Adrian Hanft

Typography on the web is very limiting. Luckily you have options when it comes to improving the fonts on your site. The Font Burner Control Panel plugin allows you to easily add any of the 1000+ free fonts available on the <a href="http://www.fontburner.com/the-font-burner-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Font Burner website</a> to your WordPress theme. Simply find a font you like and type it’s name into this plugin and your headlines will instantly be transformed! You don’t need to know how to use sifr, you don’t have to customize your theme. You don’t need Flash. Font Burner is the easiest way to bring rich typography into your WordPress theme.
Changelog:
Version 1.0 
– Version 1 introduces a big shift in how Font Burner functions. Rather than relying on the Font Burner servers which have gotten slow due to the high traffic from the popularity of this plugin, you now host the font files in your plugin folder. Be sure to back up your old version of this plugin before upgrading.
Version 0.8 
– Fixed underline problem
Version 0.7 
– Much of the code in this version has been rewritten with the goal of reducing the code footprint. 
– The code is now more efficient and eliminates unnecessary code when options are set to “off” 
– Code inserted into your site’s header is now cleaner and better formatted 
– Verified compatibility with WordPress 2.8 
– misc bug fixes
Version 0.6 
– Added the ability to change the underline setting for “hover” 
– Added the ability to change the color of links 
– Added the ability to change the color of the hover state of links 
– Updated the help section 
– fixed mistakes
Version 0.5 
– This is the first major update to the Font Burner Plugin. New features include: 
1. The ability to change font color for H1, H2, H3 and H4 independently 
2. The ability to specify alignment (right, left, center) 
3. The ability to use different fonts for H1, H2, H3 and H4 
4. Improved interface so it is more user-friendly 
5. The addition of a “help” section
Version 0.4 
– added google analytics code
Version 0.3 
– Fixed bug that prevented plugin from being updated automatically through WordPress. 
– Added screenshot
Version 0.2 
– removed styles in fontburner.css that were redundant and causing errors when headlines were “off.” 
– Changed the plugin variable “Options” to something less likely to conflict with other plugins. 
– Corrected part of documentation that said this plugins screen would appear under the “design” tab when it actually shows up under “settings.”

Font Burner Control Panel

The Font Burner Plugin allows you to easily add Font Burner Fonts to your Wordpress theme. (IF UPGRADING, BE SURE TO RECORD YOUR FONT BURNER SETTINGS  …

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NealMcConachie

The Guardian News Headlines plugin allows you to add live headlines and thumbnails from the Guardian to a sidebar on your site. The text is indexable by search engines, and relevant to a category of your choice. Have a blog about education? Pick that news category to add relevant content to your blog.
Display options:
<ul>
<li>Selectable news category per widget</li>
<li>Number of headlines per widget</li>
<li>Choose between most recent and most viewed articles</li>
</ul>

Guardian News Headlines

Shows the latest headlines from a selectable news category in a sidebar widget. Headlines link to the live article on the Guardian.

Font Burner Control Panel vs Guardian News Headlines