This is how the people at Plurk describes themselves.

A really snazzy site that allows you to showcase the events that make up your life, and follow the events of the people that matter to you, in deliciously digestible short messages called plurks.

The followings are the tools that makes Plurk work with Wordpress.

Retrieving Plurks onto your Wordpress blog
Plurk for Wordpress is a simple plugin by Ricardo González that retrieves your latest plurk messages and display it on your Wordpress blog.

Sending Plurks whenever you publish or Edit a post on your Wordpress Blog
WordPlurk is a nifty plugin that allows you to post your Wordpress blog posts to Plurk.

Plurk Updater sends a Plurk to your account anytime you create, publish, or edit a post on your WordPress blog. You can pick and choose when Plurks are sent and what text is passed along with it.

Perhaps someone could takeover the design and its support?

Now that’s more like a real competition, with virtually no transparency and no secrecy, all the judges are revealed as they boast some of the industry’s most respected web designers. The competition site even has its own unique theme.

Competition Details

All themes must be submitted by May 1, 2006, 12:00pm PST.

• All themes must be packaged in .zip format and e-mailed to terry@kineda.com.
• You can enter as many themes as you would like.
• The theme should look good on all modern browsers, across platforms.
• Any theme may be excluded for any reason, though no likely to happen.
• All themes must be released under a GPL compatible license (if a license is not specified, you agree that you are releasing the theme under the GPL license by submitting it to the competition).
• Winners will be announced on May 15th, 2006.

Prizes

• Best Overall Design – Apple Ipod Shuffle 512MB
• Most Creative Design – 12/month Web Hosting Package (valued at ~$100)
• Best Use of Wordpress Theme Options – The ZEN of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web
• Best Three Column Design – $60 Amazon Certificant

Please refer to Wordpress Arena for more information.

I’ve cleaned up the codes of my Fury theme, make it public-usable, tested it, and slapped a new name on it before releasing it for public download. Head over to the Alexified™ page to download the theme.

Please do let me know if you decide to use, enhance, or improve the general layout/functionality of my theme. I’ll be creating a page specifically to showcase every Alexified™ blog, so drop me a comment with your blog URL and I’ll add you to the list. Users are encouraged to enhance the theme and distribute it in accordance of the GNU General Public License.

By the way, I’ll be flying back to Malaysia on the 25th of March. Staying in Kuala Lumpur until the 30th of March, before flying back to Miri and Sibu.

The Mission

I had always wanted to create websites that loads quickly. No one likes to wait, and cutting down the loading time is my top priority in this project. Nowadays, fast-loading websites doesn’t have to be ugly, thanks to CSS. Conforming to Web 2.0 standards in terms of web design is also an essential part of the project. Though, I’m still working my way through reaching the standards.

CSS Coding and Hacking

It has not been an easy-ride having to fix the CSS code to work in both IE and Firefox – with Firefox being the priority of course, but there’s plenty of reference and guidance on the Internet to help me out.

Slashing the Bandwidth

My mission is to create a website that loads in no time, so graphic usage is kept to a minimum – as you can see in the amount of white space involved. Nifty little icons were used to point out important details. I’ve also reduced the number of posts displayed on the front page.

My previous blog (Alex Allied v1) design was stuffed with unnecessary contents – mostly dominated by advertisements. In Alex Allied v2, I’ve removed the greedy Chitika e-mini malls and the Amazon recommended books section, leaving the more productive Google Adsense to continue supporting my ever-drying pocket.

Naming the Theme

The name ‘Fury’ popped out of my mind during the design process, which was pretty furious. The template was initially code-named “Empty” as I’ve planned to make one with nothing but a few simple lines to mark the zones. But half-way through the project I’ve decided that it’s too bare to my liking, and since the whole layout is almost blank, I could easily stick that red furious face to spice up the template.

Conclusion

I do hope that the new template will improve the overall surfing experience here. The template will be out on testing mode for now. Hopefully there will be no buggy errors. Just in case you guys spotted one, do notify me about it. Feedbacks and comments are always welcomed. Thanks in advance!

Well, I’ve just upgraded my Wordpress to version 2.0 last week and I’ve realized that my blog had stopped counting the number of comments submitted. Today, I’ve just found the problem, and a solution to that.

Alright, the main culprit of the problem is seemed to be the Spam Karma plugin. Now Spam Karma 2.0 has compatibility issues with Wordpress 2.0 and thus, the comments count problem. The author had released a beta version of SK 2.1 to fix the problem. The beta is available for download right here.

1. Deactivate your Spam Karma plugin
2. Delete your old SK2 plugin folder (wp-content/plugins/SK2/)
3. Extract and upload Spam Karma 2.1 beta to the plugin folder.
4. Activate the plugin.
5. Go to Manage > Spam Karma 2 > and go to Approved Comments
6. In Approved Comments, there will be a list of recent approved comments. Check all of them and click “Run Selected Entries” through “All Plugins”.

7. Go back to your website and see the numbers magically shows up again! Done!

I see quite a few blogs out there with their comments count messed up, hopefully this helps.