Finally the so awaited native solution to use Windows Live Messenger on Mac through iChat! Easy to install and set up, Cocoon adds MSN, Hotmail and Live Mail to your account list on the standard Mac instant messenger, making the user experience as it should have always been: simple, trustful and integrated with your system.

WP Super Cache is one of the top caching plugins for WordPress out there. In fact, it’s been downloaded more than 2 million times! (Not sure what blog caching is? Check out this post before you proceed!)

And the volume of installations are definitely an indication of it’s success in doing what most people need and that’s why I recommending it as a caching plugin for many clients and bloggers.

In fact, I use it for many of the properties that I actively manage! Here are a few:

Standard Theme WordPress Theme Demo
TentBlogger WordPress Themes Demo
State of the 8 Blog
And many more! Those are just a few that have been optimized for use of the plugin. This includes the WordPress Theme itself, plugins, server/hosting setup, and especially the WP Super Cache plugin itself.

As a result I highly recommend that you take a look at installing this for most (if not all) blogs – and it’s definitely essential to include as an option (of the many WordPress caching options) as you do your research for the right caching plugin!

So, what is it going to take? You see, 99% (or more) of self-hosted WordPress blogs run on an Apache + PHP-based web server configuration. I believe that to completely tweak-out a WordPress blog with W3TC you need either a NGINX + FastCGI configuration or a custom Litespeed + Op-Code in production (I personally run this setup with APC – Alternative PHP Cache). If you have no idea what I’m talking about then I think it’s only fair that one shouldn’t expect to get max and/or superior results unless they have one of those configurations or if you’re a kick butt at engineering an Apache-based environment.

This doesn’t even factor in one of the biggest contributing factors to this plugins’ success which is your blog’s hosting provider! A shared environment will always produce lower results than a virtual, semi-virtual, or dedicated system. In many circumstances you won’t be able to max this plugin out on a shared environment due to the host’s software installation and configuration constraints!

Finally, there are many other options within the plugin like using a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that further enhance the value of W3TC, even though adding a CDN is not a unique value proposition (WP Super Cache has this too). Some of these options, like a CDN, require not only additional technical ability but also money which most bloggers, especially new ones, simply can’t afford. This puts the optimal usage of W3TC even further away from the average blogger.

Of course, you could say the same thing about most of the caching plugins out there that “max” results require server-side engineering and scripting to pump out the best results!

In any case I typically recommend that most bloggers head back over to WP Super Cache as their caching plugin of choice since most server and hosting providers can natively provide an optimal return on a very simple installation.

Google Search has the annoying habit of changing the result link when you click it. If you try to copy the link you get some gibberish instead of the actual link. This extension disables this behavior - on any Google domain, without having to configure anything. Simply install and enjoy!

OpenPhoto plugin for Wordpress

Installation
To install this plugin just drag the openphoto-wordpress folder into your wp-content/plugins directory.

Connecting Wordpress to OpenPhoto
You'll need to go to Settings->OpenPhoto and enter the name of your OpenPhoto url. This is something like http://current.openphoto.me.



Clicking Save Changes will take you to your OpenPhoto site. You'll need to login, create an app and grant your blog access to it. Once complete you'll be redirected back to your Wordpress site.

Adding photos into your blog posts
Click the media icon like you normally would and then select the OpenPhoto tab. Here you'll be able to filter by tags and select the photo to embed into your post.

jQuery validation engine is a Javascript plugin aimed at the validation of form fields in the browser (IE 6-8, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera 10). The plugin provides visually appealing prompts that grab user attention on the subject matter.

Validations range from email, phone, and URL, to more complex calls such as ajax processing or custom javascript functions. Bundled with many locales, the error prompts can be translated into the language of your choice.

This is a “Daring Fireball Linked List” plugin for WordPress.

This plugin has two features:

It makes your blog’s RSS feed behave like Daring Fireball, which is great when you post links often. Shawn Blanc, who inspired this plugin, has a detailed writeup on the different behaviours of RSS link posts.
It sets the custom field “linked_list_url” to the first link in the post content. This is handy for using with the ‘Press This’ bookmarklet.

A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.

