New plugins Custom Post Widget allows you to display the content of a custom post type called Content Block in a sidebar widget. Gecka Submenu allows you to put menus or potions of menus anywhere in your site: sidebar, templates or page contents. Shuffle modifies and improves your Media Library in a number of ways. Updated plugins All in One Webmaster has options to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahoo’s Webmaster and Analytics code (meta tags). AVH Extended Categories gives you two widgets for displaying categories. One is a replacement of the default category widget to allow for greater customization. The second is a Top Categories widget. SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without having to escape the code or anything. As seen on WordPress.com. WP Social Blogroll provides a sidebar widget and a template tag that adds an enhanced blogroll to your […]
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Hamid Bakeri is a blue and gray theme with a simply layout. Plain Fields is a very simple, clean, and readable theme. Serenity is a silver blue theme with featured posts, twitter updates, 125×125 ads, Gravatar support, threaded comments, menu, and widget support. Somero is a white and simple design, with featured posts in a slideshow.
[Continue Reading...]Premiering with WordPress 3.1 some time next month, Post Formats is one of the most talked about and often confusing of the new features. The documentation is beginning to take shape, and a list of Post Formats is being finalized, so what is a Post Format? Think of Post Formats like categories, but more from a design standpoint than an organizational one. Basically, Post Formats offer a microblogging-style way to assign a specific style to your post based on content. So far, Post Formats are available for asides, audio, chat transcripts, galleries, links, quotes, single images, status updates, and videos. What that means is, if your theme takes advantage of these Post Formats, you will have any easy way to display each format with a unique style. As Otto illustrates, Matt Mullenweg has done this for some time. Many themes have brought similar functionality tied to specific categories, but what happens […]
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Embed Facebook lets you embed various Facebook objects (album, event, group, note, photo, or video) in a post or page. mySimpleAds WordPress Ad Manager allows you to easily place your mySimpleAds Ads inside your WordPress posts, pages, or even right in your templates. Plugin Test Drive lets you test any plugin before actually using it. 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. Wickett Twitter Widget allows you to display tweets from one or more Twitter accounts as a WordPress widget. As seen on WordPress.com. Updated plugins Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. Facebook Like for Tags allows you to automatically share into Facebook when posting new articles with the same […]
[Continue Reading...]The uploader of the official WordPress theme directory has received a rather helpful upgrade courtesy of Otto. The previous version of the WordPress theme uploader checked the themes against the theme review guidelines, but only reported the first error that it encountered, sometimes trapping theme developers in a frustrating cycle of trial and error. The new version performs an even more intensive scan of the theme and returns a list of all results, providing theme developers with a handy to-do list to get their themes up to spec for the directory. Have you submitted a theme with the new uploader yet? Does it help to streamline the process? If you haven’t uploaded your themes to the official directory, does the new uploader inspire you to give it a try?
[Continue Reading...]Daily is a free, premium like, WordPress theme that comes with a beautiful design, many great features, and is perfect for daily bloggers. Desk is a very clean and functional theme based of a piece of paper lying on a desk.
[Continue Reading...]Twitter introduced Blackbird Pie back in May of this year, providing the world with an easy way to embed fully functional tweets. Before Blackbird Pie’s introduction, the common way to embed tweets was to simply take a screenshot. Blackbird Pie not only easily embeds the tweet itself, but also leaves the profile link, @-mentions, hashtags, and other links in tact. Despite Blackbird Pie’s usefulness and firm roots in Twitter, it’s received little recognition over the past months. Blackbird Pie will be getting some well-deserved recognition now that it has been fully integrated with WordPress.com, and those of you with self-hosted WordPress blogs can join the party too with the Twitter Blackbird Pie plugin. What do you think of Blackbird Pie? Will you be making use of it on your blog?
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Disable Admin Bar disables the admin bar that now appears on the public side of WordPress 3.1 (beta) blogs. Twitter Blackbird Pie allows you to add awesome looking embedded HTML representations of actual tweets in your blog posts just by adding simple shortcodes. WP Event Ticketing makes it easy to sell tickets to an event directly from your WordPress website. wpStoreCart is a free, open source, and full featured e-commerce platform built atop of WordPress. Updated plugins Easy FancyBox enables the FancyBox 1.3.3 jQuery extension on all image, SWF, YouTube and Vimeo links. jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called ColorBox to display the fullsize images. WP SlimStat is a simple but powerful web analytics plugin for WordPress.
[Continue Reading...]Development on WordPress 3.1 is well underway, and with the string freeze coming up on December 1st, some key new features are beginning to take shape. Earlier this week, Automattic code wrangler Stephane Daury published a revealing screenshot of the new internal linking feature, while WordPress lead developer Mark Jaquith briefly discussed the new post formats feature. What do you think of the internal linking and post formats features thus far? Will you be trying the 3.1 beta when it’s released later this month?
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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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