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In the Mix: New Order for the Non-New Order Fan
Posted by Andrew Unterberger on September 12, 2007
There's not a problem that I can't fix, 'coz I can do it in the mix
The great thing about being a New Order fan is that they experience a revival approximately every 14 months. A new album, a new box set, a new band or producer citing them as an influence (Jacques Lu Cont, we hardly knew ye), people'll use just about any excuse to bring back New Order. And that's nothing but good news as far as I'm concerned–despite that I don't listen to them all too much on my own anymore, they're still definitely my favorite band ever, and I love an excuse to dive back into their super-extensive back catalogue.
This time, it's the release of Anton Corbijn's recent Joy Division biopic Control, which has once again sparked up that age-old debate: would Joy Division have continued in their greatness had singer Ian Curtis not killed himself (spoiler alert, I guess), or was the transformation into New Order for the best? To me, there's just about nothing to this debate at all–I believe the heights scaled by New Order during the first ten years or so of their reign of pop supremacy are far greater than any the band reached with Curtis, or by any other 80s band for that matter. However, not all are so convinced, and thus, they need some convincing.
Hence, I was comissioned (or, rather, volunteered myself) to create a New Order mix for a JD supporter not necessarily convinced of the band's post-Curtis worth. Rather than just create a one-disc mix of the band's best and best known songs (which for most intents and purposes, already exists and is called Substance), I decided to slack off on the New Order songs everybody knows–nothing off disc 1 of Substance besides "Confusion" and the original '82 version of "Temptation," no "Regret," not even "Age of Consent" or "Love Vigilantes". There'd be no way for me to create a one-disc mix to summarize the whole band's catalogue anyway, so doing this at least takes off some of the pressure.
Instead, I decided to focus on the band's second-tier, which, if not quite as rapturous and awe-inspiring as their best work, is just as cool and arguably even more fascinating. So I included at least one song off every album (minus 2005's Waiting for the Sirens Call, which we here at IITS still refuse to officially acknowledge the existence of), a bunch of their weirder a's and b's (where "Murder" fits in their catalogue is still beyond me) and even some of their unreleased stuff. Hopefully it'll show that New Order were a lot more than your average synth-pop band, and how there's something in their catalogue for just about everyone. Plus, it's New Order, you know it's gonna be fucking good.
A Fond Farewell to Your Soul: New Order for the Non-New Order Fan:
- "Temptation" (Original '82 12″)
- "As it is When it Was" (Brotherhood)
- "Ruined in a Day" (Republic, single)
- "Confusion" ('87 Version from Substance)
- "Love Less" (Technique)
- "Turn the Heater On" (Keith Hudson cover, non-album BBC session)
- "Your Silent Face" (Power, Corruption & Lies)
- "Fine Time" (Technique, single)
- "Elegia" (Low-Life)
- "Lonesome Tonight" (Substance, "Thieves Like Us" b-side)
- "Primtiive Notion" (Get Ready)
- "Mesh" (1981-1982 EP, NOT the song mislabeled as "Mesh" on Substance)
- "Dreams Never End" (Movement)
- "Touched By the Hand of God" (Non-album single)
- "Murder" (Limited non-album single)
- "Leave Me Alone" (Power, Corruption & Lies)
- "The Happy One" (theme music from TV special)
think of "The Happy One" as a bonus track, it's too ridiculous to be anything else.
2 Responses to "In the Mix: New Order for the Non-New Order Fan"
September 12, 2007 at 10:08 am
Awesome mix (naturally). Nice timing too, what with my Seconds on "Leave Me Alone" being up today. Can you remind me what the real title of the song called "Mesh" on Substance is again?
September 12, 2007 at 10:47 am
"Cries and Whispers." Also a pretty great song.
Link to Ian's excellent article for anyone else reading this blog:


