New plugins Headline Split Tester allows you to enter an alternate headline for every post on your blog. (review) WP Original Source adds a source attribution meta tag, introduced by Google, to single posts and the page header, and adds your permalink to the source attribution meta tag if external urls are not defined. Updated plugins Posts 2 Posts allows you to create many-to-many relationships between posts of all types. Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to regenerate the thumbnails for all of your image attachments. WP Super Cache generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog.
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The WordPress.com theme team will be retiring the sorely out of date PressRow theme in favor of the new Pilcrow theme. The new Pilcrow theme is incredibly similar in style to PressRow, but supports all WordPress 3 feature, like custom menus and featured images, and boasts six layout configurations and four color schemes. Those of you who use Custom CSS along with the PressRow theme, may be interested in this very short list of CSS differences in Pilcrow. PressRow will be officially phased out next week, but Pilcrow is available in the Appearance section of your WordPress.com blog’s Dashboard if you’d like to switch to it or try it out before that happens. Pilcrow will soon be available to self-hosted WordPress users via the official theme directory. Are you a PressRow user? What do you think of the new Pilcrow theme?
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Fresh Ink Magazine gives your blog the polished look of a high-quality magazine fresh from the press. Scarf is a portfolio-style, two-column fluid layout, enabled with custom fonts, and a beautiful jQuery fullwidth slider. Techrey is a sleek clean theme with a full-fledged options panel and a white and silver color scheme.
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WordPress has officially won the 2010 Open Source Hall of Fame CMS Award. WordPress initially tied with Drupal for first place, but an extra independent judge was brought in to give the winning vote. For those of who think that WordPress can’t be anything more than just a blogging platform, stop by the CMS section of the official Showcase for some great examples of WordPress used as a CMS. Do you use WordPress for more than just a blog? If so, we’d love to see it.
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New plugins Magic Gallery is a complete gallery solution for WordPress. MembersBlog allows you to lock down your blog to members only. Video Thumbnails makes it simple to display video thumbnails from embedded videos in your templates. Updated plugins All in One SEO Pack automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines. Fast Secure Contact Form lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message and blocks all common spammer tactics. Theme-Check allows you to run checks on the current theme before uploading to WordPress. This plugin uses the same API and is kept more or less in sync with the WordPress.org uploader tool. wpStoreCart is a full featured e-commerce platform built atop of WordPress.
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Now you can try some of the latest and greatest WordPress 3.1 features without having to upgrade your own blog to the alpha release. All you need is a free blog from WordPress.com. The WordPress.com team has just merged all of WordPress.com with the 3.1 branch. Not only will WordPress.com users have access to new features like internal linking, improved Dashboard pagination, and Dashboard column sorting, but the WordPress 3.1 branch has just gained well over a million beta testers! If you can’t wait to try WordPress 3.1, get a free WordPress.com blog today and don’t be afraid to contact the Happiness Engineers if you find any bugs. Do you have a blog on WordPress.com? What do you think of the new features?
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Big Square is a clean, tidy, and elegant photoblog theme. Cleanfrog is a simple, clean and sharp theme. It’s eye-catching design is vibrant yet light on images so page loads should be nice and fast. Jenny is a premium-quality, free theme handcrafted to perfection with focus on even minute details. This two-column, multiple-colour, fixed-width minimal theme puts great emphasis on typography.
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Yesterday, Andrew Nacin celebrated his first full year of WordPress contributions. To quote Nacin, “It’s been one hell of a ride, and I don’t intend to slow down.” Nacin’s WordPress career began on November 16th of 2009 with an almost insignificant twelve-character patch. Just three months and about a hundred patches later, Nacin was asked to become a WordPress core developer. Fast-forward to today, Nacin is one of the most recognized core developers with about seven hundred contributions and six WordCamp presentations under his name. When not contributing to WordPress, Nacin can often be found blogging about WordPress, tweeting about WordPress, publicly speaking about WordPress, supporting WordPress, editing a book on WordPress plugin development, working on the WordPress Core Contributor Handbook, and dodging a humorous onslaught of #blamenacin tweets. So, how did Nacin learn to contribute to WordPress? I learn first by reading, and second by doing. If you want […]
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New plugins Custom Post Widget allows you to display the content of a custom post type called Content Block in a sidebar widget. Gecka Submenu allows you to put menus or potions of menus anywhere in your site: sidebar, templates or page contents. Shuffle modifies and improves your Media Library in a number of ways. Updated plugins All in One Webmaster has options to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahoo’s Webmaster and Analytics code (meta tags). AVH Extended Categories gives you two 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. SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without having to escape the code or anything. As seen on WordPress.com. WP Social Blogroll provides a sidebar widget and a template tag that adds an enhanced blogroll to your […]
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