11.30.06

Themes & Plugins for Wordpress - Who Wants What?

Posted in general at 4:27 pm by Clinton

I was thinking about adding some extras to our wordpress install now that the marking is out of the way. So, for those of you with a byteclub blog hosted here, let me know (email or comment) what you would like. That goes for themes too. I know that people have posted on themes and plugins in the past, but in order to make an up-to-date list, let me know now and ill make it happen.

The first one on my list is http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/feedburner-plugin/ - to send your RSS feed out to feedburner, which then allows tracking and better sharing to the world.

This is a limited time opportunity for me to do things, so let me know. :)

Once I have the aggregated blog+comment feeds they way I want (i’m working on getting blogger comments as a feed… not as easy as I would have hoped - suggestions), I’m intending to send the aggregated byteclyb feed out to feedburner. What do you think? I’m also thinking of a aggregated byteclub “activity” feed that could include changes to the wiki, news and the blogs. Hmm…

5 Comments

  1. Andrew Walker said,

    November 30, 2006 at 9:19 pm

    I’d love to have some facility to track when and how many people looked at my blog - it would be nice to know that someone other than me occasionally reads the things I write down.

  2. Clinton said,

    December 1, 2006 at 1:15 pm

    Okay - we can do that. Options I know of include
    http://www.ozpolitics.info/blog/?p=32 (referral tracker)
    http://www.redalt.com/External/plugins.php?p=popularity-contest (”Popularity Contest” - my vote at the moment)

    There’s a top-ten plugin list at http://cavemonkey50.com/2006/03/the-top-ten-wordpress-plugins/

    I’m heading for
    http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior/ for tag’in fun
    http://fucoder.com/code/permalink-redirect/ to help with clean stats

    Also checking out
    http://www.wildbits.de/mygallery/ photo gallery
    http://cavemonkey50.com/code/ (plugins)
    http://guff.szub.net/plugins/ (plugins)
    http://www.marketingop.us/2006/06/06/seo-plugin/ tag-warrior plus “SEO” friendly features :) interesting

    I’m also thinking that i’ve got to have a serious look at wordpress mu (multi-user) and see if that’s actually a better solution than what we currently do with John’s nifty db selection trick.

  3. Jonathan said,

    December 1, 2006 at 11:18 pm

    Wow, that;s quite a list of things you’ve been looking at. I’ve just been looking at making a new theme, with just a few different styles. Of course

    Also, a sort of theme editor, where you can just pick and choose what features you want would be nice. (Tick the box to have a calendar, tick the box to have a picture of you somewhere, etc.)

    Then again, it’s all subject to whether or not we all have time. I wouldn’t mind designing my own theme the way I want, but i doubt I’ll have the time or patience. Maybe a feature to just change the colours of a theme? I know that the CSS shouldn’t be changed unless you’re in full favor of cross-browser support.

  4. Gatesy said,

    December 4, 2006 at 8:46 am

    I like the idea of having a meebome IM widget in my blog so somebody can drop me a line without have to post a comment on a blog if it’s not relevant there.

    A few more themes would be nice, too.

  5. Mark said,

    February 7, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    Mr Clinton,

    Would it possible to make the files within the wp-content/themes folder and the .htaccess file writable(777) so we can create our own themes?