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By RAY BENTON
Leader sports editor
Charges are likely to be dropped against Phoenix Suns guard Archie Goodwin, who was arrested on May 4 for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest outside a skating rink in Little Rock. Goodwin, 19, who was a prize basketball recruit from Sylvan Hills and starting guard for the Kentucky Wildcats, was booked in Sherwood and released.
He was allowed to plead not guilty in absentia in June and a trial was set for July 2. But the prosecution asked that charges be dismissed in six months if not new evidence surfaces.
Goodwin's name has been in the trade rumor mill among NBA analysts this summer. After leading Kentucky in scoring his freshman year, he was a first-round pick by the Suns, but had a disappointing rookie season.
He averaged 3.7 points per game and 1.7 rebounds in 10.3 minutes per game and scored a season-high 29 points in the team's regular-season finale. He was twice sent down the developmental league for brief periods where he dominated competition, but continued to struggle to produce in NBA games until the last game.
Since the Suns drafted Tyler Ennis out of Syracuse, and signed Isaiah Thomas Jr. away from Sacramento, they have an abundance of comparable guards. Analysts say the Suns could unload a guard in order to make more cap room to re-sign Eric Bledsoe, an All-Star forward who is a free agent and far apart from the team in contract negotiations so far.
Though his off-the-court problems have been minor so far, some project Goodwin could be the player cut to help make room for a larger contract for Bledsoe. Though the team and Bledsoe aren't close at the moment, an offer to the All-Star from another team could change that. The Suns have made it clear they plan to match any offer by another team.
Goodwin was twice named Gatorade Player of the Year in Arkansas during his junior and senior seasons at Sylvan Hills and was named to the McDonald's and Parade All-American teams after leading the Bears to the class 5A state basketball championship his senior year in 2012.
He spent a year at the University of Kentucky, where he led the Wildcats in scoring, before entering the NBA Draft the following year. He was the 29th pick in last year's NBA draft and appeared in 52 games for the Suns during his rookie season.
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When authors like Jean-Paul Sartre and Fyodor Dostoevsky
find their names dropped into a contemporary film, you know
that you're dealing either with Ingmar Bergman or Woody Allen.
Both confront a cold, dark universe where life has no meaning,
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he utilizes Jason Biggs to depict Allen himself when the director
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the Biggs character is on his way to L.A. because that's where
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Biggs (that is, the 67-year-old Allen at the age of 25 or so)
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dashes off scripts for the equally youthful men and women who
use Comedy Corner and other New York locales to get their
start in the biz. When Falk meets Amanda (Christina Ricci)
during a double-date at an Indian restaurant, he is smitten with
her as is she with him. Little does Falk know at the time that
Amanda is childish a coquette who enjoys being chased but
who cools down considerably when living with a guy for a short
time. Jerry has an agent, Harvey (Danny DeVito), with whom he
has an expiring 3-year contract and who gets the whopping sum
of 25% cluing the audience that Jerry is an easy sell, a
doormat, settling into destructive arrangements with both men
and women because of a fear of sleeping alone and an
unwillingness to walk away from a bad situation one that gets
progressively worse when Amanda's fast-talking mother Paula
(Stockard Channing) moves into his small apartment at her
daughter's invitation. He cannot get his psychiatrist (William
Hill) to say more than four words at a time "What do YOU think,"
and listens more readily to his mentor David Dobel (Woody
Allen), whom he meets regularly in Central Park to hear the
older man's paranoid fantasies.
Given Biggs's stiffness and Ricci's flat role as a neurotic
woman playing musical beds, the film comes most to life
whenever Woody Allen holds court, whether his character is
smashing the windows of a car that stole his parking space
(which the timid Jerry could never imagine doing) or schlepping
Jerry to New Jersey to set him up with a rifle for protection.
The Manhattan that forms the background for perhaps most of
Allen's films is lush, with Darius Khondji's photography evoking
a tourist's dream of Central Park, attractions like the Quad
Cinema, and the brownstones in the Village. Jason Biggs has
effectively cut loose from adolescent (although in some cases
funnier) works such as "American Pie," and though Christina
Ricci is no Diane Keaton, "Anything Else" is worth a trip even if
it's not Allen at his best.
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Rethinking brief interventions for alcohol in general practiceBMJ 2017; 356 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j116 (Published 20 January 2017) Cite this as: BMJ 2017;356:j116
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Screening and brief intervention (SBI) can be patient-centred; but uptake is often low and/or poor quality; the question is does SBI improve health? Regardless, alcohol must still be addressed
Rice notes we did not mention efforts where uptake of alcohol brief intervention has not been low. He also points out that the teaser headline on the BMJ cover was misleading and simplified a complex problem. I agree with the latter. Regarding uptake, it is certainly true that national programs—in the US at Veterans hospitals where there are performance incentives, in others where specific practitioners are funded to deliver the service, and in Scotland where performance targets were set (among other strategies)—have achieved large numbers of reported screenings and brief interventions [1-3]. But even in these circumstances when substantial efforts are made, and even assuming that documentation of a brief intervention means that one was actually done, screening is often poor quality, and brief interventions likely do not retain their effectiveness [1,4]. And in careful evaluations of implementation, uptake is indeed quite low (e.g. single digit percentages screened even with training and financial reimbursement)[5]. Since we have little evidence that brief interventions affect anything beyond self-reported consumption in efficacy trials, one must raise legitimate questions regarding large implementation efforts that aspire to retain effectiveness in real practice. The question is not how many brief interventions can be reported to have been done; it remains to be demonstrated that dissemination of brief intervention can retain efficacy and improve health.
Wåhlin raises the idea that alcohol can only be discussed when it is relevant to a disease a patient has or if it interferes with the treatment of something. He suggests that a visit with a physician is only patient-centred in the context of patient motives and expectations and that therefore it is only after differential diagnosis that alcohol can be discussed, if relevant. Certainly alcohol must be relevant to the patient for it to be discussed but I disagree that the only way for it to be relevant is for it to be related to a disease the patient has or a treatment they are undergoing. I also recognize that there may be international cultural differences in the role responsibility of physicians and general practice.
At least in the US, prevention (universal, formerly known as primary) is well within the ken of the generalist primary care clinician. As such, the patient has an expectation that they will be screened for risks and diseases (e.g. colon cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer; patients often request these) and even receive medications with risks for conditions they do not have (prophylaxis)(e.g. aspirin to prevent heart attacks) and treatments for asymptomatic diseases they didn't know they had (high blood pressure). In fact many screenings (e.g. listening to the heart, counting the number of respirations or taking a temperature at every visit that have no known value) are done routinely despite not having known value or being related to patient disease or treatment. These may not be "relevant" in the sense that the patient has no symptoms or doesn't have any connection to them, but they (at least the evidence-based ones) are relevant or can easily be made relevant to the patient who wishes to remain in good health.
Alcohol screening, and then advice given based on the results, is similar to cholesterol screening, depression screening, obesity screening and other health promotion activities. Once a screening suggests excessive alcohol use, skilled counseling can make the risks relevant to the patient. Alcohol screening was again recently ranked as one of the most impactful and cost-effective services, third after childhood immunizations and tobacco prevention—there is no argument that those are patient-centred services [6]. This preventive approach seems quite patient centered, at least when patients expect and are interested in prevention and health maintenance. The real reason alcohol screening is often not taken up in clinical care is more likely to do with the fact that drinking alcohol is normative behavior, clinicians have not viewed it as a risk factor in their domain, there is confusion about what level is risky, and alcohol use disorders are stigmatized, not that they do not fit with patient-centred care.
Several commenters raised issues regarding addressing dependence (not a preventive service expected to respond to brief intervention alone). It is certainly true that when screening, an important minority of patients with dependence are identified and they need to be addressed. AA referral is clearly an option for those with dependence and while beyond the scope of this brief comment, there is in fact a large literature on effectiveness even including randomized trials of referral even if not RCTs of the intervention of AA itself. But Andreasson has the right idea—we do not want to limit our interventions for dependence to referral (to AA or specialty treatment)—much can likely be done from repeated brief counseling to medication treatments in general practice settings.
There are many reasons to identify unhealthy alcohol use beyond the possibility of intervening with prevention or treatment. To diagnose just about any symptom, to treat with medications, and to manage chronic conditions, one needs to know about alcohol and other drug use, just as one needs to know about medications and allergies. And we need to be prepared to address unhealthy alcohol use in those who are ready to make changes. So many of the tools of SBI remain quite relevant to practice even if a single brief intervention does not improve health in and of itself.
In sum, if alcohol brief interventions are effective, they can fit the patient-centred agenda. Further, it does appear we can increase the number of brief interventions in health systems. What we don't know is if they make a difference for health (whether they retain any efficacy or improve the health of populations). Studies (as we cited) raise serious questions about whether they do. That said, it does remain important, as Andreasson points out, that clinicians be prepared to address the spectrum of unhealthy alcohol use from hazardous use to dependence.
1. Williams EC, Rubinsky AD, Chavez LJ, et al. An early evaluation of implementation of brief intervention for unhealthy alcohol use in the US Veterans Health Administration. Addiction 2014;356:1472-81. doi:10.1111/add.12600 pmid:24773590.
2. Bradley KA, Williams EC, Achtmeyer CE, Volpp B, Collins BJ, Kivlahan DR. Implementation of evidence-based alcohol screening in the Veterans Health Administration. Am J Manag Care. 2006;12:597-606.
3. Madras BK, et al. Screening, brief interventions, referral to treatment (SBIRT) for illicit drug and alcohol use at multiple healthcare sites: Comparison at intake and 6 months later. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2009;99(1–3):280–295.
4. Bradley KA, Lapham GT, Hawkins EJ, Achtmeyer CE, Williams EC, Thomas RM, Kivlahan DR. Quality concerns with routine alcohol screening in VA clinical settings. J Gen Intern Med. 2011a;26:299–306.
5. Anderson P, Bendtsen P, Spak F, et al. Improving the delivery of brief intervention for heavy drinking in primary health care: outcome results of the Optimizing Delivery of Health Care Intervention (ODHIN) five-country cluster randomized factorial trial. Addiction. 2016;111:1935–1945.
6. Maciosek MV, LaFrance AB, Dehmer SP, et al. Updated priorities among effective clinical preventive services. Ann Fam Med. 2017;15(1):14–22.
Competing interests: Payment as an editor for BMJ, JAMA, J Addiction Med, UpToDate, American Society of Addiction Medicine and as a speaker to nonprofits and universities on related topics.
Having read the important article of Jim McCambridge and Richard Saitz [1] and following responses [2], I would like to respond to their hope for a broad discussion, including practitioners. Screening and brief intervention (SBI) for alcohol in general practice is not easily compatible with the basic nature of the consultation: to be there only for the patient, free from predetermined agendas, sometimes called the first commandment of the GP. The systematic nature of SBI for alcohol also risks displacing other potentially relevant factors as tobacco, diet, social situation, working conditions, etc.
A patient centred perspective starts with understanding the patient's motives for the visit, what are the patient's concerns and expectations for help? It is the patient who owns the time and determines the agenda. This is followed by a medical differential diagnostic phase, with a medical history and a physical examination, the doctor's agenda. The last phase is establishing a common understanding about the cause of disease and its further management. Only in these last phases can alcohol certainly be introduced when potentially relevant to the disease or interfering with treatment.
However, it is only meaningful to introduce alcohol if it can be made relevant to the patient. Else we cannot expect a changed drinking behaviour. In a situation of hazardous or harmful use, it is not likely that the patient beforehand is aware about health implications. Making it relevant requires that the doctor not only has the understanding but also has the pedagogical skill and can produce explanations and models that can make an alcohol connection understandable and relevant to the patient. Else it might seem more like moral statements on alcohol.
It is not surprising that health professionals trained in patient centredness, but short in knowledge to make individual assessments on alcohol's health effects, are reluctant to screen or give brief advice in this stigmatized area.
1. McCambridge J, Saitz R. Rethinking brief interventions for alcohol in general practice. BMJ 2017;356:j116
2. BMJ 2017;356:j116
Competing interests: No competing interests
McCambridge and Saitz have written an authoritative review on what is known and not known about alcohol brief interventions in General Practice (1). Brief interventions require a prior screening process and the two activities should be regarded as distinct but inextricably linked.
For a major article in the British Medical Journal, the omission of any reference to a national Alcohol Brief Intervention programme in the northern part of the British Isles is regrettable. The Scottish programme has been a substantial one and has provided further support for the public acceptability of Brief Interventions. One of McCambridge and Saitz's criticisms is that "uptake is often low." This has not been the case in Scotland where 667,037 brief interventions were recorded as delivered between 2008 and 2016 (Scotland's total population is 5.3M) (2) and NHS Health Scotland estimate that, taking into account repeat interventions, 43% of the potential beneficiaries were reached over the first 5 years of the programme(3).
A high quality quantitative evaluation of the Scottish programme would have been desirable, and Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems continues to advocate for this, but the realities of catching the political tide and issues of funding and health service organisation mean that evaluation of real life implementation of health initiatives is often sub optimal. Qualitative evaluations have shown that widespread implementation of screening and brief interventions is possible but requires significant support. (4) (5)
At local Health Board level, the question General Practitioners commonly asked of the ABI programme was "how does the evidence for this activity compare to other things we are being asked to do?" and, in this context, they supported ABIs as an investment priority. The low risk of harm from Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention compared to other screening activities weighed in its favour.
The issue of standardisation of the intervention is one which applies to all verbal interventions in health and other settings. How do we know if what is said within the consulting room is best practice? The psychoanalysis, cognitive behaviour therapy and counselling fields have not resolved this problem. In Scotland, the funding structure for the Brief Intervention programme offered a mechanism to ensure standardised training and materials. This is not perfect, but is a realistic and pragmatic of way dealing with the question.
The Scottish programme was established in the context of a broad strategy with some action on all of the WHO Best Buys (6) and there have been encouraging reductions in key health indicators over that period. (3) The difficulties of measuring the contribution of brief interventions to population trends has been previously identified (7). Political supporters of the strategy saw the investment in treatment and support, including brief interventions, as sweetening the pill of the price and availability measures , as well as a useful measure in its own right, and this is an important consideration.
Lastly, McCambridge and Saitz paper was a carefully considered evaluation of the state of knowledge on a complex problem. The teaser headline on the BMJ cover "Alcohol and Brief Interventions Don't Mix" was not. Some BMJ subscribers don't get past the front cover (8). Many of the recommendations made by McCambridge and Saitz and some respondents rely on effective screening for hazardous and harmful drinking, an activity for which primary care is a key setting. It would be a great pity if this review led to the loss of the baby in the bathwater which Professor Andreasson identified in his earlier response.
1) McCambridge J & Saitz R. Rethinking brief interventions for alcohol in general practice. BMJ 2017;356:j116
2) NHS National Services Scotland (ISD) Alcohol Brief Interventions 2015/16 https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Drugs-and-Alcohol-Misuse/Publi...
3) Beeston C, McAdams R, Craig N, Gordon R, Graham L, MacPherson M, McAuley A, McCartney G, Robinson M, Shipton D, Van Heelsum A. Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's alcohol Strategy. Final Report. Edinburgh: NHS Health Scotland; 2016.
4) Fitzgerald N, Platt L, Heywood S, McCambridge J. Large Scale Implementation of alcohol brief interventions in new settings in Scotland. BMC Public Health (2015) 15:289
