Awesome The Best WordPress Admin Themes

WordPress Administration can be a bland and boring thing, after a while it becomes tiresome. Time for a change, freshen things up. The availability of WP Admin themes is not great, so below to make things easier for everyone I have compiled a list of the best admin themes available.

These themes are not only good for personal use, but also for your clients, makes it easier to customize to there style.

Below are ‘The Best WordPress Admin Themes You Could Possibly Find’.

1. WP Tiger Administration (http://orderedlist.com)

Name: WP Tiger Administration.
Plugin URL: http://orderedlist.com/wptiger.
WP Compatibility: WordPress 2-2.3.
Browser Compatibility: Firefox and Safari only.

2. AFD WP2 Admin (http://aenonfiredesign.com)

Name: AFD WP2 Admin.
Author URL: http://aenonfiredesign.com.
WP Compatibility: WordPress 2 – 2.3. (Older versions available for download).
Browser Compatibility: IE7, Firefox, Opera and Safari.

3. Js Style Admin + Drop Menus (http://jsbox.net/283)

Name: Js Style Admin + Drop Menus.
Plugin URL: http://jsbox.net/283.
WP Compatibility: WordPress 2 – 2.3.
Browser Compatibility: IE7, Firefox, Opera and Safari.
Notes: This Admin theme is based on the SpotMilk Admin. Its available in two colors: green and blue.

4. WP NiceAdmin (http://www.douglaskarr.com/projects/niceadmin/)

Name: WP NiceAdmin.
Plugin URL: …projects/niceadmin/.
WP Compatibility: WordPress 1.5 – 2.3.
Browser Compatibility: IE7, Firefox, Opera and Safari.
Notes: This Admin theme is also based on the SpotMilk Admin.

5. Planet X7 WP Admin (http://www.sevban.com/wordpress/planet-x7)

Name: Planet X7 WP Admin.
Plugin URL: …wordpress-admin-theme/.
WP Compatibility: WordPress 2 – 2.3.
Browser Compatibility: Opera, Firefox, IE 7 and there is a few minor problems with IE 6 (no surprise there then).

6. WP Barunio Administration (http://barunsingh.com/software/wp-admin)

Name: WP Barunio Administration.
Plugin URL: …arunio-administration/.
WP Compatibility: WordPress 2 – 2.3.
Browser Compatibility: Firefox and Safari only.
Notes: This theme is great for your clients, it is very easy to customize.

7. MyDashboard Plugin (http://dev.clearskys.net/Wordpress/MyDashboard)

Name: MyDashboard Plugin.
Plugin URL: …Wordpress/MyDashboard.
WP Compatibility: WordPress 2 – 2.3.
Browser Compatibility: Opera, Firefox and IE 7.
Notes: This theme needs a fair bit of tweaking to get to work the way you want it to (if I had the time I would). Have a look at all the amazing features though: Drag and drop to reorder the gadgets location to your liking, add or remove gadgets at will, fully extend-able – easily add your own gadgets to the dashboard using the very simple API, skinable – The look of the dashboard can be changed simply by selecting a different skin (CSS style sheet)…

8. B I T B Y B I T WP Administration (http://bitbybit.wordpress.com/code/wordpress)

Name: B I T B Y B I T WP Administration.
Plugin URL: …admin-theme-preview/.
Author URL: None, no longer being supported.
WP Compatibility: WordPress 2 – 2.3.
Browser Compatibility: Opera, Firefox and IE 7.
Notes: No longer being developed by the author, make sure you read the ‘known issues‘ section.

9. SHUTTLE WP Admin (http://www.brokenkode.com/shuttle)

Name: B I T B Y B I T WP Administration.
Plugin URL: http://www.brokenkode.com/shuttle.
WP Compatibility: WordPress 2 – 2.3.
Browser Compatibility: Opera, Firefox, Safari and IE.
Notes: This theme is not ready yet for download, but worth having a look. This will be the future of WP Admin themes. This will no doubt be the number 1 when it is released.

