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Christmas Day was epic, I prised my Zune (Flash 8GB v3.1 in blue) out of its packaging and went straight to work, getting video onto the Zune! Here’s how I did it. (more…)

Today I crash tested transferring AVI video files from my computer to my iPod Classic’s (4GB and 8GB), after some wrestling of both iTunes and the required formats I can pass on my findings to you! (more…)

pageMash

pageMash is a great visual drag-and-drop plugin for managing the ordering and visibility of published pages on your site.

Viper’s Video Quicktags

Adding hosted videos from YouTube and other services doesn’t get any easier! With simple to use TinyMCE integration embedding a clip is as easy as the click of a button, pasting your video URL and publishing the item.

Flexible Upload

Having to open any images and altering their dimensions prior to uploading quickly becomes a nuisance, Flexible Upload takes the stress out by dynamically resizing any images you specify to your required sizes.

Redirection

Links to supplemental files change, pages get renamed or removed and showing “404 - Page not found” errors just isn’t cool. Redirection monitors changes in links and does its best to ensure links remain working, you can intervene and even create your own redirections.

Sub Pages Widget

Add the Sub Pages Widget to your sidebar and links to sub pages of the current parent page are displayed, can be customised through WordPress widget settings.

NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is the ultimate image gallery solution for WordPress, by separating itself from the WordPress core image manager custom albums and slideshows can be embedded into posts and pages.

Breadcrumb Navigation XT

Easy to setup breadcrumb-style navigation for user assistance, this is a requirement for most commercial installations.

Table of Contents Generator

Takes a summary of headers within the post or page and displays a list of links to jump to each of these topics.

Ultimate Google Analytics

A requirement for all WordPress sites, sign up for a Google Analytics account and plug in the site account ID provided.

All in One SEO Pack

The name of this WordPress plugin should say enough, I use this plugin for all commercial sites as part of SEO-orientated solutions for optimised on-page optimisation.

cforms

The best form management solution for WordPress, suitable for basic dynamic contact forms as well as complex criteria based validation prior to form submission.

FeedWordPress

Easy to configure feed aggregator for WordPress, provide the URL of an RSS feed and future updates will be published as posts on your blog.

I’ve just redeployed the Donation Cloud plugin for WordPress by Alex Günsche on Visser Labs, it’s sitting in the right sidebar.

I made a note when I was last using Donations Cloud to add a minimum donation check to ensure that all donations are larger than the minimum specified in /wp-content/plugins/donationscloud/settings.php and consequently create a link in the link cloud. Here’s how I did it.

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NextGEN for WordPress has steadily been picking up traction across commercial WordPress powered sites and blogs  for its image management, slideshow and power-user features, so too has development of plugins and addons further extending an already impressive plugin! Listed are emerging and known WordPress plugins for NextGEN Gallery. (more…)

As I read more into my Zune (opening it on Christmas Day!) it’s becoming clear I’m going to need to pull off some tricks in order to circumvent the isolation policy on the Zune Marketplace operating in the United States and recently Canada. As of writing this I’ve successfully signed up for a 14-day unrestricted trial of the Zune Pass with complete access to Zune’s Marketplace and content. Find out how after the break.

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When uploading a set of admittedly large images using NextGEN Gallery to my WordPress site I exceeded my web hosts default memory usage allocation for PHP applications. The error was:

Follow thumbnails could not created. sample.jpg (Error : Exceed Memory limit. Require : 80.65 MByte)

This issue can be resolved by increasing the memory usage allocation at a per-plugin level for PHP applications that require more grunt than others. It’s quick and easy!

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Very catching and cool video accompaning what is my favourite song this week. Go Go The Ting Tings, playing at Big Day Out which is just around the corner!