New plugins CleanCodeNZ Exclude Pages Plugin hides pages from navigation or other purposes using custom fields. CleanCodeNZ Favorite Posts Plugin uses Google Analytics API to get the stats of favorite posts of your WordPress blogs and list them in a table. Custom Metadata Manager provides an easy way to add custom fields to your object types Updated plugins AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features. Events Manager is a full-featured event management solution for WordPress. GD Star Rating allows you to set up a rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. Update: There is currently a problem with the official plugin directory where some plugin […]
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There are thousands of themes available for WordPress. Today, the largest collection of WordPress themes can still be found through the official Theme Directory and its Tag Filter, but two new directories have brought some new concepts to the plate when it comes to finding your next WordPress theme. WPCandy’s Theme Finder offers an elimination-style overview of available themes utilizing color, number of columns, and price (free v.s paid) as factors. Theme Garden’s Layout Browser offers a very comprehensive directory of themes based strictly on layout. While WPCandy’s Theme Finder is filled with mostly premium themes and Theme Garden’s Layout Browser is restricted solely to their theme marketplace, the two bring something new to a field that was long thought to be well saturated by the official Theme Directory. What do you think of these new theme directories? Do you think that some of these features should be added to […]
[Continue Reading...]Blogum is a simple, grid based WordPress theme, designed in a modern and minimalist style. Clear Line is a clear and very lightweight theme. Codium is simple and minimalist, but fully customizable: change the background color, incorporate a background image, and add automatic post thumbnails on the homepage. DocOut Historical is a child theme of the default Twenty Ten theme with a great document outline. Fresh and Clean is a super minimal yet very elegant and modern WordPress theme.
[Continue Reading...]Work is well underway on WordPress 3.1 and a quick update detailing the status of some of the new features as we approach the November 1st code freeze has been posted. The following features will more than likely be included in WordPress 3.1: Post Formats – “Allow denoting a post as a certain format. Some example formats are aside, gallery, link, quote. This will allow themes to style these posts according to format.” (ready to go, awaiting decision to include a UI that themes can enable) Theme Search/Filter – “Lift some of the search and browse ideas from the WordPress.com themes.php.” (still in first draft) Internal linking – “. . . you click a button for an internal link . . . and it allows you to search for a post or browse a list of existing content by title, date, author, etc. and select it for inclusion.” (patch provided) […]
[Continue Reading...]Today is Blog Action Day 2010, and this year’s topic is water. To many of us, water is a commonplace item. We don’t have to walk for miles for a simple drink of water or risk our lives with every sip, yet over 800 people world-wide have no access to clean water, and over 3 million people succumb to water-related diseases every year. Organizations like Charity: Water, Children’s Safe Drinking Water, and Water.org are collecting donations to provide wells and water filtration to communities around the world, so wouldn’t it be nice if you could set a fundraising goal on your WordPress blog and share the experience with your readers? Tracking your fundraising progress on your own blog is incredibly easy thanks to ChipIn. Just register for a free account and create a new event. Once your event has been setup, click the “Create Widgets Now” button. Customize your widget […]
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Drafts Scheduler will schedule all of your drafts to be published at some time in the future. Ultimate Post Type Manager is an easy to use custom post type manager. WordPress SEO is an all in one solution to search engine optimize your WordPress blog, featuring titles, meta descriptions, optimized breadcrumbs, and XML sitemaps. WordPress Twitter Forums places a unique floating Twitter Forums button on the right edge of your WordPress Blog that expands with an animated slide-in effect to reveal a Retweet@ Twitter powered forum. Updated plugins Inline Quote Tag adds a button to the WordPress Visual editor to add an inline quote tag. Register Plus Redux enhances the user registration process with complete customization and additional administration options. swfObject Reloaded allows easy embedding and better management of swf files. WP System Health provides a comprehensive overview of your WordPress parameter and server performance.
[Continue Reading...]Like any web platform, application, or operating system, WordPress can be hit by sudden unexpected problems. Fortunately, general troubleshooting is easy and will usually reveal the source of (and sometimes fix) most problems. Before we continue to general troubleshooting, there are a few popular cases that have relatively specific fixes. If you’re seeing a blank white screen, consult WordPress and the White Screen of Death. If you’re seeing “Fatal error: Allowed memory size,” consult WordPress and the Fatal Memory Error. If you’re seeing an internal server error or error 500, consult WordPress and the Internal Server Error. And, if you’re seeing a headers already sent warning, consult WordPress and the Headers Already Sent Warning. As you can probably guess from the articles linked to above, many sudden WordPress problems can be traced back to plugins, themes, or corrupt core files. If your problem is not directly related to one of […]
[Continue Reading...]Constellation is an assemblage of awesome resources, put together to form an extremely flexible WordPress foundation. My Theme with Grass and Dew is a beautiful green and white simple theme for WordPress. My Lovely Theme is a beautiful pink, black, red, and white simple theme for WordPress. SimpleDark is a dark right-sidebar theme.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress.com has just launched a new text messaging feature. Users can now do a variety of blog management tasks via the new 77377 (PRESS) short code. By simply activating the service at Settings/Text Messaging in your admin panel, you can receive notifications when users are added or removed, and when the theme and privacy settings have changed. Users who choose to upgrade the service for only $20/year will be able to add extra protection to their blog via an SMS-enabled two-step login process, receive new comment notifications with the ability to moderate or reply via text message, receive new post notifications, and publish a post of 160 characters or less. This feature is only available in the USA, though the WordPress.com team will look into expanding the service to other countries if the feature proves popular enough. As always, standard text messaging and data rates apply. What do you think of […]
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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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