jQuery Mobile is perfect for those who want to make a good looking and easy to read version of their blog and guarantees an optimal ease of reading on mobile devices such as the iPhone, Blackberries or Android. (designed for use with a plugin like WP Mobile Detector) OpenBook is a “magazine” theme with nice features such as column display, news slider and drop-down menu. Red Christmas is a holiday, minimalistic two-column, fixed-width, widget-ready, and seo optimized red theme. Snippet is a Thematic child theme. It is simple, clean, and perfect for developers who want to show some code.
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It seems like just last month when we were celebrating Andrew Nacin’s first full year of WordPress contributions. Like any good athlete with a solid year under his belt, Andrew Nacin has just been acquired, by Matt Mullenweg himself. Nacin now has his dream job. He will be working alongside Otto Wood as a Tech Ninja at Mullenweg’s Audrey Capital. His job? To continue his work as a WordPress core developer on a full-time basis and also contribute to the WordPress.org site, bbPress, BuddyPress, and GlotPress. Nacin has certainly made an impact during his rise through the WordPress community, and we wish him the best in his new adventure. The future of WordPress certainly feels more secure than ever before.
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New plugins Ad Injection allows you to inject any kind of adverts into the existing content of your pages, without you having to change your existing pages. CleanAdmin is a clean and relaxing custom admin style. Updated plugins Akismet filters out your comment and track-back spam for you, so you can focus on more important things. All in One Webmaster has options to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahoo’s Webmaster and Analytics code (meta tags). CleanCodeNZ Exclude Page hides pages from navigation or other purposes using custom fields. DukaPress is an open source and free to use e-commerce platform. DynamicWP Contact Form adds a collapsable AJAX contact form to the side of your site. Facebook Members enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website. Ultimate Taxonomy Manager is an easy to use taxonomy manager with a great UI.
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The aspect of community-powered support is definitely one of that factors that has lead to the popularity of WordPress, but despite millions of users, only a handful regularly volunteer in the support forums. How can you support WordPress? What kind of questions will you encounter? What if you aren’t an expert? These just a few of the questions that Automattic Happiness Engineer Sheri Bigelow answers in her WordCamp Portland 2010 session, How to Support WordPress. I became a volunteer in the WordPress Support Forums six years ago, one week after installing WordPress. I was what some would call a “n00b,” but while I was waiting for an answer to my question, I noticed a few installation questions that I could answer. Fast-forward six years later, and everything that I know about WordPress today was learned from answering questions on the WordPress Support Forums. If a lack of knowledge is preventing […]
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Emporium is a two column theme for WordPress and the eShop plugin. Valentine is a modern style css3 layout, with a fixed header and footer, and embedded fonts.
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WordPress is certainly the most popular open source blogging platform, but how are development decisions made? You may have heard that WordPress is a democracy, that Matt Mullenweg makes all the decisions, or that Automattic governs the development of WordPress. Of course, neither of those are true. WordPress is actually a Meritocracy. It’s really quite simple and efficient, but the more you contribute to WordPress, the more weight your opinions carry when it comes time to make decisions. Probably the best example of this is Andrew Nacin. When Nacin began contributing to WordPress, he could only submit his bug fixes and enhancements for review. After showing his commitment to the WordPress community over three months and a hundred patches, Nacin was asked to be a core developer. Now, Nacin’s bug fixes and enhancements go right to the core. I could write pages upon pages describing how everything works, but I’d certainly […]
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New plugins Snow Storm displays falling snow flakes on the front of your WordPress website for a festive presentation. WordPress Gzip Compression enables gzip-compression if the visitor’s browser can handle it. This will speed up your WordPress website drastically and reduces bandwidth usage. Updated plugins Easy FancyBox enables the FancyBox 1.3.4 jQuery extension on all image, SWF, YouTube and Vimeo links. WordPress SEO is the most complete all in one SEO solution for your WordPress blog.
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WordPress 3.0.2, the first mandatory security update in quite a while, was released not too long ago. The update patched an exploit which allowed an Author-level users to gain access to the site well above their user level, but the real story here is the overall efficiency of the volunteer developers. With a team unpaid volunteers keeping WordPress in tip-top shape, you might be surprised to hear that this particular update went from initial disclosure of the exploit to final release in no more than four hours! That particular time frame is almost unheard of, even amongst commercial projects. To further sweeten the pot, the VaultPress team automatically pushed a hotfix the next day to all VaultPress-enabled blogs, ensuring that all VaultPress users were protected from the exploit, even if they had not had a chance to apply the 3.0.2 update. With such an efficient team of volunteer developers, and […]
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Atmosphere 2010 is a simple but pleasant two column narrow theme, based on the atmosphere theme published back in 2007. Liquorice is a simple and clean vintage looking theme build on Google’s font API Lobster font. tweaker2 is a theme especially built for those who love tweaking their own themes.
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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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