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I was a little hesitant to install the Disqus comment system, but I took the plunge to see how I liked it and I find many of the features so helpful and superior to Wordpress’s native comment system that I’ve decided to make the switch permanent. The Disqus dashboard, the universal login for all [...]

When it was released, the Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin seemed like it was going to be a HUGE help in making my posts more useful and more attractive, and while it helped, I finally got fed up with it and turned it off. There seemed to be very little development going on for it and [...]

Toluu is a new RSS sharing and suggestion tool that is getting close to emerging from beta (let me know of you want an invite and I’ll see what I can do). I threw together a quick widget to allow Wordpress users with widgetized sidebars to easily add and customize a [...]

To fully duplicate the functionality of my instructions on adding TipJoy to your Wordpress theme, the TipJoy TipThis plugin needed to allow users to place a tipjoy badge/banner on the sidebar. So I set out to learn how to create a widget for Wordpress. The results are my earlier Spottt Widget and now [...]

The latest beta version of the TipThis plugin now has a sidebar widget! This will allow users who don’t want to spam their blog frontpage with Tip This buttons to have a way to accept tips on their main page. Just go to the Presentation portion of your Wordpress admin dashboard and drag [...]

If you are using Spottt on a Wordpress blog you’ll have to insert the code that Spottt gives you to embed into your theme’s sidebar code. This is hardly user friendly. so I decided to put together the Spottt Wordpress Widget for Wordpress blogs that support widgets. Bookmark this post for updates!
The current [...]

As part of their Theme Club’s 20,000 accounts giveaway, WPDesigner.com has decided to sponsor a contest on The Knight Knetwork!

The rules:

Install the Beta version of the TipJoy TipThis plugin on your Wordpress blog (you’ll need to sign up to earn tips with TipJoy)
Post a link to your site along with some feedback (bugs, what you [...]