As a developer it is always easy to overlook minor things, some of them may not cause you much headaches, but some of them could eventually build up to give you nightmares because they are hard to spot.

New Plugins Picasa Album Uploader Provides a button to be installed into the Google Picasa Desktop to directly upload files from Picasa as WordPress media. Once the button has been downloaded and installed in Picasa, images can be selected in Picasa and uploaded to your WordPress blog with a simple click of the button within Picasa. Sabre Sabre is an acronym for Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine. It’s a set of counter measures against spam registration on your blog. Multi Currency PayPal Donations PayPal charges high fees for cross border transactions. If you are one of the fortunate few that have PayPal accounts in multiple currencies then this plugin is for you. It allows you to route different currencies to specific PayPal accounts. Even if you don’t have multiple PayPal accounts this is still a great plugin for accepting donations. Updated Plugins Linkify Authors Turn a string, list, or array […]

Ahh, Kirby. One of my favorite games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. That little pink guy could eat anything! Alas, this Kirby is not pink. It’s white, black, blue, and has square corners. One of the news bits that came out of the WordPress Developers Chat on January 7th is that Matt Mullenweg is spearheading the creation of the new default theme in WordPress named 2010. This means that the default theme will not be something created by a third party. However, Ian Stewart took the challenge upon creating a default theme and Kirby is his result. Kirby is clean, simple, and has good typographical elements, all the building blocks of a good theme. I encourage you to check out Ian Stewarts insight into the design process of this theme and then read the feedback he’s received. Although it won’t be the new default theme in WordPress, it sure looks […]

The next six months in WordPress development are going to be pretty exciting considering the possible scope of 3.0, a new default theme and of course, the merge of WordPress MU into the codebase of WordPress. Anyone who has been keeping an eye on trac may have noticed that the merging process has already begun. They might have also noticed the addition of a new core commiter known as WPMUGuru who is Ron Rennick. Ron has a ton of experience working with WPMU under the hood so it’s only natural that he was brought on board to help with the merge. If you’re looking to find out what the scope will be for WordPress 3.0 and are wondering about how the merging process will take place, I invite you to join the WordPress Developers chat being held today at 4PM EST. In fact, here is the detailed information regarding the […]

WordPress fans are out in full force over the new admin interface presented in MovableType 5.1 which was released today. The controversy stems from how eerily similar the admin interface resembles the one that was introduced in WordPress 2.7. The similarities are easy to spot when you look at both interfaces side by side as evident by the post on BloggingPro.com. No doubt about it, the interfaces look the same albeit with MT’s added touches. While many fans of WordPress are giving Six Apart an earful, I’ve taken a bit more relaxed approach. One of the things that people constantly refer to WordPress for is its publishing interface. Since this interface is loved by many, is it really any surprise that something similar to it would appear in other publishing platforms? Also, I highly doubt WordPress was the first to have the layout that it does now. So with that […]

New Plugins Related Posts Widget Related Posts Widget shows a list of posts with similar tags to the current post. The widget is only shown on single post pages. Razuna Media Manager Allows you to use any hosted Razuna service to host your media for your WordPress powered blog. WP Post Footer This plugin allows you to create a library of code snippets and easily include them at the bottom of Blog Posts on your WordPress powered blog. WordPress jQuery UI Effects Easily register and load the effects of the jQuery UI Effects library in your themes and plugins. Updated Plugins Admin Post Navigation Adds links to the next and previous posts when editing a post in the WordPress admin. GD Star Rating GD Star Rating is advanced and feature packed plugin for setting up rating system on your WordPress blog. Plugin allows you to set up different rating systems […]

WordPress 2.9.1 has been released and is now available for downloads. This release fixes several minor issues and the bugs which caused problems with scheduling posts and pingbacks.

Xenlog A clean and minimalistic two column, fixed width theme Froggy2010 Froggy2010 is a really simple greenish WordPress Theme with one Sidebar and Widget Support. There is an Option Page to populate the Footer. Pico Pico is a grid-based magazine theme based on the famous Mimbo theme by Darren Hoyt, designed to work right out-of-the-box without having to install additional plugins. Features smart post thumbnail handling (supports 2.9 Canonical Post thumbnail or use first image on post), 10 widget areas (including four columns on footer), 3 page templates (Archives, List Authors and Sitemap), a custom Featured Categories widget, breadcrumb navigation and support for threaded comments. Impress This is a minimalistic, red-colored theme with automatic thumbnails, advertising space and a clean layout. Thumbnails are used from the default ones that WordPress generates when you upload an image with the post. The theme uses jQuery for animated menu and sidebar. Impress has […]