First on the list is a large collection of WordPress video tutorials, tips and tricks ranging from the very basic to the very advanced from SpeckyBoy. This list also includes our very own Weblog Tools Videos which lists various WordPress and blogging videos, tips, tutorials and reviews. Noupe has listed 11 new “Most Wanted” hacks for WordPress in a nice illustrated list. The new hacks include protecting your pictures from hotlinking and Custom Google Search for WordPress. WPMU has received 37 nominations for their WordPress MU awards for 2008 and are looking for people to help choose the winners. View the nominations and vote for them. Michael Kubler has written up a tutorial to make WordPress captioned images work as expected on your WordPress theme. Captioned images were introduced in WordPress 2.6 (I believe). This blog had the same problem till we managed to wrangle the extra CSS code for […]

New Plugins Strip Strip! is a WordPress plugin that allows you hide links from a given comment. Unlike other plugins that do the same purpose, you can restore the links anytime you want. JournalPress A cross-poster supporting multiple LiveJournal Server journals. Speed Test This widget makes it possible that any visitor of your blog can test his bandwidth speed. The widget ist hosted on Amazon S3 storage and checks the speed from the nearest server worldwide. (Page in German) Quizzin Quizzin lets you add quizzes to your blog. This plugin is designed to be as easy to use as possible. Quizzes, questions and answers can be added from the admin side. This will appear in your post if you add a small HTML snippet in your post. My Tag Cloud My tag cloud provides you with a widget that actually gives you the ability to list the tags of your […]

This Friday at 8PM EST on WordPress Weekly, our special one hour guest will be Lisa Sabin Wilson who is the author of the book, WordPress For Dummies. During the show, we plan on discussing how hard it is to write about a piece of software that moves 100mph in print format, Lisa’s background in web design and what it is like to theme for WordPress, WordPress For Dummies The Second Edition and much more. This Thursday is Thanksgiving here in the states. On Friday, I want to give my thanks to those of you who continue to show your support while telling your friends about the show and downloading it on a regular basis. On Friday, we will be giving away two signed copies of WordPress For Dummies 2nd Edition. Lisa will sign the copies and ship them once the new edition has been published. So how will we […]

New Plugins Quartz Show random quotes/tips/links/pictures/something to visitors. These quotes can be added from the admin side. You can add the quotes one by one – or you can bulk import the stuff from a text file. YouVersion This plugin takes marked-up scripture references and pulls the verses from YouVersion. CMS Navigation Out-of-the-box support for full CMS navigation in your WordPress site including drop down menus, breadcrumbs trail and sidebar navigation. WordPress Politically Correct Turns any blog into a haven of safe politically correct content. Assign Missing Categories Assigns the default category to all posts that have no category after you’ve converted your categories to tags. Artists ilike Displays the artists you have “ilike’d” from your ilike.com profile on your blog. Updated Plugins zeList zeList is a plugin to run a directory on a WordPress power website. Get Flickr Thumbnails Get Flickr Thumbnails plugin can get thumbnails for photos on […]

Keith, Andrew, Jacob and I discussed the news of the week. In fact, I tried to break the world record by opening up as many cans of worms as possible within a 60 minute period. You’ll have to listen to the show to hear if I was successful. Ad Copy: WordPress Weekly is brought to you by the fine advertisers on WeblogToolsCollection.com. Without their continued support, this show would not be possible. If you are interested in advertising on WordPress Weekly, please contact me at wpweekly at gmail dot com.. Stories Discussed: WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 Released Why 2.7 Is Not 3.0 The Icons Have Been Chosen Integrating Plugins – Is This Bad For WordPress? Adding A Twitter ID Field To Comments Listing Pages The 2.7 Way 10 Best WordPress Web Hosts Compared Feedback: We encourage you to leave a comment whether it be feedback, questions, rants, or corrections then […]

Hybrid Hybrid is a WordPress theme framework that has been actively developed on WordPress 2.7 but is compatible down to 2.5. It removes the need to use SEO plugins. It was developed with child themes in mind, so you’ll never have to lose your customizations with a theme update. The theme comes packaged with 13 page templates and supports 15+ plugins out of the box. You can run anything from a small family blog to a complex site with thousands of visitors. Google Chrome for WordPress Two column, fixed width, widget ready that looks just like Google Chrome. Loans Two / Three column, SEO theme based on CSS framework “Blueprint” Weblog Magazine Three column, fixed width, red, white and blue, widget ready theme.

New Plugins Blibahblubah This plugin allows the blog owner to customize the tag cloud so that any reader mousing over the tag cloud will see the words in the tag cloud flicker with a customizable effect. This is just a fancy bell and whistle to add to your blog. WordPress Popular Posts Adds a widget to show the most popular posts in your WordPress blog. Comments Count Filter Makes the comments from post author not to be counted. The post author must login before giving a comment. Surveys Add surveys to you blog. You can let the visitors take surveys and see the result from the admin side. Pollin Create and add polls to your blog. It can be shown to your visitors who will be able to vote in the poll. wpSLEEP Create posts in advance have them automatically publish when you’d like. You can then set when different […]

Clean Press Clean Press is a 2 column WordPress theme that’s designed to focus on the content, rather than the design, and it’s the theme that powers this site. iQ2 iQ2 is a fixed width, widget ready, photoblog theme that fully integrates with the PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin. Night Light Fixed width, two column, widget ready theme with a left sidebar Carrington Three column, widget and gravatar ready theme