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Thursday, May 17
Fair
Currently: 57˚F
Feels Like: 57˚ F
Hi: N/A˚, Lo: 50˚
Wind: calm, Gust: N/A MPH
Wind Direction: CALM (0)
Fair

Tonight: 50˚
Sunset: 8:12 PM
Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
Clear

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    Plugins Used

    July 6th, 2005 (Last modified: 6/5/2006 @ 9:23 pm UTC)

    Plugin Version Author Description
    Spam Karma 2
    2.3 rc1 -2 dr Dave Ultimate Spam Killer for WordPress.
    Activate the plugin and go to Manage >> Spam Karma 2 to configure.
    See Spam Karma 2 >> About for details.
    Advanced Category Excluder

    1.4.3 DjZoNe
    This plugin helps you to manage your content, RSS feeds, sidebar widgets, and fine tune where you want to display your posts, pages, links, link categories, or hide.
    Apture
    1.3 Apture, Inc. Apture makes it easy to add contextual images, videos, reference guides, links, maps, music, news, documents and books to your blog to create a connected media experience that keeps readers engaged on your site.
    BackWPup

    2.1.10 Daniel Hüsken
    WordPress Backup and more…
    catcloud
    0.4 Zak Greant Generate a tag cloud from blog posts and categories.
    Category Access

    0.8.2 David Coppit
    Protects categories of posts from specific users.
    Countdownj

    1.2.1j mod. Jim Wurster (original author Owen Winkler)
    Adds template tags to count down to a specified date. Edit your dates here. (Works for me, maybe not for you!) Modified version adds calculation of how old a person is; restricts display of this information to certain $user_level; and adds emailing the admin when the birthday is within 12 days. (original author Owen Winkler http://www.asymptomatic.net)
    Daily Ray of Hope

    1.0 Jim Wurster (original author Dawn Endico)
    Add a DROH picture to your blog. Display the latest photo in The Sierra Club Daily Ray of Hope series on Flickr. I modified Dawn Endico’s Bug of the Day WP plugin for the appropriate Flickr information.
    Geo Mashup
    1.4.8 Dylan Kuhn Save location for posts and pages, or even users and comments. Display these locations on Google maps. Make WordPress into your GeoCMS.
    Geo
    1.9.1 Owen Winkler Attaches geographic coordinate information to posts.
    Google XML Sitemaps

    3.2.7 Arne Brachhold
    This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.
    iTunes Playlist Text

    0.01 Jim Wurster (original by Aaron E. Silvers)
    Allows you to insert an iTunes playlist by calling the function and passing it the name of the file that contains your text listing generated by iTunes “Export a Song List”. I use mrchompers itunes-playlist plugin as a guide. I wanted to simplify the playlist generation by using the much smaller and less complicated songlist.
    iTunes Playlist
    0.2 Aaron E. Silvers Allows you to insert an iTunes playlist at the bottom of your post by providing the URI of the XML file generated by iTunes when you export a playlist to XML. The format for this is <playlist>your_iTunes_file.xml</playlist>
    Lightbox JS v2.2 Plugin
    1.5 Peppe Argento Used to overlay images on the current page. Lightbox JS v2.0 by Lokesh Dhakar.
    Odiogo Listen Button

    2.5.6 Odiogo
    Give your blog a voice! Add a “Listen Now” button to your blog so your readers can listen to your posts and download podcasts. Free Sign up.
    Trashbin
    0.1 mirashii A plugin to save you from yourself. Keeps deleted posts from disappearing forever. Visit Manage > Trashbin to see deleted items.
    Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam

