{"id":9516,"date":"2005-10-01T05:09:30","date_gmt":"2005-10-01T02:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/01\/bits-and-pieces-2\/"},"modified":"2005-10-01T05:15:35","modified_gmt":"2005-10-01T02:15:35","slug":"bits-and-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/01\/bits-and-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits and pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>New <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a> plugins appear every day or so it seems.  Old ones are improving at a constant rate too.  Once in a while I revisit plugin directories to see if anything worth installing or upgrading had appeared.  Today I discovered a couple of new plugins that I decided to install.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadcantrant.com\/blog\/rate\/\">Rate My Stuff<\/a> is one of straight forward plugins that add a nice touch to the website.  It allows to show those small stars when posting a rating of something.  I thought since I have so many movie reviews, it would be a good idea to have the stars added to them.  So I installed the plugin, resized the original images to smaller versions (15&#215;15 pixels) and wrote a small perl script (<a href='\/wordpress\/wp-content\/wprate.perl' title='wp-rate.pl'>wp-rate.pl<\/a>; make sure that you have a fresh backup of the databases) to update all movie posts o&#8217;mine.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewsw.com\/pages\/pluginsUsedPlugin\">pluginsUsedPlugin<\/a> does a very simple, but useful job.  It tells everyone what plugins are installed and activated for the current <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a> installation.  I have added the list of currently active plugins to the <a href=\"\/wordpress\/about\/\">About page<\/a>.  The list is dynamic and thus always up to date.  All plugins in the list are linked to the appropriate websites where they could be downloaded.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also found a couple of other plugins that I am planning to install, but they require some work on my behalf and so I left them for after I&#8217;ve slept.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>New WordPress plugins appear every day or so it seems. Old ones are improving at a constant rate too. Once in a while I revisit plugin directories to see if anything worth installing or upgrading had appeared. Today I discovered a couple of new plugins that I decided to install. 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