New plugins My Sites Widget displays a list of sites that the current user has access to. Slick Social Share Buttons allows you to add Facebook, Twitter, Google +1, LinkedIn, and StumbledUpon social media buttons in a floating or slide out tab. Updated plugins Category Checklist Tree is a small plugin that preserves the category hierarchy in the post editing screen. Front-end Editor is a plugin that allows you to edit content inline, using the state of the art Aloha “WYSIWYG” Editor. Tallyopia Analytics provides analytics that you can embed into your site using shortcodes or view in your admin dashboard. WP Customer Reviews allows your customers and visitors to leave reviews or testimonials of your services. WP Social Blogroll adds a social blogroll to your blog. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin displays a list of related entries on your site and feeds based on a unique algorithm.
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WordCamp San Francisco is often heralded as the largest WordCamp and sometimes considered to be more of an annual WordPress convention, and there are certainly a ton of people attending this year. If you’re one of the many joining in, an impressive list of speakers, and a program for all three days have been posted. There will be plenty to do this year, and if you’re a plugin developer, you may want to take advantage of the Plugin Security Showdown while you still can. Tickets are mostly sold out, but there do seem to be a few microsponsorship tickets available, and walk-in ticket purchases will be welcome until occupancy is reached. If you can’t make it out to San Francisco this year, there are plenty of WordCamps happening soon elsewhere, including Los Angeles and Salt Lake City.
[Continue Reading...]Perdana has a white background and border that gives a shadow effect. zeeBusiness is a two column theme in an elegant and bold design with strong colors.
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Header Image Slider allows you to easily build a slider of your header images. Most Shared allows you to display, as a widget, which of your blog posts have the most social shares. Updated plugins Jetpack supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com. Theme-Check allows you to run checks on the current theme before uploading to WordPress. This plugin uses the same API and is kept more or less in sync with the WordPress.org uploader tool. 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?
[Continue Reading...]The second beta of BuddyPress 1.5 has been released. BuddyPress development is definitely on the fast track, as this comes just 5 days after the release of the first beta, which addressed almost 500 bugs. Considering the amount of bug fixes, the plan to release the final at the end of this month, and the overall speed of the development releases, plugin and theme developers should definitely start testing their products against the BuddyPress 1.5 betas as soon as possible.
[Continue Reading...]PressWork is a free, open source theme framework built using HTML5 and CSS3. Secondary is BuddyPress-enabled theme featuring a three column fluid layout and a theme options panel. Solitude is BuddyPress-enabled theme featuring a two column fixed layout with a jQuery powered slider for the frontpage.
[Continue Reading...]A zero day vulnerability has been found in TimThumb, a popular image resizing script used by several WordPress themes. The person who discovered the vulnerability has issued a fix and instructions to detect any lingering hacks. As described on the VaultPress blog, “The vulnerability allows third parties to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code in the TimThumb cache directory. Once the PHP code has been uploaded and executed, your site can be compromised however the attacker likes.” The folks at Sucuri have constructed a great list of just a few affected WordPress themes, just to give you idea of how many themes use TimThumb. If your theme uses TimThumb, contact your theme author for an update immediately, or download the latest version if it has already been updated. If your theme author is not willing to offer an update, it’s probably time for a new theme, but you can also […]
[Continue Reading...]New plugins IE6Countdown will automatically add the Internet Explorer 6 Countdown code which alerts IE6 users they need to upgrade. Requires no theme modification, just simple plug and play. Updated plugins BackWPup allows you to backup your WordPress database, files, and more. Viper’s Video Quicktags allows you to simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed and much more.
[Continue Reading...]Tickets are going quickly for this year’s WordCamp San Francisco, an event which is often heralded as the annual WordPress conference. If you haven’t bought your tickets yet, now is most definitely the time to do so. Will you be attending WCSF 2011? If so, who are you the most exited to see?
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- 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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