is installed!

From here:  http://www.mac-dev.net/blog/index.php

The flash video plugin for WordPress allows the addition of video (and other media) to a WordPress website using standards-compliant markup and the leading open source software (Jeroen Wijering’s FLV Player and Geoff Stearns’ SWFObject Javascript Library). A full options menu is available with post-level overrides for endless customization. Installation is quick and easy, and no additional setup/coding/php knowledge is required. This plugin is low footprint, creating no tables, and uninstalling cleanly. Version 3 provides full support for skinning the player as well as video player plugins.

Highlighted Features

• Easier Installation! Activate and Go!
• Full Options Menu for Player Customization!
  • Custom Skin Support
  • Full Plugin Support
  • Custom Player Colors
  • Custom Watermark Logo
  • Poster Frames
  • Floating Controls
• Tested Compatible with WordPress 2.7!
• XHTML Compliant!
• Plugins Capable!
• No Remorse! No Database Tables and Uninstalls Clean
• Backward Compatible with Previous Versions of the Plugin!
• Playlists, RSS, ATOM, XSPF, Oh My!
• No More “Click to Activate” Messages!
• YouTube Video Capable!

is installed.

From the author, here:  http://www.weinschenker.name/plugin-feed-reading-blogroll/

This plugin provides a sidebar-widget and a template-tag that add an enhanced blogroll to your sidebar. It checks on all your linked sites, when the most recent update has occured (see example in my sidebar).

The plugin is inspired by Blogger’s Blog List.

The check is performed by reading the date of the most recent feed-item. The feeds must be valid RSS2 or ATOM-feeds, otherwise the plugin cannot read the date-information provided by the feed. The Plugin uses the Google AJAX Feed API to access the feeds.

Based on this information, the age of the most recent feed-item is calculated and then displayed under each bookmark in your sidebar.

Furthermore, an icon for each bookmark can be displayed.

Settings-Page

When you visit the plugin’s settings-page, you will find five tabs:

The five tabs of the settings-page (click on the screenshot to view a larger version)

• Under Options (see next section), you will be able to perform all necessary configurations.
• URL-Check will show a list of all your bookmarks. Here you can check, if you have supplied all necessary URLs for your bookmarks.
• JavaScript will show you the location of the central JavaScript-file that powers this plugin. You will also find a button that can rebuild the JavaScript. It is normally not necessary to use it. But if the file is corrupt or was deleted, this button can help you
• News will display a sneak-peek to two of my RSS-feeds with possibly useful information for you.
• Help contains some links to other resources, such as the page you are currently reading

Configuration

• Google API Key: Enter your Google API Key, otherwise the plugin will not work.
• Blogroll Title for sidebar widget: You can configure the title for the sidebar-widget. This option does only apply, if you also check the box below the input-field. Furthermore, if you choose category-grouping at the option further below, the category-titles will be used instead of your configured title.
• Use Google Feed Discovery: Automatic Feed Discovery is a service by Google which will try to find the correct feeds that belong to your bookmarks. When using Feed Discovery, you do not need to save extra feed-URLs along with your bookmarks. If you have saved a feed-URL for a bookmark, the plugin will always use the saved feed for that particular bookmark instead of Google Feed Discovery.

Link Categories

• Categories: You can choose, which link-categories will be used by the plugin. You can drag and drop the categories to reorder them in your blogroll.
• Group bookmarks by category: You can configure, if the bookmarks should be grouped by their categories.

Sorting

• Order bookmarks by: you can sort the bookmarks by several criteria and by several directions.
• Enable JavaScript-sorting: When JavaScript-sorting is enabled, your bookmarks will be sorted by the date of their latest update, i.e. a blog that published a new article an hour ago will be shown on the top position of your blogroll, while another blog with its newest article older than a week, will be shown on a position further below.Blogs that do not provide readable date-information in their feeds will be considered as very old.
• JavaScript-sorting timeout: Directly after every pageload, JavaScript will try to sort the blogroll. By default, JavaScript will tell the browser of your visitor to try to sort for 20 seconds. You can raise this value up to 60 seconds. This can be necessary, if you have a very large blogroll.

Display Options

• Style: The blogroll can be displayed in four different styles. Check them out and choose the one that you like the most.
• Custom location for stylesheets: If you modify the file feedreading_blogroll.css, I recommend you to move it to another directory (e.g. /wp-content) to prevent it from getting lost during a plugin-update. You can set the new path to the css-file here.
• Default icon: You can configure a URL of a default-icon. This Icon will be displayed, if the show-icon-option is set and there is no icon configured for a bookmark.
• CSS class for links: You can configure css-classes to the link-elements of the blogroll. Plugins like XSD Snapr make use of these classes to display snapr-preview-bubbles.
• Show update-information: If you check the “show update-information” box, the update-information will be displayed for each bookmark where you saved a feed-url. Uncheck this box, no feed-infomation will be fetched from your bookmarked sites.
• Show title of latest post: furthermore, you can configure, if the plugin should also display the title of the latest post from the bookmarked site.
• Show icon: you can configure whether or not the bookmark-icons should be displayed. If you check the “show icon” box, the icons will be shown for every bookmark where you supplied an icon-url. If you did not supply an icon-url, your default-icon will be shown with every bookmark. If you did not supply a default-bookmark either, no icon will be shown at all.
• Enable bookmark preview: you can configure wheter or not a preview-window should pop up, when someone clicks on the update-information

Adding Feed-URLs and Icons to bookmarks

To prepare your bookmarks for the widget, no bookmark needs to be changed. Instead, you may add an additional feed-URL to each of your bookmarks (see screenshot above). This feed-URL can be entered into the “advanced settings”-section of your bookmark-entries.

