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The second plugin for Wordpress — Post Tools — has just been deployed. It’s a very concise collection of methods for convenient fetching posts assigned to categories. For example, I use them to fetch three random quotations for the BlogBridge site front page. Other potential usage is selecting top N posts from a news or announcements category.

I’ve just created a section for Wordpress plugins I build. Hopefully you will find something interesting there for your own blog or blog-based site. Most of my creations are running for the benefit of the BlogBridge official site and prove to work well under high pressure.

I decided to release the Random Screens plugin first. It’s named this way because initially it was intended to pick up a screenshot of the BlogBridge application from the collection at random and show its thumbnail on a page at a specified place. The thumbnail would then be linked to a bigger image. Every time you refresh a page, a different picture jumps out. Very simple and nice.

Have a look, maybe it’s what you always missed.

So you plan on moving from MovableType to Wordpress for one or another reason. The Wordpress has an excellent Import function which lets you move all posts and comments from your MT to its database. The real problem is that the URLs of the posts won’t look the same. If you leave it this way, you will lose all the references to your posts. Here’s my complete recipe — the detailed step-by-step guide.

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