10. Spotmilk Admin Theme v2.2.1 (http://code.google.com…)

Name: Spotmilk Admin Theme v2.2.1.
Plugin URL: http://code.google.com.
Author URL: http://ceprix.net (Its a dead link).
WP Compatibility: WordPress 2 – 2.3.
Browser Compatibility: Opera, Firefox, Safari and IE.
Notes: The URL for the author doesn’t work, but I did manage to find a download link via Google Code. This theme is the base for a few of the other themes.

How to install your new Admin Theme

1. Download the plugin.
2. Copy/Move the Plugin to your WordPress Plugin Folder.
3. Activate the Plugin in your WordPress Admin
4. Hope it works!!!!!!!!! Of course it will.

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Awesome 30 Free Resources for WordPress Photoblogging and Image Galleries

If you are wanting to create a photoblog, or even just to display your family and personal images on your blog you will find solutions here. From the intricate to the simplest solutions.
The range and variety are vast and below I have listed the best 30 to hopefully narrow your search.

1. Yet Another Photoblog (http://johannes.jarolim.com)

Features:A non invasive WordPress-plugin that converts WP into an easy useable photoblog system; Easy image upload – All WordPress post-features can be used; On the fly thumbnail generation – Use multiple thumbnail sizes where and when you need them: Thumbnail generation gets controlled from the template; EXIF data processing and output; Self-learning EXIF filter – Your own cameras tags can be selected to be viewed; Full i18n-Support through gnutext mo/po files; Ping additional update-service-sites when posting a photoblog entry.
‘Nearly every WP-theme can become a photoblog in virtually no time’.
URL: http://johannes.jarolim.com/blog/wordpress/yet-another-photoblog/

2. NextGen (http://alexrabe.boelinger.com)

Features:Sortable Albums and create your own sets of images; Upload pictures in a zip-file (Not in Safe-mode); You can add a watermark image or text; JavaScript Effects (Thickbox, Greybox or Lightbox); Use a nice shadow effect for your thumbnails with your own CSS file; Full integrated flash slideshow; Sidebar Widget (show a random picture at your sidebar).
URL: http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/wordpress-plugins/nextgen-gallery/

3. Duh Gallery (http://blog.perfectspace.com)

Description:As the tag line says (‘The Simple WordPress Photo Gallery Plugin’), it really is simple. For anyone that likes no complications.
URL: http://blog.perfectspace.com/2006/03/28/duh-gallery-the-simple-wordpress-photo-gallery-plugin/

4. fGallery (http://www.fahlstad.se/)

Features:Use nice urls; Re-size images; Use Lightbox; Allow comments;Display album RSS feed link; Image sort order; Album sort order; Show captions for images; Dynamic thumbnails.
URL: http://www.fahlstad.se/wp-plugins/fgallery/

5. WP Photo Album – WPPA (http://me.mywebsight.ws)

Features:Manage and create albums; Move photos to and from albums; Upload and delete photos; Adjust thumbnail and full view picture sizes (set default max sizes for each).
URL: http://me.mywebsight.ws/web/wppa/

6. WPG2 (http://wordpress.org)

Features: G2Image insertion tool in your Edit Toolbar to help you select one or more Gallery 2 Images, Videos, Albums (displays the Album Highlight Image) in your Blog Posts or WordPress Pages; Random, Recent, Daily, Weekly, Popular Images and/or Albums can be displayed as widgets in the WordPress Sidebar; Single sign-on of WordPress Users into Gallery2, with the ability to restrict Gallery2 Sign on through WordPress User Roles and Capabilities; Display your Gallery2 Page(s) from within the automatically created WordPress Page; Add Lightbox Effects for your Gallery2 Images.
URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpg2/

