If you’re thinking about signing up to WordPress.com or are a brand new user, head on over to LearnWordPress.com. Announced by Erica Johnson on the WordPress.com blog today, LearnWordPress provides a step-by-step tutorial that includes lessons to start a blog, customizing your site, and connecting with other bloggers on the WordPress.com network. The tutorials that I browsed through were media rich with images and videos outlining exactly where to go and what do to. If you know someone that recently signed up to WordPress.com or is having trouble using the service, definitely pass this link on to them.
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All Orange is a universal, stylish orange theme for WordPress. Quik is a clean, SEO friendly, and quick loading regular and community blog WordPress theme. Snow Summit is a flexible theme with 7 available color schemes.
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The talented team behind the WordPress for iOS app has released “the most stable release of WordPress for iOS in a long time.” This version cures numerous bugs and has been tested especially carefully in two areas: Media Uploader and Post Write/Edit. The team is already hard at work on 2.6.5, so don’t be a stranger to the support forums if you find any problems. Do you use the WordPress for iOS mobile app? Do you think this release was an improvement over the last?
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New plugins Attachment File Icons displays file type icons adjacent to files uploaded to pages/posts. Updated plugins All in One Webmaster has options to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahoo’s Webmaster and Analytics code (meta tags). Facebook Members enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website. Polaroid Gallery is used to overlay images as polaroid pictures on the current page or post and uses your WordPress Media Library. Twitter Goodies shows your twitter profile/search tweets under your Sidebar Area (Widget), Post and/or Pages. WP Missed Schedule allows you to fix missed schedule posts. WP Overview (lite) shows an overview and memory usage on the WordPress Dashboard. WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts.
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Recentently, we published two FAQs on finding free themes and free plugins, and both contained strong warnings about malware and steps to avoid infection, but what if your WordPress blog is already infected? The first thing to do is to confirm the existence of a malware infection by running the Exploit Scanner plugin. Once you have confirmed the existence of malware, refer to this handy Codex guide. Why simply link to the guide? Because this handy guide is updated by WordPress’ volunteer community to present the latest tips and tricks to clearing the latest malware infections from your blog. Of course, the best way to prevent a malware disaster is to regularly backup your database and files, but WordPress’ volunteer community has also compiled a list of recommended security measures. This is the fourth entry in our hopefully long-running WordPress FAQ series. What did you think, and what questions would […]
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Basico Dark is a really clean and modern WordPress theme that comes with some of the latest WP 3.0 features such as custom backgrounds, threaded comments, featured images and drag and drop menus. min is a super clean and minimal theme with two widget areas in the footer. Pilcrow makes personalizing your blog a snap with six different layouts, multiple sidebar configurations, four default color schemes, custom header images, and a customizable background.
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Have you ever wondered how WordPress handles the automated core, plugin, and theme upgrades? Well, it’s time for some quick weekend education! Long-time support forum volunteer, Ipstenu, has done all the thinking for you and has clearly laid out the inner-workings of the automated upgrade process. It’s a quick read, and you might leave with a new respect for the automated upgrade system, and a new understand for why you should create a child theme if you want to modify your own theme.
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The one thing that most of us WordPress self installers have in common is that we’re using a web host of some kind whether it be shared hosting, VPS, or a dedicated server. Web hosting is one of those industries that has a very low entry barrier thanks to reselling. This enables fly by night shops to open up as a web hosting company only to disappear a few months later. This doesn’t happen in all cases as reselling provides a great opportunity to learn a thing or two but I’ve since lost my trust in resellers. Choosing a web host is probably the most important decision you make as everything rests on their shoulders for your web site to stay online. Without further adieu, here is a list of questions and things to consider when choosing a web host. Note: This mini guide is mainly geared towards shared hosting. […]
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New plugins Debug Bar adds a debug menu to the admin bar that shows query, cache, and other helpful debugging information. Requires WordPress 3.1. Graceless Degradation gives visitors still using Internet Explorer 6 an appropriate user experience, with Comic Sans fonts everywhere, blinking emphasis tags, animated rainbow hr tags, and animated mailbox graphics added to “mailto:” links! Updated plugins SexyBookmarks adds an attractive social bookmarking menu to your posts, pages, index, or any combination of the three. TagSpace lets visitors browse your WordPress categories and tags by flying through them in 3D. WP Maintenance Mode adds a maintenance-page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Users with rights for theme-options get full access to the blog.
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