Weblog Tools

Although users can change the font size of a web page through standard browser settings, few people knows or remembers how to do it.

Here’s a list of plugins that will do just that:
Wp-chgFontSize by rodenas.
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Change FontSize by bueltge.
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There are many advantages and disadvantages if you chose to take your blog to an international level.

Here’s a list of plugins that will do just that:

1. Wordpress Global Translator Plugin by Nothing2Hide is one of the most popular translation WordPress Plugins. It is a stand alone WordPress Plugin, which means it doesn’t require any additional files to work. Just activate the Plugin and it puts a small table of international flags in the header of your blog which, when clicked, will translate your blog content into that flag’s language.

2. Wordpress Translation Plugin by carlos quiles is a very simple php script that adds translations from and into most language pairs offered by Google, Altavista and Tranexp. Unlike other scripts, like this plugin and this widget, which are also Wordpress translator utilities, dnghu does not use flag images, it is probably the simplest possible script you can write to add this functionality, and it should be valid XHTML.

3. Wordpress Translate by Monosylabic Manifesto is a simple drop in way for users to view your blog in their language. Its easy for any most users to add this functionality to their site.

4. Translate WordPress Widget by Trev’s Travels it’s a simple plugin that works with Google to provide translations. It includes a translation flag bar. Simple and easy.

5. GG_Translate by Grin God is another Wordpress plugin that provides site users with links to translate the blog into their own language. The plugin detects which languages the users browser will accept and, if there are any which are different to the blogs published language, it will provide links to translations in those languages. For translations the plugin uses the Google and Altavista Babel translation engines, favouring the Babel engine over the Google engine. If no translations are available for a particular translation a link will not be provided.

6. Angsuman’s Translator Plugin is one of the most popular translation plugins out there. It provides automatic machine translation of your blog in thirteen different languages - German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Swedish, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. The only downside is that it costs USD $30 to download. This includes six months free technical support and free lifetime upgrades.

It’s up to you if which one to use. I prefer the Wordpress Global Translator Plugin

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2PT3 has put together a great set of icons in both gif and psd formats to download for free.

Every icon in the set, every colour, and the PSD to change the colours to whichever custom colour you want. you can use it on your blog, website, application or intranet.

You can download them from here.

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I think Imageshack.us is the best solution when it comes to free image hosting.

All the uploading process is made easy with ImageShack Uploader Plugin for WordPress.

ImageShack is a free easy-to-use hosting service which allows you to upload your images and share them with others. You can embed these images directly into your website and use the auto generated thumbnails.

What does this plugin do?

This plugin allows you to upload images from your WordPress post screen and to insert them with the thumbnail into your post with a few clicks.

You can download the plugin from here.

Installation and usage instructions can be found here.

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