New Plugins WP-Twitip-ID This plugin takes the pain out of adding another field to your comment form for users to enter their twitter username to be displayed as a link to follow them via their twitter page. Media Tags With this plugin you can now add tags to your media attachments. You can tag Word document, PDF documents basically anything you upload via the standard WordPress Media upload tool. CrossPress Automatically, cross-posting to associated site/blog to enabling the post-via-email option with PIN code e.g. multiply.com, livejournal.com, blogspot. Hackadelic Sliding Notes Ajax sliders for content fragments. Fancy replacement for foot- and other notes. GoogleMapper This plugin allows a WordPress Site Admin to enter locations of stores etc into the db. The user can then search for the closest location. Facebook Posted Items This plugin fetches posted items from Facebook and displays them in an unordered list with proper links and comments. […]

Ozh, a WordPress community superstar in his own right has compiled an awesome post highlighting the WordPress interface from version 0.7.1 which was released in May of 2003 all the way up to WordPress 2.7. Along with pictures, Ozh gives us a bit of background information for each version. If you’re like me and didn’t start using WordPress until around 2.2/2.3, this post should serve as an excellent reminder on how far WordPress has come. I can’t help but wonder, how many of you will get that nostalgic feeling when viewing those screenshots. Hat tip goes to The BlogHerald. While you’re here, drop us a comment and let us know what was the first version of WordPress you used?

New Africa A Web 2.0 style WordPress theme featuring six widgetized sidebars for easy control over all the visual elements. Plenty of room to add and display all your favorite widgets. Alex Color Two column, fixed width, dark theme. Pixeled It features a standard 2-3 column layout and sports the following goodies: dropdown top menu for categories; customizable FeedBurner field on top right (optional – requires FeedBurner ID); widgets all around (6 positions); footer navigation and a sweet, transparent look. It’s also an Adsense ready WordPress theme – the divisions are all made to fit standard ad formats. The welcome message on top right can also be customized through the admin panel – no need to mess into the code.

New Plugins Flash Zoom If you have a video blog that had many videos in the home page, you must controls the size to fit the styles of homepage. And in the single page, the video will looks too small. The zoom flash plugin will zoom the size of flash without change the source of flash. JavaScript Logic This plugin allows you to control when JavaScript gets loaded on your blog using WordPress conditional tags. It also lets you to easily pick from WP’s built-in JavaScript and a few scripts included with the plugin. Drop-in Slideshow Plays full-frame slideshow of random images from a folder. Works as a WordPress drop-in and will play images from WordPress upload folder, auto-navigating to a post or page related to current image. Complete hCards This plugin turns the hcards that wordpress 2.7 makes out of the comments by default now, into full hcards including […]

Episode 33 Kenn Bell of TheDogFiles.com as well as Jason Schuller who is one half of the Revolution 2 project. This was a great combination of guests as Kenn initially created the design for TheDogFiles site while Jason applied his code ninja skills to make the design a reality. Here are a couple of bullet points of discussion from this episode: Brief discussion of WordPress 2.7 Why WordPress was chosen as the publishing platform of choice The design and implementation of TheDogFiles website The Revolution 2 project Last but not least, since Jason is a prominent theme designer in the WordPress community, I took the opportunity to have a small discussion with him regarding the removal of 200 themes from the WordPress repository. We did talk a little bit about the GPL and we also discussed the Revolution 2 business model. Announcements: Andy Peatling of the BuddyPress project will be […]

WordPress Notifier for Mac OSX.: This is a freeware tool that sits in your Mac OS X status bar and displays the current unapproved comment count on your WordPress blog. WordPress notifier works with WordPress 2.7 and above and works for blogs on WordPress.com. The screenshots look pretty cool!

Freshcitrus Two column fixed with theme Make it Worn Make It Worn is a template created from the materials provided by Bart-Jan Verhoef as a tutorial on how to create websites with a worn look. This was implemented as a three-column WP theme. WP Presstige A Web 2.0 style WordPress theme featuring 6 widgetized sidebars. Easily customizable and ad ready. Comes with PSD to make your own custom header. Graphii Three column, widget ready, gravatar ready theme FTLThemes Fixed width, two column, widget ready and gravatar ready theme

New Plugins WordPress Touchshop The downloadable kit contains all that you need for a WordPress e-Commerce Shop to be fully compatible for customers buying with their iPhone or iPod Touch. Widgets Reloaded Plugin Replaces many of the default widgets with versions that allow much more control. Widgets come with highly customizable control panels. Each widget can also be used any number of times. Compatibility Notes Compatibility Notes is a simple WordPress plugin that will attach a list of supported WordPress versions to every plugin’s description on the “Plugins” page. Post Notes On its own, this plugin adds a text area on the sidebar of the add and edit post pages so that users can add notes for themselves or others. Requires WordPress 2.7 or higher. wp-visitors wp-visitors records information about every visitor (page load). Requested URL, Referring URL, IP address, Hostname and Browser along with Date/Time are recorded and displayed […]