Stick around the WordPress community for a period of time and you’re bound to come across a few folks who say Automattic is an evil company or Matt Mullenweg is evil in the way in which he runs WordPress.org. The more time I spend talking to Matt and with other employees of Automattic, the more I don’t understand where these thoughts and feelings of evilness come from. Sure, there is a decision made from time to time that a vocal group of people disagree with but you can’t make the right decision 100% of the time. Let’s take a closer look at Automattic as it relates to WordPress. When I interviewed Matt at WordCamp New York, one of the things I asked him to address is the notion that Automattic commercially benefits from those who work for free. This indeed happens but on the flip side, Automattic gives a ton […]
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Ever wanted to do something in WordPress but just wasn’t sure how? In my experience this happens quite often, mostly with people new to WordPress. But, even the experts run into trouble sometimes. Today I thought I’d start a series of posts which will aim to explain how to do certain things in WordPress. Hopefully this will cover anything from quick tips and simple little functions, all the way up to more complex custom code and the like. So, stick around and you just might learn something. đ I think I’ll kick off the series with a couple simple ones… Why isn’t this plugin working with my theme? This is probably one of the most common issues I read about regarding WordPress. Sometimes even more experienced WPers can get this one wrong. Now, I’m not saying this is the solution to all problems between plugins and themes. Its just that […]
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins URL Redirector URL Redirector allows you to create shorter URL’s and keeps track of how many times a link has been clicked. It’s useful for managing downloads, keeping track of outbound links and for masking URL’s. Query Multiple Taxonomies A WordPress plugin that allows you to filter posts through multiple custom taxonomies Checkfront Online Booking Plugin Checkfront is an online availability, reservation and booking engine. This plugin connects your WordPress site to your Checkfront, and provides a powerful embedded booking interface within your site. This plugin requires a Checkfront account (available for free). Updated Plugins WP Archive-Sitemap Generator WP Archive-Sitemap Generator plugin generates simple Archives/Sitemap based on your sites/blogs posts and pages. This is not another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a nice sitemap generator. Twitter Goodies Twitter Goodies plugin will show your tweets under Sidebar Area (Widget), Post and/or Pages. REFRESH AUTOMATICALLY and you have 5 different […]
[Continue Reading...]WordPress 2.9 Beta 1 is now available for downloads. If you are looking forward to test out the new features in WordPress 2.9, head to the development update blog to find links to download and try out WordPress 2.9 beta 1. WordPress 2.9 is still in beta, you can use it to test it and report bugs back to WordPress development team. However, do not use it on a production blog yet.
[Continue Reading...]Base Simple two column theme with shades of blue that you can use to customize your site Martial Arts Lover A nice, clean, dark and simple wordpress theme with one right sidebar. 5 Girl-Inspired Free WordPress Themes Set of five two column, widget ready themes WP Commerce Flex It features a variety of options, solid SEO-friendly CSS layout that is easily customizable, and built for seamless integration with PHPbay and PHPZon. Polka Dots Itâs widget-ready, adsense-ready, and 3-columns. Colors: brown, white, aqua, green, chartreuse, yellow, orange, red.
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins Custom Coming Soon Pages Custom Coming Soon Pages WordPress Plugin allows you to display a Customized Coming Soon Page or Under Construction page to normal visitors or regular members of your WordPress based website or Blog â while the Site Administrators see the fully functional website with the applied theme and active plugins as well as a fully functional Dashboard. SyntaxHighlighter Evolved SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without loosing itâs formatting or making any manual changes. WP Answers Using a comments vote system you can order the comments by votes getting the focus to the most voted comment by the users. Page in Spanish ImageMation ImageMation lets you put a set of sliding images with captions on any of your webpage. Moving images interact with the direction of mouse movement. Updated Plugins Ajax Edit Comments The most powerful comment editing solution […]
[Continue Reading...]Glassical Two column, fixed width theme with support for the WP Pagenavi plugin. This theme was designed with the main focus being on typography, clean look and simplicity. Coffee Lite Coffee Lite Theme is a minimalist blogging theme modded from the popular premium theme Coffee Break from WooThemes. New York Two column, fixed width, widget ready theme with inbuilt support for Twitter and 125×125 ads with a theme options page Greenxi Two columns, flexible width, base colors green and white, custom gravatar, widget ready (sidebar and footer)
[Continue Reading...]WordPress rocks! (Most of the time…) Sometimes though it can make you want to pull your hair out. Today I want to talk about that. Those times when you wish you could take a machete to it. I’ve had my share of such situations several times in the past. Now, I don’t mean plugins, or themes, or anything external like that. I mean the core of WordPress itself. Sometimes it seems WordPress just comes up short. It can be anything from a simple little inconvenience to a total show-stopper. I think hearing peoples gripes about WordPress would be a nice contrast to the almost constant good things you hear about it. It might also help to get more attention on the issues. Don’t forget that someone may come across this post, read a gripe, and possibly provide a solution. We can all help each other! So, lets get it started… One […]
[Continue Reading...]New Plugins Ecwid Shopping Cart Ecwid is free full-fledged shopping cart that can be easily add to any blog. It offers the performance and flexibility you need, with none of the hassles you don’t. Let it Snow Display falling snow on your blog Checkfront Booking A plugin that connects your WordPress blog to the Checkfront⢠Booking platform. Twitter Goodies Widgets Uses the twitter goodies widgets API to create offical twitter widgets (profiles, lists, faves and search) straight from your control panel. WP-TTFGen TTFGen allows you to embed fonts on your website by generating static images from your own CSS parameters. TTFGen is 100% cross browser compatible. Google-News-Sitemap Automatically generate sitemap for inclusion in Google News. Page not in English Post Ordering With this plugin you can sort and order posts under a category manually. Updated Plugins WP-Orphanage Users who have not been assigned any Roles or Capabilities are called âorphansâ. […]
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