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What to Expect in BuddyPress 1.5

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August 24th, 2011
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BuddyPress has been quickly moving to a major update in version 1.5. There have been hundreds of bug fixes, and steps have been takes to make BuddyPress 1.5 much more efficient and secure than its predecessor, but what are the noticeable changes that users can look forward to? Lead BuddyPress developer John James Jacoby took some time at this year’s WordCamp San Francisco to share what’s new in BuddyPress 1.5.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 8/23

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August 23rd, 2011
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New plugins Domain Name & Path Fixer can be used to fix broken links and image paths following a change in your domain name or WordPress path. Gallery Extended allows you to put a specific part of the gallery in a post using start and stop attributes. Insert AdSense allows you to insert ads in your post at the place of your choice in a single click. Updated plugins Benchmark Email Lite creates a newsletter signup form widget. Header Image Slider allows you to easily build a slider of your header images. UI Labs offers experimental WordPress admin UI features with the aim of building upon and enhancing the default WordPress User Interface. These are unofficial core UI experiments – who knows what could happen?

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WordPress Theme Releases for 8/21

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Black skyline is a black-based theme with custom menu, custom header, and post thumbnail support. Blocks is a vivid, colorful and very cheerful theme that will suit any blog or website. Green Hope is a fast and easy-to-browse green-based theme.

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WordPress Survey Data Made Available

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August 20th, 2011
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If you’re the kind of person who loves playing with statistics over the weekend, you’re going to love this! The anonymous results from the survey mentioned in this year’s State of the Word have been made available. There’s a lot of fascinating info to collect from the data. The piece that interests me the most is already detailed in the post itself: 6,800 self-employed respondents were responsible for over 170,000 sites personally, and charged a median hourly rate of $50 . . . If each site took only 3 hours to make, that’s $29.5M of work at the average hourly rate. Yes, that’s an impressive amount of money to be generated by folks using a free blogging platform. Which fascinating stats were you able to collect?

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 8/19

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August 19th, 2011
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New plugins Color Manager adds an option panel to the front-page which enables your client or theme users to pick the colors and see the results live in the page. Social Media Tabs allows you to add facebook, google +1, buzz, twitter and RSS profiles and feeds to any widget area with stylish sliding tabs. WordPress Snap is a simple shortcode for displaying a thumbnail from any website. Updated plugins Humans TXT allows you to credit the people behind your website in your humans.txt file. Slick Social Share Buttons adds facebook, twitter, google +1, linkedin, digg, google buzz, and stumbledupon social media buttons in a floating or slide out tab. Top 10 tracks daily and total visits on your blog posts and displays the count as well as popular posts. TwitterCounter integrates TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog to display the number of followers you have on Twitter.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 8/17

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Basically is a simple and clean theme which comes with custom menu, custom header background, custom body background, thumbnail, adsense spot ready, breadcrumbs ready and a custom logo & favicon uploader. Mocha Latte is a beautiful, neutral coffee theme in brown, cream and beige. SimpleMarket is a html5 responsive theme with a simple design to compliment content.

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The State of the Word in 2011

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August 16th, 2011
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The State of the Word is given each year at WordCamp San Francisco. It’s basically an address to the entire WordPress community from Matt Mullenweg, sharing some favorite moments from WordPress’s past and some looks into its future, and this year’s State of the Word did not disappoint. Fortunately, the video was published rather quickly this year, so those of you who missed it can enjoy it now. Here are some highlights in no particular order: A survey was issued to the community, and out of 18,000 responses, 2,800 make their living through WordPress, and consultants charge an average of $58 per hour. This year, 22% of newly registered domains are running WordPress. Future versions will include a responsive admin interface which resizes perfectly on all screen sizes, even smart phones. Drag-and-drop media uploads are planned for a future version. Upcoming releases will feature a more guided experience for new […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 8/15

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August 15th, 2011
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New plugins Social allows you to broadcast posts to Twitter and/or Facebook, pull in items from each as comments, and allow commenters to use their Twitter/Facebook identities. Social Graph Protocol is a quick and easy way for you to integrate all of your websites content into the open graph developed by Facebook. Updated plugins Adsense Float shows Google AdSense ads at a prominent position on your site, which maximizes the CTR and revenue of your site. Ban Hammer prevents people from registering with any email that is listed under your comment moderation blacklist. Easy Modal allows you to easily add a Modal window with just about any content.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 8/13

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Minimal is a warm gold, basically simple, professional theme that would be ideal for blogs or websites of any kind. Radio is a clean, shiny, and perfect for blogs or websites related to radio, broadcasting, news, public speaking, etc. San Kloud is a blogging theme focused on typography and content. Twenty Eleven AJAX is an AJAX-powered Twenty Eleven child theme.

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