It’s been almost a month since we asked for your 2011 blogging resolutions. Though the response was low, we did collect some solid data. The majority of commenters have made a resolution to blog more often, followed by a tie between finding a new theme and increasing integration with social networks. If posting more often is your thing, head on over to WordPress.com’s The Daily Post, where you can find new topics, challenges, and helpful musings every day as part of their Post a Day initiative. As for a new theme, finding free themes has never been easier or safer thanks to new changes made to the official Theme Directory. If social networking is your thing, try Simple Facebook Connect and Simple Twitter Connect. If you’re after better Facebook and Twitter integration, these plugins do just about everything. Well, what are you waiting for? Don’t wait too long on this […]
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New plugins Make Filename Lowercase sets uploaded media filenames to lowercase as a filter on sanitize_file_name. Hotfix provides fixes for selected WordPress bugs, so you don’t have to wait for the next WordPress core release. WP YOURLS Tweet sends status updates to Twitter when selected post types are published, and uses a custom YOURLS private URL shortener to generate a short URL for your post/page. Updated plugins Facebook Like for Tags allows you to automatically share to Facebook when posting new articles with specific tags or categories. WP-QuickLaTeX allows you to insert formulas and graphics in the posts and comments using native LaTeX shorthands directly in the text.
[Continue Reading...]The article How did WordPress win? has certainly been making its rounds the last two days, but all eyes seem to be (for the most part) on this comment by core developer Mark Jaquith, who sums up the state of WordPress security quite well. It sure is hard to avoid quoting the entire thing here, but here are a few key points: I haven’t seen an up-to-date WordPress install get directly exploited in around five years. Seriously. Every time I investigate a compromised WordPress install, it is either because they were running an old version (usually not just a little bit old, but really old), or because their web host was compromised. […] When you’re paying $5 a month for hosting, three things will usually suffer: Stability, Security, and Support. […] Two big priorities right now are: (a) making it super easy to stay up-to-date and (b) pushing web hosts […]
[Continue Reading...]Bamboo is 1000px wide with 1 column. It comes with 9 widget areas and about 40 theme options. Weaver allows you to make your theme look just how you want by starting with one of over 20 predefined themes. Use the simple “check-box” interface to easily change colors, fonts, header and footer, menus, sidebars, theme width, and much more. XS comes with pretty much every feature you will need (except that which there are great plugins for) for a cool news or regular style blog. XS includes many premium-like features and a theme panel for easy deactivation of main site elements.
[Continue Reading...]A tiny bug made its way into the recent release of WordPress 3.0.5. The release did fix the security issue that it was intended to fix, but it was a bit overzealous and “stripped advanced HTML (on display, not save, thankfully) from comments by people with the unfiltered_html capability.” This particular bug has been deemed a rare case, and the developers would prefer to focus on 3.1 than release yet another 3.0.x update, but they were able to sneak a hotfix for the bug into the latest release of Akismet (2.5.3). A new plugin, appropriately titled Hotfix has also been released to fix this particular bug and select future bugs as they pop up, “so you don’t have to wait for the next WordPress core release.” Think of it as a dedicated plugin for minor WordPress updates.
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Amazon Express allows you to easily insert Amazon Associates links and Amazon product images, including images of book covers, into your WordPress posts. YoutubeNails creates a dynamic gallery of thumbnails of each post with YouTube videos displayed on the content linked to the post permalink. Updated plugins CleanCodeNZ Exclude Pages allows you to define the custom field to be attached to a page to be excluded from navigation and(or) search results. DukaPress is an open source and free to use e-commerce platform. Easy ReTweet is a WordPress Plugin which lets you add retweet or Tweet this buttons for your WordPress posts, together with the retweet count. Simple Footnotes allows you to create simple, elegant footnotes on your site. Use the [ref] shortcode and the plugin takes care of the rest. Twitter Avatar Reloaded adds a new field to the comment form for the user’s Twitter username and uses […]
[Continue Reading...]WordPress 3.0.5 and 3.1-RC4 have been released. Both releases address three security issues and add additional security enhancements, and 3.1-RC4 fixes “about two dozen additional bugs.” Both updates are available immediately via your Dashboard, but users updating to 3.0.5 will need to update to the latest release of Akismet again. Core developer Andrew Nacin hopes to minimize “the Akismet update dance” in WordPress 3.1 and put an end to it in WordPress 3.2.
[Continue Reading...]Begi is a clean, minimal and highly customizable WordPress e-commerce theme. NicheWP is a two-column WordPress theme with an elegant design and search engine and Adsense optimization. THAT Live Music is perfect for music bloggers and music news websites. Torn is a visually exciting WordPress theme with the Navigation bar and Header image tearing on to the screen after opening the page.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress.com has just launched their premium theme store, bringing premium theme developers and the first two of hopefully many premium themes to over 17 million WordPress.com blogs. Previously, WordPress.com users were limited to just over a hundred free themes with no ability to upload their own, thus cutting them off from the premium theme market. Now, premium theme developers have a chance to cash in on “the other WordPress” users. WordPress.com is starting their premium theme offerings with Headlines for $45 (available to self-hosted WordPress users for $70 with two “bonus” themes) and Shelf for $68 (also available to self-hosted WordPress users for $68). WordPress.com plans to increase their free and premium theme offerings “in a big way” this year, so this is definitely shaping up to be a game-changer in the premium theme market. (Disclosure: I also work at Automattic.)
[Continue Reading...]About the Author
- 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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