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About Word­Press
Word­press is a pop­u­lar Open Source Con­tent Man­age­ment Sys­tem (CMS). More inform­a­tion about Word­Press can be found at http://www.wordpress.org.

This site uses a vari­ant of N.Design Studio’s Glossy Blue Theme. I have made some modi­fic­a­tions to this theme.

Behind the scenes, I use Steve Smith’s Tiger Style Admin­is­tra­tion which makes the Word­Press admin­is­tra­tion screens much more fun.

Plug-Ins Used On This Site

Many plug-ins for Word­Press are made avail­able at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/. The fol­low­ing plu­gins are cur­rently installed.

* Akismet — Provides quite decent spam deflec­tion.
* AskA­pache Google 404 — Provides a far more use­ful 404 page to the user.
* Blo­g­times — Cre­ates a graph of time of day in which new posts are pub­lished.
* Google Sitemaps — Auto­mates Google Site Map cre­ation to aid in Google index­ing of site con­tent.
* PJW Mime Con­fig — Strangely use­ful to allow you to twaek mime types to allow for more diverse media uploads to the blog.
* Pre­view Frame — Gives back, what 2.1 took away…namely a pre­view frame to see what the post will look like when pub­lished.
* Related Posts — Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches.
* Sideb­log Word­Press Plu­gin — Allows you to cre­ate simple Asides as posts appear­ing in the side­bar as opposed to the main post stream.
* Spark­Stats — Auto­mates the cre­ation on the spark­line dis­played in the side­bar.
* Word­Press Data­base Backup — Backups WP data­bases on a recur­ring basis and mails me the SQL files.
* Word­Press Heat Map — Cre­ates a pretty heat­map of cat­egory usage and dis­plays as a cloud.
* WP-ContactForm — Provides a con­tact form for users.
* WP-Stats — Dis­plays a com­pre­hens­ive set of site stat­ist­ics.
* TAPoR Word Cloud — Provides a word cloud of word use fre­quency on any given page.
* Plazes Plug-In — Provides the neat map show­ing where I am in real­time on the sidebar.