, is by using a Child Theme.

7. Do you think that if this trend becomes popular, would end users see a battle between the best theme frameworks via theme authors?

Absolutely. Everyone that’s ever released a WordPress theme knows about the warm feeling you get from people—often a lot of people—actually using your work (that’s not facetiousness, it’s one of the main reasons I think people keep on releasing themes). But there’s also a whole host of other benefits like increased site traffic, link building and authority in the community that provide you opportunities for making money by releasing themes for free or commercially. Sometimes a lot of money. All those benefits start to compound when you start talking about releasing a theme framework. A popular theme framework has the potential to become a self-advertising, lead-generating, service-selling machine. I think theme authors are starting to realize what that can mean for them which means, in turn, that we’ll probably soon see a whole bunch of theme frameworks popping up.

But really, a theme framework is just a good WordPress theme. We should hope there’s a battle to create the best GPL theme framework. That’s a battle where everybody in the WordPress community wins.

8. Would you care to share any other knowledge or information with our readers that you would like to cover with regards to this topic?

There’s actually a fair bit of information out there now on how to work with Child Themes. I’ve compiled a quick list of links that should give you all the information you need to get started.

Any WordPress Theme Can Be a Blank Framework (http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-blank-framework/)

How I used a WordPress Child Theme To Redesign My Blog The Smart Way (http://themeshaper.com/functions-php-wordpress-child-themes/)

A Revolution in Theming: WordPress Theme Frameworks (http://themeshaper.com/revolution-wordpress-theme-frameworks/)

How To Protect Your WordPress Theme Against Upgrades (http://themeshaper.com/how-to-protect-your-wordpress-theme-against-upgrades/)

The WordPress Codex (http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Theme_Style_Sheet)

Designing for The Sandbox (http://code.google.com/p/sandbox-theme/wiki/DesigningForSandbox)

Creating WordPress Child Themes (http://wangenweb.com/2008/07/creating-wordpress-child-themes/)

Theme Inheritance (http://extralogical.net/2008/08/theme-inheritance/)

How to make a “child theme” for WordPress. A pictorial introduction for beginners (http://op111.net/p53)

Exploring WordPress Frameworks and Child Themes (http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/09/18/exploring-wordpress-frameworks-and-child-themes/)

Frameworks, Child Themes, Filters, and Hooks? (http://wpcandy.com/articles/frameworks-child-themes-filters-and-hook.html)

Brainstorming the Ultimate WordPress Theming Framework (http://ptahdunbar.com/my-projects/brainstorming-a-wordpress-theming-framework/)

Carrington (http://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress/#themes)

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This script will allow users to download Videos from Youtube/Google.
Currently i am working on it .
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We recently ran a reader survey to have you answer some basic questions that we had about Weblog Tools Collection and would like to thank all those who participated in the survey. We were not looking for specific answers but were trying to gauge some sentiments and help shape ourselves to serve you better. We are also looking for a better understanding of where we should spend our resources to provide the most value to our readers. In that spirit, most of the answers were helpful and some of the comments made us look a little closely at the mirror.

Here are the results from the survey

1. Where did you first hear about Weblog Tools Collection?
   1. WordPress Dashboard 76.2%
   2. WordPress Planet 4.8%
   3. Google Search 11.9%
   4. Link from Another site 4.8%
   5. User Suggestions/Discussions 2.4%
   6. Other (please specify) 0.0%
2. Are you subscribed to Weblog Tools Collection to receive daily updates?
   1. Subscribed via RSS 25.0%
   2. Subscribed via Email 0.0%
   3. Already on Dashboard 50.0%
   4. Read it on the web 23.8%
   5. Subscribed via other means 0.0%
   6. Other (please specify) 1.2%
3. Satisfaction ratings for Weblog Tools Collection
   1. Overall satisfaction: 60% voted satisfied, 26% very satisfied
   2. Content: 50% voted satisfied, 35% very satisfied
   3. Design: 35% voted somewhat satisfied, 28% satisfied
   4. Format: 45% voted satisfied, 35% somewhat satisfied (leaning towards somewhat satisfied)
   5. Frequency of posts: 50% voted satisfied, 35% very satisfied
   6. Features of blog: 65% voted satisfied, 20% somewhat satisfied
4. Advertisements
   1. Are they usable? 45% Undecided, 35% No
   2. Have you ever clicked on any of them? 65% No, 35% Yes
   3. Are there too many ads? 45% No, 35% Undecided
   4. Are you an advertiser? 95% No
5. Site Features
   1. Did you know that we offer a news forum? 55% No, 40% Yes
   2. Did you know that we have a video site? 50% No, 40% Yes
   3. Did you know that we have offer translations in 9 languages? 50% Yes, 35% No
   4. Would you participate in future surveys to help us make the site better? 90% Yes
   5. Did you know that registered users see far fewer ads? 80% No, 13% Not Important

The final question asked how we could improve the user experience on Weblog Tools Collection and about a quarter of the respondents sent us comments. Many of the answers were critical of our design. One simile in particular to a web 0.1 site made me shiver. There were comments on removing some of the ads and suggestions on how to make our posts better with more plugin reviews and more articles on design, development and WordPress technology. The primary sentiments expressed in the polls were also reflected in the detailed comments. We appreciate your feedback. Your opinion matters to us and helps us make the right decisions.

