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A nice way to review the colour options for your WordPress Theme is to give the user the ability to review what CSS layouts are available. The Chameleon CSS Switcher WordPress Plugin by the Wegrass team allows you to give your site this ability. The Chameleon CSS plugin has the following options Time condition : [...]

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The latest update to the Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress enables a shortcode for embedding a simple google map. To demonstrate I have recently come back from a weeks break in Weymouth were we had hired a cottage ,   Again really  simple to use.

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The Seven Days WordPress Plugin by the Wegrass Team gives you the option to set what days of the week a widget is displayed. A nice graphical interface which you just click to show or hide what days your widget will appear. So for testing purposes I have set up seven widgets with each one set to [...]

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Having installed the Shortcodes into  Text Widget Plugin thought I would look at expanding the smilies usage on MyWordPress . Having tried out a couple of smilies plugins I have opted for the Custom Smilies plugin by Crazy Loong . This adds a popup  selector on the write post menu so you can pick a smiley to [...]

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Want to use shortcodes in the standard WordPress text widget? If so this plugin by CodeAndReload is just the plugin you need. The plugin will parse shortcodes and smilies  entered in a text widget . There is a demo text widget in the left hand sidebar that shows the Easy Timer shortcodes and the divider shortcode of [...]

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So you want to add a countdown timer to your WordPress site? How about a time since widget? The Easy Timer WordPress Plugin is just the plugin that you need. This plugin has a plethora of options and you can easily insert into your WordPress site using shortcodes. A couple of quick examples The output can be [...]

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The Shortcodes Ultimate WordPress Plugin adds the functionality to easily manage shortcodes. Current shortcodes available are Heading Frame Tabs (See Demo) Spoiler (See Demo) Divider (See Demo) Spacer Quote Pullquote This is the Highlight text demo Permalink Bloginfo Button Fancy link Service Box (See Demo) Note Menu Subpages Siblings List (See Demo) Column Table Media Nivo slider [...]

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The news announcement scroller WordPress plugin for WordPress gives you an easy way to put vertical scrolling content into your widgetized theme. The WordPress vertical scroller scrolls each entry one at time within the widget. Its easy to install and setup ,you can set a expiration date for each entry and customise the display. You can use [...]

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I am not a great fan of scrolling announcements and the like but my daughter has been nagging me for one on her site.So after a quick scan of what WordPress plugins are available I have decided to test this one out. The Horizontal scrolling announcement is a simple to configure scroller with numerous options that [...]

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Managing scheduled posts have become a real pain recently.Since upgrading to WordPress 2.9.2 no matter what I try scheduled posts just do not publish. So having trawled Wordpress.org I came across this plugin that will loop through your posts and force publish them if any are found that missed their scheduled publish time. The plugin will check [...]

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