Testing Page Pagination: Noynoy, Kris, Lee Kuan Yew, atbp.

Note: This post is to test the autopagination plugin of Simon Wheatley. Post is originally 1,278 words and is test-paginated to cut page to a 450-word page. It is noted that the plugin has been tested to WP2.9.2 only. We are using PHP5 and WordPress 3.0.
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Now that Benigno Simeon Aquino III has been inaugurated as President of the Republic, all we have now is great expectations… a good start, nonetheless.

For a long time the Philippine political horizon has had no bright light which would promise an end to decades of corruption in government. What started as a flicker of hope when Noynoy announced his candidacy for the presidential post has now kindled into a real flame with his successful bid for the highest post in the land. We have high hopes that he truly is the one who would lead us out of the morass that we are in. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 3% [?]

Picking up PicApp where we left off

How easy is it now to embed a picapp image in your WordPress post?

We would say, much easier than when we were testing it some months ago. If you have the picapp plugin in your WordPress install, the piccapp search/select window is right in your Add / Edit post window.

The above is an example of a photo grabbed from one of the photos displayed by picapp. Photo caption by picapp:

ITAR-TASS 57: MOSCOW, RUSSIA. MARCH 10, 2010. Furniture is carried from the burned Moscow office of food wholesaler OAO MosRegionTorg, at 8 Novaya Perevedenovskaya Street. No casualties or injuries reported. (Photo ITAR-TASS / Valery Sharifulin)

Popularity: 8% [?]

WordPress Plugins

Here are some WordPress plugins which we started testing as from WordPress 2.7. We need to re-test if the plugins are working with WordPress 2.9.2

Active plugins working alright. Or, so it seems anyway. Snazzy Archives plugin output would require a wide sidebar-less layout for “best viewing” of course. [13 March 2010]

There are 25 plugins used: 14 active plugins and 11 inactive plugins.

Active Plugins

  Akismet 2.3.0
» Automattic (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need an API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.

  Autopaginate 1.0
» Simon Wheatley (url)
Provide the ability to automatically paginate your posts by scattering the <--!nextpage--> quicktag throughout.

  Exclude Pages from Navigation 1.8
» Simon Wheatley (url)
Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will remove the pages from any “consumer” side page listings, which may not be limited to your page navigation listings.

  Google News 2.5.1
» Olav Kolbu (url)
Displays a selectable Google News RSS feed, inline, widget or in theme.

  PicApp 1.3
» Watershed Studio, LLC (url)
PicApp WordPress plugin.

  Popularity Contest 2.0b2
» Crowd Favorite (url)
This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values. Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports. You can also use the included Widgets and Template Tags to display post popularity and lists of popular posts on your blog.

  Snazzy Archives 1.4.1
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site which creates completely unique archive pages.

  Theme Test Drive 2.7.4
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Safely test drive any theme while visitors are using the default one. Includes instant theme preview via thumbnail.

  Thumbnail For Excerpts 2.1
» Radu Capan (url)
Thumbnail For Excerpts allow easily, without any further work, to add thumbnails wherever you show excerpts (archive page, feed…).

  User Photo 0.9.4
» Weston Ruter (url)
Allows users to associate photos with their accounts by accessing their “Your Profile” page. Uploaded images are resized to fit the dimensions specified on the options page; a thumbnail image is also generated. New template tags introduced are: userphoto_the_author_photo, userphoto_the_author_thumbnail, userphoto_comment_author_photo, and userphoto_comment_author_thumbnail. Uploaded images may be moderated by administrators. This plugin is developed at Shepherd Interactive for the benefit of the community.

  Viper's Video Quicktags 6.2.14
» Viper007Bond (url)
Easily embed videos from various video websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo into your posts.

  WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

  WP-SpamFree 2.1.1.2
» WP-SpamFree (url)
An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well.

  WP125 1.3.9
» Matt Harzewski (redwall_hp) (url)
Easily manage 125×125 ads within your WordPress Dashboard.

Inactive Plugins

  Contact Form 7 1.9
» Takayuki Miyoshi (url)
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.

  Exclude Pages from Navigation 1.4
» Simon Wheatley (url)
Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will remove the pages from any “consumer” side page listings, which may not be limited to your page navigation listings.

  Featured Content Gallery 3.2.0
» iePlexus (url)
Used to create a customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. FeaturedContentGallery.com: plugin page, instructions, gallery and support.

  Featured Content Gallery 2.0
» Jason Schuller (url)
Used to create a fully automated featured content gallery anywhere within your wordpress theme.

  FeedWordPress 2010.0127
» Charles Johnson (url)
simple and flexible Atom/RSS syndication for WordPress

  Hello Dolly 1.5.1
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page.

  Live Blogroll 0.5.1
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Shows a number of ‘recent posts’ for each link in your Blogroll using Ajax.

  Picturesurf Gallery 1.2
» AlanEdge, dzenkovich (url)
Picturesurf Gallery plugin allows you to create, insert and manage picturesurf.org Galleries in your blog posts!

  Thank Me Later 1.4.1
» Brendon Boshell (url)
Sends a customizable “thank you” message after (a few hours, few days, weeks) a comment has been posted. This acts a reminder of your blog and can bring “one-time” readers back

  Theme Switcher 1.0
» Ryan Boren (url)
Allow your readers to switch themes.

  WP-PageNavi 2.40
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.

Popularity: 48% [?]

Converting a flash ad to an animated gif ad

The 728×90 banner displayed above is a flash ad run from our ad server. Not shown with this theme. [13 March 2010]

See this other site on how the same ad displays after converting it to an animated gif and run from the same ad server.

NOTE: If another ad is displayed on the other site when you open it, kindly refresh the page until the Australia Post Western Union ad displays.

The conversion did not cause any loss in quality.

Popularity: 8% [?]

Testing PicApp

BERLIN – MAY 12: A special Berlin Airlift ring of Gail S. Halvorsen, veteran of the US Air Force is seen during the ceremony for the 60th anniversary at Tempelhof airport on May 12, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. US, British and French veterans joined today to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Airlift which sustained 2 million citizens of West Berlin with food and fuel for almost a year after Soviet Union blocked Western force’s road and rail access to the city, known as the Berlin Blockade. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images). Copyright 2009 Getty Images. All rights reserved.

Popularity: 10% [?]