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Next up on the “Five” series is a sampling of 5 comment related plugins from the WordPress Plugin Directory.  There are 395 plugins as of today that are tagged with the term comment to choose from.
Comments are the lifeblood of any website.  That is where the true interaction happens not only between the creator of
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DarkoOo
It has a dark header and background (from which comes the name DarkoOo). The theme comes with 125×125 advertising space, a small “About me” space, and a place in the header to put your rss, twitter etc… links (easy configurable or removable). It has one Widgetized Sidebar.
Vanilla Cart
Clean, minimal, vanilla-style WordPress Shopping Cart Theme, made
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WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 has been released. For all those of you that are adventurous, this is your cue. Codex lists all the changes in 2.8 that have been implemented before the feature freeze.
A “Get ready for WordCamp San Francisco 2009” post from Lloyd. I almost completely forgot about the WordPress’ Sixth Anniversary celebrations. 572
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On a thread within the WPTavern forum, there is an interesting discussion taking place among some prominent theme authors on creating a theme standards system. The initial idea is to create a standards system which would give theme authors a goal to shoot for. However, as the discussion has progressed, it’s easy to see that
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Can you say that title five times very fast?
In my last post I discussed WordPress plugins that can spruce up your WordPress based website. What I would like to do in this one is point out five sidebar widgets that you can put to use in your own sidebar to expand its capabilities
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The first person to correctly guess the number of active plugins and the number of deactivated plugins on this blog will win a Flickr Pro membership for a year from us. We have more deactivated plugins than activated ones and the numbers aren’t astronomical. Thanks to babs for the idea. Authors/contributors on this blog are
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New Plugins
Free eBay Store
Allows you to automatically display eBay listings on your blog. You just add a simple tag to a post or page, along with your eBay Campaign ID, and the relevant keywords for the products to be displayed. You can also optionally specify the number of rows and columns to specify the layout
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Stefan Vervoort of WPToy.com has published a new and improved version of his WordPress Theme Development Checklist. This new checklist is provided in PDF form but it’s very easy to print. The checklist covers the following points:
General
Stylesheets
Browser Compatibility
Pages
Styled Everything?
Standard CSS Classes
Validate
WordPress Code
Blog
Elements
This is one of those guides you could put up on the wall
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Here are the simple steps:
Register on the Plugin Competition Blog, wait to be given author permissions (within 24 hours)
Make sure you check all the Plugin Competition Rules and adhere to them in order to be eligible
Introduce your plugin(s) or your plans for writing plugins on the Plugin Competition blog
Once your plugin is ready, publish it
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Over the past two years, I’ve had the privilege to talk with a number of different plugin/theme developers. While they each have their own unique style of getting things done, one thing they all have in common is providing support.
Michael Torbert author of the All In One SEO Plugin wrote a great blog post published
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