Sid Sidberry Reads

came across this yesterday.

WP-Testimonials is a plugin for WordPress that lets you display your customer/client/product testimonials on your blog.

You may add, edit or remove testimonials through the “Manage” navigation tab in the admin area. The plugin includes the option to display a random testimonial in your sidebar using PHP code for older templates or using a widget for newer themes. The widget is built-in with the plugin, so you have no additional files to worry about.

Testimonials can also be displayed all on one page. A template file is included that will need to be uploaded to your theme directory. Once in place, simply create a new page and select that template from the drop-down.

check it out :
http://www.sunfrogservices.com/free-php-script-downloads/wp-testimonials/

just a reference point for myself

http://www.neato.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/UltimateTagWarrior/ultimate-tag-warrior-help-themes.html#tagcloud

From: http://buddypress.org/about/#profiles-box

BuddyPress will extend WordPress MU and bring social networking features to a new or existing installation.

BuddyPress is essentially a set of WordPress MU specific plugins. Each plugin component adds a distinct feature to BuddyPress and only handles functionality for that specific component (for example, private messaging). BuddyPress also has a core plugin that all other plugins require, it contains shared functions and performs the basic modifications to the WordPress MU interface.

Each BuddyPress component is independent. This means you can pick and choose which features you’d like.

It also means BuddyPress can be used in two different ways. You could use BuddyPress to create a complete social network from scratch, or you could use it to add desirable features to your existing blog network.

Check It Out:
BuddyPress » About BuddyPress

Sadly wordpress doesn’t maintain a complete list of all action and filter hooks. Lucky for us adam brown does

From: http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks

If you’re a plugin developer, you know how difficult it can be to figure out which hooks are available. This WordPress hooks database automatically scans each WP build for apply_filters() and do_action() to figure out exactly which hooks are available in each version and where the hooks occur.

If you don’t know what WordPress hooks are for, read the Plugin API .

Check It Out:
WordPress hooks database – action hooks and filters for all wp versions || Adam Brown, BYU Political Science

While working on my damn spam plugin I decided to look into integrating projecthoneypot.org support, which lead to me thinking: Why not just make a web api, so it doesn’t matter what os / permissions a user has. This of course lead to a greenlight in my head of… why not build it with couchdb in the backend…

So I’m still waiting on feedback from projecthoneypot.com, and stopforumspam.com

Sid

Ok the spammers have officially pissed me off. I don’t know about you, but everytime I get a message saying: new registration it’s like biting into a york peppermint patty, minus the patty.

So for like the past week I’ve been getting a steady stream of users, only yo find out they’re all spammers…

You dear sir have crossed the line, or crushed my ego, either way meet:
stop forum spam [http://www.stopforumspam.com/] and their lovely api [http://www.stopforumspam.com/apis]

Expect a wordpress plugin sooner. frags

I’ve been testing the twitterfeed.com service, and yes it actually does what it says: it will update your twitter using an rss feed. So you can use it for more than just your blog *smiley face*

see it in action:

http://twitter.com/gregsidberry

I was considering using a wordpress plugin, but hey why bother if someone else can do the lifting, especially now that i have to add all plugins to the db by hand… damn you wordpress 2.6.5

anyways, check it out

http://twitterfeed.com

Having issues getting wp-cache and apc to play nice? So was mark, luckily he found the answer so I can link to him

APC (Alternative PHP Cache) is great for WordPress. It caches the
compiled WordPress PHP files and greatly speeds up subsequent loads. I
even wrote a WordPress plugin to make WordPress store its objects in
APC instead of in the default file-based object cache.

WP-Cache2 is also great for WordPress, because it caches the HTML output of WordPress for a specified period.

So if both are good, together they should be awesome, right? Well…
in theory, yes. Unfortunately, I’ve been having a heck of a time
getting them to play together. What would happen was that pages would
start showing up blank. Just a white page. Real helpful. The same thing
happened when you tried to access

/wp-admin/

The only way to fix it was to delete WP-Cache2. In desperation, I removed all the error-silencing

@

from WP-Cache2. Ah. It was some problem with

class_exists()

and APC. Apparently, APC doesn’t play well with

class_exists()

.

Adventures with WP-Cache2 & APC « Mark on WordPress

Keep an eye on this project. libin at libinpan.com has started a wordpress plugin to translate your text using ajax and google’s translation service

Google just released a new API yesterday: Google AJAX Language API.

AJAX Language API is built on top of Google Translate, it current supports 13 languages and 29 translation pairs. It is new but it is already very powerful. If you want to know more about how to use it on your website, please see Google AJAX Language API Document for more details.

http://blog.libinpan.com/2008/03/21/introducing-the-google-ajax-translation-wordpress-plugin/

Yes, I know there are much more great FireFox plugins but I am sharing only those I am using myself and find really useful.

Before I start, here is an overview of what I am going to talk about:
SEOQuake Any page instant SEO analysis
SearchStatus Google, Alexa, Compete Rank Toolbar
Google toolbar Google search and suggestions
Rank Checker button Instantly checks a site SE rankings
User Agent Switcher Change the user agent
SEO for FireFox Exhaustive SEO analysis within search results
Compete.com Site traffic information
Web Developer Instant access to image and link information
Page Age Get the page age

9 SEO FireFox Plugins I Can’t Live Without