New Plugins Automatic WordPress Backup Backup your entire WordPress website regularly and automatically PeoplePond Online Identity Widget Extend the reach and usability of your PeoplePond profile, including your verified identity, with the PeoplePond Identity Widget in the sidebar of your WordPress blog. It will display a badge to your blog readers detailing who you are and what other services they can follow you on. Updated Plugins Shashin Shashin has many features for displaying your Picasa photos and videos in your WordPress posts and pages LibXML2 Fix Work around for some versions of libxml2 2.7.x that strip out brackets when parsing XML. This plugin fixes XML-RPC requests that are mangled because of this problem. The real fix for this (making the use of this plugin unnecessary) is to use PHP 5.2.9+ with libxml2 2.7.3+. Custom Post Limits Control the number of posts that appear on the front page, search results, and […]

I was notified on Twitter the other day that there was a new 0 Day denial of service exploit for WordPress. When asking on Twitter if it worked, numerous people replied that the published code did work and was taking down their sites. This raised some red flags for me so I jumped into the WordPress-Dev IRC channel to figure out what was going on. The way this denial of service attack works is that a random search string is sent to the search form of a WordPress based website. Caching plugins do not work against this because the search string is randomized. It’s quite simple but what I’ve been told is that this is not an issue for WordPress to handle. Instead, this attack should be dealt with by the webhost on a firewall level. At one point, a ticket was created by Scribu but has since been closed […]

Part two of our best of series. While were looking back, feel free to post in the comments a link to what you consider to be one of the best articles about WordPress you’ve read all year. If enough submissions are received, we may just create one more best of 2009 post featuring articles submitted by you. Please do not submit links to articles on sites you own or maintain. July: Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory is live How Do You Post Content To Your Blog? Best Method To Post Content To WordPress Licensing is the vehicle, our users are the environment Tips For Troubleshooting Problems With WordPress Should I Update a Plugin if an Update is Available? WordPress for Beginners: Publish post tips and tricks What would you like in a WordPress Plugin? Developing Post Ideas for Your WordPress Site Create Private Twitter Like Site With WordPress Why Should […]

Debt Two column, widget ready theme with support for threaded comments and an options page for customizing the theme CgBaran 2-3 column widget ready and adsense ready theme Blogwave The theme includes four different color schemes which you can conveniently switch to in the built-in theme options page. Happy2010 Happy2010 is a simple New Year WordPress Theme with two Sidebars and Widget Support. There is an Option Page to populate the Footer. Page in German

Throughout the course of a year on WeblogToolsCollection.com, there is a ton of information published about WordPress whether it be a link to something cool or a home grown guide covering a specific feature of WordPress. The purpose of this two part series is to look back at the best articles published on the site but it’s also to reflect on the achievements the software has undergone during 2009. While it’s good to keep things moving along into the future, it’s healthy to look at the past every once in awhile to measure progress. From all of us here at WLTC, we wish you a safe and happy New Year! January: Plugin Review: Simple:Press Forum Great Explanation Of Community PHPBB And WordPress Plugin Review: Referrer Detector Do You Post By Email? Plugin Review: WP Greet Box Plugin Review: WP125 Michael Pick Of WordPress.TV Et Tu Google? Then Fail, Net Safety […]

Alex Denning who is the man behind WPShout.com has published the last of a four-part series which asks notable members within the WordPress community four interesting questions. The questions are as follows. Why WordPress? What Would You Change In WordPress? What Problems Currently Face The WordPress Community? What Is The Future Of WordPress? I had the opportunity to participate in this community survey with the question regarding the future of WordPress being my favorite. Here is what I had to say: WordPress will continue to be used as a platform to do things that go far beyond blogging. As these projects end up in the showcase and acquire press, more people will begin to realize that WordPress is an excellent blogging tool but it’s by far the not only thing it is capable of doing. WordPress will continue to evolve as a framework or a platform that will enable these […]

Macha It is a single-column theme with bold headers and focuses on easy reading. There are no images used, it is SEO optimized, and is perfect for people that don’t want to get bogged down in all of the technicalities of other themes. There is also a widgetized footer with 3 places to put widgets in to help compensate for a lack of a sidebar. Clear It is minimalistic one-column theme with the widgets all arranged at the bottom. Clear was designed to make your content stand out and make everything else get out of the way. Slidette It comes in 3 colors (green default, blue and black) , with a slideshow and a featured first page 4 posts from a category, two columns and dynamic widgets for the sidebar on the right and in the footer.

New Plugins HDLNS Today Automatically insert HDLNS headlines as a widget using the post date. Strip Ad Add a Strip Ad above the header to your blog. Code Comments Automatically Escape HTML Entities of Code Fragments in Comments Updated Plugins Top 10 Count page views on posts and display a list of top posts by page views. Contextual Related Posts Display a list of contextually related posts for the current post. You can select the number of posts to display and if you want to automatically display the related posts in your content / feed. Where did they go from here? This plugin will show “Readers who viewed this page, also viewed” links on your page. This is similar to Amazon’s product pages which state “Readers who have bought this, also bought” WP-Table Reloaded This plugin enables you to create and manage tables in the admin-area of WordPress. You can […]