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WP Turbo is a WordPress Plugin, which can make your blog super fast. WP Turbo can find all static files in your current theme and active plugins automatically and then store them locally with Google Gears on the visitors’ computers. After install and enable WP Turbo, all needed static files will serve directly from visitors’ computers but not your server (to be honest, they need to download them all at the first time when they visit your site). This can siginificantly reduce the page loading time, which may give your visitors better experiences.

And most of all, WP Turbo is developed by my best friend LiuYang.

Installation

Download, Unarchive, Upload and Active. There is nothing different from any other plugins.

Download: WP Turbo

Upgraded AideRSS WordPress Plugin to version 0.2, now the plugin can retrieve detail date (Diggs, Google Blog search, Comments, del.icio.us) from AideRSS API for top posts. check the demo below:

This version need your server support CURL，if not, the output result of the plugin is same as verison 0.1.

After the plugin is uploaded and actived, you can add the following function in your template:

	aide_get_top_posts('month',10);

There are two parameters for the function:
period=[day|week|month|year|auto|length in seconds] : The period to return posts from.
num=[1-30] : The number of posts to return.

Dowload: wp-aiderss.zip

Top Friends is a WordPress blogroll enhancement plugin. The plugin will fetch your friends’ feeds, and then display the feed’s name and status icon base on last update time and latest two posts of the feed.

The plugin uses Google AjaxFeed API to fetch feed. So it need your server can manipulate JSON format data (PHP >= 5.2). The new version need’t it.

There are two options need to be setup for the plugin properly works.

• Google AJAX Feed API Key is the API Key, you can apply it here.
• Top Friends Feeds is the feeds that you want to fetch.

After upload and active the plugin, you can use the following function in your template.

<ol>
	<?php top_friends(); ?>
</ol>

Dowload: Top Friends

Custom Smilies (previously named Custom Smileys) is a plugin for WordPress 2.0+. This plugin gives you a chance to personalize your posts and comments using smilies of your choice instead of default ones.

Custom Smilies (older than version 2.0) is written by QAD. The lastest version is 2.0. Crazy Loong have upgraded it to let it been compatible with WordPress 2.5 or greater.

You can see the English Readme and more here ( new window).

Download

You can get the latest version of Custom Smilies here. Get it

How to install

1. Download and extract custom-smilies.zip; then, upload init.php and custom-smilies.php to the /wp-content/plugins/custom-smilies directory. Upload smilies folder to the /wp-includes/images directory..
2. Activate Custom Smilies in your Admin Panel
3. Put your smilies in smilies folder (wp-includes/images/smilies/)
4. Change the emoticons by navigating to Manage > Smilies and complete the form
5. If you want to add clickable smilies to your comment form, append these lines to your current theme’s comments.php file, just before the form begins:
   <?php if ( function_exists(cs_print_smilies) ) {cs_print_smilies();} ?>

For ‘Paged Comments’ plugin’s users: Please place that code in wp-content/plugins/paged-comments/themes/your-theme-name/comments-paged.php to enable those clickable smilies.Please note that you can customize this list by going to Options > Smilies.Wanna play with the smilies yourself? A function called cs_all_smilies() has been added, which return all the smilies you’ve got in this format: Array (’Smilie’ => ‘Path to smilie’)

How to upgrade

For Custom Smilies 1.0 and 1.1 users, simply replace the file custom-smilies.php in your plugins folder with the newer one. Do NOT overwrite init.php, as it contains your smilies’ definitions.

For those who are still using Custom Smileys version 2.4 (which was released more than 1 year ago!), you can upgrade it to the lastest version by following this procedure:

1. Backup your database! (better safe than sorry - i’m not responsible for any data loss caused by this plugin)
2. Move all of your smilies to your smilies folder (wp-includes/images/smilies/)
3. Deactivate Custom Smileys 2.4 without uninstalling it
4. Download, extract, then upload Custom Smilies 1.0 to your blog
5. Activate Custom Smilies 1.0 in your Admin Panel
6. Delete custom-smileys.php if you wish