Stumbled across this great top 10 list the other day, and in case you missed it you should most definitely take a look. This goes for all of you running WordPress, those planning to try it out and all of you looking for the perfect CMS.

With these 10 plugins you can have your blog turn into a complete Content Management System (CMS) and even use it for smaller e-commerce websites.

Here’s the list as presented on Blueprint Design Studio’s blog on Thursday.

Happy coding!

When including anything but an image using the Lightbox Media (my Lightbox clone) you might have noticed that IE automatically adds a border around the content. I’ve tried numerous CSS modifications to get this disappear but not until today found a proper solution.

The ridiculously simple solution came about after some Googleing and it all comes down to the frameBorder attribute being case sensitive. As my code read frameborder IE simply ignored it.

Download Lightbox Media version 1.01

Earlier today (GMT) Matt announced that Wordpress 2.2 is finally available for download. Thus, I’ll be spending the next few hours upgrading and testing which most likely will make this site unavailable from time to time. When done I’ll give a brief summary of the experience as I did when upgrading to version 2.1 a few months ago.

Stay tuned

Update (1.5 hours later)

Except for some FTP trouble (which has nothing to do with WordPress) everything went exceptionally well. All my plugins appear to be working just fine. The only modification I needed to do was to include the “old” quicktags.js from WP 2.1 in order to get my comment quicktag add-on working.

The list of working plugins are the same as before and is listed nicely in my post about my Blogvaria Plugins.

The long waiting period’s finally come to an end. As you might have seen already Matthew Mullenweg announced yesterday that WordPress now has a brand-spanking new plugins directory where you can browse, download, rate, and comment on all your favorite plugins.

The front plugins page lists the most popular, newest, recently updated plugins along with a featured plugin on top. The sub-section provides easy access to whatever you’re looking for through the neatly organized tag cloud (keywords) sorted by number of available plugins (I think).

Through the WordPress “Dashboard” feed update any developer can now reach millions of people by contributing and keep his/hers plugins updated on regular basis. I believe this is one of the best marketing stunts ever as it really works both ways. The developer gets massive traffic (great for SEO) and WordPress gets even more people involved with their continuously growing blogging platform.

I believe I shall now start creating and contributing my very own plugins…

Updated 16th May, and should now work fine with WordPress 2.2. Please report any bugs if found!

In order to get the Quicktags add-on displayed above your comment form start by downloading a copy of comment_quicktags.zip, unzip it and upload the 2 files to your theme directory:

Download comment_quicktags version 1.1