New Plugins

CB-Featured

CB-Featured is a highly customizable featured content plugin which will display your selected posts with a nice scrolling and bouncing effect anywhere within your Wordpress theme. The plugin was created from jCarousel and developed by CyberBlog.net

SexyBookmarks

WP Social Bookmark Menu (aka: SexyBookmarks) is a Wordpress plugin that inserts menu of social bookmarking site icons in each of your blog post to make it easier for your reader to bookmarks your blog. You can watch this plugin in action in this blog.

Admin Show Sticky

Adds a new column to the posts table in the admin to display if a post is sticky or not. Determining what posts are sticky or not should be easier than editing each post or comparing a list of posts displayed on your site to the list in the Edit Posts table in the admin. This plugin will add a new column titled `Sticky` and place a check mark in this column if the post is ‘Sticky’.

Belinde’s Bricks Box

Belinde’s Brick Box is a collation of common tools useful in plugin’s developing. It provides an highly configurable CRUD (Create - Read - Update - Delete) for database tables and others data structures, AJAX grids features, options management and so on.

Picture grabber, resizer and cropper

Picgrab is a plugin that download, resize and crop an image on the fly. It also stores resized and cropped images in local cache. Page not in English

random post list

Make random post list and feeling lucky link

Stop Living in the Past

Adds a box to the top of the page when a user visits it using Internet Explorer 6 or older telling the visitor to upgrade to a newer version

WP Categories and Posts

This plugin adds in a template tag you can use to display categories and sub categories and the posts underneath those categories.

Updated Plugins

Contextual Related Posts

Display a list of contextually related posts for the current post. You can select the number of posts to display and if you want to automatically display the related posts in your content / feed. Now, you can choose to exclude posts from certain categories as well as exclude pages.

Open Browser Window

Open Browser Window opens a new browser window with the URL of the page that you specified using JavaScript.

WP e-commerce

The WordPress e-Commerce plugin is a state-of-the-art e-Commerce platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability. It is both free and priceless at the same time.

WP Super Cache

WP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.

Flutter

Flutter is a feature rich WordPress CMS plugin by Freshout.

Possibly Related Recent Posts

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

StatPressCN

Manage visitor statistics of realtime, hot articles, random articles, feed subscriber’s count, etc; can be used by your blog through widget.

WordPress Petition Plugin

Run simple web and e-mail based petitions through WordPress.

WP Opt-in

Collect e-mail addresses from users with a simple form. Send them an e-mail automagically.

Moderate Selected Posts

Force comment moderation on selected posts but allow others to remain open.

Check out “Magazeen”: Free Magazine-Look WordPress Theme. Even better: it’s GPL.

We’re excited to be part of the Change the Web Challenge.
Basically, the contest is to create a plugin, widget, mash up, hack, or other variety of web application that helps people find and share opportunities to take action. The grand prize is 50 benjis, and the best WordPress plugin will also be featured in the [...]

Soho Serenity

It’s a Multi Column (1 sidebar, 2 main content colums, 2 right hand sections and 3 footer sections all widgetized) fixed width theme loosely inspired by the art galleries of Soho New York and is perfect for a showcase/portfolio or scrapbook type site. It features an author info page and gravatars along with Custom Archives, Sitemap, Blog Post and full width No Sidebars page templates.

BlogTimes

The BlogTimes WP theme includes an magazine style layout, twelve recent posts and an options panel for the front area, that gives you full control over the frontpage content.

Angley

2 Column, advertisement ready theme with dynamic page navigation and included PSD.

Aligned

Fixed width, Two column, Widget ready theme with rotating headers, placement for Google Adsense and 125×125 ads in sidebar

Theme author? Submit your theme for our daily releases.

WP Super Cache version 0.9.1 is now available. WP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.

Major changes under the hood in this release, and many bugfixes:

• If your blog is installed in a folder then compare the mod_rewrite rules in your .htaccess with those on the admin page. I fixed a bug in how those are generated.
• Out goes the shutdown function the plugin relied on for years (going back to the days of wp-cache), and in comes plain old output buffering on it’s own.
• If you’ve had problems clearing the cache on your blog it could be because wp-cron isn’t firing. I’ve added checks for that. Joost helped me debug that and he blogged about it too. You’ll get a nice warning message if those checks fail.
• If after all that, your cache still doesn’t clear, add $wp_cache_shutdown_gc = 1; to wp-content/wp-cache-config.php to clear the cache at the end of pageload instead of by wp-cron. It will slow down page generation for a tiny number of your users though.
• The Last and Next garbage collection times are now in the timezone selected for your blog.
• Added an admin notice on the plugin page to warn that caching has to be enabled. A warning is shown below the plugin activation row too.
• If your site runs on a Windows server, I fixed a small problem with slashes and creating the config file.
• The plugin created empty supercache folders, but that’s fixed now.
• Bad Behaviour support seems to work nicely now!
• You can now relocate the supercache plugins folder. See $wp_cache_plugins_dir in wp-cache-config-sample.php.
• I added 2 new filters: wp_cache_served_cache_file in wp-cache-phase1.php (BB uses this) and wp_cache_file_contents in wp-cache-phase2.php where you can filter the contents of the newly created cache before it’s written out to a file.
• The readme.txt has been updated too warning about using NFS to store the cache folder, solving wp-cron problems, added the list of Apache modules required for expired pages to really expire in the browser cache.

