Eklog

Theme Styling

• Ndesign Studio theme: a fantastic theme with drag-drop side-bar elements. (Mango Orange three column version)
• CSS AJAX Switcher: gives visitors a little more choice in their viewing options.

Further Styling

• Flikr RSS plugin: to display images hosted on Flikr
• Highslide thumbnail enlarge: Enlarges images (Lightbox2 is also good but doesn’t work with this theme)
• Custom archive queries: displaying archive post title and date by category.
• Numbering and styling comments
• Setting variables for CSS styling depending on author & number of published comments.
• Paged comments plugin
• Most commented on posts
• Simple recent comments
• Gravatars: Symbols or images for comment authors.
• Sexy comments: Flexible thread-like layout, Author highlighting, Avatars, Number of Comments, Customize lots.
• Adding author image: Adds an image to posts.
• Custom search page: Styling the search page.
• Code snippet highlight: Styles code and adds colour to mark-up.

Menus

• Drop-down menu: this is the code to download. (a theme using a drop-down menu)
• Tree menu. An alternative Tree Menu. (These don’t work with this theme.)
• Highlight current page: You can highlight where you are in a one level menu using this php code.
• Link order: Specify order for links / blogroll.
• Dynamic tabs

Added functionality

• Improved Include Page: Include a page’s contents in another area. Handy for added CMS functionality.
• Sidebar asides: Add post snippets or ‘teasers’ into the sidebar.
• Contact form 1 | Contact Form 2
• Custom number of posts in each section: Specify the number of posts shown in each page template.
• Adding the login to the sidebar.
• Search Posts and pages: Search through both posts and pages.
• Live comment preview: View comments before submission without page reload.

Cross-linking

• Related Entries: Display related posts.
• Site Map Generator
• Heat Map Generator: Activity in any given category or month can be indicated by varying font sizes, color intensities or both.
• Breadcrumb navigation
• Improved search results: displays a shortened URL and allows searching through URL variable.

Community

• Post rating plugin: Allow visitors to rate a post. (doesn’t work with this theme):
• Comment Rankings’ plugin: gives a visual display of how many comments any subscriber has made.

Spam

• Math comment protection spam: anti spam device which asks users to do some very simple arithmetic before adding a comment (alternative).
• (With images and sound for accessibility)
• Spam Karma: Targets source as well as content. Compliments others.

Multi media

• Anarchy Media Player: Play any simple href link to mp3, flv, Quicktime mov, mp4, wmv, avi etc. Embed flash as well as YouTube, Google Video etc. (Media player plugin alternatives)

Reference

• Template tags: Built in Wordpress fuctions.
• Wordpress Theme Hacks: Customize your theme templates.