7. WP Smooth Gallery (http://www.christianschenk.org)

Description: A plugin that will enable you to integrate Smooth Gallery into your WP blog.
URL: http://www.christianschenk.org/projects/wordpress-smoothgallery-plugin/

8. ANIga gallery (http://www.animalbeach.net/aniga/)

Features: Manage and order your pictures in nested albums; Support for jpg, gif and png files; Upload pictures in zip file without FTP, in folder with FTP or with a form; Users can comment on each picture just like they do on posts (you can disable comments for albums); Move, edit, delete albums and pictures (mass edit mode available); Add Picture Captions; User-level based permissions for Categories, Albums and Pictures; Multi-language support (currently English – pot file included for your translation); Pages render w3 valid; Pictures link either normal, as JS pop-up or with lightbox (if you have it installed); Automatic thumbnail creation (square thumbnails with reflections optional); Layout by theme templates; Navigation with thumbnails; Javascript slideshow
URL: http://www.animalbeach.net/aniga/

9. PhotoXhibit (http://benjaminsterling.com/photoxhibit/)

Description: PhotoXhibit, formally Benjamin Sterling Galleries, was born out of the fires of so many not-so-great gallery/image manager plugins for WordPress.
This plugin uses photos from your Flickr, Picasa, and/or SmugMug accounts as well as allows you to upload and build Albums to help you build inviting Photo Galleries on and through out your site.
URL: http://benjaminsterling.com/photoxhibit/

10. PhotoXhibit (http://www.m4rc.nl/wp/imageviewjx/)

Description: imageViewJX is a WordPress plugin which takes all images from a given directory and flips through them on your WordPress site, without reloading the page…
URL: http://www.m4rc.nl/wp/imageviewjx/

And The Rest…

11. PHP Web Gallery (http://www.jillij.com/?page_id=66).

12. W3 Images (http://www.axew3.com/b10g/?page_id=5).

13. WP Wet Floor (http://www.siuyee.com/projects/wp-wetfloor/). This is more of an effect rather than a gallery, still its worth a look.

14. Inline Gallery (http://m0n5t3r.info/work/wordpress-plugins/inline-gallery).

15. Lazy-K Gallery (http://plugins.atterberry.net/lazy-k-gallery).

16. Lightbox 2 WordPress Plugin (http://www.4mj.it/lightbox-js-v20-wordpress/#more-198).

17. AWSOM (http://www.awsom.org/2008/awsom-plugins-updated-for-wordpress-25-compatibility/).

18. Polaroid on the Fly WordPress Plugin (http://sivel.net/2007/09/polaroid-on-the-fly/).

19. WP-Gallery-Remote (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-gallery-remote/).

20. Power Thumbnail WP Plugin (http://blog.codexpress.cn/php/wordpress-plugin-power-thumbnail/).

21. Mini-Slides (http://wordpress.designpraxis.at/plugins/mini-slides/).

22. PhotoQ WordPress Photoblog Plugin (http://www.whoismanu.com/blog/).

23. mBox Gallery Plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mbox/).

24. Cozimo Gallery Plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cozimo/).

25. KB Easy PicasaWeb Plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kb-easy-picasaweb/).

Flickr Addon Plugins

26. WP-Flickr Plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-flickr/#post-2687).

27. Flickr Manager Plugin (http://tgardner.net/2008/02/12/flickr-manager-gets-photo-sets-in-150/).

28. flickrFaves Plugin (http://lifeasitcomes.com/flickrfaves/).

29. pflickr v1.1 Plugin (http://www.blusb.eu/blog/2006/11/22/pflickr-v11/).

30. flickrRSS Plugin (http://eightface.com/wordpress/flickrrss/).

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Awesome 10 Security Plugins for WordPress

With every site you build there are going to be security risks and issues, there is no way around this, it is going to happen. All we can do is minimize the damage, be ready for it and take action. WordPress is now the most popular Blogging Engine, this will not mean an increase attacks, but it will have the highest potential of attacks.
I haven’t included Akismet, because I am sure everyone has heard about it.
Anyway, here are my Top 10 Security Plugins for WordPress.

