Archive for October, 2008

Homemade Yummy Pie!

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October 25th, 2008
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In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Keith and I dissect the news of the week. We discuss why commenter’s and bloggers should use Gravatar, our thoughts and opinions on the new 2.7 dashboard mock up, Akismet 2.2.1 with stats and much more. We try to solve a problem which was submitted to us by Nicolas and before the end of the show, we give you our plugin picks of the week along with the job of the week. Don’t forget that next Friday, (Halloween) our special one hour guest will be Jane Wells who works for Automattic in the usability/experience department. As you can imagine, we’ll be focusing the conversation on WordPress and usability. Ad Copy: WordPress Weekly is brought to you by the fine advertisers on WeblogToolsCollection.com. Without their continued support, this show would not be possible. Those of you who continue to download the show and share it […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/24

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October 24th, 2008
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New Plugins Hangman Allows you to add the popular game Hangman to your blog Slayer’s Custom Widgets This plugin will make your widgetized sidebars so flexible that you will almost think that your running a more advanced CMS system and not WordPress. WordPress Referrers WordPress Referrers is a fully automated, self running referral tracking script. Mini RSS Reader Just like the plugin Twitter for WordPress, this plugin reads an RSS feed and displays the time, title and trimmed description. Landing sites When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, the plugin is showing them related posts to their search on your blog. WP-Donators Wp-Donators provides a smart donation function to autoleave the sponsor information in a container after payment. People can donate and submit name/URL or TextLink ad. The information of the latest donors are displayed in the cloud. Updated Plugins WP Super Cache WP Super Cache […]

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WordPress Theme Release for 10/23

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Independence Day Simple three column theme with the colors of Independence. Small Business SEO Blue and gray combined to create a professional-looking SEO-optimized theme perfect for small businesses. Supports rotating 125×125 sidebar ads, widgets, gravatars, and microformats. Valid XHTML and CSS. Based on Sandbox. Includes an SEO options panel. Colorful Fruits Colorful Fruits is an 3-Column, fixed width, widget ready WordPress theme Upstart Blogger Swiss Swiss is a free minimalist magazine style WordPress theme in the international typographic style. Easy to modify, no plugins required.

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$1.99 Domain Registration from Go Daddy

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October 23rd, 2008
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$1.99 Domain Registration from Go Daddy.: GoDaddy is offering 1-Year Domain Name Registration for $1.99 with code 199TEST. 20-cent ICANN fee applies, making it $2.19 per domain.Thanks slickdeals

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WordPress Ranked #33

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October 22nd, 2008
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Comscore recently released their monthly analysis of the top web properties for September. Thanks to the volatile economic conditions across the globe during the month of September, business/finance sites as well as news/research sites saw a substantial rise in visitation. However, despite all of that, WordPress came in at number 33 in the list of top 50 web properties for the month. The numbers were comprised of total U.S. (home, work, and university locations). According to Comscore, WordPress saw 23,125,000 visits during the month of September. Although Comscore says WordPress, I am inclined to think that they are discussing WordPress.com and not .org. Congrats to Automattic and team for continuing to operate one of the webs top properties, month after month.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/21

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October 21st, 2008
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RSS Link Tagger for Google Analytics Modifies RSS permalinks to include utm query parameters, used by Google Analytics to track non-adwords advertising campaigns. login required Permit access to your blog only to the logged in users J Post Slider Show your post in fancy jQuery box, rotating images, with show-up text box with post description. WP Hide Dashboard WP Hide Dashboard is a simple plugin that removes the dashboard link and prevents dashboard access to users assigned to the Subscriber role. This is useful if you want to allow your subscribers to edit their own profiles, but don’t want them wandering around the rest of your WordPress admin section. Wikipedia Autolink Link automatically all the highlighted words with the syntax [w:{term}] on the definition from Wikipedia. Backlinks A simple function to show blog posts linking back to any article, similar to Google Backlinks Admin-only Category This simple plugin allow you […]

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WordPress Helper Firefox Extension

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WordPress Helper Firefox Extension.: An extension for Firefox that adds a bunch of automated and manual features to the right click contextual menu in Firefox. Available features include the following: Categorized Access to WordPress Help pages (WordPress Codex) Search for highlighted text strings on websites One-Click-switch to a website’s WordPress backend Update Notification on new WordPress versions Website Profiles Custom Shortcuts Various preference settings There has been active development on this extension since April of this year with good documentation of progress and the author is taking suggestions from users for future uses/features of the extension. Although many of these actions can be performed with shortcuts or other tools within Firefox, this extension puts it all into one place at easy reach of the Firefox user. The original developers’ page is in German but the linked page should be the English version. [EDIT] Sorry, link fixed. Thanks for the heads […]

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Tutorial: Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress

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Tutorial: Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress.: A fantastic, detailed and quite useful tutorial on creating custom write panels for the WordPress Write Post page. I had written something similar for the WordPress Jobs site and it turned out to be a fantastic tool to quickly get to and add/modify Custom Fields in posts. Custom write panels are most useful for customized installations of WordPress and could be used to add many different types of information into a post both easily and quickly. The image below shows a couple of examples of custom panels and I am sure there are hundreds more. This tutorial makes use of Custom Fields in WordPress using the various functions that help manage Custom Fields (I keep typing customer), and is a shining example of how useful and flexible Custom Fields can be in developing a full CMS with WordPress. Since the final code is […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 10/20

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Cellar Heat Dark and light, two column, gravatar ready theme Glucent Two column, blue theme with support for FlickrRSS and Page Navi plugin Classic Modern A classic old style theme with a modern look. I think the brown color is a symbol of the old and classic style while the blue is the modern color. Check out more WordPress themes by the same author. PlainWarrior PlainWarrior is very simple-looking, clean and elegant two column widget, gravatar and tag ready theme Fervens Remix Two column, green and white theme with a wide content column for wide pictures EcolutionWarrior Two column widget, gravatar and tag ready theme inspired from the dark side of our environment. Chrono Press Three column theme available in ten flavours Modern Girl It is a two column, fixed with, widget and gravatar ready, pink and brown theme that uses absolutely no images. Blue Tech 3 columns, widget and […]

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