I’ve been using Arnaud Froment‘s Extended Live Archives for a little while now and his latest .10 version is simply great. The majority of the bells and whistles are behind the scenes, but it does simplify things a great deal for the WordPress blogger. Extended Live Archives is very clean and delivers a sharp looking gateway to my (albeit small) archives.
Speaking of sliced bread. WordPress 1.6 Alpha got a nice bump with custom Kubrick headers from Andy Skelton.
Thanks for the mention! That’s a beautiful header image. Is it a product of a certain PS template? ;-) Was it as easy as I hoped?
Likewise, thanks for the mention! Also I am quite pissed to see your ELA installment is not taking advantage of the “Data Fetching Indication” feature :(
Andy:
I guess I’m on the Andy Skelton watch lately. You’re churning out some good stuff. And yes, that header is a product of your template. I’m not skilled at all when it comes to using Photoshop, so the mere fact that I got it to work points directly to the template’s ease of use.
Arno:
No problem. I was briefly taking advantage of it, but I didn’t like the “bouncing effect” that took place while it was retrieving the data. Probably just me as there are undoubtedly throngs of folks using it with delight.
You might want to include a “Reset Defaults” setting button so people can revert back to square one if they want…