New plugins Snow Storm displays falling snow flakes on the front of your WordPress website for a festive presentation. WordPress Gzip Compression enables gzip-compression if the visitor’s browser can handle it. This will speed up your WordPress website drastically and reduces bandwidth usage. Updated plugins Easy FancyBox enables the FancyBox 1.3.4 jQuery extension on all image, SWF, YouTube and Vimeo links. WordPress SEO is the most complete all in one SEO solution for your WordPress blog.
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Previous Post WordPress Theme Releases for 12/4
WordPress 3.0.2, the first mandatory security update in quite a while, was released not too long ago. The update patched an exploit which allowed an Author-level users to gain access to the site well above their user level, but the real story here is the overall efficiency of the volunteer developers. With a team unpaid volunteers keeping WordPress in tip-top shape, you might be surprised to hear that this particular update went from initial disclosure of the exploit to final release in no more than four hours! That particular time frame is almost unheard of, even amongst commercial projects. To further sweeten the pot, the VaultPress team automatically pushed a hotfix the next day to all VaultPress-enabled blogs, ensuring that all VaultPress users were protected from the exploit, even if they had not had a chance to apply the 3.0.2 update. With such an efficient team of volunteer developers, and […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post The Groupon Story Started With WordPress
Atmosphere 2010 is a simple but pleasant two column narrow theme, based on the atmosphere theme published back in 2007. Liquorice is a simple and clean vintage looking theme build on Google’s font API Lobster font. tweaker2 is a theme especially built for those who love tweaking their own themes.
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post The WP Swag Store has Launched
Andrew Warner who produces the video show Mixergy has published his interview with Andrew Mason, founder of Groupon. While Groupon has recently been given a 5 billion dollar acquisition bid by Google, it wasn’t easy getting started. In fact, Andrew cobbled together scripts and blog posts on a WordPress powered website to get things off the ground. All we did was we took a WordPress Blog and we skimmed it to say Groupon and then every day we would do a new post with the points embedded. It was totally ghetto. We would sell t-shirts on the first version of Groupon. We’d say in the right up, ‘This t-shirt will come in the color red, size large. If you want a different color or size, email that to us.’ We didn’t have a form to add that stuff. We were just, it was so cobbled together. It was enough to […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post One Tool Inadvertently Helps Cure Others’ Ills
Automattic has launched the official WP Swag Store! Now, you too can own a piece of WordPress memorabilia. Proceeds from the sales go to benefit the donation of swag to WordCamps around the world. Of course, one can’t help but notice that the store has launched just in time for the holiday season, and what would make a better stocking stuffer than a 3GB WordPress USB drive? Even if you don’t celebrate any of the traditional gift-giving holidays, there are plenty of WordPress-themed warm clothing options for the cold winter months, and even a mug for your warm drinks. Are you collector of WordPress swag? If so, we’d love to see your collection!
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New plugins CleanCodeNZ Geo Posts creates custom post types with geo locations for back end data entering. Google Maps Api v3 is used to display geo posts on a map with a clickable marker overlay. Gallery2 Importer allows you to import albums, images, and comments from a Gallery2 installation into your WordPress site. Albums will be saved as pages containing the [gallery] shortcode, and images will be saved as attachments. Updated plugins Easy ReTweet lets you add retweet or Tweet This buttons for your WordPress posts, together with the retweet count. 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. Fast Secure Contact Form lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message and blocks all common spammer tactics. Plugin Test Drive lets you test any plugin before […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post The Legacy Plugins Leave Behind
Sight is a powerful WordPress theme, best suited for Magazines and Blogs. The theme was designed in modern minimalistic style with Golden Grid usage. Simply Works Core is meant to work both as a framework to build child themes on, as well as a stand alone clean theme for a blog site. thememagic is a crisp and clean business theme.
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/28
Two weeks ago, we asked to hear about your favorite WordPress themes. We had over 125 responses, but even with such a variety of responses, only 5 came out as the clear favorites. Without further delay, here are your top 5 themes. Swift is the fastest loading, SEO optimized, server friendly WordPress theme. This theme is mainly for blogs running on low server resources and for those who like clean and simple designs. [directory listing] Hybrid is a user-friendly, search-engine optimized theme framework, featuring 15 custom page templates and 8 widget-ready areas, allowing you to create any type of site you want. [directory listing] Twenty Ten is stylish, customizable, simple, and readable — make it yours with a custom menu, header image, and background. Twenty Ten supports six widgetized areas (two in the sidebar, four in the footer) and featured images (thumbnails for gallery posts and custom header images for […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress 3.1 Beta Released
New plugins cTabs lets you add a tabbed content area directly in your post or page, without having to edit your templates. Generate Shortlinks uses bit.ly, ur.ly, and is.gd to create handy shortlinks to share your posts. Social Profiles Sidebar Widget adds a sidebar widget for social profiles in you blog. Supports several sets of icons and three different icon sizes. Updated plugins Cache Images gives users the option to sideload images that are hosted on other domains to their own site. eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features. Mingle Forum allows you to easily and quickly put a Forum on your WordPress site/blog. WordPress SEO is an all in one solution to search engine optimize your WordPress blog: SEO titles, meta descriptions, XML sitemaps and much more.
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- James
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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