I also added a donation link in the readme.txt and on the admin page. You can hide it with the click of a button but if you’re feeling generous, I’d appreciate a donation.
I don’t expect many donations, that’s how these things work, but if you tell me your site does 100,000 page views a day and you couldn’t live without caching I might be slightly annoyed if you come looking for free support.

Related Posts

• WP Super Cache 0.8.4, the garbage collector
• WP Super Cache 0.8.7
• WP Super Cache 0.8.3 “Speedy”

We’ve released a new Carrington theme: Carrington JAM

JAM stands for Just Add Markup. We created JAM as a “developer outline” for building a theme on the Carrington CMS theme framework.

It’s basically a completely stripped down skeleton (doesn’t even have XHTML) with placeholder WordPress template tags where appropriate. It functions enough that you can see it working, but is obviously not intended for use in it’s current state. Instead, you can take your site design/markup and add it in where appropriate to take advantage of the Carrington CMS theme framework features.¹

This might be something you want to download and bring with you if you are going to be attending my presentation at WordCamp Denver this weekend (and want to code along with the examples).

Get more details and stay up with the latest Carrington news on the Carrington CMS Theme Framework for WordPress web site.

1. The Carrington CMS theme framework auto-selects templates based on naming conventions, etc. - drastically reducing the logic needed in your theme. [back]

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New Plugins

PJW Query Child Of

Allows you to use query_posts to list the children of a page.

Christian Jokes

Christian Jokes widget will fetch the latest or random joke from christian-jokes.net website, and display them on your blog.

wp-starbox

This plugin adds voting functionality for posts. Visitors can vote for the post and against.

My CDN

Helps you offloading javascript, css and theme files to your own CDN network. This plugin only handles url rewriting not actual file transferring.

Estimated Reading Time

This plugin estimates the time it would take for a slightly below average reader to a slightly above average reader to read your post.

PJW Page Excerpt

Allows you to edit excerpts for Pages.

Align RSS Images

Scans your RSS feed and ensures that every image has the correct alignment and margin settings.

30bwidget

A simple plugin that provides shortcodes and sidebar widgets to integrate 30Boxes.com calendars within your Blog.

AntiVirus

AntiVirus for WordPress is a smart and effective solution to protect your blog against exploits and spam injections. Page in German

Updated Plugins

WordPress Users

Display your WordPress users and their profiles in an index on your site.

Page Blocks

This plugin extends WordPress pages by allowing widgets to be placed above and below the page content reducing the need to code custom page templates.

Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Tool

Improves your blog’s search engine optimization by “noindexing” pages you choose.

Hyphenator

Soft hyphen are automatically added in the content for nicer automatic word wrap. Particularly suitable for justification. Uses Hyphenator.js.

WP Favorite Posts

Allows visitors to add favorite posts. This plugin uses cookies for saving data so unregistered users can favorite a post.

All in One Video Pack

Easily add full video capabilities to your blog.

DISQUS Comment System

The DISQUS comment system replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by DISQUS.

Flickr Gallery

Quickly and easily add Flickr galleries, photos, and even custom search results into your WordPress pages and posts.

Advanced Tagline

Advanced Tagline gives the option to have multiple taglines for your blog and display them at random or sequentially with each page view

Dr. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov Sculpture photo by Flickr user dbking. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (May 21, 1921 – December 14, 1989) was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. (wikipedia)

There is a small project that I’m working on with a friend, and since for years I’ve wanted to try Python…

I find two of the greatest assistants in learning and developing expertise in something are:

• Helping someone else (teaching).
• Using something else (compare).

Experimenting with something else helps me take the emotions and religion out of what I’m developing expertise in. It lends to a pragmatic foundation and helps be able to speak to another audience.

So while I work on this Python project, I won’t feel like I’m cheating on PHP and WordPress. Instead I’m continuing my learning about both and will be a better representative of both.

Yashfa

Yashfa is 2 columns layout and created with simplicity and grid based design with a lot of featured and good looking layout. Widget and gravatar ready with support for threaded and paged comments, separated trackbacks and comments and custom header support.

WhiteBeans

WhiteBeans is simply a Wordpress theme framework. Currently is a simple white and orange two column theme. Actively being developed.

Indy Premium

Indy Premium is SEO-optimized, 3-column, ad-ready, WordPress 2.7 compatible with widgetized sidebars and footer.

Magazeen

Two column, feature rich magazine style theme

Zack 990

Zack 990 is a variation on Ocular Professor. Inspired by the Boston Globe’s Big Picture, Zack 990 is designed exclusively for photo and video bloggers.

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