1. WordPress Database Backup (http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/)

URL: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/.
Description: This plugin does exactly what it says, it backs up your entire WP installation. This has got to be one of the first plugins you install upon first installation. You can back it up to your hard drive, on a server or even to a specified email address. Whether it be a rogue plugin or a hacker (or yourself) that crashes WP, WP Database Backup will reinstate everything as it should be. I like to think of it as my “WP system restore“.

2. Semisecure Login (http://jamesmallen.net)

URL: http://jamesmallen.net/2007/09/16/semisecure-login/.
Description: Semisecure increases the security of your WP Login, it uses client-side MD5 encryption on the password. JavaScript is required to enable encryption. When JavaScript is not available, the password is transmitted in plaintext (as normal), but authentication still completes in this case.

3. AskApache Password Protect (http://www.askapache.com)

URL: http://www.askapache.com/wordpress/htaccess-password-protect.html.
Description: This will secure your WP Admin with a very powerful htaccess password protection, preventing all unwanted bots from entering your site.

4. Force SSL (http://almosteffortless.com/)

URL: http://almosteffortless.com/wordpress/force-ssl/.
Description: For those will an SSL certificate, the Force SSL plugin for WordPress forces for an HTTPS connection for security purposes. This is useful for those who with to enforce a higher level of security regarding the delivery of WordPress content to the browser.

5. WP Security Scan (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins)

URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-security-scan/.
Description: I love this plugin, it scans your site for security issues and checks passwords, file permissions, database security, WP version hiding and WordPress admin protection/security. It also makes me a little paranoid.

6. Secure Files (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins)

URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/secure-files/#post-271.
Description: This plugin allows you to upload and download files from outside of your web document root for security purposes. When used in conjunction with a plugin that requires a user to be logged in to see your site, you can restrict file downloads to users that are logged in.

7. WP-SpamFree (http://www.hybrid6.com/)

URL: http://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/plugins/wp-spamfree.
Description: I had heard a lot about this plugin before I tried it, it said it is better than Akismet. To be honest I never noticed much difference (I get 500+ spam a day at the moment) between the two. User choice I suppose. I wish there was a way to stop the spammers instead.

8. BackUpWordPress (http://wordpress.designpraxis.at)

URL: http://wordpress.designpraxis.at/plugins/backupwordpress/.
Description: Almost identical as the first plugin, just not as straight forward. The list of features goes on and on, this is for the WP Pro. Some features: Database backup including uploaded files, plugins, etc.; EMail notification on new backups; Trigger backup manually; Set schedules for your backups; restore backups; Staggered SQL import; Automatically continue unfinished backups in background; Language Support. (And thats just the Easy Mode, wait until you see the advanced).

9. Anonymous WordPress Plugin Updates (http://f00f.de/)

URL: http://f00f.de/blog/2007/10/02/plugin-anonymous-wordpress-plugin-updates.html.

10. Replace WP-Version (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/)

URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/replace-wp-version/#post-2859.
Description: (We have all read about the security issue of showing your WP version, this resolves it).
If you’re running an older version of WordPress, anyone can view source to see what attacks might work against your blog. This plugin replace the WP-version with a random string < WP 2.4 and eliminate WP-version > WP 2.4.

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Awesome 30 Essential and Advanced WordPress Plugins

These are a list of advanced WP plugins that I have used and tested, and have proven to be indispensable.
They are not listed by any kind of rank.

1. WP-CODEBOX Plugin | Eric @ EricBess WebHome

Wp-CodeBox provides clean syntax highlighting and advanced feature for embedding source code within pages or posts.

2. Advanced Excerpt • Spare Pencil

This plugin adds several improvements to WordPress’ default way of creating excerpts.

