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WordPress and the Uneditable Theme Templates

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April 14th, 2011
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So, you have a plugin requiring that you make a change to one of your WordPress theme templates, or you just want move something around in your theme or alter your CSS. You’ve arrived at Appearance -> Editor as instructed, but there’s no “Update File” button. This is unfortunately another one of those common annoyances related to your hosting provider’s server configuration that can take you off guard and lead to plenty of confusion. Fortunately, it’s easy to fix (or work around). Try changing the permissions of the theme files that you want to edit to 666. If that doesn’t work, just use an FTP or SFTP client and a plain text editor to edit them remotely. Of course, if neither of those methods are working out for you, please stop by the WordPress Support Forums for further assistance.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 4/13

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April 13th, 2011
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New plugins Foursquare Latest Checkins allows you to show your recent Foursquare checkins and the venue icon as a Widget in your blog’s sidebar. WP Static HTML Output produces a static HTML version of your WordPress install, incredibly useful for anyone who would like the publishing power of WordPress but whose webhost doesn’t allow dynamic PHP driven sites – such as MobileMe. 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. Cart66 Lite is a simple to use yet powerful eCommerce plugin for WordPress. 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.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 4/11

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Ribbons is a very clean and modern free WordPress theme that comes with a ribbon focused design that gives it a cool “3d” effect and it includes a built-in jQuery Cycle slider. Spring Floral is a green-based theme with a left sidebar.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 4/9

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April 9th, 2011
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New plugins Amazon Tools allows you to integrate your WordPress blog with Amazon Web Services. Category Redirect to Post or Page allows you to easily redirect category links to a specific page, post, or even an outside url. Updated plugins Exploit Scanner searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames. Health Check will perform a number of checks on your WordPress install to detect common configuration errors and known issues. jQuery Vertical Accordion Menu creates vertical accordion menus from any WordPress custom menu. WordPress Sphinx Search allows to use Sphinx Search Server power to enable ultra-fast and feature-rich search on WordPress-based websites.

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Plugin Reviews, Inspections, and Audits

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April 8th, 2011
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WordPress celebrity Joost de Valk has just launched an interesting service where he provides plugin reviews and inspections for free. This is certainly an interesting prospect for newcomers wondering, “is this plugin right for me?” Mark Jaquith has been offering a similar service through Covered Web Services, including a full security audit, for quite some time. Sure, it’s for a fee, but how can you pass up something like this from a core WordPress developer? Since the idea of plugin reviews seem to be gaining popularity, would you be interested in seeing us review a few plugins submitted by you, our kind and ever-present readers? Please let us know in the poll below! Would like to see us review plugins?survey software

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WordPress 3.1.1 Released

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April 6th, 2011
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WordPress 3.1.1 has been released. This maintenance and security release fixes 26 issues with the following highlights: Performance improvements Fixes for IIS6 support Fixes for taxonomy and PATHINFO (/index.php/) permalinks Fixes for various query and taxonomy edge cases that caused some plugin compatibility issues Regarding this release’s security fixes, “the first hardens CSRF prevention in the media uploader, the second avoids a PHP crash in certain environments when handling devilishly devised links in comments, and the third addresses an XSS flaw.” For most of you, 3.1.1 should be available as an automatic update via your Dashboard. If that isn’t working for you, you can download WordPress and perform a manual update.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 4/5

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April 5th, 2011
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New plugins Clip Art Illustration Search and Insert allows you to enter search terms for illustrations and images that you may wish to use in your posts. Featured Posts Scroll will scroll a set of posts (either automatically or via user click) in any desired location within a template or a post. WP Display Header lets you specify a header image for each post individually from your default headers and custom headers. WP Save Custom Header lets you save and reuse uploaded header images. Updated plugins eShop is an accessible Shopping Cart plugin. IE6 Upgrade Option displays a warning message, simply and politely informing the user that their browser is out of date while providing links to download newer, more optimal browser choices. Proper Network Activation is a small utility for MultiSite, which ensures that plugins are correctly activated accross your network.

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WordPress and the Undraggable Widgets

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April 4th, 2011
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If you’re a new WordPress users, or perhaps even a veteran, you may have noticed an inability to work with your widgets at Appearance -> Widgets in your Dashboard. This is fortunately not common, but it can lead to a ton of confusion and many hours of frustrating attempts to fix it. First, make sure that your browser has JavaScript enabled. This is usually the most common cause of the issue, and fortunately the easiest to fix. If your browser does have JavaScript enabled, use an FTP or SFTP client to access your server and a plain text editor to edit your wp-config.php file. Once the file is open, add define(‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false); below the define(‘DB_HOST’ line and save the file. In most cases, one of the two methods will work for you. If you’re still having trouble, stop by the WordPress Support Forums for further assistance.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 4/3

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Baza Noclegowa is a clean, clear, and light theme for blogs, corporate websites, and big portals as well. Citrus is based on greens and oranges, and available in narrow (2 column), medium (2 column), and wide (3 column) varieties. MyPhoto is a very clean and elegant theme created specifically with photography, portfolio, and other gallery type sites in mind. Space Weapons is a two column theme, perfect for personal blogs and space enthusiasts.

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