On today’s show, Kym will show us a great site if you want to learn a bit of the… less optimistic history out there, Today in Rotten History, because we live in a slightly mad world.
Monthly Archive for June, 2008
On today’s Cool Site, we’re turning the spotlight on a great little site to learn and use HTML: HTML Playground.
When I logged onto my computer last night to do a last-minute blog post before hitting the pillow, I was surprised, but in a good way, at the title of the first post in the WordPress dashboard.
I had a sneaking suspicion that it could be, might not be, but most likely was, a post about me. Interest turned to suspicion, suspicion to tempered excitement, and tempered excitement to elation as I discovered that I had unintentionally invaded all the blogs on the Internet powered by the WordPress engine.
I finally did it everyone. I invaded the WordPress blogs of millions of people everywhere in the form of the latest news post by WordPress guru Mark Gosh from the Weblog Tools Collection. In the dashboards of everyone everywhere are little news posts titled “Uber Unique Prize for Plugin Competition”. Click here to read the post.
The annual WordPress Plugin Competition has started with a prize pool of over $3,500 USD for the winners. There’s already some great plugins developed for the competition including personal favorite of mine SEO Smart Links by Vladimir Prelovac.
If you are a plugin developer, get in there and enter the competition! Maybe I’ll even write a song for you. As for me… what next? World domination of course whahey!
We’re all here this week for a WordCast that will knock your socks off! (Please pick them up. We don’t like socks on the floor.) From stats, premium websites, to German plugins, you’ll find it all in this week’s show.
- WordPress stats are so awesome, even MovableType’s using it. (Even though none of us do!)
- Top Gear Magazine’s blog is now on WordPress
- Info on WP 2.6… is this new?
- WPforSale.com is a listing of everything WordPress that’s NOT free.
- $3500+ in prizes for the Weblog Tools Collection plugin contest!
- Tip of the Week: Moving WordPress within your site
- Blogger’s Glossary
- Beth’s pick: WordPress Voting plugin
- Kym’s pick: SEO Friendly Images plugin
- Dave’s (German) pick: Reveal IDs plugin
- Twitter’s got some problems. But we love it anyway.
Kym brings you an awesome online text editor to type distraction free: DarkCopy!
To see one’s own work in print? What a rush!
Check out some of the latest issues of Beckett Magazine’s “Plushie Pals” for articles penned by none other than myself about the online Internet game called Neopets.
Hello Internet! Back today recording the latest episode of WordCast and doing bits and pieces here for the Bitwire.TV Network including daily show segments for Best of the Net’s Cool Site segment. Looks like the podcasting episodes are going up a notch with a few new podcasts coming out soon and some old ones returning (duh duh duuuhhhh)!
With end-of-semester finals now out of the way, I can finally breathe again (whahey)! Time to get stuck into everything again so if you’ve been somewhat happy that I haven’t been spamming your inboxes with the latest shenanigans that I’ve been up to, prepare to be… inundated… with flair and style woo!
Honestly though, I still haven’t gotten myself out of that, “Hmm, I should really be studying,” mentality. Give me a few more days and I’ll be in full holiday mode I think. Now… off to unpack and clean my room.
Good to be back. Good. To. Be. Back!

So mum surprised me today, after one of her shopping trips, with a bag with one of those phrases on them… “Calvin Klein”. Collectively… ohhhhhhhh.
It with with excitement that I opened it up to see what lay inside. After what seemed like eternity, for my hands were moving at Baywatch slow motion speed, I pulled out… underwear!
Yes everyone… my mum still buys me underwear. At least they’re cool… right?

Jeff Chandler of WordPress Weekly and Weblog Tools Collection joins us as a guest host this week to talk about the latest in WordPress and blogging world.
- 3G iPhone gets blogging capability
- WP site hacked? Holy Shmoley knows what to do
- WordPress Plugin Competition prizes
- 2007 Plugin Competition Winners
- Lorelle with info on how to sneak around blocks
- What to do if deactivating a plugin kills your blog
- Kym’s pick: AJAX Edit Comments plugin
- Jeff’s pick: WP Comment Remix plugin
- Dave’s pick: Maintainance Mode plugin






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