WordPress 2.8.1 is now available for download or upgrade according to the WordPress Development Blog. This release includes a bunch of bug fixes and security updates, including an important one that affects a few plugins (details here). The update highlights are listed on the dev blog post and all the changes since 2.8 are on the Trac. I don’t see the upgrade bar on this blog yet, but it should be soon. Since 2.8.1 is now released, I wish Dev4Press would redo their benchmarks.
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Archive for July, 2009
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TweetSheep This is a two column magazine style layout for wordpress. Quite unique with a dynamic main banner that includes your latest 4 featured posts. The design is in black and muted grays in a 2 column interface, which has been fully tested and is xHTML compliant. Dog’s Best Friend Two column theme with the picture of a dog in shades of pink and white Secondary The Secondary WP theme, fully loaded WordPress theme design for a WP powered site with the Secondary theme, featuring a three column fluid layout, enabled with theme option panel, pagenavi support, automatic image inserting and resizing, related posts, recent comments with gravatars are built into the theme. BT Extended The BT Extended WP theme, spruced newspaper style for a WP powered site with the brandnew revamped BT Extended WordPress Theme theme, featuring a four column fluid layout, third and spiced up version of the […]
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An excellent article you write needs to be shared, and by far there are lots of plugins that allow publishers to add options to allow readers to share content with others.
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/08
No software is perfect no matter how perfectly it is written, as there are external factors that may interfere with its working and cause problems, likewise with WordPress, which is always tested thoroughly before releasing them to general public, there may be areas of problems for users.
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New Plugins Expose It This plugin practically adds a highlight/expose effect around any DIV with defined class=”expose”. Blog Time Display the time according to your blog via a widget, admin widget, and/or template tag. Hobo Custom Link Love A new plugin to handle dofollow comments in light of Google’s recent announcement of the way they handle Nofollow on blogs. JS Banner Rotate Create a javascript-driven rotating banner image on your WordPress site. Comment Autogrow Makes the comment textarea expand in height automatically Add To digg This places an add to digg button to the bottom of a post. Country Filter ‘Country Filter plugin’ acts as a location based filter that allows you to control the visibility of WordPress elements depending on the users country. Shadows This is a plugin to add shadows to a range of objects. Currently supported are images, divs and blockquotes. Updated Plugins SEO Ultimate This SEO […]
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WordPress for BlackBerry Public Beta: Since I am a Berry addict, I cannot wait to get this on my Curve. As Raanan cautions on the Beta post, do not use this on a production blog if you are not prepared to deal with bugs. It is built by the MoPress folks and is an Open Source project. Source available at http://blackberry.svn.wordpress.org/ There is a video tour on the linked post for those interested in a quick overview. EDIT: Direct OTA download link via @weblogtooltips
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Over the past 6+ years there have been several versions of WordPress released, the latest being WordPress 2.8, many people do upgrade to the latest available version or in many cases start out with the latest version available, however over time not many users upgrade their installations. It would be interesting to know which versions of WordPress you are using, if you are using a earlier versions, if possible please let us know the reason you are still using it. Poll requires JavaScript, please visit the site to vote Do feel free to share your views about which version you are using.
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I have been following the WordPress Theme GPL discussion very closely for as long as I have been involved with WordPress and I am glad that Matt, with the help of the Software Freedom Law Center, has cleared the air. There has been a lot of valuable discussion surrounding this blog post and the issue, here is a small list of what I have read. Lloyd’s analysis on GPL and themes Daniel’s view from the other side of the fence (be sure to read through the comments, there is a lot of wisdom there) WPTavern’s forum post on the blog dev blog post and the forum post(s) leading up to it Brian Gardner wants the community to move on Other miscellaneous posts on the issue I am a huge proponent of the GPL and consider it to be one of the primary pillars of WordPress, both as a piece of […]
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Beauty Two column, WordPress 2.8 ready theme with an options page and featured posts using SmoothGallery Game RV Game RV is a compatible with WordPress 2.8 with gravatars, threated comments, widgets, etc. It has a right single sidebar. Facebook Look 2 Three column theme that looks and feels like Facebook Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get listed in these posts.
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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