New Plugins External Files External Files provides a shortcode [external] that wraps around a file path or url. The contents of the file/url are imported and outputted in an xhtml-friendly way. What’s more, the plugin auto-guesses the syntax of the file (by looking at the extension of the path or the content-type of the url). RSS Shortcode Allows you to embed an RSS feed in your blog post by using WordPress shortcodes. BuddyPress Contents BuddyPress content aggregation and organization. Real-Time Find and Replace Set up find and replace rules that are executed AFTER a page is generated by WordPress, but BEFORE it is sent to a user’s browser. Supr by StumbleUpon Su.pr is the only URL shortener that gets you more traffic and save time posting to Twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon. Updated Plugins Shorten2Ping Sends status updates to Ping.fm or Twitter everytime you publish a post. Using Bit.ly or Tr.im […]

WordPress provides users with various ways to post content to their blogs, the best part is that it does not limit users to write their views.

The Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory is now open. It is linked off the WordPress Extend and is part of the parent theme directory set of links. It is not as much a directory as it is a listing of sites that offer commercial GPL themes. It lists the philosophies, a few words about the business models and the need for the encouragement, a list of screenshots and links to the various theme sites and then a list of criterion for inclusion into this site. I like the succinct explanation of the purpose and the listing criterion seem simple and straightforward to follow. Send your information to themes at wordpress dot org to get included in the list. From the site, if you want to be included: Distribute 100% GPL themes, including artwork and CSS. Have professional support options, and optionally customization. Your site should be complete, well-designed, up to […]

Magloss Magloss is a magazine style WordPress theme packed with fully customized features. This 3 columns WordPress theme has integrated JonDesign’s SmoothGallery 2.0 for the rotating featured content. This theme also comes with an automatic thumbnail cropping feature for your front page posts. Besides the rotating featured content, this theme also enables you to use the category block feature to display recent posts for each category chosen. All these features are controllable inside the admin panel (Magloss Theme Option). Magloss is also comes ready with Twitter, Feedburner, 125×125 advertisement banners, adsense and featured videos. All you have to do is insert the appropriate html code within the theme option. GreenTweet Three column, widget ready theme with a big twitter icon, 125×125 ad support and page management for links in the top navigation. Vina Two column layout, widget ready, with features to auto-grab and resize images on the fly and compatible […]

New Plugins AVH Themed By Browser The AVH Themed By Browser plugin gives you the ability to set a correlation between browser and theme. The theme of your blog can change dynamically based on the browser the visitor is using. Follow My Links Follow My Links is a very simple plugin that prevents WordPress from automaticaly adding a “rel=nofollow” attribute to links in the post authors URL and comments. YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter This plugin is the bridge between YOURLS, Twitter and your blog: when you publish a post or a page, it will use your own YOURLS install, either hosted on the same webserver, or another server, to create a short URL for your post and send it to your Twitter account. Sliding Panel It is a panel that can be opened and closed with a click of a mouse that will allow you to house additional content on […]

WordPress Configuration Tricks : If you have ever installed WordPress and wanted to know what else you could do with your wp-config.php file, this is the blog post to read. As Ozh points out in the comments, a couple of tricks were left out but nothing that could not be remedied with a simple Google search (e.g. WP_HTTP) as long as you know what you are looking for. Tips from that page that got me thinking (things that make you go hmmmmm?) include moving your wp-content directory, increasing your memory limit, changing the autosave interval, turning on debugging and finally the ability to specify a log file for errors. All of this through the wondrous wp-config.php file. The list is quite exhaustive. While you are there, make sure you subscribe to the blog. Chris and Jeff are putting out some good stuff!

Dev4Press has done some interesting work on benchmarking various aspects of WordPress and then testing out some popular questions on page loads etc. The methodologies are well documented and the benchmarking setup is standardized. They are testing three version of WordPress including 2.6.5, 2.7.1 and 2.8 (I wish they would have waited for 2.8.1 to be released). This first set of tests were performed on the WordPress admin interface and other benchmarks will follow. While the quantities are not as important, I think the trends are interesting. Though not independently confirmed, the growing girth of the admin interface is obvious. In contrast, my test WordPress 2.8.1 blog has shown marked improvements in load times and memory usage as compared to WordPress 2.8. It will be interesting to see how the load and memory usage trends of the WordPress admin interface change with future versions as the WordPress team turns their attention […]

Hanging In Greens and Browns this theme has a healthy balance of color with the main content area a very clear two column layout with a light background. Vina Vina is unique layout and auto grabbed image, multi widget, threaded comment and many more Freshmade Software A software company styled theme in light colors of white, orange and brown. Supporting widgets and nested comments. FancyPress 2 columns, fixed width, widget ready theme