WordPress Automatic Upgrade This is the latest version of the popular plugin that helps ease the upgrade of your WordPress blog. Epic Theme Viewer This plugin uses that native theme viewer in WordPress 2.6 to display a front end display of all the themes available on your blog. Recommended Books This is higly configurable widget to WordPress sidebar. It displays up to 10 books with liks to Eruditor.com bookshop and optionaly with jacket images, prices in dollars or pounds and/or discounts. Servage Referral Widget This widget allows customers of Servage to display a link containing their coupon code to Servage, customers that use this code get 25GB of extra web space and 2 months free hosting when a new customer that uses the code joins up, in return the new customer automatically receives 25GB of extra quota. Paginated Comments Paginated Comments is a WordPress Plugin that gives you the ability […]

PositiveNoize A simple, light-weight, fast-loading, widget-ready two column WordPress 2.5+ theme Base BASE is a very solid two column WordPress theme, covering all the basic features a standard WordPress theme should have…plus one or two extras. simple.business simple.business is a simple two column WordPress theme with a tabbed sidebar

WordPress 2.6 has been officially released today. Matt surprised many of us by releasing WordPress 2.6 almost a month ahead of schedule. There are several new features in WordPress 2.6, few of which we had covered earlier. The WordPress team have also created a video that demonstrates the new features bundled with WordPress 2.6. https://videopress.com/v/mARhRBcT/fmt_std Download WordPress 2.6

Version Creator This plugin have made to put your site’s version on it. You can give your version number, version name, version note whatever you want and the release date organize automatically. PicasaView With picasaView you can easily view your picasaweb-albums in your WordPress blog. Tagline Rotator The Tagline Rotator plugin does pretty much what it sounds like it would do: it randomly selects a tagline (that’s the description of your blog beneath the title) from a list of user-compiled taglines, then displays it within your blog. WordPress Tabs and Slides WP-TabsAndSlides (in post items) Plugin gives you the ability to easily add content tabs and/or content slides. The tabs emulate a multi-page structure, while the slides emulate an accordion-like structure, inside a single page. RSSCake RSSCake is evolution from QuickRSS, a plugin to show RSS into your post and page. You can insert one or more feed into your […]

A few days ago we had told you what you should know about WordPress 2.6. The post described new features that will be introduced shortly in WordPress 2.6. Though there are several new features that you may like in this new version, there might be many that have gone unnoticed that were introduced in the earlier versions of WordPress. To quell the anticipation that users might have for the latest version, we wanted to write a series of posts that will cover WordPress from its infancy to WordPress 2.5 (the latest major version) that many of you use. The WordPress team has been naming their major releases after popular Jazz legends and we will take a look at code names for the past releases. B2 / Cafelog WordPress is the official successor of B2/Cafelog which is a blogging platform created in early 2001 by Michel Valdrighi using PHP and MySQL. […]

The guys and gal over at the WordCast Podcast is currently holding a Mugshot contest. The contest is all about taking a photo of your favorite mug. Check out this awesome line up prizes: 4th Place: WordPress mug and WordPress T-shirt 3rd Place: WordPress mug, WordPress T-shirt and Lijit T-Shirt 2nd Place: WordPress mug, WordPress T-shirt, Lijit T-Shirt, signed copy of Blogging Tips: What bloggers won’t tell you about blogging, and one single-user Revolution theme license of the winners’ choice 1st Place: WordPress mug, WordPress T-shirt, Lijit T-Shirt, signed copy of Blogging Tips: What bloggers won’t tell you about blogging, one TV.Elements theme license, one single-user Revolution theme license of the winners’ choice, a free copy of The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog, and an (optional) free 30 minute consultation with Liz Strauss. The contest is still going on with no clear indication as to when the […]

HelloBlogger A simple two column blue and white WordPress theme Typography A fixed two column outfit and some modern typographic styles. The front page shows the latest post in excerpts with an article image pulled via the custom fields, while the sidebar features a custom built news slider. Bullit Bullit WordPress theme with a fixed two column outfit and some stylish black layout. The front page shows the latest post in excerpts with an article image pulled via the custom fields, while the sidebar features a special news slider. The Enhancing Spring The Enhancing Spring (TES) is a 2-column theme in green style. It’s autofit to your screen width and looks very clean, which makes your posts easy to read. The XHTML and CSS are well separated so it’s very easy to customize for your own needs. Una Una is a clean, minimalistic, steady and excellent theme. It has 2 […]

I have been asked this question quite a few times and I never have a perfect answer. It is obviously an important question to ask but it can be answered in many different ways based on preferences, need for plugins, optimization techniques used and a variety of other factors. Weblog Tools Collection uses a lot of plugins and is very query heavy but the in spite of that, the front page uses 59 queries to generate itself. I think the default (on a vanilla WordPress install on the default theme) is 27 or something of that nature. The larger the number of queries, the slower the page is going to load and the more load you are going to put on your MySql server. All of the above is true if you do not use inline or regenerative caching mechanisms. The caveat on this blog is that its plugins and […]