Archive for January, 2010

WordPress Plugin Releases of 01/24

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January 24th, 2010
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New Plugins PlaceWidget PlaceWidget for WordPress simplifies the process of adding a PlaceWidget to your WordPress blog. You can create and configure your PlaceWidget right in the WordPress Dashboard, then embed it in your sidebar with a standard WordPress widget. Category Ancestor Category Ancestor is a plugin that adds a function you can use anywhere in your theme : get_category_ancestor($thecat) to retrieve the highest level parent of any category. FAQ You It is a simple FAQ plugin where you can create Categories and put Questions in them. You can easily insert them in a page with the WYSIWYG editor. Able to turn JavaScript on or off. Free Stock Images Plugin Spice up your blog with high quality free stock images & photos created by professional photographers and illustrators: Easy to use search interface with advanced filtering and Drag & Drop functionality. Favicons Choose a favicon to make your site eye-catching […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 01/22

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Detox The Detox BuddyPress theme, clean magazine style for a BuddyPress powered site with the brandnew Detox WordPress Theme theme, featuring a three column fluid theme layout, spiced up version of the Detox 3.17 WordPress Theme, enabled with flickr support, pagenavi support, frontpage slider, options panel, related posts and recent comments are built into the theme. Unwakeable The Unwakeable WordPress theme and is a combination of K2 and Unsleepable. It uses K2 as a starting point, and replaced the default K2 header with a modified header from Unsleepable. Bright Sky Two column theme with support for twitter and lifestream integration and an advertisement area and admin features You Name It You Name It is a simple WordPress Theme with two sidebars. Three sidebars support Adsense format 160px and 250px. Sysyphus Sysyphus is a 2 columns, Widget Ready, JQuery Powered, WordPress Theme, with carefully hand-crafted graphics and W3C Valid Code.

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Making Site Wide Changes on Your WordPress Blog

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January 22nd, 2010
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Last week I wrote up a post to review the Real-Time Find and Replace Plugin and the comments on that story about other methods to make site wide changes permanent sent me in search of another way to search and replace information in my SQL database. Now I consider myself pretty decent at geeky things but directly editing and messing with my site’s SQL database does not top my list of things to do.  Neither does manually going through nearly 1,000 postings to make changes. What I found was a terrific plug-in that lets me perform a few different functions to make corrections or change info throughout my site. Caveat: Before I get started – this plugin does make changes to your database. Play it safe and back up your info to protect your original data. With that said let me now introduce you to the Search Regex Plugin written […]

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Matt Mullenweg Launches WordPress Foundation to Support Open Source

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January 22nd, 2010
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The WordPress Blog came out with some good news for the Open source and GPL community. Matt Mullenweg has officially started out the WordPress Foundation, a charitable organization to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.

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Watch Where You Download That

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Craig Tuller of StudioPress.com has put together a post that contains information that needs to be repeated on a weekly basis. The basis of the post explains how downloading a theme or plugin from the wrong place can ruin your site. In the article, Craig publishes a small exchange that occurred between StudioPress and a customer who installed a non-purchased copy of a StudioPress theme. As it turns out, the non-purchased copy of the commercial theme contained code which generated links to porn sites on the customers website. This happens more often than it should but going down this road means you inherit the risks that come right along with it. Not only should the advice Craig gives near the end of the article be heeded, but you should also read this article written by Leland of ThemeLab.com which goes into more detail with regards to nasty stuff that can […]

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Do You Automatically Close Comments on Old Posts?

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January 21st, 2010
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Comments are the lifeblood of any website. It keeps pumping some interesting views and discussions into a post. However, I have seen several blogs which close comments for posts which are older than say a month or two.

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WordCamp Miami 2010

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January 20th, 2010
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Here in Northern Ohio, it’s been one of those chilly Winters. I wish I could attend the upcoming WordCamp in Miami, Florida on February 20th from 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (ET). The event will be taking place on the University of Miami Campus so there is bound to be great internet coverage. The speakers list is still being arranged but so far, Scott Kingsley Clark is a confirmed speaker who will discuss the PODS plugin. Other notable members of the community that will be in attendance are Matt Mullenweg, Mark Jaquith, Jane Wells and a host of other WordPress regulars. Registration for the event is currently open with tickets costing $30.00 each. Updated information can be found on the official WordCamp Miami website.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 01/20

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January 20th, 2010
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New Plugins Page Manager This plugin allow users to order pages easily in the page overview and also add some clarity to the overview. Show more pages With this plugin you or your clients can select how many pages they want to show per page in the overview. I Make Plugins A plugin for WordPress plugin authors to let them easily showcase their plugins on their own site, solely by updating the plugin’s readme.txt file. Easy Theme and Plugin updates This plugin allows for installed themes to be upgraded by using the Appearance > Add New Themes > Upload feature of WordPress. Without this plugin, themes can only be installed using this method, requiring you to first delete the theme before installing the newer version. Now features the same easy upgrading for plugins via the Plugins > Add New > Upload page. Events Calendar The Events Calendar plugin enables you […]

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Easier Theme Upgrades

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Do you find upgrading themes to be a pain? To be honest, I don’t upgrade themes very often if at all but if you do, there is a newly created plugin that ought to make the process much easier on you. It’s called Easy Theme Upgrades and was developed by Chris Jean of iThemes. It’s quite simple to use. Upon giving it a test run this morning, it performed flawlessly without any errors. I also confirmed that the backup zip file contained the changes I made to the files before they were deleted. This is very handy considering many people hack their themes to bits and pieces. This method insures that you don’t lose those changes forever but instead, can go into the archived files to copy and paste your bits into the new version. One of the biggest fears in upgrading a theme is the fact that you’ll lose […]

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