New Plugins Blog Copyright Blog Copyright injects a copyright notice into the blog footer. Art Direction Plugin This plugin allows you to have global archive and single page per-post styles. Admin Menu Editor Manually edit the Dashboard menu. You can reorder the menus, show/hide specific items, change access rights, and more. Vimeo Quicktags Enable administrator to embed vimeo video into blog. Options available are the same as provided by vimeo. Picapp The plugin makes it easier to insert free, quality photos into a blog post by integrating all these into your WordPress interface. Updated Plugins Author Avatars This plugin provides a widget and a shortcode which allow you to show avatars of blog users. Open Picture Window Opens a new browser window containing the image specified using JavaScript. You have the option to choose the features as well as choose if you want it to be centered. Add to Feed […]

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First off, BuddyPress is looking real good these days. Secondly, I’d like to thank Andy Peatling, head honcho for the BuddyPress project for stopping by and lending us an hour of his time to explain exactly what BuddyPress is and does. On December 15th, 2008 Andy released the first beta version of the project. So what exactly is BuddyPress? BuddyPress is essentially a set of WordPress MU specific plugins. Each plugin component adds a distinct feature to BuddyPress and only handles functionality for that specific component (for example, private messaging). BuddyPress also has a core plugin that all other plugins require, it contains shared functions and performs the basic modifications to the WordPress MU interface. Tune into the show to hear Andy delve into the feature set of the project as well as taking questions from the audience. By the way, if you don’t have the ability to install WordPress […]

On Thursday, December 18th, I had the honor of having a fireside chat so to speak with Matt Mullenweg. The chat lasted a little over two hours and then, Matt stayed around after the show for an additional two hours to field questions from anybody that asked them. There are a number of things that I have taken away with this chat with Matt and I’ll be listing those in an article in the following days but without a shadow of a doubt, Matt is a stand up guy. He answered all of my questions, even the tough ones which were submitted by the community. While there is room left to debate the GPL and what is or isn’t compliant, Matt answered the GPL questions to the best of his ability and in most cases, his answers are nothing more than his personal opinion since certain aspects of the GPL […]

Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme & Admin Area: Tips and Tricks.: Noupe has a nice writeup on mastering WordPress 2.7 Admin and understanding how to use the new features of WordPress 2.7 in your theme. These include 1.1. Enhancing Comment Display – Threading, Paging, etc. 1.2. Make this post sticky 1.3. Post Classes 1.4. wp page menu 1.5. Logout Link 2.1. Keyboard Shortcuts for browsing and moderating comments 2.2. Reply to and Edit comments from Admin Area 2.3. Edit comments from Admin Area 2.4. Allow plugin installations via web interface from Admin Area 2.5. Admin’s new Navigation Menu 2.6. Interesting Dashboard Modules: QuickPress & Recent Drafts 2.7. Quick Edit Option in Admin area 2.8. Auto Close Comments And Trackbacks 2.9. Bulk Edit Posts I wish there were anchors or separate pages to link directly to each piece, but alas they are all lumped together. This is a nice read nonetheless.

New Plugins WP AutoSuggest Search on my blog by typing in a keyword rather than waiting for the results page to load. PostRank This plugin adds the PostRank Top Posts Widget & Analytics to your blog. PostRank measures the engagement with each story by analyzing the types and frequency of social media interactions. The more interesting or relevant the story is, the more active your readers will be in sharing it. WP Lifestream Lifestream displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it on many of the social networking sites. WordPress Video Solution Framework Video solutions framework, including player, transcoder and administration interface utilities as wpmu plugin. It powers wordpress.com video solution. wp2blosxom Exports all your posts to a zip file containing a blosxom style directory hierarchy of posts. Sliding Post – Slides latest posts with Carousel effect A plugin for WordPress which shows latest 10 posts […]

If you are a premium theme developer or have an interest in WordPress themes, you may have heard that over 200 themes were removed from the WordPress.org theme repository. The reasons behind the removals have yet to be made public and there is more afoot than just the removal of themes. Over the course of the past few days, debates and discussions have been taking place on numerous blogs regarding WordPress, the GPL, themes and much more. Matt has agreed to appear on WordPress Weekly on Thursday at 1 P.M. EST to set the record straight so to speak. My goal for this special episode of the show is to get an explanation as to what happened with the theme repository, the new guidelines, Matt’s stance on the GPL, the entire issue of premium themes, what will happen with plugins and a whole lot more. This episode is really important […]

WP Full Site WP Full site is a two column theme built for small businesses that want a website that enables them to use a Content Management System (CMS), have the option of a blog, and focuses on the necessities that all small business websites need. TimeCafe Premium Free It is a blue magazine style template with theme options menu, front page featured content slider, built in newsletter, custom typography, dropdown many, advertisement ready and much more! Theme is ready for WordPress 2.7! Enable threaded (nested) comments from your WordPress – Settings – Discussion menu and you’ll have different colors for comments up to 5 levels deep of replies. WP-Meditation 2 Column, fixed width, widget ready WordPress Theme Blue Christmas A fun and bluish, fixed width, two columns, gravatar ready, widget ready Christmas theme. Also, check out the other themes by Blogtuine.com, viz. Prolog, Ext JS and JS03.