SEATTLE: Microsoft Corporation plans to invest heavily in Web search to compete against Google Inc, even if it fails to acquire Yahoo Inc, the company’s chairman Bill Gates said.
“We can afford to make big investments in the engineering and marketing that needs to get done. We will do that with or without Yahoo,” said Gates in an interview with Reuters.
The two companies are at a stand-off in Microsoft’s $41.7 billion unsolicited bid to acquire Yahoo. Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for $31 a share in cash and stock, a bid which Yahoo’s board rejected, saying it undervalued the company.Microsoft countered by saying its offer was “full and fair,” but did not say what it planned to do next. Analysts expect Microsoft to sweeten its bid, possibly to $35 a share, to clinch a deal.
Auto Delete Posts is a plugin to automatically delete posts after a set expiration date. The plugin deletes all posts regardless of category that are older than a set expiration date. [Source]
The expiration is set in number of days.
Download Auto Delete Posts v0.5 wordpress plugin.
Translate Widget for Wordpress
It adds little flags to your sidebar, which will take you to a translation of the current blog page. It uses Google Translate, but removes the frame, so it looks quite nice! Once you’re in one language, you can browse around the blog, and everything stays translated. You can just click on the English flag to get back to the original language.
Download: Translate Widget 2.0
The zip file includes a ‘flags’ folder and a translate.php file.
Place both [upload] in the /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/widgets/ folder.
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Get statistics like visitor’s browser type, OS, total hits etc. from the admin panel of your wordpress blog with WP-Shortstat plugin.
Add a contact form on your wordpress blog. The advantage of this particular plugin is that it comes with an anti-spam challenge question. This means no spam mails in your inbox from bots.
Download the WordPress Contact Form with Spam Protection.
Upload it to the plugins directory and activate it. To bring up the contact form, you may follow one of the following methods :
- The easiest option is to build a Contact Page and insert the following in the content of the page. (Note: Sometimes WP inserts line breaks unnecessarily. So, goto “code” view in your editor and paste the following line)
%%wpcontactform%%
- If you would rather like to insert the code into your template [php code] enter the following code where you’d like the contact form:
<?php wpcontactform ?>
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