flickr
I am totally enamored with Flickr, the social photo sharing service. It has plenty of nifty features; but more than anything it's just super simple to use. I love looking through the (ever changing) latest photos, as well as sharing a few of my own. Flickr is exactly the solution I needed to provide to my mom for her to share her photos. My sister has also found it to be a great service....
moreBlogs and Wikis
Krzysztof Kowalczyk makes an argument for bundling a wiki with a blog. I agree wholeheartedly with his endorsement of wikis. I've used a few, and installed two of them myself, and I think they're terrific. But I don't think that wikis should be bundled with blogs (especially WordPress) by default....
moreRandom Posts
I wrote up a quickie hack for Sushubh to pull random blog entries from the database. To make it generally useful, I wrote it as a function that takes two arguments:
random_posts ($catID = 0, $count = 4);By default, it'll grab four random posts from any category. Give it a category ID and/or a specific number of posts to pull in order to change it....
Per-Post User Level Restrictions
WordPress 1.2Per-Post User Level restrictions...
morePlugin: Comment Authorization
NOTICE: I have permanently disabled the test implementation of this plugin. (2004-12-16)...
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