Archive for December, 2008

WordPress Weekly Bailout Edition

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Due to some obligations which sprang up, Keith was unable to make it for this episode. So while schools, automakers, and banks ask for bailout packages, I had to do the same thing and you delivered. Special thanks to those who called in and turned what would have been a boring show into a great discussion on a number of topics. 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: 10,000th Changeset Reached 2.7 For WP.com, Soon For Self Installers My Idea To Manage Widgets In WordPress Should You Install WordPress Via Fantastico? Pros And Cons Feedback: We encourage you to leave a comment whether it be feedback, questions, rants, or corrections then tune in […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 12/05

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December 5th, 2008
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ASCII One Four column, grey, white and yellow theme with two widgetized sidebar. WP Simple Blue Three column, fixed width, widget ready theme Clean Clean consists of a fluid two/three column outfit with widgetized bars and footer column, custom fields enabled, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. The frontpage shows the latest posts followed by footer action. Flickr, Delicio is enabled in the themes options panel. Mortgages Two column, widget and SEO ready theme with options page for customization Igloo Two column theme with several adsense ready ad blocks, featured posts on the homeage, with social bookmarks and featured posts. Munchen Two column, widget ready, Blue, Gray, White, Light Blue theme Win7blog Two column, widget ready theme styled in the new Windows 7 look. Christmas Days [EDIT] Removed due to copyright violations. Two column fixed width theme with a Christmas theme. WP Pressident Two […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/04

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December 4th, 2008
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New Plugins Entries on Page X Generates a link back to the archive page the current entry is on. Makes it easier for users to retrieve the chronology of a blog. GreyBox Integrator GreyBox is a script can be used to display websites, images and other content in a beautiful way. GreyBox Integrator provides a one-click installation of GreyBox on your WordPress blog. VB Simple YouTube A simple way to add a YouTube video. Just put youtube::video_id:: and you’ll see the video in the post. WordPress Flowplayer This plugin adds flowplayer to your WordPress blog, it comes pre-configured and is very easy to use. The excerpt re-reloaded Customize the excerpt to be displayed by selecting the maximum number of words and link text. In the Loop The plugin provides an options panel with two input boxes. One is for content you want to appear before your post, the other for […]

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WordCamp Chicago

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December 4th, 2008
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WordCamp Chicago: WordCamp is coming to Chicago in 2009! Since I am so close (Toledo), I would love to attend. I know that Jeff is planning to be there as well. Past WordCamps that I have attended have always turned out to be fun events that are a great place to meet people, learn about the latest goings on in the WordPress world, generate and fan new ideas and make new connections within the WordPress community. WordCamp Chicago is being organized by Lisa Sabin-Wilson, Brian Gardner, Wendy Piersall and Cory Miller. The details of this WordCamp are up in the air but the organizers are looking for sponsors, attendees, speakers and any other help that you can provide. If you are a WordPress enthusiast, have never been to a WordCamp before and are from the Chicagoland area, this is your chance. Are you going?

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Enhanced WordPress Theme Generator

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Over the weekend, I caught word of a brand new WordPress theme generator that was written by Ryan Hellyer of Pixopoint.com. The generator lets you configure various aspects of a WordPress theme such as the sidebars, headings, footer, etc. Once you’re finished, you can export the files and use the theme on your own blog. I got in touch with Ryan over the weekend and this is what he had to say. What is the PixoPoint template generator and what is it capable of doing? The PixoPoint template generator is an automated web based system for creating WordPress themes. By using the control bar on the left hand side of the template generator you are able to modify a wide range of features on the website. I’ve included some standard templates to start people off, but the sky is really the limit. By changing images, colours, widths, number of sidebars, […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 12/02

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WPContempo An elegant 2 column, widget-ready WordPress theme featuring a clean design great for blogs of all kinds. Scrapbook Single column, fixed width widget and gravatar ready theme with threaded and paged comments. Norther Lights Two column theme with a beautiful background featuring the Northern Lights Photo Bob A two column simple WordPress theme with a nice big photo.

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Another WordPress Milestone

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December 1st, 2008
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At approximately 19:38:33 on December 1, 2008 Ryan Boren became the owner of the 10,000th changeset to the WordPress code. This particular code set change was a re-ordering of font families for Windows font selection that was initially patched by Matt Thomas. There has been a discussion taking place within the WP-Testers mailing list that the Bitstream font is horrible and that it needed to be replaced by Verdana. Looks like they received their wish. By the way, the first Changeset to appear since the WordPress team began using Trac happened on April 1, 2003 (6 years ago). The changeset involved a new respository initialized by cvs2svn and the author is anonymous. cvs2svn is a program that can be used to migrate a CVS repository to Subversion (otherwise known as “SVN”) or git. Documentation: A hearty congratulations goes out to not only the core development team, but to all those […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/01

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December 1st, 2008
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New Plugins WP-CopyProtect A simple plugin that will disabled right-click and prevent selection of text on your blog. Ciao Box Allows the user to display a Ciao Box in the sidebar. Autodownload Autodownload is a WordPress plugin that enables your blog to provide downloadable files either in your posts or pages. Show authors without posts Shows the authors page even if the author has no post. Updated Plugins Cronjob Control This plugin shows you all active WP cronjobs (scheduled tasks) of your weblog in the “Site Admin” area and if you want, you can stop the cronjob(s). ProjectManager This plugin is a data manager for any recurrent datasets. It can be used to manage and list a DVD collection,to to present portraits (e.g. athletes of a team) or anything you can think of. Collapsing Archives This plugin uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapse the set of months for each […]

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