demetris (Demetris Kikizas)

Extra Options is a collection of WordPress tweaks to improve your publishing experience and your site’s performance.
It strives to be simple and discreet; 
everything in it is optional, it does nothing by default, does not touch your content, and uninstalls cleanly.
Extra Options offers options for the following:
<ul>
<li>Writing</li>
<li>Administration</li>
<li>Content filters control</li>
<li>Document HEAD control</li>
<li>Search Engine Optimization (all you need and nothing you don’t)</li>
<li>Loading AJAX libraries from the Google CDN</li>
<li>Plus a couple of miscellaneous tweaks</li>
</ul>
See homepage for a detailed presentation: 
<a href="http://op111.net/code/xo" title="Extra Options for WordPress [op111.net]" rel="nofollow ugc">op111.net/code/xo</a>
Please note that Extra Options is still very young and not considered stable. Your feedback is appreciated: 
<a href="http://op111.net/78" title="Extra Options v0.0.1: A plugin for WordPress [op111.net]" rel="nofollow ugc">op111.net/78</a>

Extra Options

A collection of tweaks to improve your WordPress experience and your site’s performance.

fusionstream

blogsiread is a highly customisable widget inspired by Blogger’s “Blogs I Read” function that takes excerpts from other blogs (via Links) and displays them in a small widget on your blog.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Change widget title</li>
<li>Automatically selects blogs from “Links” based on “Categories”</li>
<li>Optional – Show Site Title (either from link name or meta tags)</li>
<li>Optional – Show Post Title</li>
<li>Optional – Show Post Excerpt (250 characters max, plain text)</li>
<li>Optional – Order listing by “as ordered in Links page”, Post Published Date, Link Name, Site Title, Post Title. All can be additionally sorted in descending or ascending order.</li>
<li>Clicking on entries can open in a new window or in the same window</li>
<li>You can customise your widget by adding a css class.</li>
</ul>
<h4>TODO</h4>
<ul>
<li>More customisable layout</li>
<li>Limit total entries and more importantly, before loading their xml-s</li>
<li>Complete or co-operative ajax to reduce server load and more importantly, page loading times</li>
<li>Make the category selector look pretty</li>
<li>Allow customisable Post Excerpt character limit</li>
<li>Do that cool thing where the widget title in the admin page is “blogsiread: “</li>
</ul>
For those who are using a custom CSS Class, structure of widget content is as follows (some lines may not be displayed at all depending on widget options – see #): 
 
 # <a rel=”sitetitle”….</a> OR if site url is blank: 
 # <a rel=”posttitle”….</a> OR if post url is blank: 
 # …CONTENT… 
 …TIME…

blogsiread

Displays user-definable content from other blogs (via wordpress Links [RSS]) as a widget in your blog in a highly customisable format.

Extra Options vs blogsiread