Plugins

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Introducing the Google Toolbar Button Plugin

Another post on the WordPress Support forums inspired me to write another WordPress plugin. This one allows you to add a link to your blog that will allow your readers to add your blog to their Google Toolbar. Specifically it will allow you to search your blog and monitor your RSS feed directly from the […]


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Introducing the GMail Player Widget

A post on the WordPress Support forums inspired me to write a plugin that puts the GMail audio player in your sidebar as a sidebar widget. For more information and to download the GMail Player Widget click here.


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Magic Numbers

You may have noticed the Athletics magic number message on the sidebar lately and wondered what that was all about. The Athletics (better known as the A’s) are a professional baseball that plays it’s home games in Oakland, California. The magic number (at 6 as I write this) is the number of games they need […]


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From Song Displayer to onAirNow

A little while ago I wrote about my experience with Song Displayer. Song Displayer is a WordPress plugin that, together with a WinAmp plugin called DoSomething to display the song currently playing in WinAmp in your WordPress blog. I wasn’t totally happy with Song Displayer or DoSomething. Song Displayer was just too plain and DoSomething […]


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Song Displayer Rewrite?

The Now Playing section I recently added to the sidebar shows the song I currently have playing in WinAmp on my desktop. To add this functionality I am using a version of Song Displayer that I had to massively rewrite to get working for me. Before I explain why I had to rewrite it let […]