via WordPress › Drag & Drop for Post Thumbnails « WordPress Plugins.

I've tried two plugins that do this, and both worked on two different WP installation on different servers.

First, WordPress Backup to Dropbox pushes your entire WordPress site to your Dropbox, file by file. Database is also included. Interface is clean and authorization uses OAuth, so your Dropbox credentials are safe.

Second, EZPZ One Click Backup makes a nice zip file out of your WordPress site and boasts of a one-click restoration. I haven't tried the restoration, but backup works. Compared to WordPress Backup to Dropbox, EZPZ One Click Backup was really fast transferring the backup, probably because it had only one file to move.

All in all, both worked. EZPZ was fast and saved some space because of packing the site, but I ended up choosing the WP Backup to Dropbox anyways, because EZPZ gave suspicious error messages in the process and it didn't support OAuth.

Give them both a go, and see for yourself which one works for you.

Oh, and if you need a Dropbox accout, this link will give you 250MB extra for that 2GB free account they offer.

Tabs are populated with WordPress Popular Posts plugin and some manual lists as well.

Remember to allow shortcodes in sidebar.

Then add a text widget with something like:

<div class="domtab">

<ul class="domtabs">

<li class="active"><a class="domtab1" href="#t1" style="cursor:pointer;">Current hits</a></li>

<li><a class="domtab2" href="#t2" style="cursor:pointer;">All time</a></li>

<li><a class="domtab3" href="#t3" style="cursor:pointer;">My favs</a></li>

</ul>

<div class="domcontent domcontent1">

<a name="t1" id="t1"></a>[wpp range=weekly order_by=views limit=5 stats_comments=0 wpp_start="<ul class='domlist'>"]

</div><!-- ends domcontent1 -->

<div class="domcontent domcontent2">

<a name="t2" id="t2"></a>[wpp range=all order_by=views limit=5 stats_comments=0 wpp_start="<ul class='domlist'>"]

</div><!-- ends domcontent2 -->

<div class="domcontent domcontent2">

<a name="t3" id="t3"></a><ul class="domlist">

<li><a href="">a</a></li>

<li><a href="">b</a></li>

<li><a href="">c</a></li>

<li><a href="">d</a></li>

<li><a href="">e</a></li>

</ul>

</div><!-- ends domcontent3 -->

</div><!-- ends domtab -->

Styling needs some work, but the end results works great.

However, if you want to insert historical data (all time data is zero to begin with), you need to edit the MySQL database by hand. Not a biggie for those accustomed to it (MyPHPadmin, for instance, provides a nice interface for that).

"Just add this to your functions.php file:

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

This will ensure that the text content of widgets is parsed for shortcodes and those shortcodes are ran. Awesome."

via Shortcodes in Widgets | Digging into WordPress.

via PhotoRec - CGSecurity.

"On the mac, this is a snap, thanks to Takeshi Ogihara’s IcoMaker. Head over to his page (assuming it’s a he), and look for the link at the bottom of the page, something like: “IcoMaker Distribution Package, 84KB”."

via steve cooley presents » Blog Archive » HOWTO: create a favicon.ico on Mac OS X.

This solution requires jQuery and jQuery Cycle plugin (lite version will do).

<div id="slideshow">
<img src="default-image.jpg" alt="" /><!--defaults to this image without javascript -->
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
  //// random slides
  var SLIDE_COUNT = 12;
  var r = Math.floor(Math.random()*SLIDE_COUNT+1);
  var i = 1;
  $('#slideshow').empty(); // clears the slideshow contents (default image)
  for (i = 1; i <= SLIDE_COUNT; i++) {
    $('#slideshow').append('<img src="slide-' + r + '.jpg" alt="" />');
    r = (r % SLIDE_COUNT) + 1;
  }

  //// fixed slides
  //$('#slideshow').append('<img src="slide-1.jpg" alt="" />');
  //$('#slideshow').append('<img src="slide-2.jpg" alt="" />');

  $('#slideshow').cycle();
});
</script>

jQuery UI has autocomplete built-in.