• Massive respect to the author of the plugin called Download Beautifier. From now on you will see very nice download icons on this blog!
• This next plugin is called Alexify. It runs a little javascript that brings up a thumbnail of any website when you hover over a href link from the blog.
• The third new one is Code Snipplet which displays code nicely in my posts, such that I don’t have to convert the code to that ugly stuff before allowing it to display.

After a LOT of screwing around, I’ve finally decided the best way to allow users to subscribe to comments of a post is by using the Filosofo Enroll Comments plugin for WordPress v2.0 or later. All the other plugins were based on WP versions 1.2 or 1.5, and didn’t really integrate with my theme without a LOT of effort, and even then when I finally modified my theme to suit it, I realised that if I ever changed my theme I’d break this new feature.

Allowing users to subscribe to comments should NOT be a difficult thing to setup, and thanks to the author of this plugin for proving this point.

Continuing on from a previous post:

I’ve discovered how to use the Skype Button for WordPress in pages, such as my About/Contact page. You have to use a plugin (yeah I know.. ANOTHER plugin!) to allow the execution of PHP code which is otherwise not executed for security reasons.

I recommend this plugin: runPHP

You’ll notice I’ve got rid of that big phat WordPress MSN plugin which was a ridiculously large MSN icon for what I was after, and now I have a small icon next to my name on the left. The contact page still contains links to the different MSN actions, and I moved the big Skype button to the contact page.

Update: Just found another awesome solution for online status indicators: http://www.imwrapper.com/

Big thanks to Luke for helping me with heaps of table css styling, and general html formatting. I am so brain sore now. With Luke’s help I eventually got the spacing right to work with Mozilla AND IE.

The code for my online status is now:

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