New plugins Special Recent Posts is a simple but very powerful plugin/widget for WordPress which displays your recent posts with thumbnails. W4 Post List allows you to create a list of your categories, posts, or category posts, and show it on your site’s widget area, post, or page content area by shortcode. Updated plugins WP-reCAPTCHA integrates reCAPTCHA anti-spam methods with WordPress including comment, registration, and email spam protection.
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Content is all about showcasing your content prominently with little distraction. Galileo is a free WordPress theme with 3 columns and an options page where you can insert adsense for the header ad, change the RSS link and add Google Analytics to the header. HTML5Press is an HTLM5 and CSS3 theme with featured images, menu and widget support, and threaded comments. TwentyTen Allure combines the latest WordPress technology available with a clear and eye catching design. Varg is a dark wolf theme with 3 columns.
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Some impressive stats came out of the WordPress camp recently. Apparently, almost 20,000 users of the WordPress.org Support Forums have checked “I make my living using WordPress” in their profile. 20,000 is a large number for people making a living off of a free blogging platform! Do you make a living with WordPress? If so, we’d love to hear about it!
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New plugins BadPass-WP will test over 500 commonly used passwords against the logged in user’s account and display a warning bar at the top of the page if a match is found. Simple Top Commenters Widget allows you to to show a simple list of the top commenters on your blog. Updated plugins CloudFlare ensures your WordPress blog is running optimally on the CloudFlare platform. RSS Video Embed adds a video embed shortcode that can be intelligently interpreted by your community’s RSS Feed Readers with a graceful fall-back link to the post.
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John Young contacted us via our shiny new Plugin Review form and asked for our thoughts on the best YouTube embedding plugin for WordPress out of Youtuber, Youtube Embedder, and WP YouTube Player. As this is a comparison request, I’m going to approach from less of a review angle, and more of a well . . . a comparison. Fortunately, the subject of which YouTube plugin to use is relatively easy. YouTube embeds have been built-into WordPress for quite some time. All you need to do is paste the YouTube URL into your post and WordPress takes care of the rest. So the question is, “Which plugin gives you more than a standard embed?” Right off the bat, I’m going to take Youtube Embedder out of the running. It hasn’t been updated in over a year, lists its compatibility as up to WordPress 2.9.2 only, and doesn’t do much more […]
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The Bible is a Bible-themed 2-column theme, available in narrow and medium varieties. Retro-fitted is a fun blogging theme that’s perfect for the spring and summer months. It supports WordPress nav menus, has several widget areas, and allows per-post layouts (one, two, and three-column options). Rose Garden is a grey-based 3-column theme, available in medium and wide varieties. SpinnyLite is a wood-textured WordPress theme with 125×125 ads, featured posts, threaded comments and twitter support.
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You may know that the WordPress Theme Review Team is responsible for keeping the official theme directory free of malware, sponsored themes, and other such junk, but did you know that the team is staffed entirely by volunteers? Former Theme Review Team skeptic Justin Tadlock recently joined the team, and took the time to share a few words on why you should consider joining as well. If you’re interested, the team is always looking for a few new volunteers.
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New plugins ImageShare adds social bookmarking buttons to images in your blog posts. Javascript Flickr Badge uses pure javascript to place a Flickr badge in your widget-enabled sidebar to display recent photos. Post UI Tabs allows you to create jQuery tabs inside your posts, pages or post types using simple shortcodes inside the post editor. Updated plugins IE6 Upgrade Option displays a warning message, simply and politely informing the user that their browser is out of date while providing links to download newer, more optimal browser choices. jQuery Vertical Mega Menu allows you to quickly and easily create vertical mega menus from any WordPress custom menu.
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Theme Releases for 4/15
A week ago, we asked if you’d be interested in seeing a few plugin reviews from us. I’m happy to say that the response was overwhelmingly positive. As of today, 96.97% said “Of course I would!” and only 3.03% said “Yawn, boring!” With that said, the new plugin review submission form is ready to go! Is there a plugin that you’d like reviewed? Maybe you aren’t sure if it’s the right plugin for you, or maybe you want to know how it stacks up against the competition? Well, please let us know, and we just might review it! Please note that this is a service for the readers of Weblog Tools Collection. Developer-submitted review requests will be discarded. Well, what are you waiting for? Let’s get some reviews lined up!
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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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