A jQuery plugin for rendering rich, fast-performing photo galleries
Galleriffic is a jQuery plugin that provides a rich, post-back free experience optimized to handle high volumes of photos while conserving bandwidth. I am not so great at spelling, and it was much later that I realized that the more appropriate spellings would be Gallerific or Gallerrific, but is too late now for a name change, so Galleriffic remains.


Features

Smart image preloading after the page is loaded
Thumbnail navigation (with pagination)
jQuery.history plugin integration to support bookmark-friendly URLs per-image
Slideshow (with optional auto-updating url bookmarks)
Keyboard navigation
Events that allow for adding your own custom transition effects
API for controlling the gallery with custom controls
Support for image captions
Flexible configuration
Graceful degradation when javascript is not available
Support for multiple galleries per page

It all began with a simple web foray to Designing Monsters. Their simple, typographic design was beautiful. But why? Their combination of the beautiful League Gothic font, use of Lettering.JS, and some simple font scaling gave the page a wonderful consistent vertical alignment. Like the Million Dollar Homepage, I wanted to rebuild it — but I didn’t want to spend a lot of time manually adjusting font sizes. So I did what any programmer with the jQuery Golden Hammer would do, I turned my problem into a nail.


At it’s simplest, the BigText jQuery plugin takes a single element and sizes the text inside of its child <div>s to fit the width of the parent element. Gives the text that lovely vertical alignment.

Glims adds a cocktail of features to Safari (Tabs, Thumbnails, Full Screen, Search Engines, Search Suggestions, Forms autocomplete on, Dated download folders, Type Ahead ...)

En smart plugin till WordPress för att "folda", vika, fälla ut, sidor som är underliggande sidor.

En lista på intressanta pluginer för WordPress

En WordPress-plugin som ger en rejäl ansiktslyftning till admingränssnittet som vanligtvis är rätt fult och tråkigt, om än funktionellt.

En WordPress-plugin som ger en "301 permanent redirect" om inte det är rätt permalänk för en postning, för att förhindra att två URL:er kan leda till samma artikel.

En WordPress-plugin som ger ett smidigt arkiv kan live-ändras på sidan så att säga, genom javascript förstås.

Ett tillägg till Firefox för att kunna göra kraftfulla saker med länkar på en sida, t.ex. öppna alla eller markerade i nya flikar.

En WP-plugin för att visa kommentarer från inloggade läsare på annat sätt.

En (egentligen två) WP-plugin som placerar alla *nya* pingbacks och trackbacks i modereringskö.

En plugin för att visa senaste bilderna från Gallery via RSS på en WP-blogg.

En WP-plugin för att enkelt lägga in Gallery-bilder i WP-postningar.

En plugin för WP som försöker stoppa kommentarsspam genom att lägga till ett hashat värde i ett fält som genereras via javascript. Verkar vara bra av kommentarerna att döma.

En WordPress-plugin som ger en liten lista på tidigare postningar/inlägg/artiklar.

En WP-plugin för att göra postningar utifrån en RSS-feed.

En WP-plugin för att skapa ett snyggare arkiv som är månadsuppdelat.

En WP-plugin för att gruppera arkivet efter år.

Ett samling WP-plugins från CHAITGEAR som kan göra flera olika saker, bland annat en feedreader.

En RSS-aggregator för att visa en RSS-feed. Ej som nya postningar.

Ännu en WP-plugin för att visa väderinfo.

Ett WP-hack för att visa väderinfo med ikon.

En WP-plugin för att visa väderinfo.

WP-plugin som kan dela upp en sida (arkivsidan t.ex.) i flera sidor.

WP-plugin som skapar en innehållsförteckning (TOC) för postningar. Bra för flersida postningar, artiklar, texter, inägg, whatever.

En WP-plugin som letar reda på liknande tidigare inlägg till det man läser.

WP-plugin för att visa nästa och tidigare i samma kategori.

WP-plugin för att visa tidigare och nästa datum ur arkivet.

En vidareutveckling av Customizable Post Listings för att användas med en variant av asides.

En WP-plugin för att visa senaste postningar, senaste kommenterade postningar, senaste ändrade, slumpmässiga mm.

En WordPress-plugin för att generera en bild med tecken i, för att förhindra automatiska spamkommentarer.

En plugin för WordPress som lägger till ett hidden field som måste vara med, ett litet sätt att försvåra för spambots.