3. SMS Text Message | Semper Fi Web Design

SMS Text Message is a plugin for WordPress to allow blog owners to update their readership via SMS.

4. flagrantdisregard » FD Footnotes Plugin for WordPress

This plugin provides an extremely easy way to add elegant looking footnotes to your posts. The syntax is natural, simple to understand, and degrades gracefully if the plugin is removed. Footnotes are linked unobtrusively and the note itself links back to the original text where the footnote is referenced.

5. TinyMCE Advanced » LaptopTips

This plugin adds 16 plugins to TinyMCE, WordPress’ wysiwyg editor: Advanced hr, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, Context Menu, Emotions (Smilies), Full Screen, IESpell, Layer, Media, Nonbreaking, Print, Search and Replace, Style, Table, Visual Characters and XHTML Extras. Together these plugins can add over 40 new buttons to the toolbar, which is now two rows plus one hidden row.

6. WP-Affiliate PHP Blog Affiliate Marketing WordPress Plugin | Seo Adventures

This plugin allows you to mask affiliate links with urls of your choosing. Simple categorization is available.

7. Different Posts Per Page

With this plugin you can have total control over the number of posts you want to show in home, category, archive or any specific pages of wordpress.

8. WP-typogrify

wp-typogrify is a WordPress plugin that “Prettifies your web typography by preventing ugly quotes and ‘widows’ and providing CSS hooks to style some special cases.”

9. Highlight Source Pro: Sourcecode Highlighting WordPress-Plugin — blog.kno.at

Allows you to highlight any source code within a post.

10. WP-Syntax

WP-Syntax provides clean syntax highlighting using GeSHi — supporting a wide range of popular languages. It supports highlighting with or without line numbers and maintains formatting while copying snippets of code from the browser.

11. Old Shortcodes » LaptopTips

This plugin that will hide shortcodes left over from old or deactivated plugins. Give it a shortcode, it will stop it from displaying on the site.

12. Add Your Own Headers

This plugin allows you to add tags to the header of an individual page or post such as keywords/descriptions, custom meta tags, external style sheet links, or embedded style tags. You no longer need to use conditional statements or separate templates just to change something like a background image, text style, etc.

13. Category Page (Pixline)

This plugin allows to connect Pages to Categories, and let you display a Page’s content on top of category archives. It’s a perfect companion for WordPress, especially if you are planning to use it as a CMS system, more than a blog.

14. EZ-FAQ | grepsedia.com

EZ-FAQ is a Free and Open Source WordPress plugin which help format an FAQ page.

15. Save My pre

If you’ve tried to use code samples in WordPress, you might have noticed unexpected behavior from the WYSIWYG editor. It will edit the whitespace inside of pre tags, leaving you with some poorly formatted, hard-to-read code. This plugin will fix it.

16. CodeHighlighter Plugin – IdeA thinKING

This plugin is a syntax highlighter for source code. It uses GeSHi as fontifier engine.

17. Post-thumb revisited

Effortlessly add thumbnails to posts.

18. Mowser Mobile Plugin

The plugin redirects devices that seem to be mobile devices to the Mowser version of your blog.

19. CSS Text Stroke | Blog – MapMyGlobe

Text Stroke is the cool, nice-looking effect where black text characters are displayed on a white surrounding to increase readability on a non-uniform coloured background. For example text on Google Maps is displayed that way, just have a look at the place names in the banner of this page. A way to have this effect on an image is to use the Glow effect in Photoshop.

20. Image Caption

Image Caption is a WordPress plugin that extracts the title attribute from images within your blog post and generates a neat caption directly underneath those images (no Javascript required).

21. Devlounge | Feed Styler

Feed Styler is a WordPress plugin for WordPress users who are comfortable with CSS and would like to be able to style their feeds. Feed Styler enables you to keep your existing class and ID style declarations in your content, but allows a different style to be applied to the feed of that same content. No longer do feeds have to be stripped of style and color.