5) Parkes T, Atherton I, Evans J, Gloyn S, Mcghee S, Stoddart B, et al. An evaluation to assess the implementation of NHS delivered Alcohol Brief Interventions. 2011. http://www.dldocs.stir.ac.uk/documents/abiscot.pdf
6) Graham L, McKinnon D. Grasping the thistle: The role of alcohol brief interventions in Scottish alcohol policy. Drug and Alcohol Review 29, 603–607
7) Heather N. Can screening and brief intervention lead to population-level reductions in alcohol-related harm? Addict Sci Clin Pract 2012;356:15.
8) Down End Research Group. Polythenia Gravis; The downside of evidence based medicine. BMJ 1995;311:1666
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The responses to this paper are diverse, and there are many challenges to be addressed in giving attention to the issues we raised. We were struck by the breadth, clarity and force of our INEBRIA colleague Sven Andreasson's response, which emphasizes the scale of the scientific challenge, and raises a range of issues with which many will disagree. Allan Braillon also emphasizes the need for change and the scale of the policy challenge, particularly taking issue with the limitations of brief advice and brief counselling.
Perhaps one recent study that I was involved in provides an example of one part of the way forward that they, and we, would agree on. PREMIUM evaluated a 4 session counselling intervention designed to address the needs of harmful (i.e. already problematic, not hazardous) drinkers in a contextually valid way, and identified promising short term self-reported effects in a large trial (1). Although dependent drinkers participating in this intervention were excluded from this study, they were all randomized to a pilot trial whose findings have yet to be reported. The trial was designed with generalizability and implementation considerations in mind. Obviously the agenda for change is much more ambitious than this, though this is a start.
1. Nadkarni A, Weobong B, Weiss HA, McCambridge J, Bhat B, Katti B, et al. Counselling for Alcohol Problems (CAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for harmful drinking in men, in primary care in India: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2017;389(10065):186-95.
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If the expression 'brief interventions' means what I think it means--ie, a few words of advice in the limited time available-wouldn't it be simpler and possibly more effective and even efficacious to suggest the patient goes to an AA meeting, or calls the AA helpline, or looks at an AA leaflet. There are of course no double blind randomised clinical trials, let alone meta-analyses or systmatic reviews to cite as evidence that AA works, but a helluva lot of people - recovering alcoholics - attest that it does, for them.
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Alcohol dependence is due to stimulation of the reward pathway and an indirect effect on dopamine. Alcohol use among adolescents has been a public health problem for decades. Early initiation of alcohol use is correlated with increased risk of a constellation of problem behaviours such as legal problems, driving under the influence of a substance, and emotional, physical and sexual abuse. It may also lead to a risk of later development of a substance use disorder. Adolescent brain research suggests that the pre-frontal cortex is immature, increasing the adolescent tendency for thrill seeking, disregarding the negative consequence of alcohol use.
Drugs used to treat alcohol addiction are naltrexone, and disulfiram was used earlier. Disulfiram works as a deterrent therapy, producing acetaldehyde, which then causes a negative reinforcement. Naltrexone is an Opiate blocker. There is evidence for reduced cravings and decreasing relapse rates: 23% relapsed vs. 54% placebo during a 12 week study. Acamprosate has an affinity for GABA A and GABA B receptors and inhibits the glutamate effect on NMDA receptors. Multiple studies in Europe show its effectiveness and safety. Tempesta et al. (2000) found an abstinence rate of 57.9% with acamprosate versus 45.2% with placebo. Sass et al. (1996) found at the end of 48 weeks of treatment and 48 more weeks of follow-up that 39% of the acamprosate group vs. 17% of the placebo group remained abstinent. Nalmefene may be an option for patients who experience adverse side effects from naltrexone or who do not respond to that drug. The use of antidepressants did not stop patients drinking even though their depression lifted, which demonstrates the need for additional interventions specific to drinking.
CBT in addition to these drugs was useful during the recovery phase. Recent clinical studies showed that involving pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy, is an optimal approach to alcohol dependence--a careful balance between the patient's needs and his/her clinical characteristic needs. However, a negative outcome was seen in patients who were younger, whose average age for problem drinking was significantly less than the other group. They achieved many mile-stones of a drinking career such as onset of day drinking, development of dependence, diagnosis of dependence earlier. They also had a higher psychosocial problem index, family history of alcoholism, more follow-up days using the mental health services. They did not come for follow up as quickly as the abstinent group after initiation of pathological drinking.
Abstinence with full return to biopsychosocial functioning is an indicator of successful recovery. Zackon identified lifestyle rehabilitation as the second track of recovery, including deaddiction, learning new pleasures, social integration, and creating new goals. It is in these key tasks that occupational therapy can provide significant input and feedback to alcoholic patients.
Competing interests: No competing interests
Re: Rethinking brief interventions for alcohol in general practice: Rethink screening, target group and patient centered care
McCambridge and Saitz have written an excellent review on brief interventions for alcohol in primary care (1). So, should we shut down INEBRIA (the International Network on Brief interventions for Alcohol & Other Drugs) now? I think not. But we need to redefine its mission. Given the substantial harm caused by alcohol, it still makes good sense for practitioners to discuss alcohol and other drugs with their patients. How is the question. What McCambridge and Saitz convincingly demonstrate is that screening and brief intervention, SBI, in the form developed by the WHO in the 1970 – 80s doesn't work in the real world.
What needs to change? The screening part to begin with. Practitioners have always been reluctant to do screening. We need to find smarter ways to initiate discussions about alcohol use; more related to clinical relevance and patient concerns, recognizing that alcohol use contributes to much of the morbidity encountered in primary care.
We also need to rethink who the target group is. In the WHO model only people with hazardous and harmful drinking would be included for advice – not people with dependence, who should be referred to specialists. This is a big mistake. To begin with, in large parts of the world there are no specialists to refer to. If problem drinkers are to receive help at all, it has to be in primary care. Another reason is that unless practitioners feel confident that they can help dependent drinkers they will continue to be reluctant to ask people about their drinking.
This is an argument for training primary health practitioners in simple but effective tools for treating people with alcohol use disorders. These include variations of brief interventions such as the Drinker's check-up (2), Guided self change (3) and pharmacotherapy (4), combined with bibliotherapy (5). Most people with alcohol dependence have mild to moderate forms of these disorders (6) and respond equally well to these brief and simple treatments as to more prolonged and complicated treatment, which has been shown for over 25 years (7). So, paradoxically, if the aim is to reach hazardous and harmful drinkers, one needs to equip practitioners with the tools to treat dependence as well.
We should understand that the patients who are really concerned about their drinking, and could really benefit from help to reduce their drinking, are the dependent patients. And here is the dilemma: these are also the people that are most reluctant to tell the truth, expecting – with good reason – all kinds of negative consequences if they do. What is sometimes referred to as "denial" is in reality mostly rational behaviour. Alcohol dependent people usually know they drink too much, but also fear they would get into trouble if they told their doctor about it. A more effective approach to reducing alcohol harm therefore includes a number of destigmatising procedures. Important among these is to put the patient in the driver's seat, congruent with our concepts of patient centered care, and offer them choices: choosing treatment goals as well as choosing between types of treatment.
So, given that the analysis of McCambridge and Saitz is correct, the right response is not to throw out the baby with the bathwater and stop addressing alcohol problems in primary care: addressing alcohol use still needs to be done – but in more realistic ways.
1. McCambridge J & Saitz R. Rethinking brief interventions for alcohol in general practice. BMJ 2017;356:j116
2. Miller, W. R. et al. (1988). Motivational interviewing with problem drinkers: II. The Drinker's Check-up as a preventive intervention. Behavioural Psychotherapy, 16, 251-
3. Sobell, M.B. (1993).Problem Drinkers: Guided self-change treatment. Guilford Press: New York.
4. Jonas DE, Amick HR, Feltner C, Bobashev G, Thomas K, Wines R, Kim MM, Shanahan E, Gass CE, Rowe CJ, Garbutt JC. Pharmacotherapy for adults with alcohol use disorders in outpatient settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis.JAMA. 2014 May 14;311(18):1889-900
5. Apodaca TR, Miller WR. A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of bibliotherapy for alcohol problems. J Clin Psychol. 2003 Mar;59(3):289-304.
6. Andréasson, Sven; Danielsson, Anna-Karin; Hallgren, Mats. Severity of alcohol dependence in the Swedish adult population: association with consumption and social factors. Alcohol 2013; 47:21-5
7. Drummond DC, Thom B, Brown C, Edwards G, Mullan MJ. Specialist versus general practitioner treatment of problem drinkers. Lancet. 1990 Oct 13;336(8720):915-8
Competing interests: No competing interests
McCambridge and Saitz must be commended for daring to challenge the "brief intervention" motto for Alcohol Use Disorders.(1)
Nevertheless, their detailed and evidence based piece may be reinforced by one simple observation: the uptake of "brief intervention" in primary care has always been low despite an incredible number of guidelines recommending it. Indeed, GPs have understood that if brief intervention could even have the slightest effectiveness: a) their efforts would be useless. Eg. In 2015 Carling spent eight million British pounds to freely and attractively advertise their addictive carcinogenic products as glamourous healthy life style choices! and b) their efforts would divert a costly resource, their time as highly trained professionals, for a very simple task.
How could the scandal of "Brief intervention" have lasted for so long? Indeed, it is a scandal as evidenced by a trial to reduce intimate partner violence and heavy drinking recently funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. It compared outcomes for women (mostly poor, single, black, and unemployed) "treated" by 20 to 30 minutes of motivational counselling at the Emergency Department plus a telephone booster at 10 days, vs no intervention! Is alcohol merely a matter of individual bad habits and these women had only met the wrong guy?(2)
Brief intervention must not be confused with motivational interviewing, the cornerstone of lifestyle management programs.(3) Sadly, it is not appropriately implemented in everyday practice yet.(4)
Multi-factorial life-style interventions (medico-psycho-social) are mandatory to obtain sustained beneficial effects when caring for patients with addictions.(5) Haste is the source of discouragement and disappointment.
1 McCambridge J, Saitz R. Rethinking brief interventions for alcohol in general practice. BMJ 2017;356:j116.
2 Rhodes KV, Rodgers M, Sommers M et al. Brief Motivational Intervention for intimate partner violence and heavy drinking in the emergency department: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2015;314:466-77.
3 Rollnick S, Butler CC, Kinnersley P, Gregory J, Mash B. Motivational interviewing. BMJ2010 27;340:c1900.
4 Baumann S, Toft U, Aadahl M, Jørgensen T, Pisinger C. The long-term effect of a population-based life-style intervention on smoking and alcohol consumption. The Inter99 Study--a randomized controlled trial. Addiction 2015;110:1853-60.
5 Hall K, Staiger PK, Simpson A, Best D, Lubman DI. Continuing the conversation: 30 years of motivational interviewing dissemination. Addiction 2016;111:1158-1159.
Competing interests: No competing interests
This is a comment to the previous rapid response of Sergei V. Jargin:
Dr. Jargin is correct regarding the risk of poisoning from the illegal admixture of methanol into various products that may be consumed as surrogate alcohol. We have recently detected methanol in antifreeze products on the market in Novosibirsk [2]. It is of note that methanol is an illegal ingredient of antifreeze, and the products were even labelled as "methanol free".
I disagree, however, with the comments regarding polyhexamethyleneguanidine hydrochloride (PHMG) found in the 2006 poisoning outbreak related to unrecorded alcohol consumption. While it is correct that the LD50 is 450 mg/kg for mice and 650 mg/kg for rats, the more relevant NOAEL in a 6-month oral study in rats was 0.1 mg/kg bodyweight/day [2]. Our quantitative risk assessment has shown that drinking typical amounts of surrogate alcohol containing PHMG may reach exposure levels comparable to levels causing adverse effects in the animals [3,4]. Adverse effects of PHMG in humans are also well known from Korea, where the use of PHMG in household humidifiers led to a poisining outbreak with several deaths due to lung injury [5].
[1] Neufeld, M., Lachenmeier, D., Hausler, T., & Rehm, J. (2016). Surrogate alcohol containing methanol, social deprivation and public health in Novosibirsk, Russia. International Journal of Drug Policy, 37, 107-110.
[2] Condrashov SA. Hygienic evaluation of new polymer flocculant polyhexamethyleneguanidine. Gig Sanit 1992; 54:11 – 13.
[3] Solodun, Y., Monakhova, Y., Kuballa, T., Samokhvalov, A., Rehm, J., & Lachenmeier, D. (2011). Unrecorded alcohol consumption in Russia: toxic denaturants and disinfectants pose additional risks. Interdisciplinary toxicology, 4(4), 198-205.
[4] Lachenmeier, D. W., Monakhova, Y. B., Samokhvalov, A. V., & Rehm, J. (2012). Causality between polyhexamethyleneguanidine occurrence in unrecorded alcohol and cholestatic hepatitis outbreak in Russia. Clinical Toxicology, 50(2), 154-155.
[5] Lachenmeier, D. W. (2016). Antiseptic Drugs and Disinfectants. Side Effects of Drugs Annual, 38, 211-216.
Competing interests: No competing interests
In some parts of the world, the primary care to prevent harm from heavy alcohol use [1] should take into account that a surrogate could have been consumed even if the "beverage" was purchased in a legally operating shop or pharmacy.
In December 2016, 77 lethal cases were reported from a mass poisoning in Irkutsk, Russia. According to the available information [2,3], the poisoning was caused by the Hawthorn bath lotion containing according to the label "93% of ethyl alcohol, hawthorn extract, lemon oil, diethyl phthalate and glycerol", while the chemical analysis demonstrated that the lotion "contained methyl alcohol and antifreeze" [3]. There is a suspicion, however, that the poisoning was caused by the hawthorn (Crataegus) tincture sold in pharmacies, containing 70% ethanol, and prescribed by drops to cardiology patients [4]. The hawthorn tincture is a pharmacy product most frequently consumed by drinkers in Russia [5,6]. Some people buy it as they hope to obtain better quality alcohol than that sold in bottle stores. Converted to absolute alcohol, the tincture is currently more expensive than cheap vodka: 50 ml of the tincture costs about 1 US dollar. It is known that legally sold alcoholic beverages in Russia often contained technical alcohol [7]. The author has found no information on "bath lotions" containing 93% ethanol. There could have been misinformation intended to veil the fact that methyl alcohol had been used in pharmacies as a cheap substitute for medicinal ethanol.
Another mass poisoning occurred in several places in the Russian Federation in 2006. The number of poisonings with marked jaundice during the period August-November 2006 was reported to be 12,611, including 1189 lethal cases, reportedly caused by disinfectant Extrasept-1, containing 0.08-0.15% of diethyl phthalate and 0.1-0.14% of polyhexamethylene guanidine hydrochloride (PHMG) sold in vodka bottles [8,9]. Factual figures are unknown. In addition, "chloride compounds" i.e. organochlorides have been mentioned as possible causative factors [10], which seems to be more probable as PHMG has no strong hepatotoxicity; its LD50 in rats has been estimated to be 600 mg/kg, while the rats died with the symptoms of nerve injury [11,12]. The data on the PHMG mass poisoning [9] were cited in [12] and could have influenced conclusions. If these data are incorrect, they may be misleading for the toxicity assessment of PHMG and polyhexamethylene biguanide (PHMB) broadly used as antimicrobial agents. More details are in [7].
1. McCambridge J, Saitz R. Rethinking brief interventions for alcohol in general practice. BMJ 2017;356:j116.
2. 2016 Irkutsk mass methanol poisoning. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Irkutsk_mass_methanol_poisoning (22 Jan. 17)
3. 48 people die after drinking bath lotion with antifreeze in Siberia. RT News 19 Dec, 2016 https://www.rt.com/news/370706-methanol-lotion-poisoning-siberia/ (22 Jan. 17)
4. Hawthorn tincture. https://vapteke.com.ua/drugs/crataegus-l_arterium.php (22 Jan. 17)
5. Monakhova YB, Kuballa T, Leitz J, Lachenmeier DW. Determination of diethyl phthalate and polyhexamethylene guanidine in surrogate alcohol from Russia. Int J Anal Chem 2011:704795.
6. Gil A, Polikina O, Koroleva N, et al. Availability and characteristics of nonbeverage alcohols sold in 17 Russian cities in 2007. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2009;33:79-85.
7. Jargin SV. Alcohol abuse and toxicity of alcoholic beverages in Russia: Recent history. ARC J Addiction 2016;1:21-29. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311922946_Alcohol_Abuse_and_Tox...
8. Luzhnikov EA. Medical Toxicology. Moscow: Geotar-Media; 2014.
9. Ostapenko YN, Brusin KM, Zobnin YV, et al. Acute cholestatic liver injury caused by polyhexamethyleneguanidine hydrochloride admixed to ethyl alcohol. Clin Toxicol (Phila) 2011;49: 471-7.
10. Khaltourina D, Korotayev A. Alcohol control policies and alcohol-related mortality in Russia: Reply to Razvodovsky and Nemtsov. Alcohol Alcohol 2016;51:628-9.
11. Asiedu-Gyekye IJ, Mahmood SA, Awortwe C, Nyarko AK. A preliminary safety evaluation of polyhexamethylene guanidine hydrochloride. Int J Toxicol 2014;33(6):523-31.
12. Asiedu-Gyekye IJ, Mahmood AS, Awortwe C, Nyarko AK. Toxicological assessment of polyhexamethylene biguanide for water treatment. Interdiscip Toxicol 2015;8:193-202.
Competing interests: No competing interests