Now where is that designer?

WordPress Amazon Widget Shortcodes

This plugin is made for you if you use Amazon Affiliate links (aka Amazon Associates, Amazon Partenaires etc.).

comment2tweet

comment2tweet is a WordPress plugin which will automatically post new comments from a WordPress blog to a twitter account. The comment posted to twitter will be an excerpt 140 characters long, and includes a short url link back to the comment.

wpAFFI

Simple and rapid technique to hide your affiliate links.

Smart 404

Instead of quickly giving up when a visitor reaches a page that doesn’t exist, make an effort to guess what they were
after in the first place. This plugin will perform a search of your posts, tags and categories, using keywords from the requested
URL. If there’s a match, redirect to that page instead of showing the error. If there’s more than one match, the
404 template can use some template tags to provide a list of suggestions to the visitor.

Snooth Widget

Grabs Snooth.com Wine Ratings and adds them to a sidebar on your WordPress Blog using the Widget engine.

Possibly Related Recent Posts

Automatically displays possibly related posts at the end of each post.

Easy Disable Visual Editor

Easily disables the visual editor globally.

WordPress S3

This WordPress plugin allows you to use Amazon’s Simple Storage Service to host your media for your WordPress powered blog.

Feed Pauser

Feed Pauser is a plugin I wrote to address a issue I have been facing for a long time, the option to delay publishing a post to a feed. Feed pauser, pauses a post from being made available through RSS.

Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks

Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on your blog. This helps reduce the amount of spam aimed at old posts. Now you can keep comments / pingbacks / trackbacks on certain posts open.

Servage Referral Widget

The web host Servage allows it’s users through a link to their website/coupon code to refer it’s users to their services.

Notifixious

This plugin allows you to notify your readers on their Instant Messaging (AIM, MSN, GTalk, ICQ…), Email or SMS when you publish new posts! It also adds a widget to your blog to allow your users to choose on which channel they want to be notified!

WP Google Apps

This plugin allows you to manage WordPress users via Google Apps accounts. The Authentication use Google Apps Gmail.

World Clock Widget

The world clock widget is a javascript clock. It can be easily set to display date and time of different timezone.

Facebook Sharer

Adds a little javascript and css to the header, and then a “Send to Facebook” link at the bottom of the blog post.

List Pages Plus

Alter the output of the wp_list_pages() function’s HTML.  Add in your own classes, insert text into link title, add additional tags surrounding title.  Parents and Children are set seperately for greater flexibility.

Email Spam Protection

Obfuscates your email. You need to enter the shortcode in your post.

It’s about time everyone was let in on the progress we have made towards version 1.0 of bbPress.
I expect the next alpha release to be made sometime in the next two weeks. This release will include our first implementation of Pingbacks both to and from your bbPress installation. The first draft implementation of this is [...]

Vigilance

Two column theme optimized for for SEO with a flexible top banner image, with options for Google Analytics integration.

BubbleGum & Accountant

Two column, widget-ready, gravatar-ready and SEO-friendly themes

MagicBlue

A fixed-width 2-column, free WordPress theme, with a right hand-sidebar, enabled for widgets and gravatars

Midnight-Blue-Plus

Midnight-Blue-Plus is a dark blue, right sidebar, widget ready theme designed for WordPress.

Sakura

Two column theme with flower bordered big header

Rocks my World

Brown, grey and green, three column theme

AVH Amazon

Gives you the ability to add multiple widgets which will display one or more random item(s) from your Amazon wishlist, baby registry and/or wedding registry.

WP125

The WP125 plugin can help you manage your ads more efficiently, leaving you with more time to write new posts.

WordPress Bookmark Generator

This little plugin will output a bookmarks.html file with your entire WordPress Dashboard in folders, just as they appear on your panel.

Inline Google Docs

This plugin allows the user to embed Google Document/Spreadsheet content in posts and pages using shortcode.

Dynamic Content Gallery

This plugin creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest and/or featured posts. Using JonDesign’s excellent SmoothGallery script, this plugin makes the gallery truly dynamic so that it automatically creates the gallery from your latest and/or featured posts.

WP-Universe

WP-Universe creates a blog universe based on categories of a WordPress blog.

WP Smiley Switcher

With this plugin you can choose a smiley pack from the settings / options in admin or simply choose your own smiley pack directory.

CSS Cache Buster

Always deliver the latest version of your CSS stylesheet to browsers. All caching problems solved.

Agregado

Two column theme with custom archives page, animated JavaScript dropdown menu, widgetized sidebar and bottom bar and several other features

Going Pro

Converts WordPress into a photo gallery

Google Chrome

A light weight two column, fixed width, widget and gravatar ready theme

Business Class and Beautiful Blue

Two column, widget ready themes

On the topic of themes, take a look at The Normal Person’s Guide to WordPress Themes