Planet WordPress

James reviews some of the multi-blog software out there. It includes a positive review of WPMU. Yes, it does need work but it is getting better every day!

I Like the look of those Flickr badges running on a lot of sites. I don’t like that it uses Flash though so imagine my delight when I came across the WordPress Flickr DHTML Badge Plugin. It’s easy to install and configure, and only needs one line added to your sidebar.php to activate!
I’m already running it on In Photos and it’s great!
And in case that’s not enough, here’s some more Flickr goodness!

This is why WordPress.com strips Javascript from posts. The potential for devilment is limitless without filtering!

A month and a half ago, I put up a group of untested WordPress themes hoping that people would help review them (so they could be added to the theme browser and main theme list). So far, only one person (thanks Trevor!) has reviewed any of the themes¹.

While I know it takes a bit of time to review each theme², I’m a bit disspointed that more themes haven’t been reviewed. If you or someone you know is a competent PHP programmer and use WordPress, consider taking 20 minutes to review a theme as a way of giving back to the community.

1. As a result, a few were removed and a few were added to the ‘final review’ list. [back]
2. Trust me, I know. I reviewed the 135 that are currently in the theme browser (and many of those multiple times as the authors kept sending in new versions). [back]

Hmm, this PHP validator could be a very useful start to creating a safe template editor for WordPress.

Justin Mason’s site is now running on WordPress, and umm, has been since August 22nd.
Oops, thought I visited there more often!

Wow! I’m impressed! FAlbum is a Flickr plugin for WordPress. It’s simple to install and configure, except make sure you put the rewrite rules above any WP ones, especially if you’re using WP 1.6!
It displays your Flickr albums, most recent photos, and lots of other pretty stuff, all inside your blog!
There’s a longer feature list above, and a few demo pages. This is definitely one project I’m going to keep an eye on for the future!
Later… The FAlbum plugin is now running on my new photography site In Photos displaying all my Flickr photos in a nice album!