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WordPress Theme Development Tools

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August 16th, 2009
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WordPress Theme Development Tools.: ThemeShaper puts together a list of many of the ingredients required to develop your own WordPress themes including the test content that helps to test the demo the functionality of WordPress themes and tutorials to help beginners get started. The inclusion of useful development tools such as Firefox extensions and even links to free text editors are appreciated. The one inclusion that I would have expected from the blog of a theme framework developer would have been a list of theme frameworks that a beginner could get started with.

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Not So Thankless After All

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August 15th, 2009
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Back in early July, I asked the question is WordPress a thankless community? Not surprisingly, this post struck a chord with both developers and end users. The point of the article was to raise awareness that there are a number of people who give to the WordPress community and it seemed as though a large portion of the community was not stopping to at least say thank you for the contributions. In the article, I present a few different methods for showing appreciation or for giving back but too many people in the comments focused on the monetary aspect of the situation which is not what I had in mind. In this post, I’m going to highlight a number of different ideas, comments, and blog posts that came out of the discussion. First, we have Matt Mullenweg who shares his thoughts on the idea that WordPress is a thankless community. […]

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WP.me: URL Shortening Service From WordPress

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August 14th, 2009
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If you are a WordPress user, WordPress now have their own URL shortening service in the form of WP.me, short and sweet right.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 08/14

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August 14th, 2009
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Ringbinder Ringbinder has been updated; is a free WordPress theme, two-column, with a right sidebar, it’s now compatible with WordPress version 2.7 upwards, and all set for threaded comments Old Popular Yolk Old Popular Yolk is a free WordPress theme that is easy to customise and minimal, featuring a print stylesheet and some exciting CSS3 treats. Supports threaded comments for WordPress 2.7 and beyond. Aligned to a vertical and horizontal grid, with a whiff of the International Typographic Style wpShow [removed, premium theme] wpShow is a video theme for your blog enables you to feature videos as posts alongside with the regular blog posts. Widget and gravatar ready and supports three different styles. Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get listed in these releases.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 08/12

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August 12th, 2009
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Metisca Metisca is a 2-column right sidebar SEO optimized theme designed especially for Google Adsense 336×280 Ad unit and commonly available 300×250 Ad Units from Advertisers. The header has a simple yet elegant look with pearl white title and slogan text over a beautiful Sky Blue background. Electric XHTML Two column, widget ready theme in black Dark Side A dark colored, two column, widget ready and WordPress 2.5-2.8 compatible WordPress theme. Also, check out Enlighten from the same author. Playground A two column theme that comes widget ready. With Sociable and WP-PageNavi plugins preloaded. Using a green-brown color scheme. IMYJ Simple two column theme in white, with black text, and blue links.

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The Correct Way To Report A Security Issue With WordPress

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August 12th, 2009
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If you don’t know by now, WordPress 2.8.4 has hit the public and it addresses a mild but hugely annoying issue. There was no advanced warning regarding the vulnerability but it was quickly patched in the core of WordPress for the next release. Unfortunately, word quickly spread and in fact, even my site WPTavern.com was affected by the problem as I received an email letting me know what my new password was even though I didn’t request one. Here are the details regarding the annoyance: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset and a new password would be emailed to the account owner. This doesn’t allow remote access, but it is […]

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Feedburner Feed Replacement Plugin Broken!

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August 11th, 2009
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UPDATE: As from the comments below and various emails I have received, this might be an isolated issue related to my combination of code and plugins. Many people continue to use Feedburner Feed Replacement without any issues. If you have been using the Feedburner Feed Replacement Plugin originally from Steve Smith, and have not checked your feeds lately, it might be worth a few minutes of your time to do so. Just browse to your blog’s feed address  (http://yourblog.com/feed/) and if you are redirected to your Feedburner feed, you are fine. Otherwise you need to uninstall the Feedburner plugin and get something else. About a month ago, this blog’s feed count lost about 5000 readers in one feel swoop which is a huge number and a rude wake up call for us. This has happened before with Feedburner and I thought the count would go back up once Feedburner straightened […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/10

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August 10th, 2009
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New Plugins Random Posts from Category This widget will list random posts from a chosen category. You can choose how many posts to display, and whether to show the excerpt or the full content in addition to the post title. You may also link the widget title to the category archive if you like. Dashboard Notepad The very simplest of notepads for your Dashboard. The widget settings allow you to choose which roles can edit the notes, and which roles can merely read them. Related Tweets Using your blog as the seed, find quality content from the Blog Traffic Exchange and tweet it automatically. Provide your followers with interesting and relevant content within the niche of your blog. Supplement your twitter account with quality content related to your blogging niche using the our powerful content search engine. Updated Plugins GD Change Template The plugin allows to change theme (template) on […]

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Download all the Competition Plugins!

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August 9th, 2009
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All the entries into the WordPress Plugin competition have been tallied and have been passed on to the judges. There are 43 entries in total that we have received. They are all listed below with an announcement about each plugin. You can also download a zip file with all the plugins in it, use them at your leisure and then rate them on the plugin competition blog. (If the plugin is not listed on the plugin competition blog, the authors have not followed the rules and they will not benefit from the user ratings) These plugins are listed in no particular order. If you submitted your plugin and it is not on this list, please contact us using the form above. Frederick Townes : W3 Total Cache W3 Total Cache is a plugin designed to improve user experience via a suite of performance enhancements consisting of a database cache, page […]

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