Episode 23 of WordPress Weekly is now ready for your consumption. In this episode, Keith and I discuss the IntenseDebate acquisition and what that means for both WordPress.com and WordPress.org while also discussing the business aspects of the deal. We also give our thoughts on the developmental version of WordPress 2.7 thus far. We highlight the fact that there has been at least two differen UI surveys available to the public highlighting the increased awareness as well as end user participation into the final product. There is a major difference between the way the UI is being handled in terms of end user feedback between WordPress 2.5 and WordPress 2.7. Last but not least, Keith and I give you our plugin picks up the week. Stories Discussed On The Show: Automattic acquires IntenseDebate WordPress 2.7 – Tentatively Scheduled For Release On November 10th WordPress Usability Surveys: / Navigation Options / […]
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Desk Space Desk Space is a premium free and feature rich WordPress theme. It comes with a robust set of built in features and plugins, including the ability to switch out the background wood finish color to one you like. Spicy Typography Two column, widget ready, fast loading theme. Under Water Two column, Blue, White, Purple, Grey and Black widget, ready fixed width theme Simply Ornate Two column theme designed with the main focus being on patterns and typography and comes in 5 flavours.
[Continue Reading...]Revolution Theme Going Open Source: Brian Gardner’s Revolution Theme for WordPress is going 100% Open Source. All the themes that are currently on Brian’s Revolution site will no longer be available as or October 31st and will be replaced with a set of new themes that will be developed and released under the GPL. The original Revolution themes will continue to be supported for those who have purchased them in the past. The new GPL themes will also be sold in packages that include support, access to customizations, tutorials and other items. Brian explains his decision in the linked post, talks about his plans for the future of Revolution and explains why he chose to remove the original Revolution themes from his site. I have met Brian at various conferences and we have become friends. In our past discussions on valid and financially viable models for theme developers and designers […]
[Continue Reading...]WP Blurb Limit posts, pages, categories or your custom text. Limit the number of characters to what you like. You are calling the plugin function from your theme. Ajax Twitter This plugin is using the Twitter API to get and post the updates. WordPress MU Sitewide Tags This plugin creates a central blog where all the most recent posts on a WordPress MU site can be found. The number of posts is configurable and defaults to 5,000 posts. (Only for WordPress MU) WP Dockbar Wp Dockbar is a plugin developed for users of WordPress who are not very familiar with the use of javascript code, html and CSS. With Wp Dockbar will not be necessary edit html code, even for the inclusion of new buttons in dockbar. TDW Combobox Links Display links in a combobox. bbPress Live bbPress Live allows you to pull data from a bbPress 1.0 forum using […]
[Continue Reading...]StayPressed StayPressed is a free WordPress theme, with a double-column right hand-sidebar and a magazine style – kept simple, to let your blog content do the talking Case Case is a dark WordPress theme with blue accents. It has an Ajax box in the sidebar that allows you to switch between categories, tags, recent comments, and recent posts without reloading the page and without taking up a lot of space, which keeps your blog nice and clean. Iris Iris is a a two column WordPress theme with Iris like colors. The theme is mostly purple, with pink, and blue, with nice gradients and textures. It has nice rounded corners on every post to separate them and drive focus to the content. It is widget ready and ready to demo and download. Designredux Two column, black and white theme Jin Two column gravatar and widget ready theme with ability to post […]
[Continue Reading...]Matt Mullenweg #14 most influential on the web – BusinessWeek.: According to BusinessWeek, Matt Mullenweg is one of the 25 most influential people on the web. He shares the accolade with the likes of Steve Ballmer, Steve jobs, Joi Ito and Jon Stewart. At first I thought that this was a ranking much like the 50 most important people of the web from PC World but this appears to be more of a collection. Matt is labelled as “The Publisher” and WordPress as “the blogging service that most serious bloggers turn to”. The associated article is more about how the web is magnifying the influence of jon Stewart and others like him in engaging the American Public in online discourse about the political campaigns. Be sure to check out the whole slide show.
[Continue Reading...]G4B Photo Gallery G4B Photo Gallery is a free, flexible plugin for WordPress. It provides a simple and effective way to include a complete gallery anywhere on your site, just by typing in a keyword. Avatars for Comment Feeds It will allow you to add avatars or gravatars of comment-authors to the comment-feeds of your WordPress-blog. WP Mollom This is a plugin that brings the anti-spam power of Mollom to WordPress. WP-Mollom protects your website against comment and trackback spam. The difference with other spam services is that Mollom takes care of everything. The idea is to relieve you, the administrator, editor, maintainer,… of whatever moderation or clean up tasks you would normally need to perform in order to keep your blog spamfree. DashboardZone This plugin will help you and your readers to keep you on track for reaching your targets. We created this wordpress plugin that monitors the various […]
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Amazon Widget Shortcodes This plugin is made for you if you use Amazon Affiliate links (aka Amazon Associates, Amazon Partenaires etc.). comment2tweet comment2tweet is a WordPress plugin which will automatically post new comments from a WordPress blog to a twitter account. The comment posted to twitter will be an excerpt 140 characters long, and includes a short url link back to the comment. wpAFFI Simple and rapid technique to hide your affiliate links. Smart 404 Instead of quickly giving up when a visitor reaches a page that doesn’t exist, make an effort to guess what they were after in the first place. This plugin will perform a search of your posts, tags and categories, using keywords from the requested URL. If there’s a match, redirect to that page instead of showing the error. If there’s more than one match, the 404 template can use some template tags to provide […]
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WordPress 2.7 Comment Enhancements
Otto, who is a well known and respected member of the WordPress community has published a pretty cool article (WordPress 2.7 Comment Enhancements) which explains the various comment enhancements that have made it to the core of WordPress 2.7 thus far. Otto’s reasoning behind the post was to allow theme authors to gain a head start on creating themes which will be compatible with WordPress 2.7. One thing to keep in mind while reading this article is that, this information was compiled from using the latest developmental version of WordPress 2.7. This means things may not be set in stone with further additions or retractions possible before the initial release. Here are some of the enhancements that Otto covers: Creating a 2.7 compatible comments.php file Password protection check The comments loop The power of Ajax Styling Thanks Otto.
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