PUBLIC MARKS with tag blogging

Enabling Atom 1.0 on Wordpress

created a plugin that binds a virtual host to a single WordPress category.

Create headers for Kubrick themes from Flickr photos

Windows Live Writer Plugins conventiently lists plugins, addons, hacks and tutorials for Windows Live Writer, a desktop blogging program that can post to various types of blogs.

The ImageManager plugin integrates the stand alone PHP ImageManager + Editor with WordPress. The ImageManager provides an interface for browsing and uploading image files on/to your server. The Editor allows for some basic image manipulations such as, cropping, rotation, flip, and scaling.

Windows Live Writer and Ultimate Tag Warrior

A brand new blogging engine with a `keep it simple` philosophy. Designed from the ground-up to be fully buzzword compliant (AJAX, RSS, Web 2.0 - it`s all there), logahead lets you effortlessly do what blogs were invented for:<br /> Put your words on the web. Just blog.

The TrackBack Validator plugin for WordPress performs a simple but very effective test on all TrackBacks in order to stop spam.

AdSense-Deluxe is an easy-to-use plugin for WordPress 1.5+ (including WP 2.0) for quickly inserting Google or Yahoo! ads into your blog posts, and managing when and where those ads are displayed.

This plugin will add a special CSS class to all links in your entries and in your comments that go to external sites (sites other than your site).

Sociable: Quick Social Bookmarking Plugin for Wordpress

Canvas brings the freedom to express yourself through design without needing to know CSS or PHP. With Canvas and Ink, you can easily rearrange, reconfigure, and colorize your entire blog without ever touching a line of code.

Classic CSS explained<br /> Personalise your WordPress Weblog

Sideblog is a plugin for Wordpress Blog Platform. It is one way of implementing “Asides” - a series of “short” posts, 1-2 sentences in length.

interesting ideas on how to merge in ad code with Wordpress.

High Performance WordPress

Most of highly trafficked and highly commented wordpress blogs rely upon some smart caching solution or another. However it may not be enough to prevent slowing down your server if your post(s) are heavily commented upon.

instantly create your own Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed and post things to the Web just by sending a message with your present instant messaging account.

Wordpress Guides by Podz

This plugin redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com. It does this without the need to modify templates, setup new hidden feeds, modify .htaccess files, or asking users to migrate to a new feed. All existing feeds simply become Feedburner feeds seamlessly and transparently for all users. Just tell the plugin what your Feedburner feed URL is and you're done.

Recently I had my blog posts divided into three columns with different blog posts appearing in each one. I’ve now switched back to two columns, putting my blog design/tech posts in one and my personal/life posts in the other. Here’s how I set it up (and this can be extended to as many columns/areas as you’d like):