New plugins Dynamic Content Widget will render content (such as pages and posts), using a template in your theme. SwiftDynamicThumbs prevents WordPress from generating thumbnails registered by themes and plugins, and generates them dynamically when required. 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? Updated plugins BFT Autoresponder Lite is a sequential autoresponder which allows you to send automated email messages to users who subscribe to your mailing list. Category Listings outputs the most recent posts from the category of the post that is currently being displayed. Flexi Quote Rotator displays quotes, testimonials, or other rotating snippets of content. Front-end Editor enables “edit in place” functionality on your site. WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles […]
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Our recent post on WordPress 3.2’s plans generated some interesting discussion, with the bulk of it centered around the discontinuation of support for Internet Explorer 6 in the Dashboard. Internet Explorer 6, now almost ten years old, was once a power house in its own right. Now, the browser is drowning under its poor support for web standards, a pool of modern web technologies that it can never support, and a flood of hacks that many sites need to employ just to provide a decent browsing experience for IE 6 users. IE 6 was superseded by Internet Explorer 7 in 2006, followed by IE 8 in 2009, and recently IE 9 last week. Of course, alternatives to Internet Explorer, like Firefox, have been around much longer. According to Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer 6 Countdown, 12% of the world still uses the ten-year old browser. The highest concentration of IE 6 users […]
[Continue Reading...]Bangkoo is a free e-commerce theme designed with a furniture store in mind. Rion is a dark style BuddyPress theme with cufon custom fonts, flickr support, and an options panel. Se7en is a magazine style BuddyPress theme with custom fonts and a beautiful jQuery fullwidth slider.
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Genesis Simple Headers lets you use the WordPress Appearance -> Header functionality to upload a custom logo or header for your site using the Genesis Theme Framework. jQuery Slick Menu Widget creates sticky, sliding menu widgets from any standard WordPress custom menu using jQuery. User Spam Remover automatically removes spam user registrations and other old, never-used user accounts. It also blocks the notification e-mail that WordPress normally sends to the administrator whenever a new user registers and logs it instead. Updated plugins AVH Extended Categories Widgets gives you multiple widgets for displaying categories. One is a replacement of the default category widget to allow for greater customization. The second is a Top Categories widget, which is only available in WordPress 2.8 and higher, and there is a third for displaying a new option called Categories Groups. HubSpot for WordPress allows WordPress users to take advantage of HubSpot lead […]
[Continue Reading...]The plans have been laid for WordPress 3.2. In summary, this is going to be a much faster and lighter release with support dropped for long-outdated technologies. Here are the details: Faster Release Cycle – It’ll be here before you know it, or at least sooner than other releases have been. Faster and Lighter – With support for long-outdated technologies being dropped, this will be the fastest and lightest WordPress in quite some time. PHP 5.2.4 Required – The team will simply be dropping support for PHP 4, there won’t be very many new PHP 5 features added. MySQL 5 Required – Like above, the team will simply be dropping support for MySQL 4. IE6 EOL – No more fancy IE6-only hacks. The team will be officially discontinuing support for IE6 in the Dashboard and instead providing a “use a real browser” nag screen. New Fullscreen Editor – It’s time […]
[Continue Reading...]Azul is a really clean and modern free WordPress theme that comes with many premium-like features and a very clean-coded back-end. Ideal for all sorts of blogs. Lempong is a unique WordPress theme with a coin slider. tweaker3 is a theme specifically built for those who love tweaking their own themes. Open, clean and quick-loading design with a wide sidebar on the right. zeePersonal is a dark 2 column theme with great features, like Custom Logo, Custom Font Color via Colorpicker, Content Slider, and more.
[Continue Reading...]A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg was interviewed by John Battelle on Signal Austin. The discussion is quite broad, ranging from the supposed death of blogging, to Jetpack, to privacy and security. It’s actually a rather entertaining interview with some thought-provoking and honest answers to some tough questions.
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Category Listings outputs a list of posts enclosed in a set of DIV tags – the class for this DIV can be configured in the admin options. IE6 Countdown shows the IE6 countdown banner from Microsoft to visitors using IE6. Updated plugins AddThis allows any visitor to bookmark and share your site easily with many popular services. Vibe SEO Pack runs an SEO audit for each one of your posts or pages and suggests what should be improved for a better ranking. WP Customer Reviews allows your customers and visitors to leave reviews or testimonials of your services.
[Continue Reading...]Blogger, Google’s 11-year-old blogging platform, will be kicking it into high gear in 2011 with a few improvements. Premiered this year at SXSW, Blogger will be launching a completely overhauled user interface, putting to rest an interface that has begun to show its age. Following on its heels will be new mobile themes, and a new content discovery engine, “that lets you uncover interesting and related content based on the topics of the blog you’re currently reading.” Google promises that there will be more to come, but they are not ready to reveal anything else at this time. 2011 is starting to sound like a big year for the blogging giant, and it will certainly be interesting to see what comes of it.
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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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