Meep’s Musings

Archive for the ‘Plugins’ Category

What you need for this is first of all the SimpleTags plugin and an icon (quick image search). You will need to edit the file simpletags.php in your ‘wp-content/plugins’ folder.

(more…)

A very personal selection of so-called extensions (i.e. add-ons) for the Firefox browser. They add certain functions to your browser, most of them very useful (not all, though :P). Remember however that the more extensions you install, the longer your Firefox takes to load.

(more…)

Though I wouldn’t necessarily claim I can write PHP code from scratch, I like to dabble with it once in a while - especially I like to hack scripts which are part of packages like Wordpress, Pixelpost or Coppermine. And now I found the perfect plugin for the latter: CoppermineFetch!

(more…)

Spam Karma2

If your blog is hit by comment, ping back and referer spam and you’re tired of deleting everything by hand, Spam Karma 2 comes to the rescue. Through a variety of filters, it calculates each comment’s karma, reliably sorting out all illegitimate feedback (which has bad karma). It works very well and helps you get rid of all unwanted messages pronto. The myriad options are a bit intimidating at first and can be left at their default values, since Spam Karma 2 works its magic either way.

[tags]wordpress, plugins, spam karma2, spam[/tags]

I love YouTube! Even more so now that I can download the countless videos of Corrs performances, TV show bloopers, music videos and other entertaining stuff with KeepVid (or this handy Firefox extension). See, it doesn’t take much to make me happy ;)!

myMooMus

This plugin with a rather cryptic name has finally been released in version 2.0 which means that now you can have your mood displayed as text and image - kinda like the mood themes known from LiveJournal. Of course it’s not only restricted to that but can also show your music, the weather, etc.

It’s easy to set-up (all you need is a mood theme, which shouldn’t be hard to come by ;)) and even easier to use: on your “Write Post” page, a section called “myMooMus” will appear under the text area, in which you can choose your mood and fill out the other fields. Click on “Publish” and voilà, you’re done.

I’ve made the following few adjustments:

• inserted a blank space between mood image and mood text
• added a class called “meta” to my theme style sheet to format the text displayed

Auto-close comments

This plugin shuts off your comments and pingbacks after 21 days - which helps to fight spam efficiently. All you have to do after activating the plugin is edit one random entry, and it kicks in. You can also specify the number of days the plugin should close the comments after posting.

Audio player

(more…)