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Det er en stor omgang og det er muligt at denne post skal ændres, men nu prøver jeg.
Her følger listen af plug-ins som er installeret lige nu og nedenunder er en mere udførlig beskrivelse af dem. På engelsk desværre:
[plugins_list format="#LinkedTitle# – #Description#
Plug-in type: System betyder at vi anvender dette plugin, men at du ikke har nogen indflydelse på det. Bruger betyder at du kan anvende det aktivt i indlæg og design.
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This is a simple WordPress plugin aimed at giving credit where credit is due.
The plugin inserts an XHTML list into any post/page through a shortcode. If you're into customization, you can specify a format argument and indicate the exact output you are after. There's also an option to display inactive plugins as well.
Key features include…
- A simple template system allows you to format how you'd like the plugin information to be shown
- Template tags are available for automatically linked items as well as simple text
- Choose from a number of pieces of plugin data to be output
- Display inactive plugins as well as active plugins if you wish
- Output is cached to provide a super-quick response
- A separate shortcode allows you to display how many plugins you have!
Thanks to Matej Nastran's My plugins, from which Plugins list was initially derived.
Please visit the Github page for the latest code development, planned enhancements and known issues.
Instructions on use
To get a list of the plugins that are installed and activated in your website, insert the following into any post or page:
You can customise the output specifying the
format argument and a number of pre-defined
tags. Here's an example:
[plugins_list format="{{LinkedTitle}} - {{LinkedAuthor}}
"]
The tags are:
Author ,
LinkedAuthor. All are defined within double braces.
If you want to list also the plug-ins you have installed but are not using, here's the formula:

