The third WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate has been released. There have been a few significant changes made since the second Release Candidate, including the removal of AJAX list tables, which introduced too many bugs and usability issues to be considered stable for 3.1 Because of the major changes, the developers are asking for as many beta testers as they can get. If you run into any problems, please feel free to discuss them in the Alpha/Beta section of the Support Forums or contact the wp-testers mailing list. If you run into any bugs, please follow this guide to report them. Have you tried WordPress 3.1 RC3 yet? If you have, what do you think so far? Are you ready for the final release of WordPress 3.1?
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New plugins Content Parts allows you to split your editable content into multiple parts and display each part using template tags within your theme, allowing you to create complex content layouts. Recent Posts Slider displays your blog’s recent posts either with excerpt or thumbnail image of the first image of the post using a slider. Updated plugins PhotoSmash Galleries is a flexible, customizable photo gallery plugin for the awesomeness that is WordPress! It is one of the few photo gallery plugins for WordPress with a built-in rating system. WordPress.com Stats provides simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server by plugging into WordPress.com’s stat system.
[Continue Reading...]Almost two months ago, we found out what your favorite themes were, and with so much discussion lately on finding WordPress themes, theme malware, and plans to protect against it, there’s one discussion-worthy question that we’ve managed to miss. What do you look for in a theme? What makes you say, “I have to have that,” above all other choices? Is is simply the colors, the functionality, or perhaps something more specific?
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254 is a clean and minimal WordPress and DukaPress e-commerce theme. Adventure Journal allows you to select header art, backgrounds, and a one or two column layout from the comfort of your Dashboard. Ghostwriter is a minimal theme focused on typography. my base is a white theme that includes several features: custom menu, custom background, custom templates, custom headers and more.
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New plugins Affiliate Easel for Amazon can add single items or a full web store to your site. You can easily include affiliate links, images, text, prices and other data within a post or create entire multi-page categories on their own pages. Cool Video Gallery is a a video gallery plugin to manage video galleries, with a feature to upload videos and group them into galleries, and option to playback videos in a Shadowbox popup. myRepono WordPress Backup automates your WordPress, website & database backups using the myRepono remote website backup service. Updated plugins CleanCodeNZ Exclude Pages hides pages from navigation or other purposes using custom fields. CleanCodeNZ Geo Posts creates custom post types with geo locations for back end data entering. jQuery Slider automatically creates a jQuery slideshow that features 4 recent posts. Theme-Check is an easy way to test your theme and make sure it’s up to spec […]
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Miriam Schwab of WPGarage.com has a neat little tip that explains how to install WordPress without using a domain name. The trick involves editing the Hosts file on a Windows machine to specify a domain name for the server address the site is hosted on. Mike Little who published a comment on the article made note that it’s not a Windows only trick but can also be performed on Linux/Unix and Mac OSX. This trick enables the previous site to stay online until the last minute where a simple DNS change will switch to the new site.
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Chip Zero is stylish, customizable, flexible, readable, and professional with a custom menu and background. Color Shading is a clean and content-focused theme for bloggers with a customizable color scheme. Global News is 1000px wide with 3 columns. It comes with 10 widget areas and about 40 theme options. Modern Blue Style is a modern and simple style layout, with a left menu, strictly optimized code structure, and widgetbar. Optimizare is a light and clean business theme with custom options.
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The WordPress developers have just clarified its license as “GPL version 2 or later,” putting an end to some frequent confusion. WordPress contains libraries which are licensed under the GPL “version 2 or any later version,” which obviously excludes version 1 of the GPL. Here is the reality: the GPL version 1 is effectively irrelevant. It hasn’t been a commonly used license since before Matt Mullenweg was in third grade! Clarifying WordPress as being licensed under the GPL “version 2 or later” resolves these niggling library licensing concerns or ambiguities, and clarifies where WordPress stands. As with any licensing discussion, the post has generated some interesting comments, which makes for some entertaining (if not educational) weekend reading.
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New plugins Simple Front End Edit Buttons adds functions for adding edit buttons on the front end of your website. With these icons you can change the order/priority of a page without the need to change the order manually within WordPress. Slickr Flickr displays photos from your Flickr account either as gallery, a galleria, or as an unbranded slideshow in posts, pages, or sidebar widgets. You can place a large number of slidehows on the same page. WP Linkblog filters the permalinks of WordPress posts to look for a link URL and sets that as the permalink for posts. Updated plugins Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. Custom Contact Forms is a highly customizable and intuitive contact form plugin for WordPress. InComment Comment Referrer […]
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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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