Posts Tagged With: plugin
· August 1, 2008 at 6:56 am · Desktop, Resources
Tags: copy, customize, edit, free, ico, icons, paint.net, plugin, Resources
I had an idea to customize a few of my default Vista icons, but had no way of doing so. I had the icon files, but no way to edit them. So after doing some browsing around I did come up with a solution to my icon editing woes.
First Step? Get Paint.NET!
First step was to pickup Paint.NET. This is an awesome free image editor with all the bells and whistles of your hundred-dollar programs.
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
Grab the Paint.NET ICO Plugin
Well worth having, just as a backup image editor if nothing else. Since Paint.net does not have .ico support built in by default, I picked up this plugin from Evan’s Web Site. To use it, all you need to do is unzip and then put it in the “FileTypes” folder in the Paint.NET directory.
Startup Paint.NET and try dragging and dropping an .ico icon onto the canvas. Thanks to this neat plugin, it will open just as any other image would open. With saving as an .ico, I had a few errors at times but doing it again or changing the name of the file seems to have helped.
So there is a totally free way to edit and create custom desktop icons for your next design project or desktop redecoration.
· April 8, 2008 at 7:12 am · Odds & Ends
Tags: links, plugin, related posts, RSS, visitors, WordPress
The WordPress Related Posts plugin might be the best of the bunch. I have added this to a few of my various projects and online homes and I have to say I am really impressed that all you do is pretty much install, fill in some options and you are done.
Once activated, this plugin will automatically slip related links after all of your stories, articles and posts on your WordPress powered blog.
To your right here you can see what the admin interface looks like for the plugin. Pretty simple stuff. If you wish it will also add related posts to your RSS feed too.
If you want a simple way to keep people on your web site a little longer - related links to other stories they might be interested in is one of the best ways to do it. This WordPress Releated Posts plugin is hands down the easiest of the many out there that do this sort of thing to get up and running. On the web page for it, it says it is only for WordPress 2.3, but it has given me no problems at all on WordPress 2.5.
· August 9, 2007 at 6:51 am · Personal, Web Development
Tags: battle, copyright, feeds, plugin, RSS, sblogs, scrapping, theft, WordPress
I made my battle with feed scrapers a few weeks back pretty widely known. It is a pain in the rear to deal with, and personally I feel sorry for anybody who has to deal with it on a day to day basis. Nobody likes having their content stolen and re-published elsewhere.
Since then I got a lot of good advice from a lot of people. The thing that seems to have worked the best was the RSS Signature plugin for WordPress.
Here is a little more about the plugin from the developer:
That’s a great question. Sig2feed’s primary goal is to provide a simple administration interface to allow the addition of a custom tagline, signature or © copyright message to the wordpress generated rss feeds. You can add any kind of message, tag, or even images — as long as it can be displayed in an RSS feed, it’s up to you. Cool huh?
After installing it on all my WordPress run web sites I have noticed the feed scraping has died down again to a minimum. When all is said and done, it just works. The plugin gives you an easy to understand options page where you can insert any copyright message of your choice - and then places it at the end of each of your RSS feed items.
If your looking for a suggestion to tame down the content stealing bandits - give the RSS Signature plugin for WordPress a shot.