22. WP-Table at alex.rabe

If you need a table in your blog and if your not so familiar with HTML table design, wp-Table will help you. The latest feature update is a csv import , so that you can edit tables in a much faster way.

23. post2pdf | AntonelloCicchese.com

This plugin will convert all your posts, pages and categories into pdf documents ready to download on the fly.

24. Disclosure Policy Plugin™ for WordPress™

For all your blogging legal issues. It can help with: Declaring a financial relationship; Copyright statement; Commercial email statements; Legal disclaimers especially for legal or medical advice; Links through to related content on your website; Related content on a 3rd party website;Advertising.
These are issues we should not avoid.

25. WP-Footnotes

A very easy way to add footnotes to your posts.

26. Sexy Comments

A phenomenal plugin for comments, it will add and format in a very sexy way indeed.

27. WP Unformatted

The WP Unformatted plugin allows you to remove WordPress’s smart quotes (texturize) and auto XHTML tags (autop) functionality on a per-post basis.

28. TextControl

Take complete control of text formatting options on your blog: Formatting and encoding per post, globally on posts, and globally on comments.

29. WP-Advanced-Stats-Viewer

An Advanced Stats Tracking Plugin.

30. WP e-Commerce

The WordPress e-Commerce plugin is an industrial strength elegant easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online.

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Awesome 7 Plugins to view your WordPress Blog on any Mobile Device

In this post we feature seven amazing WordPress plugins that will help make your theme mobile friendly.

WordPress Mobile Edition Plugin

Download: Download WordPress Mobile Edition.
Latest Release: Version 2.1.1.
Compatibility: WP 1.5 upto 2.3. (not tested on 2.5).
Developer: Alex King.
Description: WordPress Mobile Edition Plugin will display your site within an interface optimized for mobile and PDA devices, when ever visitors visit from any mobile device.

WP-Wap 2.30 Plugin

Download: Download WP-Wap 2.30.
Latest Release: Version 2.30.
Compatibility: WP 2.1 +.
Developer: Lester Chan.
Description: This plugin allows visitors from mobile devices to view your WP blogs content online.
Forum: WP-Wap 2.30 Forum.
*Note: This plugin is no longer being developed. (This is still a powerful and very useful and strangely under used plugin).

iPhone / Mobile Admin Plugin

Download: Download iPhone / Mobile Admin Plugin.
Latest Release: Version 2.0.1.
Compatibility: Requires WP 2.2.2 or higher.
Developer (s): Jared Bangs and Dan Cameron.
Description: Mobile Admin is optimized for the iPhone but also works on almost all other mobile browsers. The plugin adapts the WordPress admin UI to be more friendly to mobile devices, specifically phones.

Mowser WordPress Mobile Plugin

Download: Download Mowser WordPress Mobile.
Latest Release: Version 2.5.
Compatibility: Requires WP 2.0.2 or higher.
Developer: Mike Rowehl.
Description: Mowser (http://mowser.com) includes a service that allows publishers to display their existing web content to users on mobile phones and other handheld devices. This plugin detects when a user is on a mobile phone and automatically redirects them to the Mowser optimized version of the page they were trying to access.

WPhone Admin Plugin

Download: Download WPhone Admin.
Latest Release: Version 1.42.
Compatibility: Requires WP 2.1 or higher.
Developer Homepage: http://wphoneplugin.org/.
Forum: WPhone Admin Forum.
Description: WPhone allows you to use a custom admin interface while interacting with your WordPress install via your phone. It contains two versions of the mobile admin interface: 1. an iPhone / iPod Touch specific interface with full Javascript and animation support; 2.a lightweight, simple version designed for all other phone types (no Javascript or anything else required).
I love this plugin!

