Do you feel bored with your contact form? Seems like every contact forms have similar appearance. Although there are a lot of Wordpress plugin for you to create your contact form, but most of them do not provide “themes” for you.

So, you may use this plugin, WP-Niceforms to customize your contact form. It is a script that will replace commonly used form elements with custom design appearance.

Looks nice? To use this script, simply add class=”niceform” for the form that you want to beautify.

Plugin Download | Plugin Website | Demo

I believe most of Wordpress users know the differences between “Post” and “Page” right? One of the significant difference is we have a “Page Template” but we cannot have a “Post Template“.

If you don’t know what is Page Template, you may refer Wordpress Codex. So, if you want to have your custom Post Template, what would you do?

There is a plugin called “Custom Post Template” which add a Post Template section below your Writting Panel so that you can attach different template to your posts.

The templates are defined similarly to page templates, and will replace single.php for the specified post. The readme file that comes with this plugin has a very detail about how to create your custom post templates.

Author website: http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/wordpress/
Download: Custom Post Template Plugin

Wordpress development team announced the release of Wordpress 2.7 RC1, which means that they are in the final development before the release of 2.7.

Before the release of RC1, we have gone through three beta version and saw a lot of new features of Wordpress 2.7. The release of this RC1 will includes a lot of bug fixes and new menu icons.

As shown in the screenshot, Wordpress 2.7 has a new Dashboard design. I believe current Wordpress users may need some time to get familiar with the new interface and also new features in Wordpress 2.7.

In my coming posts, i will try to go through some of the new features in Wordpress 2.7. So, make sure you follow or subscribe me!

Download: Wordpress 2.7 RC1

Wordpress introduce post revision feature since version 2.6. It helps us to keep revisions of our posts and we can restore to previous revisions anytime.

Although this is a great feature, but what happen if you accumulate too many revisions? Probably your server will takes longer time to query and processes database requests. That means, your blog will load slower and your visitors may wait longer before the content comes out.

So, we may want to delete unwanted post revisions. This can be done by logging to phpMyAdmin and execute the SQL command, or use a plugin.

SQL command to delete post revisions

Here, i would assume you know how to login to your phpMyAdmin and know how to execute SQL command. So, simply run this SQL command and all stored post revisions will be deleted.

DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = “revision”;

Use Delete Revision Wordpress plugin

This is an easier method. Just download the Delete Revision plugin and go to your Settings->Delete-Revision to delete them.

Press the Check Redundant Revision button and the plugin will automatically search for post revisions.

Remember, both the SQL command and delete-revision plugin will delete all your post revisions, and you are not allow to choose which revesion to be deleted. So, please make sure you won’t regret after delete them!

Tips: You can turn off post revision feature by go to your wp-config.php and add define(’WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false); before the closing ?> tag.

• 2 Wordpress Plugins That Will Increase Feedburner Count
  Posted on Saturday, November 15th, 2008 in Plugins - Comments: (9)
  People always talking about how to increase their RSS subscriber. Daniel wrote a great article about 50 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers, which cover all basic things that everyone need to do to get more subscribers.Besides these 50 tips, i found 2 plugins which will help us in getting more subscribers also. They are Comment Relish and FD Feedburner Plugin.Comment Relish is a Wordpress plugin that will send an email message to readers who comment on your blog who have never commented before.
• 3 Wordpress Themes That Mimics Coda Site Functionality
  Posted on Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 in Free Themes - Comments: (5)
  WP CODA is a great Wordpress theme developed by Greg Johnson. He manage to implement a nice Wordpress theme which mimics the Coda site functionality by modifying several existing code snippets.There are three versions of WP CODA. WP CODA and CODA BLUE are developed by Greg Johnson while WP CODA Orange developed by Kerry Webster.WP CODACODA BLUEWP CODA OrangeThese themes work in major browsers.
• Create A Latest Post Section At The Beginning Of Each Post
  Posted on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 in Tutorials - Comments: (11)
  I get this idea from SmashingApps. They created a latest article section at the top of each article. You may refer to the screenshot below:This will make sure those readers who reach your blog through search engine or referer will have a chance to read the latest article. So, how are you going to add this section? Do you need any plugin to do so?
• Entrecard Users, Please Subscribe Your Drops Inbox
  Posted on Saturday, November 8th, 2008 in Blogging - Comments: (6)
  If you are not a Entracard user, i would recommend you to sign up as it will increase your blog’s popularity and lets other people know your blog.If you are a Entrecard user, sure you know how Entrecard runs and how to use it to promote your blog. Normally, we will go to the “Campaign”, look for new websites, and drop our cards.
• iNove - Free Wordpress Theme
  Posted on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 in Free Themes - Comments: (7)
  iNove is a free Wordpress theme designed by mg12. It is very stylish, widget supported and doesn’t require any plugin. This theme is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 (details), which means you are free to use this theme in your project for any purpose, except for commercial projects.Features: 2-column Wordpress theme Right sidebar No plugin required Widget ready Valid XHTML and CSS Support Wordpress: 2.3.