I released a new plugin for all that fixes a nagging problem: specifically, the WordPress nagging message when a new version comes out.

What it does is very simple – it moves the nag message away a bit, so it doesn’t take up as much space on your page. Still nagging, but a little more discreet and out of the way (a chiding message, perhaps?).

In any case, I got tired of losing a 1/2 inch of screen space at the top of the web page every time a …

My Open Source plugin U-Cron makes it easy to time things without setting up a cron job.

But things CAN go wrong – after all, one plugin will not serve the needs of every site out there – there’s too many combinations of versions of PHP, mySQL, WordPress, Operating systems, hardware, (and so on and so on)…

So here’s a bit of a checklist on what to check out:

U-Cron requires your theme to cooperate. At the bottom of most themes today is a function call wp_footer() – if this …

tinyurl.com is a service that provides shortened links for visitors – take a long link (like a PayPal payment link or affiliate) and turn it into something like:

http://tinyurl.com/66vgmr

Now this is a good thing. If you have affiliate links, for instance, it obscures the information (ClickBank links are notoriously easy to hijack, and this makes it harder to pull apart). As well, if you email links, shorter ones have the advantage of fitting on one line – spill over, and the link could be broken.

But tinyurl has a …

I’ve been looking at blogs for awhile that have that nice ‘block’ of ads – and wondering how best to get them.

In the end, I wrote myself a plugin.

And now I’m selling it, so everyone else can add ‘ads’!

The plugin takes a list of ad images and URLs, and forms a grid of ads. It shuffles them around to prevent Ad Blindness, and never repeats, so you don’t get duplicate ads.

For example, you can do 4×4 if the ads aren’t too big, or 1×3 if you …

Yes, you too can get a FREE ABTheme permanent key – the key to unlocking the greatest SEO-enabled WordPress theme there is – ABTheme!

The way of course is simple – become a member of ActiveBlogging.

Currently, AB members get free credits every month, and the ‘price’ for the unlock key is set at 1,000 points currently. Members can check on their current points in the membership section – just log in, and view your points under Your Account Info.

To actually order a site key, you can follow the …