Archive for July, 2009

WordPress for Beginners: Publish post tips and tricks

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A couple of Twitter questions posted to @weblogtooltips (are you following us yet?) about publishing posts in the future with plugins make me think that some users of WordPress might not know about the cool features that are built right into the admin panel. (yes, WordPress does that) As the screenshot to the left shows, the publish box in WordPress holds a couple of hidden gems that might not immiediately be apparent. You can do one of two things with the fantastic post you just wrote (beside just posting it outright): You can make your post public and make it a sticky on the front page or you can choose to password protect it or make it completely invisible to people that are not logged in to your blog. This option is available on your “Add New Post” page under the Publish box. You have to click on “Edit” next [...]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/15

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July 15th, 2009
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New Plugins Analytics360 Display Google Analytics data right into the WordPress dashboard. Post To Facebook Provides the ability to quickly post a blog item to your facebook mini feed. wp-Typography Improve your web typography with: hyphenation, space control, intelligent character replacement, and CSS hooks. Theme My Profile Allows you to theme a user’s profile based upon their role. Easy JS and CSS support Adds the options to insert page/post specific JavaScript and CSS. WP License reloaded Per post Creative Commons Licensing (Ideal for multiple authours / licenses blogs) Updated Plugins TwitterCounter Proudly display the number of followers you have on Twitter. GD Star Rating GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support. Plugin can be integrated [...]

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Should I Update a Plugin if an Update is Available?

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July 15th, 2009
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WordPress plugin developers keep releasing updates to plugins. Once a plugin has been updated, you will see an update notice in WordPress, however should you update all the plugins that have updates?

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Plugin Competition is heating up!

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July 14th, 2009
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Are you a WordPress plugin developer? Have you looked into the WordPress Plugin Competition? Are you signed up on the Plugin Competition blog to publish your plugin and enter the competition? We have 18 plugins announced so far for the competition, with at least five posts in draft stage (so at least five other plugins waiting to be posted). If you have written a plugin since the start of the competition (1st of May) and are looking for some more exposure for you and/or your plugin, read through the rules, signup on the plugin competition blog and post your plugins. We will be posting the plugin submission email address on the last week of the competition. Please stay tuned. If you do not submit the final version of your code, it will not be considered as an entry into the competition If you are a user of any of these [...]

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Akismet Updated, Connectivity Reporting Issues Solved

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July 13th, 2009
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For the past few days many of you may have been seeing connectivity issues with Akismet. The Akismet team was related to a timing bug in the code, however that has now been fixed and a new version of Akismet has been released. The problem was a bug in the plugin’s diagnostic code that caused it to falsely report problems in some circumstances, even though everything was working correctly. Upgrading to Akismet 2.2.5 will solve the connectivity reporting issues you may have been seeing.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 07/13

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Smoked A clean style theme suitable for any blog. Two columns, Blue color, Sidebar Widgets and Sidebar Navigation Tabs. Palmixio Palmixio a theme flexible width, two columns, widget ready, color : orange, yellow, white, black, custom gravatar, 100% free under GPL v3. SEO Themes Three column, widget and gravatar ready, search engine optimized themes Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get listed in these posts.

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WordPress For Beginners: Optimizing WordPress Settings

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July 12th, 2009
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Welcome to WordPress, now that you have installed one of the best platform to blog with, there are a few things you might want to tweak and change to get the best out of it.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/11

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July 11th, 2009
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New Plugins Post Editor Buttons This plugins allows you to add your own buttons to the post editor’s toolbar. Widget Block It allows you to add widgets that show up on user-specified pages. Next Page Provides shortcodes and template tags for next/previous navigation in pages. Geo Mark Geo Mark is a WordPress plugin which will automatically locate Geo information in your WordPress posts using Yahoo Placemaker and YQL API’s. Drafts Dropdown The Drafts Dropdown plugin gives you links to all of your drafts on every screen through a handy tab. Clean WordPress This plugin replaces special characters in WordPress title, excerpt, content and comments. The plugin works with the default WordPress editor (tested with WordPress 2.8+) or Dean’s FCKEditor for WordPress. Updated Plugins TwitterCounter This plugin allows you to display the buttons from TwitterCounter.com as well as the Twitter Remote. Get Custom Field Values Use widgets or template tags to [...]

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Is WordPress A Thankless Community?

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July 10th, 2009
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WordPress Plugins

Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend. Many of the plugin authors I have spoken with throughout the community tell me that very rarely do they ever get a donation let alone a Thank You for releasing their work to the public. Based on the plugin authors feedback, end users demand more features, demand better support, and in the end, have this feeling of entitlement even if the plugin is available without a price tag. The reality is, that for a freely available plugin, you’re not entitled to anything. I don’t know about you, but I certainly would not like to be part of a community that is known as thankless. Before I list a few ways of curbing this attitude, I must say that not EVERYONE in the community acts in the ways I described above. I know many of us have donated to plugin authors, [...]

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