This site runs on WordPress 3.0. 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.

Active Plugins

  Advanced Category Excluder 1.4.3
» DjZoNe (url)
This plugin helps you to manage your content, RSS feeds, sidebar widgets, and fine tune where you want to display your posts, pages, links, link categories, or hide.

  Akismet 2.3.0
» Automattic (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need an 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.

  Apture 1.3
» Apture, Inc. (url)
Apture makes it easy to add contextual images, videos, reference guides, links, maps, music, news, documents and books to your blog to create a connected media experience that keeps readers engaged on your site.

  Better Extended Live Archives 0.60
» Charles (url)
The famous ELA for WP 2.7+. It’s work for WP 3.0.

  Comment Timeout 2.1.1
» 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 4.9
» Sören Weber (url)
Executes <?php ?> code in your posts, pages and text widgets.

  Google XML Sitemaps 3.2.4
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

  Inline Google Docs 0.9
» Lim Jiunn Haur (url)
Inline Google Docs allows the user to display contents of his google documents in his pages/posts, using shortcode for markup. Requires PHP 5, Prototype, and jQuery.

  Photo Dropper 1.0.8
» Photodropper (url)
Lets you add Creative commons licensed Photos to Your Posts from Flickr. By activating this plugin you agree to be fully responsbile for adhering to Creative Commons licenses for all photos you post to your blog.

  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.

  RSS Cloud 0.4.1
» Joseph Scott (url)
Ping RSS Cloud servers

  Search Unleashed 1.0.6
» John Godley (url)
Advanced search engine that provides full text searching across posts, pages, comments, titles, and URLs. Searches take into account any data added by other plugins, and all search results are contextually highlighted. You can also highlight incoming searches from popular search engines.

  SEO Ultimate 3.5
» SEO Design Solutions (url)
This all-in-one SEO plugin gives you control over title tags, noindex/nofollow, meta tags, rich snippets, slugs, canonical tags, “more” links, 404 errors, rich snippets, and more.

  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 2.3.1
» 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. Show your tweets in your sidebar, and post tweets from your WordPress admin.

  W3 Total Cache 0.8.5.2
» Frederick Townes (url)
The fastest and most complete WordPress performance plugin. Dramatically improve the speed and user experience of your blog by adding: page caching, database caching, minify, content delivery network (CDN) functionality and more…

  WordPress.com Stats 1.7.2
» Andy Skelton (url)
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.

  WordPress Database Backup 2.2.2
» Austin Matzko (url)
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started.

  WordPress Related Posts 1.2
» Denis (url)
Generate a related posts list via tags of WordPress

  wordTube 2.3.1
» Alex Rabe & Alakhnor (url)
This plugin manages the JW FLV MEDIA PLAYER 5.0 and makes it easy for you to put music, videos or flash movies onto your WordPress posts and pages. Various skins for the JW PLAYER are available via www.jeroenwijering.com

  WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.