Archive for 2010

Looking for Tutorial and Walkthrough Authors

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April 4th, 2010
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Are you adept at writing WordPress tutorials? Do you want to enrich the WordPress community? Want to know what it is like to be peer reviewed by tens of thousands of people simultaneously? Are you looking for some extra oomph in your blogging efforts? With WordPress 3.0 in the horizon and the many tools, plugins and themes being released every week, Weblog Tools Collection is looking for passionate WordPress enthusiasts to bring these to our readers. Please contact us using the form above or leave us a comment if you are interested in exploring the possibilities.

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Moving Your WordPress Site and Database

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There comes a time you may have to leave one web host for another. No matter the reason the idea of relocating an entire website – especially one that has been online for sometime – can seem very daunting. With a WordPress based site – I found it easier than expected – way easier. My WindowsObserver.com website has 1,100 posts, 9 pages, 4 categories, 2,436 comments, uses 17 widgets, and has 35 active plug-ins. On top of all those elements I use Windows Live Writer to create all of my content and I use a good bit of screenshots and graphics in my posts. As a result I have over 40MB of images (1,100 files) to go along with my 1,100 postings. Now for the purposes of this story I am not going to get into a comparison of hosting services or the like. The landscape is massive out there […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/03

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April 3rd, 2010
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WordPress Plugins

New Plugins Unicornify Changes all gravatars into algorithimically generated pictures of unicorns. LAMP Version Checker “LAMP Version Checker” is a plugin to check the versions of server applications: WordPress, PHP, MySQL, and Web Server. Utech Spinning Earth Put a slowly spinning earth on your site with shortcode. Incredible small file size, realist and rich graphics. Validation Helper Converts XHTML output to HTML and checks all pages and posts for code validity. Updated Plugins Rico Ajax Menu This plugin will create a menu with tabs, accordions or pulldowns using Rico Ajax Upside Down WordPress This plugin allows you to “flip” your entire WordPress blog. It will not affect your database in any way. It’s made just for the lulz, I guess it can be a really great April Fool’s Day joke. Grooveshark for WordPress The Grooveshark plugin is a WordPress plugin that allows you to insert a link to music on […]

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WordPress for iPad and iPhone OS 2.4

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April 3rd, 2010
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Best of WordPress, Blogging News

WordPress for iPhone OS 2.4.: WordPress for the iPad is now available, according to the WordPress for iPhone blog. The Automattic team has worked with Small Society to work on this new version. Find more details about the application at iphone.wordpress.org and also at the Next web writeup, which has some nice screenshots as well. Writing and editing posts along with streaming through comments and moderating them should be easier on this iPad version. I would love to hear some real world opinions on this product because it might make or break my desire to get myself another toy.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 04/01

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Simple White Simple White-a free wordpress theme, this theme is very light, we try to not use a large image, so the time needed to load your site faster. Simple White build with style clean and light a combination black and white color, with a big feature post area and right sidebar. Kostenloses Gargoyle The Gargoyle Theme is a free WordPress Theme 1000px wide with 4 Sidebars and an Option Page to populate also the Footer. THere are Sidebars on the right side 300px, one on the left side 120px, optimized for Adsense Ads. Two Sidebars 469px are on top of the postings and below the Posting..

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/30

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March 30th, 2010
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WordPress Plugins

New Plugins Pretty Theme Files Organizes the theme files in theme editor to be consistent and accessible Rico Ajax Menu This plugin will create a menu with tabs, accordions or pulldowns using Rico Ajax WP-Cartoon It adds a button to the TinyMCE Editor in your wordpress installation so that you can integrate the cartoon with one click on any page or post you like. The config page lets you choose the size of the cartoon image and the border thickness. The plugin comes with a widget to make it easy to integrate the cartoon on your sidebar. Website Monitoring This plugin integrates the user panel of website-monitoring.com with WordPress administration panel. After installation and giving the proper login and password, the uptime history (tables and charts) as well as service configurations are available in WordPress without the need to login separately. website-monitoring.com offers paid services. Updated Plugins Top 10 WordPress […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 03/28

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ET Starter Looking to create your own WordPress theme? Then ‘ET-Starter’ is the perfect theme for your project. GPeece The GPeece Real Estate Theme, clean style for a real estate site with the brandnew GPeece WordPress Theme theme, featuring a two column fixed theme layout, spiced up version of the GPeece 3.17 WordPress Theme, enabled with pagenavi, frontpage slider, options panel, related posts and custom search engine. Bleach Cute WordPress theme based on Bleach series. Ideal for Bleach fan sites as well as other anime sites.

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Scaling WordPress Part 1: Using MySQL Replication and HyperDB

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March 27th, 2010
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WordPress Tips

Everyone loves to get loads of traffic to their websites, however, websites get timed out or respond very slowly when many users try to access it at the same time. WordPress does a pretty good job of handling lots of users at once, however it in itself cannot help you manage all the traffic, and you need proper server setups and cache setup to scale to accommodate more users.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/26

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March 26th, 2010
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WordPress Plugins

New Plugins More Money Provides a unified and intuitive interface to manage multiple ad providers on your blog. Currently supported are Chitika, BidVertiser, Clicksor, and, of course, AdSense. Author Box and other plugins Adds an author box below text when viewing a single article. Other plugins on the page include sm00sh URL shrink, Shortie Urly and Shorten2List ComparePress Use ComparePress to quickly add and manage a full SEO price comparison system on your existing blog or web site for free and start earning £20 or $30 per sale rather than a few pence or cents for text based ads. Nofollow Archives Adds the “nofollow” rel attribute to archive links. Easy Links Easy links manager helps you manage your links and check its reciprocal through the admin backend. Updated Plugins AVH Amazon The AVH Amazon plugin gives you the ability to add multiple widgets which will display one or more random […]

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