Mark offered me the opportunity to look after the WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5 and I’ve taken it. I’ll be making weekly posts of the same on Weblog Tools Collections as well as on the

Mark announced the new WordPress plugin competition. The past plugin competitions have been highly successful which have helped benefit the WordPress community with excellent offerings. I’m sure this years will be the same if not better. The plugin competition will begin on the 10th of May and will last till the 10th of July.

If you’re looking to secure your WordPress wp-admin folder, then adding an additional layer of password protection goes a long way in helping this. You can either manually code the .htaccess file or get hold of the AskApache Password Protect Plugin to automate the process.

It is a lot pain installing any theme or plugin in your WordPress, logging in your FTp, uploading the file etc takes a lot of time and your net usage. But now a solution is here. Anirudh Sanjeev from Thoughts Outflux is here with an amazing plugin called OneClick. OneClick makes it a lot easy to install any plugin or theme. It has an admin page where you can browse to the ZIP file of the theme or the plugin and choose whether its a plugin or a theme and then click the button. It will upload the file, then…

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WLTC is hosting the second WordPress Plugin Competition Rules and Details All code must be GPL Running time for competition = 2 months starting the 1st of June till the 31st of July. True WordPress plugins only. No manual modifications can be required of users. You cannot submit plugins that have been released already. All plugins require documentation as in the WordPress Extend pages. Preliminary support for the plugin has to be provided to the public. I will be joining Mark this time as a judge of the competition. Well, that means I won’t be able to submit any new…

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All this month of April, the folks at Weblog Tools Collection will be taking up a single plugin every day and reviewing it in detail. The purpose is to highlight some of the outstanding (for various reasons) plugins available today as well as provide a means for the WordPress community to tell the authors what they actually want. The series began on Monday and you can expect six posts a week (Sunday is the weekly off). If you are interested in getting your plugin featured then you need to send an email with details as listed on this post at…

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The WordPress Blog announced the release of the official Plugin Directory. Currently the primary place I use to look for plugins is WP-Plugins.net. It is updated several times a day as plugin authors use it as the first place to announce their plugins. They also have a feed which you can subscribe to. The new plugins directory is actually an interface to WP-Plugins.org which for years has served as a hosting place for several plugins. I too have few of my plugins hosted out there, but stopped maintaining them because I couldn’t track their downloads and it also meant another…

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Are you fed up off dull boring feeds in your feed reader? If you’ve styled your blog with CSS (and you should), you will notice that none of these styles show up in any feed reader. Most feed readers default to same color text with minor styling. If you would like to make your feed stand out in these readers and more importantly, if you would like to present a neat clean feed for viewing by your readers, then you’ve got to give Feed Styler a shot. Feed Styler is a WordPress plugin for WordPress users who are comfortable with…

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WordPress 2.1 released about ten days back. Many hesitated to upgrade and others still haven’t. I did upgrade two days back and ran into problems. I’m reluctant to upgrade my personal blog even now. I had originally intended to review WordPress 2.1 in this weeks column, but since I haven’t had much time to explore it well, I’ll keep that for next week. So, while pondering about the same I remembered the article I wrote when I joined the Editorial team at Weblog Tools Collection. The article was titled “Check Your Plugins This New Year“. It made me remember how…

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I still haven’t upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.1 because of a potential problem with Ultimate Tag Warrior on WordPress 2.1. Tags would get deleted whenever a comment is added. Christine’s latest release too wasn’t able to fix the same. 082net.com has found a fix that has worked successfully for Donncha on his blog. I’ve applied the patch myself and will now be upgrading this blog to WordPress 2.1. For those interested, modify ‘ultimate_save_tags()’ function on ‘ultimate-tag-warrior-actions.php’ about line 502: if (isset($_POST['comment_post_ID'])) return $postID; if (isset($_POST['not_spam'])) return $postID; // akismet fix if (isset($_POST["comment"])) return $postID; // moderation.php fix Update: The…

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