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It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about anything so I thought I’d toss it out there that Applied Innovations has commissioned the design of 3 wordpress themes and are giving these away for FREE to the wordpress community.  As everyone that reads my blog knows I’m a big advocate of wordpress as a blogging platform and appliedi.net fully supports wordpress hosting on our windows servers.

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I’ve enabled MonsterID comment image tags on my blog and discuss MonsterID, it’s use and my blog theme in this article.

What is MonsterID

MonsterID is a method of generating a unique monster image based upon a certain identifier, usually based on IP address, email address or something similar. It’s used to automatically create a personal avatar image in blog comments  and community sites.

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Without question the WYSIWYG editors for Wordpress are lacking and the only way to create a decent wordpress post is using a blog editor. There are may blog editors available these days from the free to the commercial but my preferred blog editor is Windows Live Editor, a free beta application from Microsoft that supports almost every blog application available. One of the nice features of WLW is that it’s expandable via extensions. One much requested extension is the ability to create tags for your blog entries from directly within WLW.  My preferred Tagging engine is Ultimate Tag Warrior so the ability to create tags for UTW from within WLW is something I’ve been waiting for.  Well the wait is over, David Brunelle has an excellent article on how to hack wordpress to allow Windows Live Writer to tag your posts within Ultimate Tag Warrior. David’s solution involves modifying your xmlrpc.php file (make sure you create a backup .. just in case) then allowing you to use the keywords property in Windows Live Writer to add your tags to your post.