James reviews some of the multi-blog software out there. It includes a positive review of WPMU. Yes, it does need work but it is getting better every day!
Category Archives: WordPress
WordPress Flickr DHTML Badge Plugin
I Like the look of those Flickr badges running on a lot of sites. I don’t like that it uses Flash though so imagine my delight when I came across the WordPress Flickr DHTML Badge Plugin. It’s easy to install and configure, and only needs one line added to your sidebar.php to activate!
I’m already running it on In Photos and it’s great!
And in case that’s not enough, here’s some more Flickr goodness!
Cross-Site Scripting Worm Floods MySpace
This is why WordPress.com strips Javascript from posts. The potential for devilment is limitless without filtering!
WordPress PHP validator
Hmm, this PHP validator could be a very useful start to creating a safe template editor for WordPress.
Justin's Running on WordPress!
Justin Mason’s site is now running on WordPress, and umm, has been since August 22nd.
Oops, thought I visited there more often!
FAlbum – WordPress Flickr Plugin
Wow! I’m impressed! FAlbum is a Flickr plugin for WordPress. It’s simple to install and configure, except make sure you put the rewrite rules above any WP ones, especially if you’re using WP 1.6!
It displays your Flickr albums, most recent photos, and lots of other pretty stuff, all inside your blog!
There’s a longer feature list above, and a few demo pages. This is definitely one project I’m going to keep an eye on for the future!
Later… The FAlbum plugin is now running on my new photography site In Photos displaying all my Flickr photos in a nice album!
WordPress.com Top Blogs!
Yay! Andy did a great job adding stats to the Dashboard! Here’s a screenshot.
This should make blogging at WordPress.com even more attractive as you know other people are going to know about what you’re blogging.
I’m still rather fond of reading the site through an RSS feed but that’s only managable now because there are so few blogs being updated.
When we’re bigger than Blogger.com that won’t be as easy!
AJAX Instant Messenger
Free Online Image Editor
This image editor is rather basic looking but powerful. You can rotate, resize, add text and clipart, colour correct and more. Unfortunately the license isn’t compatible with the GPL so it would be impossible to use in WordPress or other such licened projects.
SmartyPress – Smarty Driven WordPress
SmartyPress is another Smarty driven WordPress project.
It looks interesting, and I had the thought that it might be possible to paste an alternative template system into WordPress by piggy-backing on top of the current system.
The home.php, single.php, index.php files of the various themes could be loaders for another more secure templating system rather than PHP. It would certainly make editing templates and securing them against abuse easier, although for WordPress.com we have even fancier ideas to be announced later!