"Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you‘ve created until it’s out there. That means every moment you’re working on something without it being in the public it‘s actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world. It’s even worse because development doesn’t happen in a vacuum — if you have a halfway decent idea, you can be sure that there are two or three teams somewhere in the world that independently came up with it and are working on the same thing, or something you haven‘t even imagined that disrupts the market you’re working in. (Think of all the podcasting companies — including Ev Williams’ Odeo — before iTunes built podcasting functionality in.)"

"This plugin provides an easy to use interface to create and administer custom post types in WordPress. Plugin can also create custom taxonomies. This plugin is created for WordPress 3.0."

"The twisted rational of dynamic pricing. Template sold better at 49 than at 39. Raised price to 49.50 and sales drop." see http://twitter.com/iA/status/6449252164

"set of script is designed to automate the deployment of Wordpress sites on a fresh server installation using an Nginx stack. The first script (vps-setup.sh) sets up and configures the server and deployment stack. The second (wordpress-setup.sh) installs a Wordpress site on this server. The Wordpress install script can be run multiple times on a given server if you would like to host multiple Wordpress sites on the same server."

"This plugin searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames."

Excellent advice on securing a WP installation. via @bokardo

"Webhooks are a simple paradigm for developing instant notifications and mashups based on simple HTTP requests. With HookPress you can set up webhooks so that a specified URL (a public service or something you set up) is requested when certain WordPress actions occur. Possible uses include generating push notifications or using non-PHP web technology to extend WordPress."

"allows you to create shorter URL's and keeps track of how many times a link has been clicked. It's useful for managing downloads, keeping track of outbound links and for masking URL's. Clicking the Clear All Clicks button will reset the count for each entry. Visit the plugin page for more information about this plugin."

"One of Joshua’s recommendations to minimize some of the harm is that websites do their own URL shortening instead of relying on middlemen. I’ve done some of that here, via the ShortURL plug-in for WordPress. Thus I use zeldman.com/x/48 instead of a much longer URL to notify my friends on Twitter about a new comment on an oldish thread. "

"an Atom/RSS aggregator for the WordPress weblog software. It syndicates content from feeds that you choose into your WordPress webblog; if you syndicate several feeds then you can use WordPress’s posts database and templating engine as the back-end of an aggregation ("planet") website."

"automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you choose, which are organized into campaigns. " Has some regex support too.

Wordpress theme that provides Twitter-like functionality

opensource social network

"MediaRSS is a way of embedding media into your feeds. The specification at http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/ provides for many kinds of media: audio, video, etc. This plugin is equipped to locate img tags in your posts and generate XML code that can be used by feed readers. Also included are code samples demonstrating how to extend the plugin's functionality to meet your needs. Some PHP experience is assumed."

plugs in to wordpress and mediawiki

"This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url. For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a visitor clicks through from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter. You can also set a default greeting message for new visitors (not matching any referrer URLs) suggesting them to subscribe to your RSS feed."

"Blog comments happen everywhere... Catch them and pull them back to your blog. Chat Catcher supports Twitter, FriendFeed, and identi.ca, along with any type of blog, and all url-shortening services. We translate short urls back to long urls, so you receive full search engine benefits. "

"Redirect WordPress RSS feeds to feedburner with .htaccess; Remove /category/ from your WordPress url; Using browser cache; Compress static data; Redirect Day and name permalinks to /%postname%/; How to: Deny comment posting to no referrer requests; Redirect visitors to a maintenance page; Protect your WordPress blog from hotlinking; Allow only your IP adress on the wp-admin directory; Banning a WordPress Spammer With .htaccess; "

Allow your readers to become citizen editors. gooseGrade is a free service that allows your readers to post spelling, grammar, factual, and other errors straight to you. After you or any other wordpress admin approves the edit, the gooseGrade plugin will automatically fix the error. It's like magic.

"an open source theme for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document (paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog."

nice little change in wp

good list

"a plugin that allows commenters on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. It is one of the most popular WordPress plugins out there for the simple reason that it helps foster a community around your blog by encouraging commenters to come back and stay engaged in the dialog."

"With this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website,and even doesn’t affect your search engine rankings."

"plugin is streamlined for some best practices for Wordpress SEO. While it gives you many options the defaults reflect the settings I recommend using."

collection of tutorials on WP themes

connect Pages to Categories, and let you display a Page’s content on top of category archives.

a plugin that permits the inclusion, in a post or in a page, of any type of file (even a php script that will be executed). use it to write some functionalities needed in some pages, without creating special template pages (that are theme dependant) and without using a "php code executor".

define how a widget grab posts that match all kinds of filters

handy plugin for managing roles in Wordpress

a plugin to hide categories on certain parts of a WP site

good ideas for things you might hard code in WP

pretty comprehensive list of WP resources

PDF that includes the following: * Basic Template Files * PHP Snippets for the Header * PHP Snippets for the Templates * And Extra Stuff for WordPress

allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.

allows for inline editing of the date, title, author, categories, tags, status and more on both posts and pages without leaving the “Manage” admin sections. No need to load each post or page individually. Simply double-click anywhere in the post or page row and when you’re done, press enter. Alternately, you can click the link in the new “Edit” column.

lets you to view, download and install plugins from wordpress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin.

svn sw http://kaytwo.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.0-RC7 .

To check out the code (dot at end is important): svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.6 . Update from inside installed directory with: "svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/{VERSION}/ ." (yes, that trailing dot is important)

has info on adapting WP to a CMS (fairly new...)

allows you to hides unwanted items like custom fields, trackbacks, revisions etc. but also gives you a whole lot more control over how WordPress deals with creating content! This helps you use WordPress more like a CMS

howto use the powerful macro-like feature in Wordpress 2.5

a lightweight script that lets you overlay images and documents in a small dialog without a page reload. It's built to be easy to install and use, while offering great flexibility.

Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions.

Remove version info from generated html: add this line to your functions.php file in the WordPress themes folder. <?php remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator'); ?>

plugin to automagically generate sitemaps

plugin searches the files and database of your website for signs of suspicious activity... scans db and files.

generates secret keys for your wp-config.php

TypePad AntiSpam is a free plugin. Users of WordPress 2.3 and 2.5 can download the plugin for free, and other platforms can use our 100% Akismet API-compatible implementation to extend their existing antispam support to use this service.

a plugin that automatically upgrades your wordpress version to the latest files provided by wordpress.org.

Clever! "If you have command-line access to your web server, and if your server has a Subversion (svn) client installed, you can use Subversion to install and update WordPress."

a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have.

complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. This keeps your site’s load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and

a plugin that will allow users to create custom write panels, alongside the existing Write Post and Write Page panels.

some of the most useful and most popular Wordpress plugins

UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status="closed";

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.