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New WordPress Login Page

Zeo backported the new WordPress login page to be used in 2.0.4 and previous versions of WordPress. The new login page is currently available only on WordPress.com and 2.1.

WordPress Login Page

To get the new Login page, download the files containing the CSS style sheet and background image from here

Installation

Make necessary backup to your current wp-admin/wp-admin.css. Download and extract the zip file to your WordPress installation root folder. It will attempt to overwrite your current wp-admin.css. If everything goes OK, you will see the new login page on your blog.

via Zeo’s Blog

Posted on August 7th, 2006 | Category: WordPress | 5 Comments, Add yours!

Meebo Me Widget for Wordpress

The people at Meebo recently announced a new service called MeeboMe that lets your visitors chat directly with you on any web page. The sad part is that this isn’t a shoutbox where every visitor can see each other–it’s a direct connection to you, just like an instant messenger. It’s a widget for WordPress.

MeeboMe

If you have a blog on WordPress.com and a widget-ready theme, just go to your Presentation>Widgets admin page and drop the widget into your sidebar. Then go to meebome.com, get a bit of code and paste it into the widget. Save the changes. As long as you’re logged in at meebo.com, your visitors will be able to chat with you directly!

In case your WordPress blog is not hosted on WordPress.com, you can paste the embed code right into a Text widget.

You can see the Meebo Widget in action here.

via WordPress Blog

Posted on August 7th, 2006 | Category: WordPress | No Comments yet, be the first!

What’s Next for WordPress 2.1?

Ryan Boren will be telling all at WordCamp on what is next for WordPress 2.1. Here’s a short list he has put up on his blog-

Spellchecker in TinyMCE
Exporter
Pages can be private and draft
Pages have their own caps
A Page can be used as the front page
Latest posts can be moved off the front page and on to another page
Pseudo-cron is used for future posting. No more NOW()
Link manager overhauled
Links can have subcategories
New login screen
More AJAX to avoid page reloads
Blog privacy. Turn off pinging and tell robots to go away
User paging and searching
WP_Error class
Include files reorganized
Lots of new API
Script loader

Wow, I can hardly wait for the new features. What do you think?

Posted on August 5th, 2006 | Category: WordPress | 6 Comments, Add yours!

WordPress Plugin: Post-BOX

Post-BOX is a WordPress Plugin that allows your readers to easily navigate through your blog. After installing the plugin you will find all the posts on your homepage listed and each of it can be accessed with a simple click of your mouse or with acceskey code (Alt + number). If you want to navigate without Post-BOX you can simply hide it.

post-box

Note: this Plugin won’t work in browsers that don’t support fixed value in position CSS property, basically IE5 and IE6.

Installation

Download Post-BOX Plugin
Unzip and put Post-BOX folder within your wp-content/plugin folder
Edit header.php document of the theme you want and add the following line below <body> tag:
<?php if( function_exists(’postbox’) && is_home() ) postbox(); ?>
Enter your Admin Panel and activate Post-BOX WordPress Plugin

Important

For proper working of the Plugin, make sure:

header.php has the following tag: <div id=”header”>
index.php has the following code inside the posts loop: id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”
footer.php has the <div id=”footer”> tag

Download Post-BOX WordPress Plugin

Posted on August 4th, 2006 | Category: WordPress Plugins | 6 Comments, Add yours!

How to Add Related Posts to your Feed

I have always recommended the Related Posts plugin for WordPress that displays the related entries to a post. Visitors that reach your blog posts from Search Engines will be looking for a particular information and if you list out the related entries to that post, they are likely to visit those pages too thereby increasing pageviews. That is why I recommended the Landing Sites WordPress Plugin too which allows you to include a short welcome message with links to articles on your blog that match their query they made on the Search Engine.

All this helps you to increase pageviews by visitors to your blog. But what about your subscribers? Yes, from now on, thanks to TechBuzz, we can enable Subscribers to visit more pages than they usually do by adding Related Posts to your Feed thereby increasing pageviews.

This can be done by editing your wp-rss2 file which generates your RSS feed. So how do you add related posts to your feed?

download and install Related posts WordPress Plugin
download this file and replace your exisitng wp-rss2 file
deactivate Feedburner Summary Burner if you have activated it

Now stay back and watch your Pageviews increase

Posted on August 2nd, 2006 | Category: WordPress | 8 Comments, Add yours!

K2 Date Stamp 1.1

Yesterday I modified my post dates to look like this:

This is a Mod by Steve and he has provided excellent instructions on how to do it for K2 r167 and it’s nightly builds here.

One of the reasons I applied this Mod to my current design is that I feel the date stamp makes each post stand out.

Those of you interested in K2’s Live Search feature can try out Steve’s K2 Live Search Mod. I haven’t tried the Live Search Mod yet as I have disabled all Live features from my K2 blog to decrease page load time.

Have a nice time modifying K2

Posted on July 30th, 2006 | Category: Web Design, WordPress | 4 Comments, Add yours!

WordPress 2.0.4 released

The latest stable release of WordPress, 2.0.4, has been released. This release contains several important security fixes and over 50 bug fixes. Since this is a security release, it is highly recommended for all users. Download WordPress 2.0.4 from here

via WordPress Development Blog

Posted on July 29th, 2006 | Category: WordPress | 6 Comments, Add yours!

I [heart] WordPress Logo competition

Are you a WordPress Fan? If yes, you may want to participate in the ‘I Love Wordpress Logo Competition‘ by designing your own WordPress Logo and support WordPress by putting it on your blog. You may also support WordPress by displaying these official WordPress buttons and brag about your favorite blogging tool WordPress.

This whole competition started as small suggestion titled I [Heart] WordPress Logo Competion in WordPress Forum and this inspired active users to come up with many ‘I love WordPress’ Logos.

This is my 2 minute design of a I love WordPress logo

found via Quick Online Tips

Posted on July 25th, 2006 | Category: WordPress | 3 Comments, Add yours!

Live Plugin for WordPress 2.0

Live is a free WordPress plugin that lets you watch your blog’s activity in real time. You can watch as your readers are visiting your pages, leaving comments, and grabbing your feeds.

The plugin uses Ajax and log files to keep showing you everything that’s happening on your blog from an Admin menu.

Note:This plugin will only work with WordPress 2.0 and above.

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Posted on July 24th, 2006 | Category: WordPress Plugins | 10 Comments, Add yours!

WP-UserOnline 2.04 released

WP-UserOnline is a WordPress Plugin that enables you to display the number of users online on your blog with detailed statistics like which page they are on and who there are.

The plugin also displays the bots online on your blog. Some of the currently supported bots are Google, MSN, Lycos, Ask Jeeves, Altavista, AllTheWeb, Inktomi, Technorati and Yahoo. You may also add more bots through the Options page.

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Posted on July 4th, 2006 | Category: WordPress Plugins | 3 Comments, Add yours!