Archive for 2009

FairFieldMirror Switches To WordPress

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October 14th, 2009
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There are a ton of stories out on the web that talk about WordPress but some of the most interesting stories consists of large websites that contain thousands of articles that describe their process from switching from their previous content management system to WordPress. The Fairfield Mirror previously used a system called College Publisher. After spending a few weeks with it, Joseph Cefoli decided that it wouldn’t be the best tool for the job. After spending time checking out all of the different alternatives, the decision to use WordPress was made. The site uses a revamped version of the Gazette Edition theme developed by WooThemes. The switch included over 7,000+ articles which were manually sorted through to ensure a smooth transition. We received the database around June, and CoPress helped us convert its structure to something compatible with WordPress. All 7,000+ articles were unsorted and many authors’ information was redundant. […]

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WordCamp NYC Is Going To Be Big

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October 13th, 2009
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On Monday, I received an email from the folks putting together WordCamp New York City. This event is shaping up to be the next best thing when compared to WordCamp San Francisco. Due to the large demand for this event and the international, national, local people that will be showing up, WordCamp NYC needed to obtain a bigger venue. Thankfully, they pulled through and the event will be taking place at Baruch College of the City University of New York. Blogs@Baruch, a program overseen by the College’s Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute is the largest WordPress project at CUNY. It is built on WordPress MU and enables members of the Baruch academic community to create individual, group or course blogs in just a few clicks. Baruch College is an advocate of WordPress and other open-source technology, making it a perfect fit for WordCampNYC. The end of the email confirms that […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/12

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October 12th, 2009
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New Plugins Email log Email Log WordPress Plugin, allows you to log all emails that are sent through WordPress. Twitter Goodies Twitter Goodies WordPress Plugin will generates nice twitter widget in sidebar area. Youtube with fancy zoom You tube with fancy zoom is a media viewing application that supports webs most popular you tube video. This is a jQuery based fancy zoom. TweetPaste Embed Embed status updates from Twitter into blog posts and pages AnonPost AnonPost allows anonymous user to write their own posts using special page, no access to WP panel is needed. AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild allows you to rebuild all thumbnails at once without script timeouts on your server. Updated Plugins XML Site Feed This plugin dynamically creates an XML feed that complies with the XML Sitemap protocol. There are no options to be set and the feed becomes instantly available after activation on yourblogurl.tld/sitemap.xml […]

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Get Ready For WordPress 2.9

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October 12th, 2009
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Last Thursday, the WordPress core development team got together to discuss the upcoming version of WordPress. In this meeting, it was announced that WordPress 2.9 is now feature frozen meaning additional features would be postponed to the next branch. The first proposed release date of WordPress 2.9 was October 31st but that goal is not attainable. Instead, expect to see Beta 1 around October 31st with release candidates released during the month of November. Depending on what happens during the testing phase, we may see WordPress 2.9 stable released during the second half of November or early December. Expect to see details regarding how to participate in the testing process show up on the WordPress development blog within the next week or so.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/09

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October 9th, 2009
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New Plugins Event Calendar / Scheduler The plugin allows you to manage single or multiple user events through easy and intuitive dynamic interface. Users can add/modify/delete events on the fly and easily change events dates and time by simply dragging the event boxes. You can set up different levels of permissions to people who will use the calendar. Delink Pages This plugin will allow you to specify certain pages to not be linked when wp_list_pages() is used in your theme. You might want to do this if you want a header for a series of subpages, but don’t specifically want that header to be a real “page” or link. Twitoaster The Twitoaster WordPress Plugin automatically retrieves Twitter replies to your Blog’s posts. These “Twitter comments” are displayed like comments, on the posts pages they are related to. BigTweet Button The BigTweet button allows your blog visitors to easily tweet about […]

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WordPress.com Users can Publicize their Blog Posts To Twitter

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October 8th, 2009
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WordPress team announced the introduction of Publicize, a tool that will allow users to send their posts as updates to twitter.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 10/07

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Semiologic Multiple column, feature rich theme with support for advanced templates, panels and header picker Mystique Mystique is a free WordPress theme that attempts to top commercial templates in terms of design and functionality. Some of the features include 3 theme widgets (Sidebar tabs, Twitter posts and Flickr gallery), page templates with different layout styles and many more theme options… Minimalist Love Two column, widget and gravatar ready theme Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get them listed in these posts.

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FTC says bloggers must disclose payments and freebies

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October 5th, 2009
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FTC says bloggers must disclose payments and freebies when reviewing products or risk being fined $16,000: This morning, the Federal Trade Commission published their Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials with changes that affect testimonial advertising, bloggers and celebrity endorsements. Though these are guidelines and not regulations, bloggers could face civil fines up to $16,000 and advertisers could also face fines. Interesting to note is that there are no guidelines on how to disclose relationships and this has no effect on blogs, corporations and relationships outside of the US. The new rules would apply to any transfer of value in exchange for publicity but seems very watered down in its execution. TechMeme is full of reverberations, but is there a lot to worry about for the everyday blogger? My question is, have you ever received money or gifts for your posts? Have you been offered products in exchange for writing reviews? […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/05

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October 5th, 2009
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New Plugins Wp-Thumbie Wp-Thumbie is WordPress plugin to display thumbnail related posts. Relocate Theme Style Filters WordPress output to allow you to relocate your theme stylesheets Pierre’s Wordspew A plugin that creates a live shoutbox, using AJAX as a backend. Users can chat freely from your blog without refreshing the page! Source Codes in Comments Allow users to post source codes in comments using [code][/code] tag. No syntax highlight at the moment, it just replaces the special characters. Twit-update This plugin lets your twitter followers know when you edit a post. Updated Plugins WP Super Cache WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly. WP-TwitterSearch Displays the latest results based on a twitter search. Options include setting multiple search terms […]

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