You don’t need to supply feed-URLs, if you have activated the Google Feed discovery option.

This is the part of your bookmark-management, you probably know already …

is now installed.

From here:  http://semperfiwebdesign.com/portfolio/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

All in One SEO Pack

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Automatic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) out of the box for your wordpress blog …

Download | FAQ | All in One SEO Pack | Release History | Video Tutorial | Report Bug/Suggest Feature| Donate

Developers: Michael, Uberdose

Contributions: We appreciate all donations. Contributors such as semvironment PPC Management help keep the plugin free for the WordPress and Open Source community.

This plugin is streamlined for some best practices for Wordpress SEO. While it gives you many options the defaults reflect the settings I recommend using.

How to use it

Here is a list of the most important on-page ranking factors and how they are addressed by this WordPress SEO plugin. You might want to visit Options - All in One SEO to tweak the default options.

• Titles
  The text that you see in your browser’s window bar is the most important thing *on* your page. Make sure your titles are getting rewritten and the important stuff (your post titles) always come before anything else. You can leave a few words from your blog title to do some branding but don’t overdo. If your post titles don’t contain your most precious phrases you want to rank for then tweak them. Leave the post titles as it is but change the meta title.
• Descriptions
  Once your pages rank in search engines your description (aside of course from your title) makes a potential visitor want to click through, or not. It’s mta descriptions, believed dead by many people, that decide over your site’s fate. If you don’t want to invest the time and write a description for every post at least let them be auto-generated. This vastly better than the usual “Share This … Posted on … under …” description that is often used. The preferred source for your post description is your post excerpt. Use this when you want to tweak your description.
• Keywords
  All in One SEO Pack can generate them from your categories (this was the old way of tagging your posts in wordpress) or from Ultimate Tag Warrior or, starting with Wordpress 2.3, the built-in tagging system. Using your categories is optional, the rest is auto-detected and used if there. WP 2.3.x tags are the preferred keyword source.
• Duplicate Content
  You can have “noindex” and the like generated for archive-, category- and tag pages if you seem to have trouble with duplicate content.

That was about the 20% of effort needed by you to achieve 80% of results with on-page factors. Of course you also need incoming links, no plugin can do this for you in a safe manner. If anything is unclear, some feature is missing, or you are in supplemental results hell feel free to ask.

Per Post/Page Tweaking

One the post/page editing there is a collapsed area named after the plugin. Open it and you can tweak title, keywords and descriptions. In most cases this is not the recommended way. Descriptions can be auto-generated or taken from the post-excerpt (except for pages, here this GUI is necessary). Keywords should be generated by tags and categories. The title can only be tweaked here, and this is a very powerful way to optimize your posts and pages.

This SEO plugin is designed to give you the best options out of the box, however depending on your situation your mileage may vary, and no set of options is perfect for every site. To give you some hint the screenshot below shows how I use it on this blog:

We have a plugin installed called Akismet.  Be sure to check it out, activate the plugin and get your Aksimet code for free!

Akismet is a plugin that seeks out any spam comments and Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just add the widget to your sidebar. See also: WP Stats plugin. By “Matt Mullenweg.

Be sure to check out the latest plugin installed on your blogs here, the Smart YouTube plugin.  (Thanks for the headsup, Kate!)

Usage

To use the video in your posts, paste YouTube video URL with httpv:// (notice the ‘v’).

Important: The URL should just be copied into your post normally and the letter ‘v’ added, do not create a clickable link!

Example: httpv ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWfksMD4PAg

If you want to embed high quality video (for videos that have them) use httpvh:// instead (Video High).

If you want to embed HD Quality (DVD quality 720p) video use httpvhd:// instead (Video High Defintion).

To embed playlists use httpvp:// (eg. httpvp ://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=528026B4F7B34094)

• httpv:// - regular video
• httpvh:// - high quality
• httpvhd:// - HD quality
• httpvp:// - playlist

LOADS OF ADDITIONAL OPTIONS LISTED BY GOING TO YOUR SETTINGS LINK AND CLICKING ON THE SMART YOUTUBE PAGE!

Welcome to Peoria Speaks!  Peoria’s Official Online Speakeasy Blog Project

A speakeasy was an establishment that surreptitiously sold alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition, when the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol was illegal. (The term actually comes from a patron’s manner of ordering alcohol without raising suspicion — a bartender would tell a patron to be quiet and “speak easy”!)

Speakeasies became more popular and numerous as the Prohibition years progressed. Speakeasies popped up everywhere. One site said that as soon as the owner could get a padlock for the door, the speakeasy was good to go. Although they were places where the law was being broken, they did a lot of good. The bars of the early twentieth century were mainly hang outs for men, however, speakeasies were open to both men and women. Jazz also blossomed during this era, the speakeasies provided an outlet for musicians to play.

If you would like to join our little blog project, please email the administrator at:  headhoncho@peoriaspeaks.com and we will set you right up with a blog and a beer and the passcode to the Speakeasy!