New plugins Foursquare map Foursquare is rising in popularity, and will continue to grow. This plugin makes it easy to share your last check-in location without needing to worry about giving away personal info, and you don’t need to be an expert in mapping APIs! Vanityvid Vanityvid is a service that turns avatars into videos. This plugin integrates the service into WordPress. Delicious Bookmark Button A cool delicious bookmarking button/badge with total bookmark count. It adds a delicious badge or button to your post or page which allows you to bookmark the post. It also reflect a real-time count of how many times your page has been bookmarked in delicious, just like tweetmeme button does for twitter. Both standard and compact version of the badge to choose from. Simple Sitemap This plugin provides an easy way to display a HTML sitemap of posts and pages on your site. This gives […]
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Archive for 2010
After five years of dedicated support, WordPress will be leaving PHP 4 and MySQL 4 behind for the far more current and secure PHP 5 and MySQL 5. WordPress 3.2, planned to launch during the first half of 2011, will be the first release to require PHP 5.2 or higher and MySQL 5.0.15 or higher. The change really comes as no surprise. Both PHP 5 and MySQL 5 are far more secure than their predecessors and they are actively developed. How long has it been since an update was made to PHP 4 and MySQL 4? The final version of PHP 4 was released during August of 2008, followed by the final version of MySQL 4 on December of 2008. Both PHP 4 and MySQL 4 have been discontinued for almost two years. The WordPress team is confident that the change in requirements will be relatively inconsequential. According to Mark […]
[Continue Reading...]Just in case you missed it the default theme in WordPress 3.0 has been updated to version 1.1. If your running WordPress 3.0 you should find an update indicator in your admin panel under Dashboard > Updates. So when I saw this update a couple of days ago I went off in search of what was updated. Unfortunately there is not a changelog in the WordPress.org Themes Directory and a quick search did not yield very much at that time. However, today when I made that same search I finally got some results and although it is not a changelog with a detailed listing of what has been updated it is from one of the WordPress Devs, Andrew Nacin and appears in the WordPress Support Themes and Templates forum: Hey all — The only real change is that I removed the half-baked code using the wp_title hook in order to […]
[Continue Reading...]About a month ago I posted about how fast WordPress 3.0 was being downloaded and there was a terrific discussion about the sheer amount of data that was being grabbed to get at the 3.0 version of WordPress. We even had some comments as to why it was being downloaded at that scale. Well as of today the download counter reads that it has been downloaded just over 10.3 million times since it was released last month and the counter keeps rolling along! So what is it that makes the WordPress platform so popular? What is it that drives people to download it over 10 million times? If you had the opportunity to talk to a non WordPress user what would you tell them about it to show that it is worth downloading and putting to use for a website? What is your favorite thing about WordPress? What is your […]
[Continue Reading...]Yesterday, I wrote about a problem Matt had about the GPL license with the Thesis Theme. Though I am not biased and seriously do not want to get into an argument about it, let me put forth an argument that I think is really worth thinking about.
[Continue Reading...]If you have been on Twitter today, you might have come across a huge argument between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and Thesis theme developer Chris Pearson. Matt is unhappy that unlike other premium themes, Thesis does not distribute/sell their themes under the GPL licensing system.
[Continue Reading...]Shades A simple clean theme framework to work from, designed ideally for light colored backgrounds and easily adapted to darker layouts. Now with Threaded Comments and sticky post Diabolique Lagoon 3 column, widget ready theme with threaded comments with 10 background types Universe Universe is a pure, two column, widget ready theme based on Universe CSS Template. Chunky ‘Chunky’ a fully compliant WordPress 3.0 theme. It supports all of the new features such as custom headers, custom background, custom menus etc. all of which are fully configurable in the admin control panel Tech9 The Tech9 WordPress Theme, very clean style for a WP powered site with the Tech9 WordPress Theme theme, featuring a two column fixed theme layout, enabled with custom cufon fonts, optionspanel, pagenavi, frontpage slider, and related posts.
[Continue Reading...][EDIT] Peter Westwood, one of the lead devs, in a comment below suggests against the use of this plugin because of the complexities of the setup process that might be ignored if users install and enable this plugin without following the steps. He points users to the Codex article that explains the setup. If the preliminary setup is that complex, code could be written to understand, walk people through and then validate those setup steps in the future. I am pretty sure the core is going to get more mature about this. So this is just the first step. Enable Multisite in WordPress 3.0 With One Click!: Sarah Gooding from WPMU.org notifies us of a plugin (which can be downloaded from the WordPress Repository) that will enable MultiSite functionality on your WordPress blog with just one click. Installation for the Enable MultiSite plugin seems relatively simple and the process to […]
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins 123ContactForm for WordPress Contact Form plugin from 123ContactForm.com. It requires a free account on 123ContactForm. WP BTBuckets Integrates the BTBuckets service into your WordPress blog, giving your blog the ability to dynamically morph depending on who your visitors are. Now you can target your visitors based on their visiting behavior WordPress multiple user ad management plugin The plugin is ideal for blogs with multiple authors and acts as an incentive for making quality posts. When the add-on is enabled, users will have full control over the advertisements displayed on their own posts. Using a space pre-allocated by the blog administrator, authors will be able to display various forms of advertisements in addition to accepting Paypal donations GetSocial GetSocial adds a lightweight and intelligent floating social media sharing box on your blog posts. WordTour WordTour offers you a no-fuss time-saving solution to events management and a whole lot more […]
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