Matt Read, Flibbertigibbet

One of the many exciting features of CSS 3 is the ability to create columnar text. In this article I will show you a way to fake two column text with a little Javascript.

Introducing the Preview Drafts Plugin version 1.1. This little plugin will allow you preview any Post or Draft in your current theme. The post/draft MUST be saved, as a post or a draft, before you can preview it. I had released this plugin earlier, but never mentioned it here, so I decided to update it a bit.

This plugin will try to automatically fill in the information (title, description, URI's) of new sites you add to the WordPress Link Manager. Simply enter in the URI, click go, and the plugin will try to find a RSS feed. From the RSS feed it will get the Site Name, Description, URI, and RSS URI. If it can't find the RSS feed, then it will just get the HTML title of the site.

There have many concerns and question about the template system used in WordPress. Mostly the concerns are with n00bs and the complications of PHP. “I want to change this and that, but don't know PHP”. I hear this a lot. But the thing is, you don't need to know PHP to change the Templates in WordPress.

I wrote this plug-in because I didn't like the default WordPress smilies :-), and thought it would be great if we could have "packages" of smilies that you could choose from. So here it is, a plug-in that allows you to choose between different sets of smilies. Hopefully there will be many people that do up some great smilies packages. 8-)

This plugin will add the Spam Karma 2 spam count message, as Spam Karma 1 did, to the footer of your page. For the default message, all that is required is the installation of the plugin, but you can customize the message.

This plugin, only for WP 1.5, will allow you to set the number posts to show for all the different "query views" and each your categories in WordPress. You can choose how many posts or days, and what to order them by, for any of the queries and/or categories. All this easily set from an options page within the admin area.

This plugin will add a bar at the top of your template file with links to the admin sections of WordPress. However it will only add this bar for users that are logged in.

I wrote this small plugin to output the total number of blocked referrers from Referrer Karma. It is a very small and easy plugin and will only require the addition of a small template tag. The plugin will also add a link to the RK setup page within the WordPress admin area.

This plugin will add a bar at the top of your template file with links to the admin sections of WordPress. However it will only add this bar for users that are logged in and have a user level equal to, or above 1.

This small and easy script will fix the problem with transparent backgrounds in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) in Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE). It uses a small script, which you call in your Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) with a behavior attribute. Note that this will only work for images defined with the img tag, and will not work for CSS backgrounds.