b2evolution

Hot air balloons is a 2 column fixed width skin. There is 1 main content area and 1 sidebar located on the left of the content area. It is valid XHTML and fully b2evolution 3.x compliant so it supports all the intro posts etc. Skin settings are used to allow you to turn off post metadata and choose whether to display the b2evolution logo (the link back in the footer is always maintained)

Original design from Free CSS Templates

Download the Hot air balloon skin, upload it to your skins folder and install it via the Global Settings - Skins tab. Please feel free to post a comment here with any questions.

Dailybooth is a place to document and share your life with others. Get real time updates on what your friends and family are doing every day.

This plugin allows you to embed your latest Dailybooth picture on your blog with an optional link back to your Dailybooth page.

Features

1. Allows you to specify an optional title above your latest image
2. Allows you to specify the size of your latest image - small, medium or large
3. Allows you to link your latest image to your Dailybooth page
4. Allows you to specify an optional bit of text below your latest image to link to your Dailybooth page

While you are at it, why don't you head on over to my Dailybooth page and follow me there - Lee Turner on Dailybooth

Download the Dailybooth Plugin, upload it to your plugins folder and install it via the Global Settings tab. Read the readme file and update your settings. Post a comment here with any questions.

I have updated the Tweetmeme Plugin to version 0.4. This new release includes a few new features for the Tweetmeme button released by the Tweetmeme team. The new features are:

1. NEW - You can now see the tweet stats for a configurable number of posts
2. NEW - You can now see the tweet stats for a specific post on the edit post screen
3. NEW - You can now change the URL shortner you are using

Head on over to the Tweetmeme Plugin for b2evolution plugin page, download it and give it a go.

Best,

If you blog about items in the news or just general things you find in your feed reader then this little tip maybe useful for you. Google Reader has recently introduced a often requested new feature called 'Send To'. You can read the full announcement on the Google Reader Blog but the basic idea is that you can now 'send' the post you are reading to a different service:

Google Reader allows you to select a number of pre-installed service that you can send to:

Now as if this wasn't cool enough, they also allow you to add your own service by filling in a few fields with some placeholders that Google Reader will replace with the url and post title etc. Popular services such as Evernote are already providing ways to post to their service.

The obvious question that popped into my head was can you use this to post information through to your b2evolution blog and the answer to that was yes and it turns out to be really easy

So, open up Google Reader and head over to the Settings section. Once there, click on the 'Send to' link and scroll to the bottom of the page and you should see a button called 'Create a custom link'. Click on this and you will be presented with three fields that you have to fill in:

In the name field enter what you want the link to be called in your Google Reader Send to menu - "My Blog" for example and in the URL field enter the following:

http://www.url-to-your-blog.com/admin.php?ctrl=items&action=new&content=&post_url=${url}&post_title=${title}

In the Icon URL field I put the URL to the favicon that I use on my site:

http://www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico

And that's all there is to it. Click on save and you are ready to go. Now when you are reading through items in Google Reader you can select to send things through to your blog and (if you are logged in) the create post screen will be displayed with the title and the link fields pre-populated.

Best,

I have made a few updates to the frugal skin to fix a couple of bugs:

• Comments feed is now removed when feeds are turned off in the backend
• CSS update for when a blockquote is first in a post (thanks to Walter Cruz for reporting that)

If you want to update then you can download it from the Frugal Theme page.

Best,