At approximately 19:38:33 on December 1, 2008 Ryan Boren became the owner of the 10,000th changeset to the WordPress code. This particular code set change was a re-ordering of font families for Windows font selection that was initially patched by Matt Thomas. There has been a discussion taking place within the WP-Testers mailing list that the Bitstream font is horrible and that it needed to be replaced by Verdana. Looks like they received their wish. By the way, the first Changeset to appear since the WordPress team began using Trac happened on April 1, 2003 (6 years ago). The changeset involved a new respository initialized by cvs2svn and the author is anonymous. cvs2svn is a program that can be used to migrate a CVS repository to Subversion (otherwise known as “SVN”) or git. Documentation: A hearty congratulations goes out to not only the core development team, but to all those […]

New Plugins WP-CopyProtect A simple plugin that will disabled right-click and prevent selection of text on your blog. Ciao Box Allows the user to display a Ciao Box in the sidebar. Autodownload Autodownload is a WordPress plugin that enables your blog to provide downloadable files either in your posts or pages. Show authors without posts Shows the authors page even if the author has no post. Updated Plugins Cronjob Control This plugin shows you all active WP cronjobs (scheduled tasks) of your weblog in the “Site Admin” area and if you want, you can stop the cronjob(s). ProjectManager This plugin is a data manager for any recurrent datasets. It can be used to manage and list a DVD collection,to to present portraits (e.g. athletes of a team) or anything you can think of. Collapsing Archives This plugin uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapse the set of months for each […]

For quite awhile now, I’ve been monitoring a specific blog post from May 15th, 2007 which is a tutorial on how to migrate from Drupal 5 to WordPress 2. Many things have changed since then between both pieces of software and thus, the scripts provided on the site will not work. Every now and then, someone publishes a comment that contains a link to an updated version of the script to work with newer versions of Drupal and WordPress. DovDox is the latest blog to publish an updated portion of the script albeit with a caveat. Taking my usual hacksaw-and-duct-tape approach, I simply deleted the portions that didn’t work. That means my version moved all of the posts and comments to the new blog, but didn’t preserve any of their categories. Drupal’s ridiculous “taxonomy” system just isn’t easy to map onto WordPress’s much more rational categories and tags, and in […]

New Plugins Add to Feed Add to Feed is a feed enhancement plugin that allows you to easily add a copyright notice and custom text/HTML to your WordPress blog feed. The custom text can be entered before and/or after the content of your blog post. Amazon Plugin Amazon shop plugin that allows a blogger to add products with Amazon associate ID embedded in it and earn revenue by showing Amazon products right into the blog posts. Related Blog Links This WordPress plugin will display the blog links related to your posts and pages. Techytube XHTML This plugin allows you to embed YouTube videos on your blog. ZD YouTube FLV Player Display FLV and YouTube Video in you blog in a Custom Player. WordPress Gallery Slideshow This plugin adds the JW Image Rotator to the WordPress Media. Easy AdSenser Easy AdSenser provides a very easy way to insert Google AdSense code […]

Episode 31 of WordPress Weekly featured a special 1 hour 26 minute interview with none other than Lisa Sabin Wilson, the author of WordPress For Dummies. Keith and I grilled Lisa on the topics of: Writing a book for a piece of software which has an extremely fast development cycle How different versions affect the publishing of the book WordPress For Dummies The Second Edition Lisa’s thoughts on WordPress 2.7 Lisa’s explanation on permalinks and slugs Lisa’s take on premium themes versus free themes much, much, more. Keith and I really enjoyed our time with Lisa and wish her the best for the second edition of WordPress For Dummies. Announcements: The two lucky recipients who will each receive a signed copy of WordPess For Dummies 2nd Edition are Chris Thompson and Lenire. WPWeekly Meta: Next Episode: Friday December 5th, 2008 8P.M. EST Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: Click here to […]

Journalized v2 Journalized is a one, two or three column theme available in six different themes, with threaded and paged comments with an administration interface. Wasteland It’s a 5 Column (main content, 2 sidebars and 2 top sections), widget-ready fixed width theme in soothing Creme and Brown colors featuring an author box, author info page, gravatars and with Custom Archives, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates. Underground Fixed width, three columns, widget ready theme Weblog Magazine Theme Widget ready, three columns, fixed width theme with adsense / advert ready areas which are easily edited for ease of use and monetization. Available in 10 colors.

Here in the states, it is Thanksgiving. The time of year when most stop to think about what it is they are thankful for. In keeping with that tradition, I wanted to give my thanks to the WordPress development team but the thanks doesn’t end there. I also pass on my thanks to each and every one of you who have contributed code to the WordPress project. I’m no coder and I appreciate those who are to help guide me around the more interesting parts of WordPress. A very special thanks goes out to plugin and theme developers. You folks really enable end users to take WordPress up to the next level. I would also like to give thanks and recognize those who cover WordPress within the community. These are sites which keep users informed, provide great information, and increase the end users knowledge of what this piece of software […]

New Plugins WP-Niceforms Niceforms is a script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones. K2 Hook Up K2 Hook Up exposes the seven hooks in K2 theme to the admin as friendly input boxes, where you place any HTML, CSS, JavaScript or PHP code (including template tags, other WordPress functions, or even code from other plugins) that you like. Custom Post Template Provides a drop-down to select different templates for posts from the post edit screen. The templates replace single.php for the specified post. SuperSlider-Show Animated Gallery slideshow uses Mootools 1.2 javascript replaces WordPress gallery with a slideshow. Use Google Libraries A number of the javascript libraries distributed with WordPress are also hosted on Google’s AJAX Libraries API. This plugin allows your WordPress site to use the content distribution network side of Google’s AJAX Library API, rather than serving these files from your WordPress […]