Archive for 2008

2hr Interview With Matt Mullenweg

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December 19th, 2008
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On Thursday, December 18th, I had the honor of having a fireside chat so to speak with Matt Mullenweg. The chat lasted a little over two hours and then, Matt stayed around after the show for an additional two hours to field questions from anybody that asked them. There are a number of things that I have taken away with this chat with Matt and I’ll be listing those in an article in the following days but without a shadow of a doubt, Matt is a stand up guy. He answered all of my questions, even the tough ones which were submitted by the community. While there is room left to debate the GPL and what is or isn’t compliant, Matt answered the GPL questions to the best of his ability and in most cases, his answers are nothing more than his personal opinion since certain aspects of the GPL […]

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Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme & Admin Area

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December 19th, 2008
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Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme & Admin Area: Tips and Tricks.: Noupe has a nice writeup on mastering WordPress 2.7 Admin and understanding how to use the new features of WordPress 2.7 in your theme. These include 1.1. Enhancing Comment Display – Threading, Paging, etc. 1.2. Make this post sticky 1.3. Post Classes 1.4. wp page menu 1.5. Logout Link 2.1. Keyboard Shortcuts for browsing and moderating comments 2.2. Reply to and Edit comments from Admin Area 2.3. Edit comments from Admin Area 2.4. Allow plugin installations via web interface from Admin Area 2.5. Admin’s new Navigation Menu 2.6. Interesting Dashboard Modules: QuickPress & Recent Drafts 2.7. Quick Edit Option in Admin area 2.8. Auto Close Comments And Trackbacks 2.9. Bulk Edit Posts I wish there were anchors or separate pages to link directly to each piece, but alas they are all lumped together. This is a nice read nonetheless.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/18

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December 18th, 2008
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New Plugins WP AutoSuggest Search on my blog by typing in a keyword rather than waiting for the results page to load. PostRank This plugin adds the PostRank Top Posts Widget & Analytics to your blog. PostRank measures the engagement with each story by analyzing the types and frequency of social media interactions. The more interesting or relevant the story is, the more active your readers will be in sharing it. WP Lifestream Lifestream displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it on many of the social networking sites. WordPress Video Solution Framework Video solutions framework, including player, transcoder and administration interface utilities as wpmu plugin. It powers wordpress.com video solution. wp2blosxom Exports all your posts to a zip file containing a blosxom style directory hierarchy of posts. Sliding Post – Slides latest posts with Carousel effect A plugin for WordPress which shows latest 10 posts […]

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Matt, The GPL And More

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December 17th, 2008
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If you are a premium theme developer or have an interest in WordPress themes, you may have heard that over 200 themes were removed from the WordPress.org theme repository. The reasons behind the removals have yet to be made public and there is more afoot than just the removal of themes. Over the course of the past few days, debates and discussions have been taking place on numerous blogs regarding WordPress, the GPL, themes and much more. Matt has agreed to appear on WordPress Weekly on Thursday at 1 P.M. EST to set the record straight so to speak. My goal for this special episode of the show is to get an explanation as to what happened with the theme repository, the new guidelines, Matt’s stance on the GPL, the entire issue of premium themes, what will happen with plugins and a whole lot more. This episode is really important […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 12/17

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WP Full Site WP Full site is a two column theme built for small businesses that want a website that enables them to use a Content Management System (CMS), have the option of a blog, and focuses on the necessities that all small business websites need. TimeCafe Premium Free It is a blue magazine style template with theme options menu, front page featured content slider, built in newsletter, custom typography, dropdown many, advertisement ready and much more! Theme is ready for WordPress 2.7! Enable threaded (nested) comments from your WordPress – Settings – Discussion menu and you’ll have different colors for comments up to 5 levels deep of replies. WP-Meditation 2 Column, fixed width, widget ready WordPress Theme Blue Christmas A fun and bluish, fixed width, two columns, gravatar ready, widget ready Christmas theme. Also, check out the other themes by Blogtuine.com, viz. Prolog, Ext JS and JS03.

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easyComment Firefox Extension

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easyComment Firefox Extension: “easyComment enables you to One-Click Comment on WordPress Blogs which makes it an perfect tool for people who comment on a lot of different Weblogs and who don’t want to sign up on every single one. You’ll have to define your Personal Data once in the Preferences Dialog and every time you click the easyComment Button on the bottom Status Bar in your Firefox window, it searches the comment form on the current page and fills it with your data saving you a huge chunk of type-in work.” from the author’s post. Hat tip to Keith, found via the Weblog Tools Collection Crew LifeStream

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/16

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December 16th, 2008
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New Plugins WP-Twitip-ID This plugin takes the pain out of adding another field to your comment form for users to enter their twitter username to be displayed as a link to follow them via their twitter page. Media Tags With this plugin you can now add tags to your media attachments. You can tag Word document, PDF documents basically anything you upload via the standard WordPress Media upload tool. CrossPress Automatically, cross-posting to associated site/blog to enabling the post-via-email option with PIN code e.g. multiply.com, livejournal.com, blogspot. Hackadelic Sliding Notes Ajax sliders for content fragments. Fancy replacement for foot- and other notes. GoogleMapper This plugin allows a WordPress Site Admin to enter locations of stores etc into the db. The user can then search for the closest location. Facebook Posted Items This plugin fetches posted items from Facebook and displays them in an unordered list with proper links and comments. […]

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A Long Look Back

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December 16th, 2008
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Ozh, a WordPress community superstar in his own right has compiled an awesome post highlighting the WordPress interface from version 0.7.1 which was released in May of 2003 all the way up to WordPress 2.7. Along with pictures, Ozh gives us a bit of background information for each version. If you’re like me and didn’t start using WordPress until around 2.2/2.3, this post should serve as an excellent reminder on how far WordPress has come. I can’t help but wonder, how many of you will get that nostalgic feeling when viewing those screenshots. Hat tip goes to The BlogHerald. While you’re here, drop us a comment and let us know what was the first version of WordPress you used?

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WordPress Theme Releases for 12/15

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New Africa A Web 2.0 style WordPress theme featuring six widgetized sidebars for easy control over all the visual elements. Plenty of room to add and display all your favorite widgets. Alex Color Two column, fixed width, dark theme. Pixeled It features a standard 2-3 column layout and sports the following goodies: dropdown top menu for categories; customizable FeedBurner field on top right (optional – requires FeedBurner ID); widgets all around (6 positions); footer navigation and a sweet, transparent look. It’s also an Adsense ready WordPress theme – the divisions are all made to fit standard ad formats. The welcome message on top right can also be customized through the admin panel – no need to mess into the code.

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