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For those FireFox users out there there is a new plugin called FxIF that will allow you to view EXIF data on any image by right clicking and selecting Properties.

There is a mod for SMF that allows you to embed YouTube videos fairly easily, but I didn’t find it until after I worked out a way that I think works as well and doesn’t take a separate modification, plus it’s pretty mindless to add Google or Yahoo videos as well.
I had the Custom BBC [...]

One of the really great, although probably overlooked by most users, features of Wordpress is that you can store meta data on your users. You probably already know that you can do this for posts, but it’s possible to use the _usermeta table to keep track of custom user settings as well.

Working on a site redesign, I found that I needed a plugin for Wordpress that would let me associate an image with the post that would act as a thumbnail on the pages where multiple posts are listed. I found exactly what I needed in the Post Thumbs plugin.

From an email
Thank you in advance for responding to this question.
I am getting involved in a project that has blogging and news component but also member ship area and forumz. I am not sure that wordpress is enough. For blogging it seems fine, for a social networking maybe not.
I am looking for the best starter [...]