Automattic has officially donated the WordPress trademark to the non-profit WordPress Foundation. To quote the official announcement by Jane Wells, “the Foundation will be responsible for safeguarding the trademarked name and logo from misuse toward the end of protecting WordPress and preventing confusion among people trying to figure out if a resource is ‘official’ or not.” Matt Mullenweg is obviously excited, as “the most central piece of WordPress’s identity, its name, is now fully independent from any company.” Ownership of the trademark could have made Automattic millions on the name alone, but in a move praised as “extremely generous and community-minded,” they are ensuring that both WordPress and its name will never be used to unfairly profit from, confuse, or cause harm to the blogging platform, its integrity, and the community itself.
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Archive for September, 2010
New plugins Scripts n Styles allows Admin users the ability to add custom CSS (at the bottom of the head tag) and JavaScript (at the bottom of the body tag) directly into individual Posts, Pages or any other registered custom post types. Updated plugins AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. Fast Secure Contact Form for WordPress lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message and blocks all common spammer tactics. Subscribe2 sends a list of subscribers an email notification when new posts are published to your blog. WP System Health provides a comprehensive overview of your WordPress parameter and server performance.
[Continue Reading...]The Mill is a simple, yet elegant, two-column WordPress theme. Misty Morn is a grey-based WordPress 3.0 child theme for Purple Pastels with custom image and attachment templates, thickbox enabled image attachment pages, and additional page templates for pages without comments and pages without the sidebar. My Valentine is a pink-based WordPress 3.0 child theme for Purple Pastels with custom image and attachment templates, thickbox enabled image attachment pages, and additional page templates for pages without comments and pages without the sidebar. Steampunk is a steam punk inspired theme built under the Themeatic Theme Framework environment with clean and SEO friendly HTML/CSS code. Sun City is a darker WordPress 3.0 theme that makes use of orange, green, blue and other primary colours to provide a visually rich display. ZenLite Black Mandarin is a darker child theme for the single column ZenLite theme.
[Continue Reading...]If you know of someone, or are yourself a blogger on Vox, you should know already that Six Apart has announced plans for closing the service. Users have until the 30th of September to get their data our of Vox and into other blogging and/or CMS platforms if they so choose. Mark Jaquith has a great suggestion on how to Import a Vox blog into WordPress or almost anything else. In short, he suggests that you import your Vox blog into a vanilla WordPress.com blog and then export it out as a WordPress export file. Then you actually have a bunch of choices of what to do with your blog. PS: Be sure to mark your WordPress.com blog as private before importing if you do not intend to make that your final destination.
[Continue Reading...]New plugins List Yo’ Files adds the ability to list files by file name for a given folder with hyperlinks to each file making it downloadable. Readable Names forces commenters to write their names in the language that your blog uses. WP-comment-master enhances your comments with AJAX posting and pagination. WP-WikiBox allows you to get a Wikipedia article summary for a keyword in any language, inline with your posts and pages, with a simple shortcode. Updated plugins IE6 Upgrade Option displays a warning message, simply and politely informing the IE6 user that their browser is out of date, and provides links to download newer browsers. Vimeo Quicktag enables the user to embed a customized Vimeo video into the blog content. WP-Stats-Dashboard displays your blog’s stats graph plus your blog traffic, social engagement and social influence directly in your dashboard.
[Continue Reading...]The WordPress development team had a very successful meeting last Thursday, where they solidified their plans for WordPress 3.1. The finalized goals for WordPress 3.1 are “to have a very short dev cycle, a decent amount of testing time, and a release in mid-December. Low on new features, heavy on ui and code cleanup, and avoidance of schema changes. Save the big ideas for 3.2 where we’ll have the liberty to implement those ideas in PHP5. No schema changes and no big new APIs.” Besides bug fixes and code cleanup, users can look forward to a new wordpress.com inspired admin bar and theme browser, as well as post templates and styles, and a separate network dashboard. The team plans to halt new feature submissions on October 15th, followed by a primary code freeze on November 1st, and a string freeze on December 1st. The beta period will begin November 15th […]
[Continue Reading...]BlogTimes is an old school Newspaper style WordPress Theme, based on a three column fluid layout, enabled with cufon fonts with beautiful typography for the headlines, options panel, and a custom front page slider. Dark Tuts is a very clean WordPress theme that has been designed with blogs in mind. This theme has an HTML5 doctype, clean and valid code, 3 color schemes (blue, green, red), 3 different ways to add post thumbnails, the ability to change thumbnail sizes via the theme panel, 1 advertisement spot and tons more features. Quick-Vid is a simple blogging theme with slick design elements. Semanu is powered by the 960.gs css framework with multiple widgets and a 3 column layout. Syailendra is an adsense (advertising) ready theme with multiple widget positions, threaded comments, theme options, drop-down menus, and custom menus. WP Perfect is a two column SEO optimized WordPress 3.0 ready theme. The theme […]
[Continue Reading...]About the Author
- James
James began using WordPress in 2004. Being new to WordPress (and blogging in general), he quickly found the WordPress Support Forums and basically never left. James currently resides in sunny Southern California, where he enjoys bringing happiness to millions of WordPress.com users.
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