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Google Living Stories Plugin for WordPress

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April 30th, 2010
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Blogging News, WordPress Plugin Competition

Google News Blog: Bringing Living Stories to WordPress: Google is releasing their Living Stories experimental format as a plugin and a theme for WordPress.  Living Stories is an experimental news format from Google. In the form of a plugin, each Living Story would be a WordPress category with the plugin allowing a blogger to add the stories themselves. An example would be nice to see but none is to be found yet. Thanks to a writeup on ReadWriteWeb I would love to see an example blog or screenshots.

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More plugins for securing your WordPress install

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April 27th, 2010
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HOW-TO, Wordpress for Beginners, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Security

I wrote previously on securing a fresh WordPress install. Today, I’ll cover several WordPress plugins that can be used with fresh or existing WordPress installations to enhance security. I’m not going to cover recovering a hacked site, or exploit scanning tools like Exploit Scanner or WordPress Antivirus in this tutorial.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/26

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April 26th, 2010
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New Plugins Incomment Referrer This plugin quite simply lets you know where the users entered your site when they leave a comment. A lot of people who joined the do-follow movement are listed on sites which are a target for comment spammers. To those who suffer comment spam can now find out the page they come from, and block accordingly. WP Hide Pages This plugin hides selected pages from menus which created with wp_list_pages function. Essentially it adds exclude parameter to wp_list_pages function but it’s so easy now. Pages to Page Create the contents of Recent Comments, Pages, Categories, Archives, Recent Posts and Calendar which are usually shown in the sidebar and insert them onto a post or page. eletro widgets It allows yout to use WordPress widgets to set up your home page (or any page) in your blog. You can configure and drag & drop widgets around right […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 04/23

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April 23rd, 2010
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Desk Mess Mirrored Marble desktop covered with a mix of old and new items, such as some vintage papers, a stainless steel pen, and, a hot cup of coffee! Now with threaded comments and sticky posts! RedSteel RedSteel quickly grabs the attention of visitors by prominently displaying your featured posts, latest Tweet, as well as links to Facebook, Digg and other popular social media websites. Adsense optimierte Tweez Follower The Adsense optimized Tweez Follower Theme ist a free (GPL) WordPress Theme 1000px wide with 2 Sidebars and 4 Widgets Positions: above the content, above and below the Postings, and below the Content. There is also an Option Page to populate the Footer.

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Backing up your WordPress database with WP-DB-Backup

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April 21st, 2010
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HOW-TO, Wordpress for Beginners, WordPress Plugins

I emphasized the importance of backing up in my basic security tutorial, but I discovered all of the backup tutorials I found were out of date. So here’s a tutorial on backing up your WordPress database with the terrific WP-DB-Backup plugin. The great thing about this plugin is that you can have it automatically send you backups by e-mail that you can save both to your local computer and optionally store in your Gmail or other web mail account and an additional off-site backup. This tutorial assumes you already know how to install plugins. This tutorial should be forward-compatible with WordPress 3.0

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WordPress Theme Releases for 04/19

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April 19th, 2010
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Reflections Perfect for photofolio blogs or websites using WordPress. Support threaded comments and pretty simple to use. Page in Malay Homage Homage is a two-column layout WordPress theme, with a right-hand sidebar. Plus a static pages menu, a replaceable logo area and paged- and threaded- comments. K9 K2 inspired theme for WordPress. Key features include: widgets support, custom header, threaded comments and post thumbnails.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/17

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April 17th, 2010
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New Plugins Hikari Hooks Troubleshooter Hikari Hooks Troubleshooter creates a draggable window with informations about all functions hooked to WordPress actions and filters, and lists all conditional tags. Hikari Unicornified Gravatars Hikari Unicornified Gravatars converts avatars from people that don’t have a Gravatar, into customized unicorns. Tal.ki Embeddable Forums Add a forum, message board, or discussion board to your blog. This plugin will add a Forums page to your blog and allow your members to start their own conversations and topics on your site. Eletro Widgets It allows yout to use WordPress widgets to set up your home page (or any page) in your blog. You can configure and drag & drop widgets around right in the front end. Please watch the video for further details HTML Emails Converts the default fugly, plain-text email notifications into fully customizable, sweet lookin’ HTML emails. ArcadePress Allows you to turn any WordPress site […]

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VideoPress Review

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April 16th, 2010
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General, WordPress, WordPress Plugins

Within this review, I will provide an objective view on the video-hosting service called VideoPress (owned by Automattic). Now I will be one of the first to admit that I am somewhat of an Automattic fanboi. I love WordPress, and use several of Automattic’s other services. However, even I was skeptical of what I considered a too-good-to-be-true video-hosting service. A Little Background I have been hosting my videos on YouTube for quite a while now. I especially liked their new HD feature and the ability for my screencast software to export directly to the service. I didn’t (and still, really don’t) care that the YouTube player is branded and shows ads. It worked, and worked well, and that’s really all I cared about it. And best of all, it was free. However, I ran into a roadblock with some of my videos. The ten-minute time-limit was really started to kill […]

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How To improve basic security on a fresh WordPress install

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April 15th, 2010
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HOW-TO, WordPress FAQs

WordPress developers take security very seriously, and many security experts evaluate WordPress’s code for flaws. Security updates are made frequently to keep users safe. However, there are some extra steps you can take to make a fresh installation of WordPress more secure and protect against future attacks. Remember, no system can ever be completely secure, but taking preventative measures can be helpful. Much of this guide is based on the advice from the WordPress Codex article on hardening WordPress, but it is aimed at the WordPress beginner. In future articles, I’ll cover advanced security measures, hardening existing WordPress installs, and recovering hacked WordPress sites. This guide should be relevant for both WordPress 2.92 (the most recent stable release as of this writing) as well as WordPress 3.0. Overview: -Preliminary steps for securing your WordPress install -Changing defaults in WordPress to implement “security by obscurity” -Choosing strong passwords -Installing and configuring […]

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