[plugins_list show_inactive=true]

The plugins list can be freely styled with css, just place any class or id attribute on the
format string, or on the elements surrounding it.
By default links will be followed but you can make these "nofollow" by simply adding the parameter of
nofollow=true. For example…

[plugins_list nofollow=true]

You can also specify the link target too. For example…

[plugins_list target="_blank"]

Finally, want so sort the output by author and not plugin name? Just use the parameter
by_author. For example…

[plugins_list by_author=true]

Using HTML

If you wish to put HTML in your format then you can. However, this can cause havoc in the Visual editor and even causes extra characters to be passed into the output (rogue paragraph tags, for instance). I therefore highly recommend that, if you wish to add HTML, use double braces instead of < and > around your HTML tags – this plugin will correct this before output but it means the visual editor doesn't try and interpret the HTML.
For example…

[plugins_list format="{{li}}{{LinkedTitle}} - {{LinkedAuthor}}{{/li}}"]

The characters will be corrected upon output and you will get a lovely, bulleted, un-ordered list as output.
By default your plugin list will be cached for 5 minutes, ensuring that performance is impacted as little as possible. Use the parameter
cache to change the number of minutes. Set this to false to switch off caching.
For example…

[plugins_list cache=60]

This will cache for 1 hour. The following will switch the cache off…

[plugins_list cache=false]

Plugin Count

A shortcode also exists to allow you to display the number of plugins that you have. Simply add
[plugins_number] to your post or page and it will return the number of active plugins.
To display the number of active AND inactive plugins use
[plugins_number inactive=true]. You can also display the number of inactive plugins by specifying
[plugins_number inactive=true active=false].
As with the other shortcode results will be cached by default. To change the number of hours simply use the
cache parameter. Set it to
false to switch off caching. For example…
[plugins_number inactive=true cache=2]
Reviews & Mentions

