Syntactic Whitespace

To my surprise Wordpress 2.1 was released almost a week ahead of schedule … so the sight might be down this week at some time while I upgrade … Just thought I would let all three of my readers know.

I asked 3 people in the wordpress irc channel on freenode irc.freenode.net #wordpress
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from Sionide in the irc here are his top 5
1. Akismet - A very good antispam plugin for wordpress … comes with it , you need an api key to use this , keys are free
2. Dunstan’s Time of Day
3. WP Admin Bar2
4. Tiger Style Administration
5. Countdown

And we have a LOAD of plugins from Chris …you can view the list on his site Here

1. Audio Player
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   1 pixel out is a cool player for wordpress … it is the same player included with podpress

2. Acronyms

   Adds better <acronym> tag support to wordpress

3. Democracy 2.0
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   Democracy2.0.1 is a plugin for polls and it comes with a matching widget

4. Filosofo Uncheck Default Category

   Automatically unchecks the default category when you select another

5. Fancy Tooltips
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   Fancy tooltips does just what the name says , it makes your hover tooltips look fancy..
   click on the screenshot link for a better idea of what it does

6. Firestats
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   Firestats is a really cool wordpress plugin that gives you detailed statistics and has an ajax interface

7. Footnotes

   This is a very cool plugin where you enter certian markup (”[[]]”) in a post and it references a footnot

8. No WWW

   Automatically removes the www from your domain name …redirects www.domain.tld to domain.tld

9. RunPHP

   Allows the execution of php in posts and pages

10. Search Everything

    Adds search functionality with little setup. Including options to search pages, attachments, drafts, comments and custom fields (metadata).

11. Spark Stats
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    Sparkstats is a cool stats plugin that is a lot different than the rest , basically it generates a little graph that you can put in your sidebar or anywhere else on your site

12. Google Sitemaps

    Adds a google sitemap to your blog

More Info Coming soon

13. iG:Syntax Hiliter
14. Spam Karma 2
15. Ultimate Tag Warrior
16. WP-Cron
17. WP-Mint
18. WP-Contact Form
19. WordPress Database Backup
20. WP-Admin bar
21. Sidebar Modules
22. Enhanced Search Widget

…I haven’t posted in a week or so …And I haven’t checked the blogofficial wordpress blog …. man the wordpress guys didn’t let me down….they added not one …not two …but THREE new themes ….2 of which I really like …1 being UNsleepAble and the other being K2 there is also a brand new theme I have never even heard of…Gotta check it out’
…if you are not using wordpress I HIGHLY recommend you make the switch Also…with all of these cool new themes …expect my theme to switch regularly

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After my review of Windows Live Writer I thought I would review its companion product … Windows Live Spaces 

I have to say …. Im pretty suprised by Spaces …Its pretty nice… I mean … its no wordpress … but its pretty sweat

For my full review with pictures click to read more

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I just foind this really cool app called Windows Live Writer  I have to say …for everything microsoft has done…Maybe …Just maybe…they got something right… this thing is nice…It lets you do anything that the web interface does ….Except easier it even does catagories, tags , comments (enable/disable) , trackbacks , pings , timestamps , blockquotes ..everything …And for ONCE …just ONCE they are NOT forcing you to use there service …msn spaces ….Im using it right now for wordpress…and also …it is VERY easy …it took me about 30 seconds to startup (and thats with downloading posts too) All it needed was my blog address and user/pass

Im writing this post with it now …Here are some pictures :

You can even insert maps from  Windows Live Maps

(pictured –> )

Overall this is a pretty neat piece of software…even if microsoft made it…It is very smooth and integrates well  , even with non-microsoft products (*gasp*) it is even STANDARDS COMPLIANT (*double gasp!!!*)

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