WordPress 2.7.1 RC1 has been released officially today as per Ryan Boren’s mail in the WP-Testers list. The following have been fixed since WP 2.7.1 Beta 1, which was released earlier this week. URL column in Edit Links removes www. from domains that end in www Theme preview fails when theme in subdirectory ‘Draft Saved’ current_time not reflecting timezone setting in the edit area Revisions do not respect time zone offset Canonical redirect of feed URLs with suffixes is wrong index.php file in the plugins folder makes the Dashboard fail With this release, we’re much closer to 2.7.1 final being made available for all users. For those interested download WordPress 2.7.1 RC1. Report any bugs in the wp-testers list.

Gandhi Gandhi is a blue, three-column wordpress theme with a left and right sidebar. It is a Search Engine friendly theme, with widgetized sidebars and footers and a smart Featured Posts Section. Pranav Pranav is a three-column theme with a left and right sidebar. The theme is rich in colours and has a new look. Like my other themes, it is SEO-optimized, with widgetized sidebars and footer. It again has a great looking Featured Posts section with automatic thumbnail displays. The layout is completely configurable through the Theme’s options page. Mimbo MIMBO is a clean, customizable magazine-style theme for WordPress. It’s also a simple framework which can be modified with child themes Hybrid News Hybrid News is a child theme of the Hybrid theme framework.  It was developed to take advantage of WordPress 2.7’s threaded comments and sticky posts.  It comes loaded with 10 widget sections and a front page […]

Ever been on Amazon.com and seen the “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought”. So, why not apply the same concept to your WordPress blog? Back in 2007, Mark released a plugin that would help you display the same on your WordPress blog. We’ve been running it on this blog for the past year and a half. With WordPress 2.7, it was time to upgrade this plugin as well. The plugin has been rebuilt with the basic features but enhanced with an admin interface that allows you to set various options, including the ability to optionally include the list of posts in your content or the feed. You can also choose to manually add <?php if(function_exists(‘ald_wherego’)) echo_ald_wherego(); ?> where you want to display the posts. How it works? As and when readers click on links, this plugin checks to see if it was referred from your blog, checks to see […]

Scott Wallick, the author of the popular and well known Sandbox theme has announced on his personal blog that he is selling the Sandbox domain along with Plaintxt.org. The sale does not include the actual themes since they have been developed and released under the GPL license. Scott does provide a reason for why he is selling the domains: I have withdrawn from the WordPress community. Active development of my themes and plugins has stopped simply because I am unable to continue the necessary development. In a way, they have a life of their own. If you would like the opportunity to chat with Scott Wallick about his involvement with the WordPress community, be sure to tune in to this weeks episode of WordPress Weekly as he will be my special guest.

New Plugins Simply Show IDs Simply shows the ID of Posts, Pages, Media and Links in the admin tables for easy access. Google Website Optimizer for WordPress This simple plugin lets you optimize your landing pages (as posts or pages) using the Google Website Optimizer without needing to edit the HTML code of the theme. Page not in English. Mass Format Conversion Applies all content filters to posts and comments and saves them back to the database. This is useful if you have been using Textile or Markdown (for example) and you want to switch to plain HTML. WP Background Tile The WP Background Tile Plugin for WordPress applies a tiled background image to your blog.  It is as simple as this: TNG WordPress Integration Integrates TNG (The Next Generation) genealogy software into WordPress. Contextual revenue plugin by Advtise Insert Advtise.com Partner revenue code in to your posts on the […]

New way to get on Techmeme: send tips to Techmeme via Twitter: Techmeme is now accepting tips via Twitter. They are using Twitter’s search API to look for incoming tips. Techmeme is my first read every morning and now that the site is partially human edited, there is the desire and the ability for readers to suggest news. Of particular interest is the Techmeme suggest button to add to your site or blog. Anyone know of a WordPress plugin that does this automagically yet? Read more of the discussion at Techmeme and story thanks to Blog Herald.

Entropy Two column, Grunge based red and grey theme with a different front page and posts pages. Quantum Two column, fixed width, widget ready, gravatar ready theme with threaded comments support and with 125×125 ads inbuilt. Brown Two column, widget ready, SEO titled theme clearcut The clearcut WP theme includes a typography based grid layout, four recent posts (with pagination enabled ) and an options panel for footer area, page menu as well as cat menu shows subpages (two rows), the image script checks your posts auto for images attached and displays them auto. Fresh Fruits 3 Columns, Health niche related, Adsense ready, Widget ready theme And finally, Smashing Magazine has released two new themes. Read about Vintage and Blue Themes for WordPress. Are you a theme author looking to have your theme in our release posts? Check out how you can submit them to us.

The man, the myth, the legend, Ajay D’Souza not only brings you news of the latest WordPress plugins and themes to hit the community but he also has a few plugins under his belt. Today, I’ll be reviewing one of those plugins called Autoclose Autoclose enables a granular approach to managing pingbacks/comments/trackbacks on both posts and pages. Some of the highlights that the plugin features: Close Comments on posts/pages older than (number of days). Close Pingbacks/Trackbacks on posts? Close Pingbacks/Trackbacks on pages? Close Pingbacks/Trackbacks on posts/pages older than (number of days). The ability to configure when the plugin runs its configuration to detect if a comment/trackback/pingback need to be closed off. Last but not least, Autoclose also provides a checkbox to delete post revisions. So why would you want to use a plugin like this? For starters, based on my experience with blogging, the conversation on any particular blog post […]