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bbPress 1.0 Bechet Released

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July 3rd, 2009
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Blogging News, bbpress

bbPress 1.0 final, finally released: For those of us that are also fans and users of bbPress, bbPress version 1.0 is finally released. Many improvements over the 0.9 versions include cookie integration with WordPress, various fixes, JQuery integration, a complete XML-RPC API, new admin interface, new icons, improved spam management and much more. Backup files [...]

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Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory is live

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The Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory is now open. It is linked off the WordPress Extend and is part of the parent theme directory set of links. It is not as much a directory as it is a listing of sites that offer commercial GPL themes. It lists the philosophies, a few words about the [...]

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WordPress Configuration Tricks

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WordPress Configuration Tricks : If you have ever installed WordPress and wanted to know what else you could do with your wp-config.php file, this is the blog post to read. As Ozh points out in the comments, a couple of tricks were left out but nothing that could not be remedied with a simple [...]

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Benchmarking the WordPress Admin Panel

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Mark Ghosh
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June 29th, 2009
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Blogging News, WordPress, brainstorming

Dev4Press has done some interesting work on benchmarking various aspects of WordPress and then testing out some popular questions on page loads etc. The methodologies are well documented and the benchmarking setup is standardized. They are testing three version of WordPress including 2.6.5, 2.7.1 and 2.8 (I wish they would have waited for 2.8.1 to [...]

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Live Stream and Chat from WordCamp Dallas

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Mark Ghosh
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June 27th, 2009
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Blogging News, WordPress, wordcamp

Live Streaming video from WordCamp Dallas thanks to Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.tv. Thanks to WPTavern for the link.

I was at WordCamp Dallas last year but could not make it to this one. I am jealous!

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FTC to go after blogger freebies and non disclosure

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Mark Ghosh
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June 22nd, 2009
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Blogging Essays, Blogging News, Web Ethics

The Federal Trade Commission is planning to crack down on bloggers who review or promote products while earning freebies or payments, the Associated Press reported Sunday. “New guidelines, expected to be approved late this summer with possible modifications, would clarify that the agency can go after bloggers–as well as the companies that compensate them–for any [...]

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iThemes is now GPL

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Cory Miller’s iThemes is now completely GPL compliant! This is great news indeed and they are the second premium theme vendor who fully support the GPL and align their business models with that of WordPress and its community. Cory is a friend of mine and in full disclosure, has been an advertiser on this blog [...]

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WordPress 2.8 “Baker” is available!

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Mark Ghosh
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June 10th, 2009
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Blogging News

WordPress 2.8 Baker is now available as a full release. 2.8 has a whole bunch of bug fixes, has improvements to themes and widgets and has added some fantastic taxonomy features. The WordPress dev blog post linked above goes into detail about what is new. Users are now able to browse the WordPress theme directory [...]

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WordCamp San Francisco 2009 was GGrrreeeaaattt!!

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Mark Ghosh
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June 2nd, 2009
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Blogging News, WordPress, wordcamp

WordCamp San Francisco was a total hoot! I met up with a bunch of old friends, made a few new ones, had some good food, drank a few brews, hung out with a whole lot of cool people and all the while, I was surrounded by WordPress goodness.
Thank you to all the organizers, volunteers and participants!
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