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As a WordPress enthusiast, guru, and lover, I use plugins every single day and am constantly researching new plugins — even creating plugins.

These are the top 9 plugins that I’m in love with. Check them out and see if they’re a great fit for you. (more…)

We’ve moved the Journal of Web Semantics blog from a self-hosted Wordpress installation to Google-hosted blogger. We’ve moved the old posts (manually!) and the recommended public feed remains the same: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ jwsBlog.

I will be giving two presentations at the Appalachian College Association 2008 Summit on Thursday. This will be in Abingdon, VA. The first presentation will be a review of the literature on information literacy with Janice McDonnell. The second presentation will be on using open source software in libraries with Laura Slavin. The presentation I am doing with Laura showcases WordPress and its potential for library Web sites, including the dynamically generated subject guides.

With a few lines added to your WordPress theme’s style sheet you can transform boring widget titles into a smorgasbord of colors, small fonts, big fonts, backgrounds, borders - you name it. This post will show you how.

But please no flashing text (i.e.
blinking text).

WordPress themes normally apply the same style to all of the widget titles within your sidebars.

A huge thanks to Loren for stepping in last minute to moderate the Tools & Plugins panel at IzeaFest.  It turned out to be a great session, as I was initially hoping for.

Here’s a quick summary wrap-up of what I talked about during the session.

I tried to focus on RSS and SEO, so here is the quick recap list of plugins I use on a daily basis.

So you want to put an ad or an image in your sidebar. And you want it to link to another site. And you want to do it easily, without having to muck about with the code in the text widget.

While there are many WordPress plugins that offer sophisticated ad management, there are not many that offer a simple solution.

Well, we are pleased to announce a new WordPress Plugin - Simple Image Link.

WP Image Link lets you easily add images to your sidebar, be they advertisements, buttons of support or buttons of protest without the need for any HTML.

There have been so many great posts written about WordPress last month, and rather than rewrite what’s already out there, I thought I’d point you to my favorites.  If you know of any terrific posts I’ve missed, please let me know!

Yep. That’s exactly what this is. Yet another cool WordPress plugins post pointing out some of the freebie plugins used on The Web Optimist blog. Of course, most of these are used with SEO in mind. Might as well jump right in.

When you self host your own WordPress blog you have access to the most basic of WordPress functionality.

If you’ve ever wanted to publish a specific post on a particular day in the future, it’s very simple to do if you’re using WordPress.

Once you have written your post, instead of hitting the save or publish button, click the edit button next to publish immediately.

As you can probably see my blog has undergone major cosmetic surgery.

I installed the latest version of WordPress 2.5.1 and the major problem I had was all the plugins available. Every time I found a cool plugin I would load it and…

You may have seen this symbol  next to links on various pages of the Web. It denotes that the link (which is usually placed before the symbol) is an external link.

If you’ve ever wanted to differentiate internal links from external links on your blog, there is a fairly simple way of doing it, and all it requires is a few lines of text added to your stylesheet.

In this post, we’ll show you how to do it.

I recently wrote an article for code4lib journal. The article is called

We have had a lot of positive feedback for our “
Redirecting a WordPress.com Blog” document, and a common issue is redirection not working due to the permalinks of the new blog not being set to the style used by WordPress.com.

This was first raised by Eric P and he helped out by writing his own execllent post on
redirecting a WordPress.com blog - thanks Eric.

What you will see for the next few days (or weeks) is the rebuilding of this blog after my hosting company went MIA overnight. They haven’t been the most stable host I’ve ever had. My blog would be up and down and, after being unavailable for writing or editing most of last week, I took the plunge and moved to a new host.

Unfortunately, the latest backup I have is over a month old, so expect yet more reposts as I try to replace lost content. I don’t even know if the old hosting company will re-emerge. Their site is still unavailable, too.