WordPress PageRank Widget Plugin
There are a number of PageRank plugins for WordPress, but it seems that all of them involve manually editing the template to incorporate them. With the lack of a better option, I took it upon myself to develop a WordPress plugin to display PageRank in a widget. And thus, the PageRank Widget for WordPress was born.
Disqus vs. Intense Debate
I recently made the move to install Disqus here on GeekLad. I had been running it on WealthBoy for a while and decided to go ahead and install it here as well. I did also take a look at IntenseDebate, but in the end Disqus won out.
WordPress Plugins
Alternate Recent Posts Widget
Out of necessity (because I could not find an alternative), I wrote my first WordPress plugin. It provides a recent posts widget that works exactly the same as the built-in Recent Posts widget, except that it does not display posts that are already displayed within the main page content.
I did not like the way the default Recent Posts Widget would duplicate posts, so I hacked it to remove duplicate content. After having hacked it, I decided it would be nice to package it as a plugin since other people may have the same problem with the default Recent Posts widget.
PageRank Widget
My PageRank Widget plugin displays a badge with PageRank info. You can either display the PageRank information for the entire website (http://www.yourdomain.com) or individual pages (http://www.yourdomain.com/example-of-an-individual-page).
Free eBay Store
The Free eBay Store allows you to easily embed eBay products within blog posts, pages, or even display them within a widget. It’s a great free alternative to some of the other products out there that people are charging money for.
Amazon Niche Store
The Amazon Niche Store was inspired by my Free eBay Store, and in fact much of the plugin code was borrowed from it. It works very similar to the Free eBay Store, but rather than display products offered on eBay it displays products offered on Amazon.com.
If you’re a fan of any one of my plugins, please do feel free to leave a donation. Thanks!
New Theme Marketplace
This morning I read about a new theme marketplace that Envato has launched. The marketplace is called ThemeForest and it features themes for WordPress, Drupal, Typepad, Movable Type, Blogger, Joomla, and more. The prices for themes range from $10 to $50. It seems like the Our Community theme has made the most money so far, with 53 sales @ $30 each for a gross total of $1,590 (the author’s cut is probably 25% – 35% of that).
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