Dave

WP Tiger Administration

Tiger Admin is a nice little plug-in for WordPress which makes the admin panel far more aesthetically pleasing. For a comparison, here are a couple of screenshots, of the standard and the modded view.

Standard WP Admin Tiger Admin

I know which I prefer!

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Shoutbox

The AJAX Shoutbox is a great little WordPress plug-in, which works really well. If you would like to have a place for visitors to leave a quick comment, it’s ideal.

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Header Images

To brighten the place up a little bit, I have put in some new header graphics. There are four at the moment, and load up in a random order thanks to the WordPress god Matthew Mullenweg‘s dead simple PHP script.

Hopefully a new one should load up each time you visit; to force a change you will need to do a hard refresh, i.e. holding ctrl-F5 at the same time.

Here are the original photos, before they were mucked about with to fit in the header gap.

View down the river in Cambridge Ellesmere
A snowy day down our drive York minster

No doubt more will be added in time.

Comments and Blog Sitting

So, Scoble is going to start moderating comments. Fair enough – given the amount of abuse the guy receives on there, I am only surprised he hasn’t done it before. It’s a shame, really, that a chap who wants to keep things open and involve himself with other people has to do this because of a few people who take the mickey. Oh well.

The more interesting point, in my opinion, is that Scoble is going to have another person contributing to his blog. Bubba Murarka, “lead program manager on the Windows Live search team”, is going to blog-sit over the next week. It’s interesting in that Scobleizer is so obviously connected to just one man that it might be a little weird having someone else producing content for it. Let’s hope Bubba doesn’t balls things up royally over the next week!

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