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Distraction Free Writing is Coming to WordPress

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May 4th, 2011
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A new distraction free writing mode has made its way into the WordPress trunk for the upcoming 3.2 release. As the name implies, the goal is to create a simple screen that pretty much displays nothing but the text you type, though further options can revealed simply by moving your mouse. If you’re running WordPress on the bleeding edge, we’d love to hear what you think! If you’re sticking with the stable release, like most of us, check out these handy screenshots from Automattician Stephane Daury.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 5/3

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May 3rd, 2011
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New plugins CataBlog allows you to catalog pretty much anything you would want and share it through your blog in a simple but elegant gallery. Floating Menu creates a widget, which adds a floating, sticky, drop down menu from any standard WordPress custom menu using jQuery. Updated plugins Front-end Editor lets you make changes to your content directly from your site. No need to load the admin backend just to correct a typo. Mute Screamer uses PHPIDS to detect attacks on your WordPress site and react in a way that you choose.

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WordPress and the Lost Password

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May 2nd, 2011
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So, you’re on your way to write you latest blog masterpiece, but are shocked to find out that you can no longer log in to your WordPress blog. The password isn’t “password” like you had remembered, and the piece of paper that you wrote it on was washed with your pants last week. What can you do? The easiest way to reset your password is with the “Lost your password?” link under your blog’s log in form. This will send a password reset email to the email address in your user profile, so be sure to keep that up to date. What if the email never arrives, or you’ve lost access to the email address in question? Fortunately, there are plenty of alternative ways to reset your password covered in this Codex article. Most hosting providers offer phpMyAdmin via their control panel, and I have often found the phpMyAdmin method […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 5/1

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May 1st, 2011
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Blue Green Blast is an attractive theme that uses a complimentary blue-green and red-orange color scheme. Daily Journal is great for a professional yet artistically bent website. Magz features a cool and modern dark UI design with some great textures and premium like features. TwentyTen Tech was designed for tech news or tech review WordPress powered websites. Yoko is a modern three-column blog theme. A responsive layout optimizes the theme for mobile devices like tablet pcs and smartphones (the layout switches to a two- or one-column layout depending on the screen size the theme is viewed on).

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 4/29

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April 29th, 2011
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New plugins Search Integrate allows you to add sponsored results to your site search and gain valuable insight into user search behavior. SweetCaptcha offers a cute and interactive CAPTCHA, consisting of a question the user needs to answer by dragging the correct answer. Updated plugins Amazon Tools allows you to retrieve and display Amazon product information in your blog. Jetpack supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.

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WordPress Developers Calling for CSS Help

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April 28th, 2011
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With the veil of Internet Explorer 6 now lifted, WordPress will be receiving a major CSS overhaul for version 3.3, and the developers are asking for your help, advice, and opinions. The goal of the project is not to change the existing design, but to rather consolidate and simplify the existing CSS to allow for easy expansion and alteration in the future. If you can offer your skills to this project, I’m sure the developers and future WordPress 3.3 users will be much appreciative.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 4/27

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April 27th, 2011
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Slim comes with unlimited color options via a powerful admin panel with a built-in color picker. It also has an awesome rotating header image using the Cycle plugin. Tabula Rosa is a minimal theme with jQuery gallery implementation, sliding menus, and some other cool stuff. Translucent has a smooth and sleek look with very few hard edges and transitions.

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WordPress 3.1.2 Released

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April 26th, 2011
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WordPress 3.1.2 has been released and “addresses a vulnerability that allowed Contributor-level users to improperly publish posts,” while also fixing a few bugs. You should be able to upgrade automatically from the Dashboard -> Updates section of your blog’s Dashboard, but you can also upgrade manually if you run into trouble.

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WordPress GSoC Students and Projects Announced

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April 26th, 2011
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The students and projects for WordPress’s portion of Google Summer of Code 2011 have been announced. The students will be working with well-known community mentors on documentation revisions, file uploader enhancements, “Local Storage Drafts backup,” learn.wordpress.org (possibly similar to learn.wordpress.com), “enhanced emails,” threaded comment enhancements, “Extending WP Webservices,” additional language packs and enhancements to existing packs, UI improvements for the Android app, “Full-throttle Trac Annihilation” (clearing as many trac tickets as possible), “WordPress Move,” and “Template Versioning.” Congratulations to those of you who made it in this year, and we look forward to seeing what you bring to WordPress!

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