scriptygoddess

I was looking for a way to list sub pages in a navigation bar if you were either on the "parent" page or one of it's sub pages. I found this page on Clioweb that was perfect.
What's also nice is that it gives you the variable $parent_id to play with if you need to. Copied [...]

In a custom wordpress theme design I was working on tonight, I was trying to do as the title describes – make the home page show only one post (yes I know there's already a built in way to do this) but I wanted it to show up the same way the single view shows [...]

While I *really* wish I could enter into the Wordpress plugin contest – the fact of the matter is my schedule doesn't open up until next month – after the contest has closed for judging. But it sounds like it will be run again – so I should be able to enter it next time.
In [...]

Here's a few steps you can do to protect against some of the spambots:
Master-SpamBot IP, deny this!
[found via weblogtoolscollection]

JD just sent me this link to his site:
Script to rename your wp-admin folder.
As he says – it's not a foolproof method to protect your site, but certainly not a bad idea.

UploadBin
Kind of like pastebin – but for files, and Mark offers it up so you can download and host it on your own server.
wp-hashcash
A version of Spam Stopgam Extreme.
[seen on a lot of sites, but most recently on PhotoMatt and Weblogtoolscollection]
WordPress "Suggest" plugin
Kind of like "Google's Suggest" feature – for WordPress Searches.
[blogginpro]
WP-lists Plugin
Centralized List management [...]

Red Alt – WordPress Index Builder

WordPress Design Sandbox
If you want to work on a design for your WordPress blog, here's a static version of the default layout so you can tweak the stylesheet locally. Great idea.
[via WeblogToolsCollection]

This link is going around – but I still want to save it for myself…
Anatomy of WordPress theme
A list of templates that you can create for a theme (for WordPress 1.3)

There's a number of anti-spam tricks floating around. I will hopefully be compiling a list of the most interesting ones very soon for my own reference. In the meantime, this one seems like a simple enough hit that can get rid of quite a bit:
(As posted on the Daily Irrelevant) …If your IP address [...]