WordPress PDA & iPhone Plugin

Download: Download WordPress PDA & iPhone.
Latest Release: Version 1.2.6.
Compatibility: Requires 2.0.1 or higher.
Developer Homepage: http://imthi.com/wp-pda.
Forum: WPhone Admin Forum.
Description: This plugin helps your readers to view your blog on a PDA, iPhone or any other mobile browser.
Note: iPhone is still in beta testing state.

WordPress Mobile Plugin (wordpressmobile.mobi)

Download: Download WordPress Mobile.
Compatibility: Requires WP 2.1 or higher (up to 2.5).
Developer Homepage: http://wordpressmobile.mobi/.
Description: Make your WordPress site accessible on a mobile phone with this plugin. Now your posts, pages, archives and comments can be viewed on a mobile device. Standards are supported, posts and comments can be submitted by phone and your WordPress mobile site is easily monetized by AdMob.
Note: This is a very popular plugin, currently 23,219 downloads.

WordPress.com Gadget

WordPress.com users can access there blogs content by visiting here WordPress Mobile Gadget.

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Awesome 30 Free WordPress 2.7 Themes

All of these WordPress Themes are 2.7 specific. Not only do they accommodate all of the amazing 2.7 features they are brilliant designs as well as being very versatile.

Read about all of the new features here: WordPress 2.7 Features (via the Codex.
Download the latest version of WordPress here: WordPress 2.7 Download.

Maasahan

Pixeled

The Original Premium News

Journalized Theme Version 2

WP DashboardLike

TimeCafe Premium Free V 2.0

Old School

Gear

Blue Grace

iQ2 Photoblog Theme

Google Chrome

Typebased

Absynthe

Snapshot

CryBook

FREEmium

Elegant Grunge

Equilibrium

Versatility Lite

BlogTheme

Annexation

Alpen

The Unstandard (Re-Coded)

Grid Focus (Re-Coded)

Tech2all

Retrospective

Carrington Blog

iNspiration

Crafty

Blank WP Themes ready for 2.7

Description : Download a couple of empty/blank WP 2.7 themes to use for designing, these are very useful for any level of developer.
They’re 100% translatable, valid XHTML Strict and CSS 2.1.

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Awesome 8 Sledge Hammer Effect WP Plugins, Have you lost control of your WP?

Is your WP blog badly in need of some drastic action, something you just don’t have the time to do, has your theme been corrupted, are you losing control of your blog and simply need to bring it back in line?
A sledge hammer would probably work but try these WP plugins first. If they don’t work, tell me about it and I will post you a sledge hammer myself (only joking).

I have a website (FW Extensions) which launched well over a year, I had the time to maintain it at the time, and to be honest I then neglected it for a few months. I finally went back and discovered I had thousands upon thousands of spam comments as well as some ads which I had never placed there. I started deleting them, and I just couldn’t go on, it was taking far too long, so I abandoned it and, I suppose, the site as well. Recently, I have revisited the site and decided to relaunch with new theme and very heavy anti spam protection.
Incidentally, I haven’t changed theme on FW Extensions as yet, but I have deleted the comments and bad ads.

WordPress Suicide

URL : WordPress Suicide.
The Problem : Ever wanted to wipe the slate clean and start blogging without any baggage? It takes a hell of a long time to go through every post deleteing every setting, every comment… It is actually time consuming and pretty difficult to do unless you’re comfortable using the mysql client on the command line (or phpMyAdmin).
The Solution : Install WP-Suicide, activate it, and you’re just a single click away from blogging salvation. In other words, this plugin gives you the power to delete all your blog posts from the database in one fell swoop, as well delete categories, comments, links, custom fields, and your blog settings.
Note : By default, this plugin will delete all content associated with your blog except users and settings. That way you’re left with a functional, though effectively empty blog. Consider backing up your blog before using WordPress Suicide.

WP Suicide Screenshot – How many plugins give you this warning?

