July:

One Click Multisite in WordPress 3.0

What’s Your Take On the GPL Argument Between Matt and Thesis?

Thesis Adopts a Split GPL License

A New Way to Install Plugins

August:

Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plug-In

WordPress and Forums

WordPress and the White Screen of Death

Drive Traffic to Old Content with “Tweet Old Post” Plugin

Common WordPress Multisite Problems and Solutions

Regarding Plugin And Theme Digests

WordPress Support Forum All-stars

Should You Remove Post Dates from Your WordPress Blog?

WordPress and the Fatal Memory Error

September:

Lorelle’s Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins

Find Your Spam Magnets

WordPress Trademark Donated to WordPress Foundation

WordPress and the Internal Server Error

WordPress and the Headers Already Sent Warning

Boost Site Engagement and Return Visits with Evernote Site Memory

Backing Up WordPress

What plugins do you find yourself using on every site you design?

Code Snippets for WordPress

Deleting WordPress Revisions

October:

Add Hovercards to Your WordPress Blog

WordPress General Troubleshooting

New Ways to Find WordPress Themes

BuddyPress 1.2.6 Released

VaultPress Review

November:

WordPress.org Theme Uploader Gets Smarter

Post Formats Explained

What are Your Favorite Themes?

Celebrating One Year of Nacin

WordPress wins 2010 Hall of Fame CMS Award

Plugin Review – Headline Split Tester

The Legacy Plugins Leave Behind

Contributing To The Theme Review Team

December:

WordPress 3.0 Template Tag Reference Guide

WordPress Security Update Efficiency

Open-Source Motivations – What’s Yours?

One Image Shows The Power Of WordPress

How WordPress Decisions are Made

How You Can Support WordPress

Theme Malware Anatomy

WordPress FAQ: Changing Links and Images After a Move

Drupal, Joomla, WordPress Lead The Way

WordPress FAQ: Finding Free WordPress Themes

Is Hello Dolly A Copyright Infringing Plug-in?

BuddyPress 1.2.7 Out The Door

A Word On Commercial Themes

Plugin Review – Dynamic Widgets

What’s Your Favorite WordPress 2010 Moment?

For me personally, 2010 has been a really tough year both financially and personally. Not only did I lose my future father father-in-law to prostate cancer, but my little endeavor to create a WordPress centric community site that helped me to pay the bills flopped. I’m hoping 2011 is much better than 2010 and for those of you that celebrate it, Happy New Years!.

January:

WordPress Search Based DOS Attack

Anatomy Of A WordPress Release

WordPress 2.9.1 Final Released

Flattered Or Ripped Off?

The Merge Has Begun

A Simple Mistake Could Cause You Priceless Headaches

Preventing WordPress Plugins From Loading

Core Plugins

What Was Your First Reaction on Using WordPress?

How To Include CSS and JavaScript Conditionally

is_home(), is_archive() not Working? Here is a Fix

Do You Automatically Close Comments on Old Posts?

Watch Where You Download That

Making Site Wide Changes on Your WordPress Blog

Are You Spamming Comments Inadvertently?

February:

Good Luck Lester Chan

Easily Add Multiple Content Columns

My Thoughts on Premium Plugins

Where Is The Line Drawn?

Should Plugin Authors Add Links To Your Site Without Giving An Option To Disable It?

How to Do ‘XYZ’ Without a WordPress Plugin

Should You Pay Up and Shut Up?

Footer Stuff Allows You To Seamlessly Add Content to Themes

Passing Parameters as Variables vs Passing Parameters as An Array

March:

Bookmarklet to Quickly Access WordPress Admin Menu

Manage Comments From Your Windows or Linux Desktop

Segregating Comments and Trackbacks In Admin Panel?

Scaling WordPress Part 1: Using MySQL Replication and HyperDB

April:

Moving Your WordPress Site and Database

iPad Peek – Peek at Your Blog on the iPad

How To improve basic security on a fresh WordPress install

VideoPress Review

Backing up your WordPress database with WP-DB-Backup

More plugins for securing your WordPress install

May:

Adding Scripts Properly to WordPress Part 1 – wp_enqueue_script

Adding Scripts Properly to WordPress Part 2 – JavaScript Localization

Adding Scripts Properly to WordPress Part 3 – Page Detection

WordPress security monitoring and diagnosis

How to show ads to only search engine visitors using Who Sees Ads

Cleaning Up A WordPress Database After Plugins and Themes Are Uninstalled

June:

WordPress 3.0 Walkthrough: Getting Started with Multisite

WordPress And Giving Credit

IDrive for WordPress Released

WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” is out!

What Did You Like In WordPress 3.0?

Stay tuned for Part two on December 31st.

There are a myriad of reasons why people create websites and put them online.  Some do it for fame and profit; others do it for passion and service.

No matter the reason you put your work and effort into an online endeavor there can come a time in the life of some websites that the comment system becomes inconvenient for discussions.

Now WordPress has done a lot to make it easier to follow along with discussions on a site based on that system.  The threaded comments option allows replies to be underneath the original comment that prompted the reply.  Even before it became an option in WordPress plugin developers were making it happen.

