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Hell Yeah Dude’s list of ways to supplement your WordPress content

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Hell Yeah Dude has a great rundown of different types of content you can add to your WordPress blog, and plugins for doing so: flickr, Twitter, Pownce, Tumblr, de.licio.us and more.

12 automatic ways to increase the content on your WordPress powered Web site » Hell Yeah Dude! - A Web site for young & inspiring minds

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Smashing Magazine comes through again with 100 WordPress themes

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Smashing Magazine has an amazing gallery of 100 excellent free WordPress themes. The themes listed really are excellent.

100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes from Smashing Magazine

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Get rid of bandwidth image theft once and for all

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Herself Webtools gives us the recipe for a .htaccess file that prevents hotlinking images on your site.

Get rid of bandwidth image theft once and for all

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Make IE7 standards compliant with javascript tool

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Wired.com reports on a javascript tool that “makes Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser and, perhaps most notable for the designers among us, the scripts add transparent PNG support for both IE5 and IE6. ” In order to get it to work, you just have to add a snippet of code to your page’s head tags.
IE7 Javascript Tool Turns Explorer into a Standards Compliant Browser

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GM launches new blog built on WordPress

Monday, January 7th, 2008

General Motors has launched a new blog, GMnext, which is built on none other than our favorite blogging platform, WordPress. Even more interesting about this blog is the fact that GM executives will be the ones blogging. I’d love to know how they are managing permissions and compliance issues.

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Contact form WordPress plugin includes Hebrew and Spanish

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Here’s a contact form that comes in a Hebrew and Spanish version. We used it over here. It does the trick, and is easy to configure.

SCF2 Contact Form » LaptopTips

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IE8 Passes Acid2 Test - too good to be true?

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

SitePoint has reported that IE8 has passed the Acid2 Test. As they explain, this test was developed “as a challenge to browser developers. In a single page, the test makes use of a broad range of features from several different web standards that developers have wanted to have in browsers for some time, and it uses them to display a deceptively simple smiley face.”

In short, passing the test means a browser meets web standards.

If IE8 has passed this test, this may mean the end of annoying hacks and workarounds to get sites to work in IE. An even more exciting result of this could be the end of CSS layouts made with floats etc., and the beginning of the ability to use CSS tables.

SitePoint Blogs » IE8 Passes Acid2 Test, Web Standards Project Dies of Shock

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Yahoo Shortcuts WordPress plugin

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Yahoo Shortcuts WordPress plugin

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IDT Labs - Free Software Tools from Internet Duct Tape

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Free Software Tools from Internet Duct Tape - Blog productivity tools for Firefox and WordPress.

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50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging

Monday, December 17th, 2007

50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging

Seriously good list of plugins.

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