Archive for November, 2008

WordPress For Dummies 2nd Ed.

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November 24th, 2008
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This Friday at 8PM EST on WordPress Weekly, our special one hour guest will be Lisa Sabin Wilson who is the author of the book, WordPress For Dummies. During the show, we plan on discussing how hard it is to write about a piece of software that moves 100mph in print format, Lisa’s background in web design and what it is like to theme for WordPress, WordPress For Dummies The Second Edition and much more. This Thursday is Thanksgiving here in the states. On Friday, I want to give my thanks to those of you who continue to show your support while telling your friends about the show and downloading it on a regular basis. On Friday, we will be giving away two signed copies of WordPress For Dummies 2nd Edition. Lisa will sign the copies and ship them once the new edition has been published. So how will we […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/22

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November 22nd, 2008
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New Plugins Quartz Show random quotes/tips/links/pictures/something to visitors. These quotes can be added from the admin side. You can add the quotes one by one – or you can bulk import the stuff from a text file. YouVersion This plugin takes marked-up scripture references and pulls the verses from YouVersion. CMS Navigation Out-of-the-box support for full CMS navigation in your WordPress site including drop down menus, breadcrumbs trail and sidebar navigation. WordPress Politically Correct Turns any blog into a haven of safe politically correct content. Assign Missing Categories Assigns the default category to all posts that have no category after you’ve converted your categories to tags. Artists ilike Displays the artists you have “ilike’d” from your ilike.com profile on your blog. Updated Plugins zeList zeList is a plugin to run a directory on a WordPress power website. Get Flickr Thumbnails Get Flickr Thumbnails plugin can get thumbnails for photos on […]

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How Many Cans Of Worms?

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November 22nd, 2008
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Keith, Andrew, Jacob and I discussed the news of the week. In fact, I tried to break the world record by opening up as many cans of worms as possible within a 60 minute period. You’ll have to listen to the show to hear if I was successful. Ad Copy: WordPress Weekly is brought to you by the fine advertisers on WeblogToolsCollection.com. Without their continued support, this show would not be possible. If you are interested in advertising on WordPress Weekly, please contact me at wpweekly at gmail dot com.. Stories Discussed: WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 Released Why 2.7 Is Not 3.0 The Icons Have Been Chosen Integrating Plugins – Is This Bad For WordPress? Adding A Twitter ID Field To Comments Listing Pages The 2.7 Way 10 Best WordPress Web Hosts Compared Feedback: We encourage you to leave a comment whether it be feedback, questions, rants, or corrections then […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 11/21

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Hybrid Hybrid is a WordPress theme framework that has been actively developed on WordPress 2.7 but is compatible down to 2.5. It removes the need to use SEO plugins. It was developed with child themes in mind, so you’ll never have to lose your customizations with a theme update. The theme comes packaged with 13 page templates and supports 15+ plugins out of the box. You can run anything from a small family blog to a complex site with thousands of visitors. Google Chrome for WordPress Two column, fixed width, widget ready that looks just like Google Chrome. Loans Two / Three column, SEO theme based on CSS framework “Blueprint” Weblog Magazine Three column, fixed width, red, white and blue, widget ready theme.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/20

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November 20th, 2008
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New Plugins Blibahblubah This plugin allows the blog owner to customize the tag cloud so that any reader mousing over the tag cloud will see the words in the tag cloud flicker with a customizable effect. This is just a fancy bell and whistle to add to your blog. WordPress Popular Posts Adds a widget to show the most popular posts in your WordPress blog. Comments Count Filter Makes the comments from post author not to be counted. The post author must login before giving a comment. Surveys Add surveys to you blog. You can let the visitors take surveys and see the result from the admin side. Pollin Create and add polls to your blog. It can be shown to your visitors who will be able to vote in the poll. wpSLEEP Create posts in advance have them automatically publish when you’d like. You can then set when different […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 11/19

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Clean Press Clean Press is a 2 column WordPress theme that’s designed to focus on the content, rather than the design, and it’s the theme that powers this site. iQ2 iQ2 is a fixed width, widget ready, photoblog theme that fully integrates with the PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin. Night Light Fixed width, two column, widget ready theme with a left sidebar Carrington Three column, widget and gravatar ready theme

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Why 2.7 Is Not 3.0

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November 19th, 2008
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve witnessed many discussions throughout the WordPress community pertaining to the version number of WordPress. Many think that because of the reworked user interface and the large number of features that this version (2.7) will contain, this should allow the software to be bumped up to version 3.0 I asked the WP-Testers mailing list to see if I could get a word from either Ryan or Matt to tell me if 2.7 would remain or if it would be bumped up to 3.0.  Jane Wells chimed in saying that Matt doesn’t want to skip version numbers anymore, and that there will be ten increments between integers, so 2.9 > 3.0, not 2.9 > 2.10. Yes, 2.7 is a major change, but the numbers are based on timing, not volume or significance of change. So there you have it. WordPress 2.7 will be, WordPress 2.7. 2.8 […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/18

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November 18th, 2008
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New Plugins WP-Honeypot Add Project HoneyPot traps to your blog to help catch these spammers and comment spammers. Eventr Use your blog as an event management tool. You can create an event – the plugin will let people sign up for the event – it can also show a list of all the attendees. Once the event is done, you can deactivate the event and no more sign ups will be allowed. Shared Items Post Shared Items Post is a WordPress plugin that automagically creates a blog post from your Google Reader Shared Items feed. You can schedule the post to go out daily, weekly, or monthly and even set the time of day. Author Avatars This plugin provides a widget which allows you to show avatars of blog users. Resize At Upload The plugin affects the uploaded image while it is uploaded. Straight after it is uploaded, it will […]

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Instapundit Now On WordPress

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November 18th, 2008
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Instapundit which is one of the most highly trafficked political blogs on the net recently confirmed that they have switched from Movable Type to WordPress. The site doesn’t appear to be hosted on the WordPress.com VIP network but instead, is using a self hosted install of WordPress 2.6.3. Hat Tip to Doug Stewart.

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