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This plugin generates a Photofeed (aka PhotoCast, or an RSS-based image stream), from your WordPress posts. If you have a category which contains images or pictures, you can use this plugin to turn that category on your blog into a screensaver or other eye-candy.

With a WPCMS site, some pages are "special" pages - order return pages and error pages for example - which you might not want included in a sitemap. Likewise, some sites have a page which has a lot of additional content based on the variables supplied (an example of this is the Dog and Lemon Guide's Japanese Vehicle Recall database, which lists recalls affecting 46,000,000 vehicles from 21 car companies).

For a few sites, I've used WordPress as a CMS, and if you're using lots of pages and few posts, the default menu arrangement is a little leftwards. So here's a simple plugin that makes WordPress default to creating Pages (not Posts) when clicking the "Write" menu, and list Pages (not Posts) when clicking the "Manage" menu.

That's all it does. Download it and use it: xb Pages Are Default

Frog Blog uses Favatars, a favicon.ico / avatar plugin. Recently (after a server upgrade) we had to rebuild the favatar index on 25,000 comments, and this ... was going to take a while. About seven hours. Ugh.

After a look at the favatars code, it was pretty obvious what needed to be done. So here, thanks to the environmentally conscious open source movement, is a much faster favatars.php. (More like five minutes. Aaah.)

This plugin, xb Tag-Out Regex Wrestling Teammate, allows you to cast a steely samurai gaze over a given post and extract in an instant the tag you seek.

Say, for example (this is what I made it for), you have a post with an image in it. You want to yank the image (tag) only, and display that in a query somewhere else. You need this plugin and a line of code like this inside the loop that will show your extracted image:

<?php echo xb_extractor("<img[^>]*>"); ?>

WordPress 2.0 doesn't log 404s to the system log (eg Apache system log) by default.

That's no good!

But this plugin fixes it: Log-404 plugin

That's nice.

I didn't write this plugin, I just like it.

This is a very silly Voice Synthesis Plugin for WordPress. It makes the webserver speak the viewed page title out loud. It's about six lines long and deserves to be. I hope it makes you laugh like it did me.

It uses OSX 10.3 (or later) 'say' command out of the box. If you aren't using OSX, simply alias 'say' to your favourite commandline voice synth (festival etc). Haha, if you've played with festival you already know just how easy that is.

I think, with some careful HTML you could get away with not using this plugin at all.

But, if you want a version of wp_list_cats() or list_cats() that works fine inside an ADxMenu, without having to hack your main WordPress code, then you might like this plugin ... it adds the functions adx_wp_list_cats() and adx_list_cats(), which are almost functionally identical but don't make ADxMenu misbehave.

For the Frog. Because it's hard to type when you have green thumbs!

This is a stats plugin to do some tricks for the election here in Aotearoa this year, on the Green Party campaign blog. I neeed to source license OK from GPNZ before I can release the code (still working on it, license questions can wait until it's working, ahaha).