Aaron T. Grogg

Standing on the foreheads of giants (namely Paul Irish and Divya Manian and 
the good folks that have helped them create and continue the growth of HTML5 Boilerplate, 
I present to you my first WordPress plug-in, HTML5 Boilerplate. As a spin-off of my 
Boilerplate – Starkers WP Theme, this plug-in can be added to any theme, new, pre-existing, 
already customized, whatevs!
The clumsiest part of this is dealing with the Boilerplate CSS and JS files. 
To avoid any changes you make from being overwritten during upgrades, 
“starter” files have been created in the <code>/css</code> and <code>/js</code> directories. I recommend 
creating copies of the starter files (removing ‘-starter’ from the new filenames) 
that you can safely edit. That way, if the starter files are updated later, you can 
simply copy/paste from them into your files again, and all is fine.
Another route would be to add additional links in your pages, but this does increase 
your HTTP Requests, which hurts performance… 
Your call, let me know if you can think of a better implementation.
More about this plug-in can be found at: 
http://aarontgrogg.com/html5boilerplate/
I also built a Boilerplate theme based on Elliot Jay Stocks’ Starkers Theme that can be found at: 
http://aarontgrogg.com/boilerplate/
Please let me know if you have any questions/suggestions/thoughts,
Atg
http://aarontgrogg.com/
aarontgrogg@gmail.com

HTML5 Boilerplate

this plug-in allows for easy inclusion and removal of all HTML5 Boilerplate options that are pertinent to WP. More about this plug-in can be found at …

mbaker

Simple Shortcodes provides an easy to use mechanism for creating and using custom shortcodes.
After installing and activating SimpleShortcodes, a Simple Shortcodes configuration item is added to your Settings menu.
From the configuration page you can create new simple shortcodes and edit and delete existing simple shortcodes.
The current version can only make simple substitutions. Shortcode parameters ([shortcode parameter=”value”]) and content wrapping ([shortcode]some content[/shortcode]) are currently not supported.
Simple shortcodes are stored in a database table (MB_SimpleShortcodes), which contains two fields (name, value).
Beware: Use unique names for your shortcodes. If you use the same shortcode name as that used by another plugin, one of the short code definitions will be overwritten by the other without any warning.

Simple Shortcodes

An easy to use mechanism for creating and using custom shortcodes.

HTML5 Boilerplate vs Simple Shortcodes