Archive for August, 2008

Charity Event: WordPress Scavenger Hunt 2008

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WordCamp SF 2008 is getting closer, many users may have already signed up for the event, for those who have yet to do so, you can purchase your ticket by visiting the sales page. If you are visiting the WordCamp there is another exciting event planned for charity, the WordPress Scavenger Hunt 2008 will be held the day after WordCamp SF on August 17th. The WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt will have teams of four running amok in San Francisco for two hours, unravelling clues, finding weird stuff and completing tasks for points. The winning team with the most points will get the grand prize: lots of WordPress schwag, plus special surprises! Team registration fee is $40 for a team of 4 people, all proceeds will be donated to 826 Valencia, a local non-profit that helps kids refine their reading and writing skills. If you are looking to have a bit […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/11

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Open Web Analytics A full featured web analytics framework that provides detailed analysis of site users, click behavior, traffic sources, feed subscriptions and content consumption. Cross References Insert cross-references between posts or pages with [cref postID], such as [cref 1], or optionally with [cref post-slug], for example [cref hello-world], and get all backward references automatically at the end of each post or page. WP Microsummary Comment Track Using Firefox 2+ Microsummaries, this plugin only displays the amount of * Approved * Pending * Spam comments that you have on your WordPress blog. Slayer’s Ad Integration Plugin Integrate ads in your posts. It doesn’t matter what ad you want to ad: Google Adsense, Bidvertiser, or just a link to an image this plugin can handle it, and just as every plugin it comes with a cool options panel. RSSLess RSSless is a WordPress plugin which allows you to hide specific post […]

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If, Then, Else

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Ever become brave enough to look inside of a WordPress php file? Specifically, a php file from a theme? If you have, you may have noticed that they are filled with If, Then, and Else statements. If you have no idea what these mean, this post is for you. Php has always been a pain for me to understand, but if you think about it in a logical manner, it begins to make sense. If, then and else statements are used as a means of making decisions, similar to the way you and I make decisions in the real world. Here is an example of how this logic works in WordPress. < ?php if (have_posts()) : ?> The if statement within that php function is asking if there are posts. If the blog has posts, WordPress begins processing what is known as “The Loop“. <? php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 08/09

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Connections Reloaded Connections Reloaded is a complete reload of the highly popular and extremely beautiful Connections theme by Patricia Muller. Connections Reloaded 2.0.1 is a two column, widget and Gravatar ready theme. Includes few inbuilt widgets as well as many page templates. Ginseng Coffee Ginseng Coffee is a three column, brown, widget and Gravatar and tag ready theme. Floral Day 2 columns, widget ready, right side bar, with Ajax picture viewer enable Simplest A simple two-column WordPress theme with a small splash of color. While on the topic of themes, you might like to take a look at Building with WordPress: From sketch to prototype to company website in 5 hours and Collapsing WordPress Widget-Ready Areas & Sidebars and Show latest comment(s) for each post on main page.

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WordPress 2.7 Plugin Uninstall Methods

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WordPress 2.7 Plugin Uninstall Methods: A tutorial from Jacob Santos on the WordPress 2.7 Plugin Uninstall functionality and how to use it to make the uninstall process easy and seamless. Jacob adds a note to all plugin authors that I believe is worth mentioning: Special care then should be taken when using this method to ensure that your plugin isn’t doing anything it shouldn’t when uninstalling. In other words, please be careful and do not break other plugins and/or the core.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/08

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Random Redirect Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion. My Bookmarks If you are using delicious or simpy as your bookmarking tool, this plugin is for you. This will help a WordPress user to show his valuable bookmarks on sidebar. Blogging Tips Similar to the Hello Dolly format, which puts a line of lyrics in the upper right hand space in the Word Press Administration screen, the blogging tips plugins displays random blogging tips and suggestions. The tips are just some ideas of what you can do to improve the popularity of your blog and improve the content. All of the tips are designed to inspire you to be a better blogger. WP-Post-Banners Display banners(resized images) from your posts automatically. You can supply it parameters like banner size, post filters and maximum amount of […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 08/07

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Simplifi Dark (Red) and Simplifi Dark (Grey) Simple, two column, red and grey themes Fresh’d Fresh’d is a two-column, widget and gravatar ready theme with a left sidebar, and colors and layout greatly inspired by the WordPress Administration interface introduced in WordPress version 2.5. This theme has a built-in “Recent Comments” and “Previous Posts” section in the sidebar. Mad Meg Mad Meg is a 2 column fixed-width theme with right-hand sidebar, enabled for widgets. The Mag Meg theme is based around the painting, Dulle Griet. It a dark theme to match the subject matter of the painting and is ideal for blogs on political satire, art, poetry or any dark writing especially that poking fun at the establishment. Unknown Theme Unknown Theme v3.0is a grey and white, two column theme ideal for news, video and reviews blogs.

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WordCamp San Francisco Speakers Announced

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The speaker list for the grand daddy of all WordCamps, WordCamp San Francisco has been announced. The list includes many notable people such as Lloyd Budd, Matt Mullenweg and others. Here are the details. When – Saturday, August 16, 2008 Where – Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco — Map Why – To get WordPress users together, learn from each other, figure out the future of publishing the web, and have a good time. Sam Bauers – Sam will be speaking about upgrading WordPress and how to do it hassle free. Lloyd Budd – Lloyd will be discussing the aspect of switching to WordPress. I’ll be particularly interested in what Lloyd has to say in terms of migrating from one system to WordPress. Aaron Brazell – Aaron should be no stranger to most within the WordPress community. He’ll be discussing the aspect of search and findability. Tantek Celik – Tantek […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/06

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Interactive Video Plugin Add interactive video capabilities to your blog! Enhance your WordPress blog with a full video experience. Enable playing and editing of video remixes. Authenticate Lite Authenticate Lite enables universal and/or targeted inclusion of custom content for both feeds and posts. Ideal for adding copyright information, distribution policy, thank-you messages, custom links, special offers, etc. WP-UnitPNGfix WP-UnitPNGfix includes the ‘unitpngfix.js’ javascript file if the browser is IE6 or lower. In plain words, it implements the solution for the PNG transparency provided by Unit Interactive Labs. It works on both img objects and background-image attributes. Constant Contact WordPress Widget Adds Constant Contact signup form to your sidebar without touching code. Includes options for Title, Button Text, Tag Wrapper, Form ID Code, and Intro Paragraph. The form code is as standards-compliant as possible while still working with Constant Contact. Weather Postin’ Weather Postin’ retrieves the current weather provided from RSS […]

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