Archive for 2008

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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Have you voted for the Plugin Competition yet?

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About 10 days back we announced that user voting has been opened up for the plugins in the WordPress Plugin Competition. As of this post, the various plugins have received over 960 votes. While this may seem to be a sizable number, it also means that many of our visitors have still not given their votes to their favorite plugins. Remember that there is a lot at stake in this competition and it would do justice for the plugin authors to receive your esteemed vote! Meanwhile, our judges are busy testing and evaluating the plugins and we should have the results pretty soon. Have you placed your vote yet? If not, then hurry before the voting closes!

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WordPress And Subversion A Perfect Match

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August 5th, 2008
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The longer you participate in the WordPress community, the more you’ll hear the term ‘Subversion’. Subversion is what allows WordPress installations to be upgraded automatically as new releases are committed to the WordPress versioning system. In other words, using subversion is a great way to use the bleeding edge of WordPress. David Peralty has published an extensive guide on the GeeksareSexy website which contains all of the information you’ll need to know on how to run WordPress with Subversion. Grab your favorite beverage because the article is quite lengthy. I’ve been wanting to setup a WordPress/subversion install on my local machine but never quite figured out how to do it. This article has inspired me though and I plan on going through with the process within the next few days. If you end up installing WordPress with Subversion, let me know about your experience.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 08/04

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Refreshed Refreshed is a one column, white-spaced, and clean design with a lifestream feature outside the regular post stream. So your lifestream will not junks to any RSS reader. RingBinder RingBinder is a 2 column fixed-width, free WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets – the name is reasonably self-explanatory. Entrecard 4 columns, widget ready, right sidebar, login menu at the header Simplifi Dark (brown) Dark brown, two column theme Vista Three column, widget and gravatar ready, SEO optimized theme

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/03

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jQuery Lightbox for Native Galleries Makes the native WordPress galleries introduced in WordPress 2.5 use jQuery Lightbox by balupton to display the fullsize images. Disable Theme Preview Disables the cool but sometimes annoying theme preview feature added in WordPress 2.6. You’ll still be able to preview themes by clicking a link located below the theme’s description. Direct Image URLs For Galleries Modifies thumbnails to link to fullsize image instead of the page containing the medium thumbnail. Statrix Statrix plugin collects data about your blog visits. It creates charts and lists of the full data history in real-time, which you can browse, filter and export immediately after plugin activation. The plugin keeps the full visits history, so you can make reports about any period of time you want. Version Information This plugin displays version and configuration information for WordPress, PHP, MySQL, and the web server. A summary is displayed in the […]

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WordPress.com announces 24/7 support

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August 3rd, 2008
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WordPress.com has announced 24/7 support where people from across the world can ask their support questions without having to worry about time differences. The WordPress.com engineers will cater to all the questions sent using the contact form and reply within 24 hours or lesser. Not long ago, our team was online 9 a.m to 4 p.m. PDT to answer your questions and keep your blog running smoothly. Soon after, we brought it up to 24-hour support, five days and week, so those across the country and across the globe wouldn’t have to wait for their answers. The time has come for help without delay. We hereby announce 24-7 support on WordPress.com. Remember to use the contact form to send your questions to the WordPress.com team, to get a quicker reply.

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