This site runs on Wordpress 2.5.1. Green hosting by DreamHost.

The theme is “Bigage,” based on Derek Punsalan’s “Foliage” theme. The last theme was also one of his. I hadn’t intended to use another Derek Punsalan theme, but hey… the guy knows what he’s doin’.

The picture of the hatching elephant is by Oliver Häberlin.

I borrowed the archive page template from the great K2 theme.

I develop with CSSEdit2, TextMate, Photoshop, etc.

The New Big is a member of and adheres to the principles of The Attention Trust.

We also regularly contribute to the Gesture Bank, and we release all original work under Creative Commons licenses.

There are 26 plugins used: 19 active plugins and 7 inactive plugins.

Active Plugins

  Advanced Category Excluder 1.1
» Zsolt Lakatos (DjZoNe) (url)
With this plugin you can define categories for some parts of the site to be hidden.

  Akismet 2.1.6
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.

  Comment Timeout 2.0.1
» James McKay (url)
Automatically closes comments on blog entries after a user-configurable period of time. It has options which allow you to keep the discussion open for longer on older posts which have had recent comments accepted, or to place a fixed limit on the total number of comments in the discussion. Activate the plugin and go to Options >> Comment Timeout to configure.

  Exec-PHP 4.8
» Sören Weber (url)
Executes <?php ?> code in your posts, pages and text widgets.

  Extended Live Archives 0.10beta-r18(p)
» Arnaud Froment (url)
Implements a dynamic archive, inspired by Binary Bonsai and the original Super Archives by Jonas Rabbe. Visit the ELA option panel to initialize the plugin. [NOTE: patched for 2.3 by sm]

  Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.0.1
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page

  Inline Google Docs 0.2
» Lim Jiunn Haur (url)
Inline Google Docs allows the user to display contents of his google docs on his pages/posts, using shortcode for markup.

  Optimal Title 3.0
» Aaron Schaefer (url)
Mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the ’separator’ to after the title rather than before.

  Recommended Tags 1.70
» CyberNet (url)
Creates a list of recommended and existing tags (JavaScript must be enabled). Visit Settings -> Recommended Tags to change some of the options available. This version is only designed to work with WordPress 2.5.

  Search Everything 4.6.2
» Dan Cameron (url)
Adds search functionality with little setup. Including options to search pages, excerpts, attachments, drafts, comments, tags and custom fields (metadata). Also offers the ability to exclude specific pages and posts. Does not search password-protected content.

  Sociable 2.6.7
» Joost de Valk (url)
Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites. Go to Options -> Sociable for setup.

  TextileWrapper 2.8
» Joel Bennett (url)
This is a simple wrapper for Dean Allen’s Textile Markup. This version matches the version included with TextPattern 4.3. If you use this plugin you should disable other markup plugins like Textile 1, Textile 2, and Markdown, as they don’t play well together.

  Twitter Tools 1.1b1
» Alex King (url)
A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. Configure your settings here.

  WordPress.com Stats 1.2.2
» Andy Skelton (url)
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.

  WordPress Database Backup 2.1.5
» Austin Matzko (url)
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Manage → Backup to get started.

  WordPress Related Posts 0.9
» Denis (url)
Generate a related posts list via tags of WordPress

  wordTube 1.60
» Alex Rabe & Alakhnor (url)
This plugin creates your personal YouTube plugin for WordPress.

  WP-PluginsUsed 1.30
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

  WP Super Cache 0.6.4
» Donncha O Caoimh (url)
Very fast caching module for WordPress. Once enabled, you must enable the cache. Based on WP-Cache by Ricardo Galli Granada.