Preface
The act of adopting an abandoned plugin reminds me of adopting an orphaned child. On the one hand, the new parents are taking on someone who they didn’t help raise thus far, which forces them to “learn” the ways of the new child to communicate well with them. On the other hand, the new parent [...]

If you are a Dreamhost or MediaTemple customer and I know that many WordPress users are, it’s probably been a rough week for you. Just before Thanksgiving, an exploit was used on a subset of MediaTemple grid servers to redirect websites to a 3rd-party advertising website. Also, some customers passwords were compromised as they were [...]

If you’re a developer and need to know some of the geekier bits coming down the pipe in WordPress 2.9, Joost De Valks article should fit the bill. In it, he lists a number of things that developers should pay attention to such as enhancements to wp_query, upgraded TinyMCE editor, performance updates to the options [...]

New Plugins
Lock Pages
This plugin lets administrators “lock” any or all pages. “Locking” here basically means preventing non-admins from Editing the page’s slug, Changing the page’s parent, Deleting the page.
YOURLS: Short URL Widget
Creates a fully configurable widget that outputs the short URL to the current post or page. Requires the YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter plugin.
List Pages [...]

Connections Reloaded v3

Connections Reloaded is a two column, fixed width theme derived from the Connections theme by Patricia Müller. The theme is gravatar ready, widget ready (with custom widgets) with support for custom header images and SEO titles and a options page for easy customization.
BlueBubble

Two column, widget ready theme with a ready made jQuery/PHP based [...]

In somewhat of a tradition, I’d like to take an opportunity to spread my thanks considering Thanksgiving is only a day away here in the U.S. There is plenty to go around but this year, I’d like to especially thank those who translate WordPress, Plugins, and Themes into different languages. While I don’t know [...]

WordPress has a pretty decent role management in place, which allows you to create users and assign them certain privileges and functionality. However, there are few things which you cannot right now with it, for example, creating new roles, modifying role privileges and so on.

Here comes yet another way to be notified of new upgrades for WordPress in case you need one. Google has announced that they will be using their processing power to scan the source code of websites to look for the version number of the publishing software they are using and send them a notification through [...]