Ever wanted to display some plugin's informations on your website ? But you didn't want to hard code it. PAPII is designed for this. Just use the [papii] shortcode to display informations from the official page.
The CW Image Optimizer is a WordPress plugin that will automatically and losslessly optimize your images as you upload them to your blog. It can also optimize the images that you have already uploaded in the past.
Because CW Image Optimizer uses lossless optimization techniques, your image quality will be exactly the same before and after the optimization. The only thing that will change is your file size.
The CW Image Optimizer plugin is based on the WP Smush.it plugin. Unlike the WP Smush.it plugin, your files won't be uploaded to a third party when using CW Image Optimizer. Your files are optimized using the Linux littleutils image optimization tools (available for free). You don't need to worry about the Smush.it privacy policy or terms of service because your images never leave your server.
Why use CW Image Optimizer?
- Your pages will load faster. Smaller image sizes means faster page loads. This will make your visitors happy, and can increase ad revenue.
- Faster backups. Smaller image sizes also means faster backups.
- Less bandwidth usage. Optimizing your images can save you hundreds of KB per image, which means significantly less bandwidth usage.
- Super fast. Because it runs on your own server, you don't have to wait for a third party service to receive, process, and return your images. You can optimize hundreds of images in just a few minutes.
Contact and Credits
Written by Jacob Allred at Corban Works, LLC. Based on WP Smush.it.
Events Made Easy is a full-featured event and membership management solution for WordPress. Events Made Easy supports public, private, draft and recurring events, membership and locations management, RSVP (+ optional approval), several payment gateways (Paypal, 2Checkout, FirstData, Mollie and others) and OpenStreetMap integration. With Events Made Easy you can plan and publish your event, or let people book spaces for your weekly meetings. You can add events list, calendars and description to your blog using multiple sidebar widgets or shortcodes; if you are a web designer you can simply employ the placeholders provided by Events Made Easy.
Main features:
* public, private, draft and recurring events with custom and dynamic fields in the RSVP form
* membership management with custom and dynamic fields
* page and post content protection through memberships or via shortcodes
* drip content via memberships
* People and groups with custom fields per person
* PDF creation for membership, bookings and people info
* Membership card or booking ticket can be sent as PDF via mail automatically
* RSS and ICAL feeds
* Calendar management, with holidays integration
* Several widgets for event listings and calendar
* location management, with optional OpenStreetMap integration
* RSVP bookings with custom fields and dynamic fields, payment tracking, optional approval, discounts
* Templating for mails, event lists, single events, feeds, RSVP forms, … with specific placeholders for each
* Lots of shortcodes and options
* Payment gateways: Paypal, FirstData, 2CheckOut, Mollie, Worldpay, Sagepay, Stripe, Braintree, Paymill, Instamojo
* Send mails to registered people, automatically send reminders for payments
* Mail queueing and newsletter functionality
* Mailings can be planned in the future, cancelled …
* Multi-site compatible
* Fully localisable and already fully localised in German, Swedish, French and Dutch. Also fully compatible with (m)qtranslate(-xt): most of the settings allow for language tags so you can show your events in different languages to different people. The booking mails also take the choosen language into account.
For more information, documentation and support forum visit the Official site .
Sitemap plugin automatically generates XML sitemap for your WordPress website and helps search engines index your blog. Such sitemap file helps web crawlers to extract the structure of your website more effectively.
The plugin supports default WordPress pages as well as custom URLs. It can be also added to your Google Webmaster Tools account.
Improve your website SEO today!
Free Features
- Add the following URLs to the sitemap:
- Page
- Post
- Post category
- Post tag
- Custom post types
- Custom taxonomies
- Add a path to your sitemap file in robots.txt automatically
- Add media sitemap
- Add canonical URLs to pages and posts
- Set the maximum number of URLs in one sitemap file
- Connect your Google Webmaster Tools account to:
- Add website
- Add sitemap
- Delete website
- Get website info
- Compatible with latest WordPress version
- Add alternate language pages using Multilanguage plugin
- Incredibly simple settings for fast setup without modifying code
- Detailed step-by-step documentation and videos
Pro Features
All features from Free version included plus:
- Add external sitemap files
- Exclude certain pages or post types from your sitemap file
- Set the frequency of
- Your website content changes for all pages
- External sitemap file update
- Configure all subsites on the network
- Add custom URLs to the sitemap file
- Get answer to your support question within one business day (Support Policy)
If you have a feature suggestion or idea you'd like to see in the plugin, we'd love to hear about it! Suggest a Feature
Documentation & Videos
- [Doc] Installation
- [Doc] Purchase
- [Doc] How to Add your site to Google Webmaster resource
- [Video] Installation Instruction
Help & Support
Visit our Help Center if you have any questions, our friendly Support Team is happy to help — https://support.bestwebsoft.com/
- Czech (cs_CZ) (thanks to Michal Kučera, www.n0lim.it)
- Russian (ru_RU)
- Ukrainian (uk)
Some of these translations are not complete. We are constantly adding new features which should be translated. If you would like to create your own language pack or update the existing one, you can send the text of PO and MO files to BestWebSoft and we'll add it to the plugin. You can download the latest version of the program for work with PO and MO files Poedit.
Recommended Plugins
- Updater – Automatically check and update WordPress website core with all installed plugins and themes to the latest versions.
- Htaccess – Protect WordPress website – allow and deny access for certain IP addresses, hostnames, etc.
- Multilanguage – Translate WordPress website content to other languages manually. Create multilingual pages, posts, widgets, menus, etc.
This plugin allows the author of a post or page to hide the title and it's containing HTML element from the single view ( is_singular() ).
[iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oDlbBy9vfgI" width="100%" height="500″] shortcode
should show something like this:
WordPress removes iframe html tags because of security reasons.
Iframe shortcode is the replacement of the iframe html tag and accepts the same params as iframe html tag does.
You may use iframe shortcode to embed content from YouTube, Vimeo, Google Maps or from any external page.
If you need to embed content from YouTube, Vimeo, SlideShare, SoundCloud, Twitter via direct link, you may use
[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDlbBy9vfgI[/embed] shortcode.
[embed] shortcode is a core WordPress feature and can embed content from many resources via direct link.
Important: You can not embed HTTP pages into HTTPS pages and vice versa.
So the protocol (http or httpS) for parent and embedded page should match.
iframe params:
- src – source of the iframe:
[iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oDlbBy9vfgI"]; by default src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oDlbBy9vfgI";
- width – width in pixels or in percents:
[iframe width="100%"]or
[iframe width="600"]; by default width="100%";
- height – height in pixels:
[iframe height="500"]; by default height="500″;
- scrolling – with or without the scrollbar:
[iframe scrolling="no"]; by default scrolling="yes";
- frameborder – with or without the frame border:
[iframe frameborder="0"]; by default frameborder="0″;
- marginheight – height of the margin:
[iframe marginheight="0"]; removed by default;
- marginwidth – width of the margin:
[iframe marginwidth="0"]; removed by default;
- allowtransparency – allows to set transparency of the iframe:
[iframe allowtransparency="true"]; removed by default;
- id – allows to add the id of the iframe:
[iframe id="custom_id"]; removed by default;
- class – allows to add the class of the iframe:
[iframe class="custom_class"]; by default class="iframe-class";
- style – allows to add the css styles of the iframe:
[iframe style="margin-left:-30px;"]; removed by default;
- same_height_as – allows to set the height of iframe same as target element:
[iframe same_height_as="div.sidebar"],
[iframe same_height_as="div#content"],
[iframe same_height_as="body"],
[iframe same_height_as="html"]; removed by default;
- any_other_param – allows to add new parameter of the iframe
[iframe any_other_param="any_value"];
- any_other_empty_param – allows to add new empty parameter of the iframe (like "allowfullscreen" on youtube)
[iframe any_other_empty_param=""];
Lazy load images to improve page load times. Uses jQuery.sonar to only load an image when it's visible in the viewport.
This plugin is an amalgamation of code written by the WordPress.com VIP team at Automattic, the TechCrunch 2011 Redesign team, and Jake Goldman (10up LLC).
Uses jQuery.sonar by Dave Artz (AOL).
Meteor Slides makes it simple to create slideshows and publish them with a shortcode, widget, or template tag. The slideshows scale with responsive and fluid themes to fit any device and have touch support. Powered by jQuery Cycle with over twenty transition styles to choose from.
Meteor Slides Homepage
Visit this plugin's homepage for documentation, tutorials, and additional videos.
Video Overview
This screencast shows some of the plugin's features, such as different transition and navigation options, multiple slideshows, plugin settings, and metadata. Watch more Meteor Slides videos.
- Easy integration: Add the slideshow to your site using a template tag, shortcode, or widget.
- Mobile Friendly: Scales to fit any device, supports touch navigation for mobiles and tablets.
- Multiple Slideshows: Organize your slides into multiple slideshows.
- Slideshow settings page: Control the slide height and width, the number of slides, the slideshow speed and transition style, and the type of navigation.
- Slideshow metadata: Customize individual slideshows or configure more jQuery Cycle options with the MetaData jQuery Plugin.
- Slideshow transition styles: blindX, blindY, blindZ, cover, curtainX, curtainY, fade, fadeZoom, growX, growY, none, scrollUp, scrollDown, scrollLeft, scrollRight, scrollHorz, scrollVert, slideX, slideY, turnUp, turnDown, turnLeft, turnRight, uncover, wipe, zoom.
- Slideshow navigation: Optional previous/next and/or paged slide navigation.
- Multiple languages: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese.
- Multisite Compatible: Add Meteor Slides to any site on your network.
RandomText is a handy WordPress plugin that allows you to save, edit and delete categorized text, and inject random/rotated text by category into the sidebar (via widget) or page body (via template tags). The sidebar widget allows you to set an optional Title, and text header and footer. You could say RandomText picks up where the Text widget left off. Whether you want to display random/rotated trivia, quotes, helpful hints, featured articles, or snippets of html, you can do it all easily with RandomText.
Plugin Demo: RPS Lite Demo
Recent Posts slider displays your blog's recent posts either with excerpt or thumbnail image of first image of the post using slider.
You can customize the slider in many ways (width, height, post per slide, no of posts to display & more).
Plugin Demo: RPS Pro Demo
Upgrade to RPS Pro to get the features listed below
- Responsive
- More Customization options for pagination position & arrow
- Four different templates to showcase your recent posts with slider
- Easy color pickers to change background & text color
- Multiple slider on a same page of with different theme, width, height, category & posts setting
- Random Posts
It creates the thumbnail of either the first image from the post or of featured image. If you want to create a thumbnail of a specific image add a custom field as rps_custom_thumb and specify image path as value.
If you have a feature that you would like to get added in future versions, feel free to contact me at http://recent-posts-slider.com/contact.
If you find it useful please don't forget to rate this plugin.
Shortcodes Ultimate is a comprehensive collection of various visual and functional elements, which you can use in the post editor, text widgets or even in template files. Using Shortcodes Ultimate you can easily create tabs, buttons, boxes, sliders and carousels, responsive videos and much, much more.
- 50+ beautiful shortcodes
- 1-click shortcode insertion with live preview
- Gutenberg-ready
- Works with any theme
- Modern responsive design
- Documentation
- Custom CSS editor
- Custom widget
- Translation-ready
- RTL support
- Developer-friendly
Check out premium add-ons!
- Extra Shortcodes – 15+ additional shortcodes
- Additional Skins – 60+ additional skins
- Shortcode Creator – create your own custom shortcodes
- Add-ons Bundle – All-in-one!
Available Shortcodes
Heading Tabs Spoiler Accordion
Divider Spacer Highlight Label
Quote Pullquote Dropcap Columns
List Button Service Box
Note Expand Lightbox Tooltip
Private YouTube Vimeo Dailymotion
Audio Video Table Permalink
Members Guests RSS Menu
Sub pages Siblings Document Google map
Image carousel Slider Carousel Gallery
Posts Dummy text Dummy image Animation
Meta data User data Post data Template
QR code Scheduler
Thanks to these great guys for contribution
- Reviews by advanced users
- Dmitry Semenov – Magnific Popup jQuery plugin
- Craig Thompson – qTip jQuery plugin
- Vladimir Kharlampidi – Swiper jQuery plugin
- David DeSandro – Flickity – Touch, responsive, flickable carousels
- Fork Awesome & Dave Gandy
- James Smith – Simple Slider jQuery plugin
- pt_br locale: Ibidem Translations
- fr_fr locale: Nicolas Leclerc
- el_gr locale: Kleanthis Manolopoulos
- sk_sk locale: Patrik Žec (PATWIST)
- cs_cz locale: Punc00
- sv_se locale: Javier Marcilla
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Smart Youtube is one of the most popular WordPress plugins, with more than 1,000,000 downloads to date..
From version 4.0 Smart Youtube changed the name to Smart Youtube PRO and now also supports playback of Youtube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Liveleak and Facebook high quality videos, works on iPhone & iPad, produces xHTML valid code (unlike YouTube embed code), allows you to view videos in fullscreen, has video thumbnails support, has robust widget support and much more.
The plugin is designed to be small and fast and not use any external resources. It has a number of customizable options.
Main Features:
- Easily embeds YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Liveleak and Facebook videos (normal/HD mode)
- Works on iPhone, iPad and iPod
- Embed YouTube playlist (normal/HD)
- Supports latest high definition video protocols
- Extract video thumbnails in your archive/category posts
- Provides a sidebar widget for videos as well
- Supports video deep linking (starting at desired point with &start=time parameter)
- Autoplay videos, autoplay only the first video on the page (if multiple vidoes)
- Show video in Colorbox
- Supports migrated blogs from WordPress.com
- Supports migration from other Youtube plugins such as wp-youtube
- Produces xHTML valid code
Related plugins:
Feel free to check out my my blog.
Some of the functions of SmartYoutube plugin came from other plugins. So I can at least thank these people:
- Oliver for his cforms II plugin
- Scott for his excellent readme.txt file
- YouTube folks for their service and javascript selector
This file is part of Smart YouTube.
Smart YouTube is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Smart YouTube is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Smart YouTube. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
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Super RSS Reader is jQuery based RSS reader widget, which displays the RSS feeds in the widget in an attractive way. It uses the jQuery easy ticker plugin to add a news ticker like effect to the RSS feeds. Multiple RSS feeds can be added for a single widget and they get separated in tabs.
The plugin is fully customizable with external styles and with some inbuilt color styles. It acts as a perfect replacement for the default RSS widget in WordPress.
Check out the LIVE DEMO of the plugin
- jQuery news ticker like effect to the RSS feeds (can turn off or on)
- Display feeds in multiple tabs
- Display thumbnail to the feed items if available.
- Select color themes for widget. Customizable via CSS.
- Customizable ticker speed.
- Supports RSS or atom feed.
- Can strip title and description text of the feed item.
- RSS feed reading engine is the inbuilt WordPress's engine
- The news ticker effect is powered by the jQuery Easy ticker plugin
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Note: The end of Ultimate Tinymce
This plugin will not work properly on WordPress versions 3.9 and above
Instead, please switch to using WP Edit
- WordPress has released version 3.9.
- Ultimate Tinymce will NO LONGER function properly after the update.
- Please switch to using "WP Edit" instead; AFTER your site is updated to WordPress 3.9.
