Do you have a WordPress blog? Do you want to add voice search to your blog? Well, thanks to Otto the Tech Ninja, you can with just a slight modification to your theme! Yes, this will only work in Google Chrome if you have the Voice Search extension or if you’re using the latest development version, but with most computers shipping with built-in microphones these days, Voice Search certainly makes searching easy, and it’s a great way to impress your friends.
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easyOne is a very simply grey, blue, and white SEO-friendly theme with an animated cloud cover banner. Green News Daily is a green-based 3 column theme. It comes with 10 widget areas and about 40 theme options.
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Trend Micro which is an anti-virus company announced their most dangerous list for 2010. Just about everything mentioned in the list has a strong correlation with market share and size which tends to make them more dangerous. This is especially apparent when Trend Micro lists Google as the most dangerous website thanks to its popularity for blackhat-SEO schemes which lead to malware infected sites. However, as for Website Software, Trend Micro labeled WordPress as the riskiest web software used in 2010: The riskiest software used by websites in 2010 was the popular blogging platform WordPress. Tens of thousands of un-patched WordPress blogs were used by cybercriminals for various schemes, primarily as part of redirection chains that led to various malware attacks or other blackhat search engine optimization (SEO)-related schemes. I beg to differ. While WordPress certainly made the headlines this year as webhost after webhost became the target of attacks, […]
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Without a doubt, the best place to find free WordPress plugins is the official Plugin Directory. With over 12,000 plugins, compatibility polls, support tags, and usage statistics, it’s definitely the most complete resource out there. Most WordPress users can easily find and install plugins from the official directory via Plugins -> Add New in their Dashboard, but some may need to complete a manual installation. To install a plugin manually, download it and then use an FTP or SFTP client to upload the decompressed archive to your blog’s /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Once the plugin has been uploaded, you should be able to activate it from the Plugins section of your Dashboard. If it isn’t appearing, the plugin may have additional installation instructions. Plugins are not free from the dangers of malware, and can sometimes be far more dangerous than themes. Unfortunately, the plugin directory does not have a volunteer review staff […]
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New plugins Comment Moderation E-mail to Post Author makes WordPress send the comment moderation notification to the actual posts author’s e-mail address instead of the main site e-mail address. Filtered HTML for Editors prevents Editors from publishing unfiltered HTML posts. Administrators will not be affected. Kindle This Widget is a sidebar widget that displays a button for sending a blog page to a user’s Kindle. Updated plugins SEO Ultimate is an all-in-one SEO plugin that can handle titles, meta, noindex, canonical tags, 404 monitoring, linkboxes, robots.txt, and more. Ultimate Post Type Manager is an easy to use custom post type manager with a great UI.
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The second WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate has been released. A few changes have been made since the first Release Candidate, and the final release will probably be next, so it’s time take it for a spin and try it with your favorite plugins and themes if you’re concerned about compatibility. If you run in to 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 in to any bugs, please follow this guide to report them. Have you tried WordPress 3.1 RC2 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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Part 2 of the 2010 best of series on WeblogToolsCollection.com. James Huff did a great job this year as well as some other authors. Lots of stuff to chew on here. Enjoy! July: One Click Multisite in WordPress 3.0 What’s Your Take On the GPL Argument Between Matt and Thesis? Thesis Adopts a Split GPL License A New Way to Install Plugins August: Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plug-In WordPress and Forums WordPress and the White Screen of Death Drive Traffic to Old Content with “Tweet Old Post” Plugin Common WordPress Multisite Problems and Solutions Regarding Plugin And Theme Digests WordPress Support Forum All-stars Should You Remove Post Dates from Your WordPress Blog? WordPress and the Fatal Memory Error September: Lorelle’s Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins Find Your Spam Magnets WordPress Trademark Donated to WordPress Foundation WordPress and the Internal Server Error WordPress and the Headers Already Sent Warning Boost […]
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FreeDream 2010 is a free, colorful and translation-ready standalone WordPress theme based on almost all the handy functions from the default Twenty Ten theme. GChrome is a lightweight theme based on the highly coveted Google Chrome browser.
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The year is quickly coming to a close, and it’s time to look back and reflect on the year that we have so commonly referred to as 2010. We’ve already shared part 1 of our highlights from 2010, but what about you? What is your most memorable WordPress-related highlight from the year 2010? This could be anything from the first 3.1 release candidate to that time when you spent all night fixing your friend’s blog. To start the ball rolling, I’d have to say that the hiring of Andrew Nacin as a full-time developer certainly stands out as my favorite WordPress moment of 2010. So, what’s yours?
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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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