Oldstone Place

Some very cool WordPress plugins to spice up your blog.

• Stock Quote Sidebar puts a list of stock quotes in your sidebar.
• PhotoPress is a set of tools to make working with images easier. It adds an uploader, a random image function for your sidebar, and a simple photo album.
• StatTraq adds some great hit statistics to your website
• XDForums adds a forum like this to your Wordpress site.
• Identify external links with this plugin, and even get them to open in a new window if you want to be cruel to your readers.
• Admin Menu adds useful admin links to the top of your blogs pages.
• Sociable displays a list of icons for all the social bookmarking sites at the bottom of your posts for visitors to save and share the interesting pages they find.
• If you post source code in your blog, you need SyntaxHighlighter Plus. Check out the Facebook source code.

[code=php]
// MONETIZATION BOX
$minimize_monetization_box = user_get_hiding_pref($user, 'home_monetization');
$show_monetization_box = (!$orientation &&
get_site_variable('HOMEPAGE_MONETIZATION_BOX'));
tpl_set('show_monetization_box', $show_monetization_box);
tpl_set('minimize_monetization_box', $minimize_monetization_box);

if ($show_monetization_box) {
$monetization_box_data = monetization_box_user_get_data($user);
txt_set('monetization_box_data', $monetization_box_data);
}
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