    3.1.4 Peter Keung
    Stop a lot of spambots from polluting your site by making visitors identify a random word displayed as an image before commenting. You can customize the pool of words to display.
    Plugins Used Plugin
    0.1.10 Andrew Chen This plugin will give you a function to display what plugins you are using. Thanks to Sören Weber ( http://soeren-weber.net ) for submitting a fix for a display problem ( http://soeren-weber.net/post/2005/07/10/35/ ).
    Post Updated
    R1 Kaf Oseo Display notice/date/time of when a post was last updated.
    Redirectify
    1.1 Owen Winkler A plugin that redirects posts and pages that contain a certain meta tag.
    runPHP
    2.2.2 James Van Lommel Allows you to put PHP code into a post and have it eval()’d.
    Fuzzy Recent Updates
    4.5 Denis de Bernardy Terms of useDoc/FAQSupport forum — A WordPress widget that lists a fuzzy number of recently updated entries. To use, call the_recent_updates(); where you want the tile to appear. Alternatively, do nothing and the tile will display when wp_meta(); is called.
    Sidebar Tile
    2.6 Denis de Bernardy Terms of useDoc/FAQSupport forum — Displays contents of the page with a slug of ‘sidebar’ into your sidebar. To use, call the_sidebar_tile(); where you want the tile to appear.
    Simple Cache
    1.0 Jeff Minard Simple set of caching functions. Useful for plugin authors to build off of.
    Spam Karma 2 Stats
    1.2 Matt Read displays stats for Spam Karma 2 as in Spam Karma 1.
    Social Count

    2.0 Remiz Rahnas
    Displays number of shares or bookmarks in popular social media sites.
    SRG Clean Archives
    3.0.1 Geek With Laptop This plugin is designed to display your archive listings in a clean and uniform fashion that’s Search Engine friendly on a dedicated page or in your sidebar.
    Upgrade Preflight Check
    1.0 Doug Smith Looks for known problems that may prevent plugins and themes from working in WordPress 2.3. Install and run this before upgrading.
    Visitor Maps and Who’s Online

    1.5.8.1 Mike Challis
    Displays Visitor Maps with location pins, city, and country. Includes a Who’s Online Sidebar to show how many users are online. Includes a Who’s Online admin dashboard to view visitor details. The visitor details include: what page the visitor is on, IP address, host lookup, online time, city, state, country, geolocation maps and more. No API key needed. Settings | Donate
    WP-ContactForm
    2.0.4 Douglas Karr WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post. It currently works with WordPress 2.0+. The plugin was originally developed by Ryan Duff but has been modified by Doug Karr to require a challenge question and response to fight spam as well as some other features.
    WP-Cumulus

    1.23 Roy Tanck
    Flash based Tag Cloud for WordPress
    WordPress Database Backup
    2.2.3 Austin Matzko On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started.
    List Manager
    1.9 Navid Azimi This plugin facilitates list management capabilities directly from the administrative console. It also provides a custom list tag to embed lists inside posts and pages. There are also several API methods available for direct manipulation.
    WP-PageNavi
    2.82 Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan & scribu Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog
    WP-Print

    2.50 Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan
    Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page.
    WP to Twitter

    2.3.18 Joseph Dolson
    Posts a Twitter status update when you update your WordPress blog or post to your blogroll, using your chosen URL shortening service. Rich in features for customizing and promoting your Tweets.
    UtterQuotes

    1.0.2m Dustin Barnes (mod. by Rick Dooling and Jim Wurster)
    This plugin allows you to embed random quotes into your pages. It also has a spiffy management tool in the administrative console. It has been modified to allow you to have different categories/topics of quotes.
    wp-weather

    0.4.4 Matt Brotherson
    Weather.com widget – shows forecast information for a city. Displays image related to current conditions. Weather can also be inserted into a post or page via the shortcode

    Thursday, May 17
    Fair
    Currently: 57˚F
    Feels Like: 57˚ F
    Hi: N/A˚, Lo: 50˚
    Wind: calm, Gust: N/A MPH
    Wind Direction: CALM (0)
    Fair

    Tonight: 50˚
    Sunset: 8:12 PM
    Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
    Clear

    weather feed courtesy of weather.com - thanks!

    . [strong]Widget icons available here: wp-weather icons[/strong].

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