Manageable

URL : Manageable.
The Problem : The time involved to edit all your posts or pages takes a long time (especially if they run into the hundreds), it would be nice to edit each post without having to load up an edit page from WP Admin.
The Solution : The WP-Manageable plugin allows for inline editing of the date, title, author, categories, tags, status and more on both posts and pages without leaving the “Manage” admin sections. No need to load each post or page individually. Simply double-click anywhere in the post or page row and when you’re done, press enter. Alternately, you can click the link in the new “Edit” column.
Note : WP- Manageable has been integrated into the core of WordPress and will be included within 2.7 (with some speed improvements).

Manageable Screenshot

WP-CMS Post Control plugin

URL : WP-CMS Post Control plugin.
The Problem : Say you are running a blog with multiple authors, you are going to want to control certain elements to maintain stabilty and consistency. You may not want guest writers having access to custom fields, the preview button, trackbacks, excerpts, anything. this is the plugin for you.
The Solution : Post Control builds upon the new controls in WordPress 2.7 to give you complete control over your write options. It not only allows you to hides unwanted items like custom fields, trackbacks, revisions etc. but also gives you a whole lot more control over how WordPress deals with creating content! This helps you use WordPress more like a CMS, alowing you to totally customise what your authors see and use.
Note : The latest version of Post Control covers all features of WordPress 2.7 and is a substantial upgrade over the previous version – including full admin over-ride of hidden panels from users of lower levels.

WP Mass Page Maker

URL : WP Mass Page Maker.
The Problem : Ever had the need to create multiple pages or posts and dreaded the idea of doing it manually?
The Solution : Mass Page Maker is an admin panel that gives you the ability to create as many pages or posts as you like in a matter of seconds. It can create posts and pages that are either immediately published or have draft status. True to WordPress function, the page names are modified to replace any foreign characters and spaces. Sounds too good to be true, It isn’t.
Note : Currently tested successfully with the latest version of WordPress, 2.7.

Admin Management Xtended

URL : Admin Management Xtended.
The Problem : This plugin is similar to Manageable, and you have a lot of posts that need to be mass edited and you just don’t have the time…
The Solution : As a whole, the new WordPress Admin panel is organized fairly well, however when it comes to editing posts or pages quickly without having to open each post or page in a new tab or window, it isn't a very efficient process. For those who are using WordPress as a CMS, it’s important to be able to manage contents easily and quickly. That's what this plugin helps to do.
It adds some icons to the posts/pages management panel with AJAX-driven CMS-known functions like toggling post/page visibility, changing publication date and title without having to open the edit screens or reload the page, plus changing page order with drag & drop, inline category management and inline tag management, plus much more.

Batch Categories Plugin

URL : Batch Categories Plugin.
The Problem : You need to change the category of some posts to another, or you want to delete some posts from a certain category.
The Solution : This WordPress plugin lets you batch edit your posts: assign multiple posts to a category or delete multiple posts from a category in one fell swoop. Version 1.2 and above also support WordPress 2.3’s in-built tagging system, allowing you to tag and un-tag multiple posts at once.

TAC – Theme Authenticity Checker

URL : TAC – Theme Authenticity Checker.
The Problem : You download a WP theme from third party site (always, always download a theme from the authors homepage or from a site that you trust, ie. Smashing Magazine, Theme Forest…) and you suspect there maybe some code hidden within the theme and you don’t know how to remove it.
The Solution : Scan all of your theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code. Be aware of advertisements or dangerous JavaScript inserted into legitimate themes by third party theme download sites.
Note : Future versions will allow checking of other theme vulnerabilities.

DigoWatchWP

URL : DigoWatchWP.
The Problem : You have noticed that a text link has appeared on one of your posts, or an Ad you haven't authorised has appeared within your footer, what do you do?
The Solution : DigoWatchWP scans your blog posts and pages for changes. Whenever an entry has been changed it informs you via email. So if you receive an email and you have nothing changed you should have a closer look at your post or page. Maybe somebody changed your post or page to include a spam-link (e.g. links to OnlineCasino, adult-content are very popular).

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