- In WP Edit, there is an option under the "Database" tab, which will attempt to import any settings from Ultimate Tinymce.
- WP Edit is the successor of Ultimate Tinymce… a complete project update.
Only use Ultimate Tinymce for WordPress versions 3.5.1 through 3.8.3
- Ultimate Tinymce will still continue to function properly in versions of WordPress between 3.5.1 and 3.8.3.
- However, I strongly suggest updating your sites to WordPress version 3.9; and then installing "WP Edit".
- This will ensure you are running the most up-to-date code available!
- Simply too many features to list!! Please visit the Ultimate Tinymce website for a complete list.
If you run a WordPress or BuddyPress installation, you probably know that some of the biggest administrative headaches come from the activation process. Activation emails may be caught by spam filters, deleted unwillingly, or simply not understood. Yet WordPress itself has no UI for viewing and managing unactivated members.
Unconfirmed creates a Dashboard panel under the Users menu (Network Admin > Users on Multisite) that shows a list of unactivated user registrations. For each registration, you have the option of resending the original activation email, or manually activating the user.
Note that the plugin works for the following configurations:
1. Multisite, with or without BuddyPress
2. Single site, with BuddyPress used for user registration
There is currently no support for single-site WP registration without BuddyPress.
Wordfence includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that were built from the ground up to protect WordPress. Our Threat Defense Feed arms Wordfence with the newest firewall rules, malware signatures and malicious IP addresses it needs to keep your website safe. Rounded out by 2FA and a suite of additional features, Wordfence is the most comprehensive WordPress security solution available.
- Web Application Firewall identifies and blocks malicious traffic. Built and maintained by a large team focused 100% on WordPress security.
- [Premium] Real-time firewall rule and malware signature updates via the Threat Defense Feed (free version is delayed by 30 days).
- [Premium] Real-time IP Blacklist blocks all requests from the most malicious IPs, protecting your site while reducing load.
- Protects your site at the endpoint, enabling deep integration with WordPress. Unlike cloud alternatives does not break encryption, cannot be bypassed and cannot leak data.
- Integrated malware scanner blocks requests that include malicious code or content.
- Protection from brute force attacks by limiting login attempts.
- Malware scanner checks core files, themes and plugins for malware, bad URLs, backdoors, SEO spam, malicious redirects and code injections.
- [Premium] Real-time malware signature updates via the Threat Defense Feed (free version is delayed by 30 days).
- Compares your core files, themes and plugins with what is in the WordPress.org repository, checking their integrity and reporting any changes to you.
- Repair files that have changed by overwriting them with a pristine, original version. Delete any files that don't belong easily within the Wordfence interface.
- Checks your site for known security vulnerabilities and alerts you to any issues. Also alerts you to potential security issues when a plugin has been closed or abandoned.
- Checks your content safety by scanning file contents, posts and comments for dangerous URLs and suspicious content.
- [Premium] Checks to see if your site or IP have been blacklisted for malicious activity, generating spam or other security issue.
- Two-factor authentication (2FA), one of the most secure forms of remote system authentication available via any TOTP-based authenticator app or service.
- Login Page CAPTCHA stops bots from logging in.
- Disable or add 2FA to XML-RPC.
- Block logins for administrators using known compromised passwords.
- Wordfence Central is a powerful and efficient way to manage the security for multiple sites in one place.
- Efficiently assess the security status of all your websites in one view. View detailed security findings without leaving Wordfence Central.
- Powerful templates make configuring Wordfence a breeze.
- Highly configurable alerts can be delivered via email, SMS or Slack. Improve the signal to noise ratio by leveraging severity level options and a daily digest option.
- Track and alert on important security events including administrator logins, breached password usage and surges in attack activity.
- Free to use for unlimited sites.
- With Live Traffic, monitor visits and hack attempts not shown in other analytics packages in real time; including origin, their IP address, the time of day and time spent on your site.
- Block attackers by IP or build advanced rules based on IP Range, Hostname, User Agent and Referrer.
- Country blocking available with Wordfence Premium.
WP-Cirrus is a plugin that displays a 3D tag cloud in your WordPress. It can be
used as a widget or anywhere on your blog using the [wp-cirrus] code.
WP-Cirrus was inspired by the famous WP-Cumulus plugin. WP-Cirrus uses no Flash,
but only JavaScript and CSS to display the cloud. It gets all meta tags directly
from WordPress.
Our plugin makes no use of external libraries that have to be loaded with it at runtime
(e.g. jQuery or even Flash). This makes it very small and fast to load.
As it's still under development more releases will be seen in near future.
Have fun and tell us what you think about it.
WordPress Mail SMTP Plugin
Having problems with your WordPress site not sending emails? You're not alone. Over 1 million websites use WP Mail SMTP to send their emails reliably.
Our goal is to make email deliverability easy and reliable. We want to ensure your emails reach the inbox.
WP Mail SMTP fixes your email deliverability by reconfiguring WordPress to use a proper SMTP provider when sending emails.
What is SMTP?
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is an industry standard for sending emails. Proper SMTP configuration helps increase email deliverability by using authentication.
Popular email clients like Gmail, Yahoo, and Office 365 are in a constant battle with email spammers. One of the things they look at is if an email is originating from the location it claims to be originating from.
If the proper authentication isn't there, then emails either go in the SPAM folder or worst, don't get delivered at all.
This is a problem for a lot of WordPress sites because by default, WordPress uses the PHP mail function to send emails generated by WordPress or any contact form plugin like WPForms.
The issue is that most WordPress hosting companies don't have their servers properly configured for sending PHP emails.
The combination of two causes your WordPress emails to not get delivered.
How does WP Mail SMTP work?
WP Mail SMTP plugin easily resolves email delivery problems by improving and changing how your WordPress site sends email. We reconfigure the
wp_mail() function to either use proper SMTP host credentials or leverage a built-in SMTP mail provider.
When using one of our built-in SMTP mail provider integrations (recommended), emails are sent using the provider's direct API. This means even if your web host is blocking SMTP ports, your emails still send successfully.
This helps you fix all WordPress not sending email issues.
WP Mail SMTP plugin includes many different SMTP setup options:
- Pepipost SMTP (Recommended)
- Sendinblue SMTP (Recommended)
- Mailgun SMTP
- SendGrid SMTP
- Gmail SMTP
- Microsoft SMTP (Outlook.com and Office 365) [Pro]
- Amazon SES SMTP [Pro]
- All Other SMTP
For all options, you can specify the "from name" and "email address" for outgoing emails.
Instead of having users use different SMTP plugins and workflows for different SMTP providers, we decided to bring it all in one. This is what makes WP Mail SMTP, the best SMTP solution for WordPress.
Pepipost SMTP
Pepipost is a recommended transactional email service.
Every month they delivers over 8 billion emails from 20,000+ customers.
Their mission is to reliably send emails in the most efficient way and at the most disruptive pricing ever.
Pepipost provides users 30,000 emails the first 30 days.
Read our Pepipost documentation for more details.
Sendinblue SMTP
Sendinblue is a recommended transactional email service.
They serve 80,000+ growing companies around the world and send over 30 million emails each day.
Their email deliverability experts are constantly at work optimizing the reliability and speed of their SMTP infrastructure. Sendinblue provides users 300 free emails per day.
Read our Sendinblue documentation for more details.
Mailgun SMTP
Mailgun SMTP is a popular SMTP service provider that allows you to send large quantities of emails. They provide 5,000 free emails per month for 3 months.
WP Mail SMTP plugin offers a native integration with MailGun. All you have to do is connect your Mailgun account, and you will improve your email deliverability.
Read our Mailgun documentation for more details.
SendGrid SMTP
SendGrid has a free SMTP plan that you can use to send up to 100 emails per day. With our native SendGrid SMTP integration, you can easily and securely set up SendGrid SMTP on your WordPress site.
Read our SendGrid documentation for more details.
Gmail SMTP
Often bloggers and small business owners don't want to use third-party SMTP services. Well you can use your Gmail or G Suite account for SMTP emails.
This allows you to use your professional email address and improve email deliverability.
Unlike other Gmail SMTP plugins, our Gmail SMTP option uses OAuth to authenticate your Google account, keeping your login information 100% secure.
Read our Gmail documentation for more details.
Microsoft SMTP (Outlook.com and Office 365)
Many business use Outlook.com or Office 365 to their to power their email. For those users, the Microsoft mailer can be a great option. This integration allows you to use your existing Outlook.com or Office 365 account to send your emails reliably.
Amazon SES SMTP
Advanced or technical users can harness the power of Amazon AWS (Amazon Web Services) with the Amazon SES mailer. With this integration, you can send a high volume of emails at a very reasonable rate.
Read our Amazon SES documentation for more details.
Other SMTP
WP Mail SMTP plugin also works with all major email services such as Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, Microsoft Live, and any other email sending service that offers SMTP.
You can set the following options:
- Specify an SMTP host.
- Specify an SMTP port.
- Choose SSL / TLS encryption.
- Choose to use SMTP authentication or not.
- Specify an SMTP username and password.
To see recommended settings for the popular services as well as troubleshooting tips, check out our SMTP documentation.
We hope that you find WP Mail SMTP plugin helpful!
WP Mail SMTP PRO
In addition to native Microsoft and Amazon SES integrations, WP Mail SMTP Pro provides access to many other powerful features and services.
Click here to purchase WP Mail SMTP Pro now!
Email Log
Email Logging lets you log and view all emails sent from your site. Email logs are helpful for storing emails for your records, auditing outgoing emails, and debugging during site development.
Manage WordPress Emails and Notifications
The Manage Notification feature gives you full control over which email notifications WordPress sends. This means you can disable different WordPress notification emails. Don't want to receive emails when new users are created? No problem, turn it off.
Expert Support
We provide limited support for the WP Mail SMTP plugin on the WordPress.org forums. Access to our world class one-on-one email support is available to WP Mail SMTP Pro users.
White Glove Setup
Our White Glove Setup service is a great option that anyone can benefit from. Whether you don't have the time or maybe you feel a bit in over your head – we've got you covered.
You can sit back and relax while we set up everything for you. White glove setup includes WP Mail SMTP plugin installation and setup, configuration adjustments to your DNS for proper email domain name verification, Mailgun setup, and final testing to confirm everything is passing with flying colors.
The WP Mail SMTP team takes security very seriously. Not only does the plugin follow all security best practices, but we have several options available to ensure your site is safe and secure.
Direct SMTP mailer integrations (recommended), such as Google and Mailgun, use the official provider APIs. This means you never enter your username or password in the plugin settings and these credentials are not stored in the database. Instead, we use tokens or API keys which are much more secure.
When using Other SMTP mailer, we provide the option to insert your password in your
wp-config.phpfile, so it's not visible in your WordPress settings or saved in the database.
WP Mail SMTP plugin was originally created by Callum Macdonald. It is now owned and maintained by the team behind WPForms – the best drag & drop form builder for WordPress.
You can try the free version of WPForms plugin to see why it's the best in the market.
What's Next
If you like this plugin, then consider checking out our other projects:
- OptinMonster – Get More Email Subscribers with the most popular conversion optimization plugin for WordPress.
- MonsterInsights – See the Stats that Matter and Grow Your Business with Confidence. Best Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress.
- SeedProd – Jumpstart your website with the #1 Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode Plugin for WordPress.
Visit WPBeginner to learn from our WordPress Tutorials and find out about other best WordPress plugins.
WordPress currently only allows you to use custom avatars that are uploaded through Gravatar. WP User Avatar enables you to use any photo uploaded into your Media Library as an avatar. This means you use the same uploader and library as your posts. No extra folders or image editing functions are necessary.
WP User Avatar also lets you:
- Upload your own Default Avatar in your WP User Avatar settings.
- Show the user's Gravatar avatar or Default Avatar if the user doesn't have a WP User Avatar image.
- Disable Gravatar avatars and use only local avatars.
- Use the
[avatar_upload]shortcode to add a standalone uploader to a front page or widget. This uploader is only visible to logged-in users.
- Use the
[avatar]shortcode in your posts. These shortcodes will work with any theme, whether it has avatar support or not.
- Allow Contributors and Subscribers to upload their own avatars.
- Limit upload file size and image dimensions for Contributors and Subscribers.
Introducing Support Desk
We're at FlipperCode, committed to excellent support to make every download worth for the user. Happily announcing Support Desk for our valuable users to engaged with multiple support desk person for fast turnout.
Introducing Pro Version of WP USER AVATAR
We have developed a Pro Version of WP USER AVATAR by getting valuable features request from thousands of users especially about Storage options and how user upload the avatar. Here is a quick highlight on the numerous customizable features offered by the WP USER AVATAR PRO .
- Easy Upload and Capture functionality with crop avatar options.
- Use Webcam to get Avatar instantly.
- Allow user to upload avatar on Registration Page.
- Easy to adjust avatar dimensions.
- Enable to add or edit avatar while adding existing user to the blog in multi-site network.
- Keep Avatars in Custom Folder instead of Media Manager.
- Keep Avatars on Amazon S3 Storage
- Keep Avatars on Dropbox
- Keep Avatars in Media Manager
- Easy to use Settings to control every functionality.
- Multi-lingual, Multi-Site, BBPRESS and Buddypress Supported.
Advanced Settings
Visit WP User Avatar for more information and documentation.
Add WP User Avatar to your own profile edit page
You can use the [avatar_upload] shortcode to add a standalone uploader to any page. It's best to use this uploader by itself and without other profile fields.
If you're building your own profile edit page with other fields, WP User Avatar is automatically added to the show_user_profile and edit_user_profile hooks. If you'd rather have WP User Avatar in its own section, you could add another hook:
do_action('edit_user_avatar', $current_user);
Then, to add WP User Avatar to that hook and remove it from the other hooks outside of the administration panel, you would add this code to the
functions.php file of your theme:
function my_avatar_filter() {
// Remove from show_user_profile hook
remove_action('show_user_profile', array('wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_action_show_user_profile'));
remove_action('show_user_profile', array('wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_media_upload_scripts'));
// Remove from edit_user_profile hook
remove_action('edit_user_profile', array('wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_action_show_user_profile'));
remove_action('edit_user_profile', array('wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_media_upload_scripts'));
// Add to edit_user_avatar hook
add_action('edit_user_avatar', array('wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_action_show_user_profile'));
add_action('edit_user_avatar', array('wp_user_avatar', 'wpua_media_upload_scripts'));
// Loads only outside of administration panel
if(!is_admin()) {
HTML Wrapper
You can change the HTML wrapper of the WP User Avatar section by using the functions
wpua_before_avatar and
wpua_after_avatar. By default, the avatar code is structured like this:

