Ryan Boren will be telling all at WordCamp on what is next for WordPress 2.1. Here’s a short list he has put up on his blog-

• Spellchecker in TinyMCE
• Exporter
• Pages can be private and draft
• Pages have their own caps
• A Page can be used as the front page
• Latest posts can be moved off the front page and on to another page
• Pseudo-cron is used for future posting. No more NOW()
• Link manager overhauled
• Links can have subcategories
• New login screen
• More AJAX to avoid page reloads
• Blog privacy. Turn off pinging and tell robots to go away
• User paging and searching
• WP_Error class
• Include files reorganized
• Lots of new API
• Script loader

Wow, I can hardly wait for the new features. What do you think?

Post-BOX is a WordPress Plugin that allows your readers to easily navigate through your blog. After installing the plugin you will find all the posts on your homepage listed and each of it can be accessed with a simple click of your mouse or with acceskey code (Alt + number). If you want to navigate without Post-BOX you can simply hide it.

Note: this Plugin won’t work in browsers that don’t support fixed value in position CSS property, basically IE5 and IE6.

Installation

• Download Post-BOX Plugin
• Unzip and put Post-BOX folder within your wp-content/plugin folder
• Edit header.php document of the theme you want and add the following line below tag:

• Enter your Admin Panel and activate Post-BOX WordPress Plugin

Important

For proper working of the Plugin, make sure:

• header.php has the following tag:
• index.php has the following code inside the posts loop: id=”post-”
• footer.php has the
  tag

Download Post-BOX WordPress Plugin

Recently after I bought a new 80GB Samsung HardDisk, I reinstalled Windows XP. After installing Firefox, I installed all the must-have extensions that I usually install. These are the extensions that I have installed so far

• Session Saver
• DownThemAll
• FlashBlock
• Google Toolbar
• Adblock
• Adblock Filterset.G Updater
• Tab Mix Plus
• ImgLikeOpera
• Fasterfox

Please list all the Firefox Extensions you use

Most of you might be already knowing how to do this but whenever I ask my friends to share music they think I am asking them to send the music file to me. Well, this is how you do it in Yahoo Messenger 8-

While chatting with a friend, go to ‘Actions> Call Computer’ and after they accept the call, you can begin sharing music by going to ‘Actions>Share Music File’ and browse for your favorite MP3 file.

Yahoo! Messenger also offers some default audibles like glass breaking, clapping, screaming, etc. Enjoy!

Users like me who have a Bandwidth Restriction need to find some way to save bandwidth. Until recently I used to do this by blocking Images and Flash on Firefox. And used to check for updates on blogs through feeds. But I was tired of browsing the Web imageless, so I had to find another way.

Now thanks to a Firefox extension called ImgLikeOpera, I can now load only the cached images in my Firefox browser. This helps me to save Bandwidth as well as see some of the images. This extension is also very useful for non broadband users to increase page load time of sites by loading only cached images.

Some of the features of ImgLikeOpera are

• placeholders for blocked images
• (re)load image from context menu or Ctrl+rightMouseClick
• forced expiration time (5 minutes - 3 months)
• policies for tabs
• filters

You can set one of these policies for each tab:

• don’t load images
• load cached images only
• load images for the originating Web site only
• load all images

ImgLikeOpera also allows you to block images with filters. This is one of the features that was missing in Firefox and available in Opera. Now Firefox fans too can enjoy it

Download ImgLikeOpera Firefox Extension

I have always recommended the Related Posts plugin for WordPress that displays the related entries to a post. Visitors that reach your blog posts from Search Engines will be looking for a particular information and if you list out the related entries to that post, they are likely to visit those pages too thereby increasing pageviews. That is why I recommended the Landing Sites WordPress Plugin too which allows you to include a short welcome message with links to articles on your blog that match their query they made on the Search Engine.

All this helps you to increase pageviews by visitors to your blog. But what about your subscribers? Yes, from now on, thanks to TechBuzz, we can enable Subscribers to visit more pages than they usually do by adding Related Posts to your Feed thereby increasing pageviews.

This can be done by editing your wp-rss2 file which generates your RSS feed. So how do you add related posts to your feed?

1. download and install Related posts WordPress Plugin
2. download this file and replace your exisitng wp-rss2 file
3. deactivate Feedburner Summary Burner if you have activated it

Now stay back and watch your Pageviews increase

I finally got the time to update the Top Posts page. So check it out.

Around last week, Yahoo launched a new crawler called Yahoo! Slurp. They claim that Slurp is faster and more efficient and will have to visit your site less and will use less bandwidth when it does.

Now that a new crawler has been launched, you may see some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index and some changes in ranking as well.

So have you noticed any changes in the traffic coming to your blogs from Yahoo? If you have not, here’s a tip on how to increase your blogs traffic from Yahoo.

Also,

• Sign up for My MSN, and add your blog to your own “My MSN” account. This will get your blog included in MSN very quickly
• Sign up for , and add some content (non spam) and link to your blog. This will get your blog included in Google very quickly

Recently I had subscribed to a blog’s feed because I had liked a few of it’s older posts. But after subscribing I could not find those old posts that I wanted to read through feeds. I was so angry that I unsubscribed it’s feed that instant itself. Imagine if subscriber’s to your feed unsubscribed just because of this simple reason.

You can avoid this from happening to you by increasing the number of the most recent posts shown. If you are using WordPress, goto Options>Reading and under Syndication Feeds you will find Show the most recent:. I think the default value is 10 posts. Set this to a higher value, like maybe 50 or 100 and click ‘Update Options’.

That’s it

Yesterday I modified my post dates to look like this:

This is a Mod by Steve and he has provided excellent instructions on how to do it for K2 r167 and it’s nightly builds here.

One of the reasons I applied this Mod to my current design is that I feel the date stamp makes each post stand out.

Those of you interested in K2’s Live Search feature can try out Steve’s K2 Live Search Mod. I haven’t tried the Live Search Mod yet as I have disabled all Live features from my K2 blog to decrease page load time.

Have a nice time modifying K2