So when you want to take those discussions to their own piece of your website and create a forum what should you do?

Well there are quite a few options out there for forums and discussion boards.  Some have been made to integrate directly with WordPress at all levels and some of the stand alone boards can be integrated into your site as well using other options.

One of the more popular pieces of forum software for WordPress users is bbPress – which comes from the creators of WordPress.  bbPress is made to integrate with your WordPress database, share the same cookies and registration process.  Makes sense that the developers of WordPress would give you these types of options for their own forum software.

What about other forum software like phpPBB, Invision Power Board, vBulletin, and others listed here at WikiPedia. 

How do you go about integrating those forums with WordPress when they are not necessarily made to do it.  Integration is important at some level because you want to get people from your website to your forums and vice versa.

I have just started using phpBB3 on my site and am using the RSS Feed widget on my sidebar to show the latest threads on the board.

How are you doing it?

I am looking forward to hearing what methods and plugins you use to make this happen.  Is there other forum software out there besides bbPress that has been built to integrate well with WordPress?  In your experience do some of the forum programs have special features to make integration with WordPress easier?  With the experience of this community I know there are many things I am not thinking of that you all know about. 

Let us know in the comments. 

So I was decking out my laptop with stickers the other day and realized that I really miss having a Weblog Tools Collection laptop sticker.

Weblog Tools Collection Laptop Sticker

So I got in touch with a few vendors and come upon Sticker Giant who were great to work with. Now that I have a sticker for my own laptop, I have many others left on the roll and I am itching to give them away. So if you want a Weblog Tools Collection laptop sticker for free, please fill out the form (closed, reached max. number) and we will send a few out for you ASAP.

Since postage is kind of expensive, if you missed this round and would still like one, we will have more of these sticker giveaways in the future and if I play my cards right, I might even have a way for people to order them online for very little money. Stay tuned for that.

If you are a tech company or blog and have stickers of your own that you would like distributed along with these, please contact me using the form in the menu above.

• Tweetable: Another Twitter integration plugin for WordPress (we really need to consolidate these, but there is feature differentiation)
• Live Blogging Plugin: Setup a live blog within minutes, needs Meteor
• ImageShack Offloader: Move your image hosting to ImageShack
• Max Image Size Control: Finer granular control of image sizes in WordPress
• WP Devel: Add a whole bunch of debug options to your WordPress blog
• WP Update Message: Tweak and refine the update messages in your WordPress admin panel

In addition to these plugins, I know of at least 10 others that are being developed for the competition and I am hoping for many more. A couple of links and stats of interest:

• There is now a page for the Rules and Regulations for the WordPress Plugin Competition 2009
• Sponsors and well wishers have donated almost $3000 as prize money for the competition. They include: WPMU/WPMUDEV, BuySellAds, White Shadow, WPWebHost and Ozh
• Use the WLTC Community Plugin Groups page to post ideas for new plugins and offer to create new ones
• Send us tips and ideas through Twitter @weblogtooltips
• The Plugin Compeition Blog is checked by hundreds of visitors every day for new entries and to download the old ones

So if you are a plugin author and would like to get your name out or would like to win the prize purse for the best plugin, be sure to throw your hat into the competition and show us what you are made of. If you are a corporate sponsor and would like to help us reward the plugin development community, please drop us a line.

You don’t need to be shy. Come on in, the water is just fine.

Expanding Plugin Panel – Handy tips for plugin developers to show messages to users about new updates in their plugins, making it easier for users to know what they are getting into before they update a plugin.

14 Essential WordPress Development and Design Cheat Sheets – A cheat sheet for tweaking plugins and themes.

Top 10 WordPress plugins to promote Social Media Profile – Social networking is a major part of blogs, here are 10 plugins that will help you promote your social media profiles.

Writing your own is_page function – By default WordPress allows you to check whether users are on a page using is_page() function, these tips will help you determine which exact page users are on currently and display appropriate messages to them.

That sums up the first edition of the tips we received at @weblogtooltips, don’t forget to keep sending us your WordPress tips and tricks to the twitter account, we will be featuring them here regularly and also tweeting about them on a regular basis.

Likewise we often look to find and highlight the best WordPress news through Weblog Tools Collection, to make it easier for everyone who want to share their tips and tricks with us, we now have a twitter account @weblogtooltips where you can send us WordPress tips and tricks, WordPress news and other things related to WordPress.

We will also be regularly sending out tweets consisting of tips you send to us and highlighting the best news here at Weblog Tools Collection on a regular basis.

Don’t forget to follow @weblogtooltips to send us your tips and get interesting information and news about WordPress.

Our WLTC Community is also growing quickly and conversations and announcements are happening there that might be of interest to the WordPress connoisseur. If you are not registered, head over to our BuddyPress install and sign up to receive updates.

So without further ado, especially if you want to play around with BuddyPress, please head over to the shiny new WLTC Community and register for either a username or a blog. I hope to meet you there!