<input type="hidden" name="wp-user-avatar" id="wp-user-avatar" value="{attachmentID}" />

<button type="button" class="button" id="wpua-add" name="wpua-add">Edit Image</button>

Original Size

<button type="button" class="button" id="wpua-remove" name="wpua-remove">Default Avatar</button>

<button type="button" class="button" id="wpua-undo" name="wpua-undo">Undo</button>
To strip out the div container and h3 heading, you would add the following filters to the
functions.php file in your theme:
remove_action('wpua_before_avatar', 'wpua_do_before_avatar');
remove_action('wpua_after_avatar', 'wpua_do_after_avatar');
To add your own wrapper, you could create something like this:
function my_before_avatar() {
echo '
';
add_action('wpua_before_avatar', 'my_before_avatar');
function my_after_avatar() {
echo '
';
add_action('wpua_after_avatar', 'my_after_avatar');
This would output:

<input type="hidden" name="wp-user-avatar" id="wp-user-avatar" value="{attachmentID}" />

<button type="button" class="button" id="wpua-add" name="wpua-add">Edit Image</button>

Original Size

Thumbnail

<button type="button" class="button" id="wpua-remove" name="wpua-remove">Default Avatar</button>

<button type="button" class="button" id="wpua-undo" name="wpua-undo">Undo</button>


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This homemade Spicy Jalapeño Infused Tequila recipe is a concoction with a kick. Made with fresh jalapeño peppers, this spirit — your choice of tequila or mezcal — will bring the heat to all your margaritas and palomas, and help you say goodbye to summer!
Whenever I see spicy drinks on a cocktail menu, I have to order them.
Cayenne on the rim, hot sauce, horseradish, jalapeño-infused tequila… I want it all.
But this hasn't always been a quirk of mine. Just the other day I was chatting with a friend about how I had to teach myself to like spicy foods.
My friends used to order the most amazing buffalo chicken wings at a bar we frequented, but they were too spicy for me — at first. I forced myself to order it every time, until it became palatable.
And now? I can eat some spicy foods. I'm not a 24-types-of-hot-sauce-in-my-fridge kind of person, but I do enjoy a little kick here and there.
Spicy cocktails don't have to be enjoyed only in restaurants and bars, though! You can make them at home by infusing spirits.
Just like we made homemade spiced rum and homemade Irish cream liqueur, you can make this homemade spicy jalapeño infused tequila recipe and have the Spicy Jalapeño Blackberry Margaritas of your dreams.
All you need are some jalapeño peppers, tequila and a mason jar or bottle to make it happen.
To make it, thinly slice the jalapeños and discard the seeds if you desire a milder end product. Then soak them in tequila for about a day. They may lose their rich, green color — this is a-okay.
Remove the peppers, and you've got a spicy spirit worthy of the best cocktail bar in town.
Now you're ready to throw it in a drink like this mango margarita or this watermelon paloma, or even in cooking, like this margarita grilled chicken.
Bring on the fire!
What kind of tequila should I use?
Blanco (or silver) tequila is going to be your best bet because it is clear and colorless — a perfect blank slate.
If you prefer an aged taste, try a reposado, which is aged in oak barrels for between two months and one year.
Anejo tequila is aged over a year, and it's meant to be sipped straight like a fine whiskey or wine, and purists would tell you not to infuse it. But me? I say be creative! You do you.
Still not sure? I have just the tequila guide for you!
Can you use other spirits?
Of course! Mezcal would be a great, smokier alternative to tequila, but rum and vodka make great bases for infusions.
Can you use other peppers?
Sure! Jalapeños are milder, but if habaneros, poblanos or even ghost peppers strike your fancy, go wild and experiment! But be sure to warn anyone you're serving the tequila to in case they're sensitive to spice.
How do you make it more spicy?
The amount of peppers and time both play a key role in this jalapeño infused tequila recipe.
More peppers — especially if you include the seeds — equals more spice. More time infusing means more of the spicy flavors can be absorbed into the tequila.
If you want more spice, use another half or whole pepper and/or infuse the tequila for an extra day or two. Feel free to taste-test it during the infusion process so you know for sure!
How do you make it less spicy?
Use a milder pepper, less pepper or infuse for less time. But if you wind up with a too-spicy tequila, you can dilute it or mix it with regular, un-infused tequila.
I hope you enjoy this jalapeño infused tequila recipe! Comment below with what you use it in so I can try your spicy concoctions. // susannah


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