Just the other day, I ran into a problem. I deleted a number of categories on my blog and since WordPress does not give you the option of reassigning the posts within those categories to another category, all of those posts were reassigned to Uncategorized. The answer to this problem? Batch Categories. Batch Categories is a WordPress plugin written by Rob Miller that adds some powerful functionality into the default WordPress category editor. With Batch Categories, you can reassign a number of posts to a category, remove a number of posts from a category, edit the tagging structure, and so much more. Batch Categories also includes a number of enhanced post filters to make finding those posts much easier. This is what the plugin back end looks like. There are two different versions of this plugin. One for WordPress 2.3.3 and one for WordPress 2.5. This is the type of […]

I had this interesting thought which I am sure can be easily defeated but definitely points towards the success of WordPress. I was searching the web for something inconspicuous as the “iWrap” and I came upon some interesting results. While browsing the results and then switching back to the search results page, I realized that the first page had at least three results that were either related to WordPress or were on a WordPress blog. I repeated the search for completely inane search terms and had at least one result show up on every search I performed from a blog that used WordPress as the blogging tool. I have had this happen in the past with various other queries but had not quite put two and two together. So my hypothesis is that a WordPress blog or a link that is somehow related to WordPress, shows up on the first […]

New ‘AB Meta’ Markup Tools Could Create a Smarter Web: Wired has an interesting article on a new set of tools from Adaptive Blue called AB Meta which could be used to easily add metadata to your blog pages that can in turn, be used by search engines to correctly categorize and annotate content. Dougal’s HeadMeta WordPress plugin can be used to insert AB Meta into your posts. The Wired article and the Adaptive Blue blog post have some examples on how this works and what should be done. Disclosure: Adaptive Blue is an advertiser on this blog.

One Column Themes Cranky Hemingway A one column theme based on the Hemingway theme. This theme also sports a extended sidebar in the footer area to display additional content. Two Column Themes Libertine Libertine is a minimalistic theme specifically made for WordPress 2.5. It contains support for Gravtar, new image classes and more. WP Bats WP Bats is a two column, fixed-width, widget ready theme. The theme comes build in with page links navigation. Grayplicity Grayplicity is a two column widget ready theme. The theme comes with a CSS file that is compressed and used by the site so if you try editing the style.css and nothing changes please make changes in the header to use style.css. Codescheme Blue Codescheme Blue is a fixed-width, 2 column widget ready theme. The pages have a horizontal tab menu, using the CSS ‘sliding-doors’ method and are generated automatically. Three Column Themes Thoughtlog Thoughtlog […]

The results for the Webware 100 have been released. WordPress.org along with WordPress.com have taken home the award for best publisher. Congratulations to the team at Automattic, the core developers of WordPress.org and last but not least, thanks to all of you who voted and continue to use and support WordPress on a daily basis.

Those of you who have been wanting a Technology conference to visit the South Eastern United States are now in luck. The event is called South By Deep South and is a take on the familiar South by South West conference. The event will be held in Birmingham, Alabama on September 26th-28th. The final details of the event are still being worked out but Ike Pigott has already let us know some of what we can expect from this event: Social Media/PR/Marketing Web development A full-blown WordCamp In case you missed it, that last one says WordCamp. Personally, I thought Atlanta, Georgia would of been the first city in the South Eastern United States to get a WordCamp event, but it looks like I was wrong. Ike also notes that there will be a SideWalk Festival that will be taking place during the same weekend. I’m really glad to see […]

If you cannot see the video, please visit this link: Organize Series – Video Plugin Review Today’s WordPress Plugin video review is of Organize Series by Unfolding Neurons. Video Summary: Organize Series is an extremely powerful plugin that makes organizing series rather simple. There are many options to customize the look. The show clincher for me is the ability to have series archives. I highly recommend this plugin for people who do post series. Pros: It’s easy to add series and to organize them. Many options to customize the look and feel. The series permalinks are a nice feature. Cons: Perhaps too many options, but power-users will love them. I only tested this plugin on 2.5, so I’m not sure how well this plugin fares on other versions. If you think your WordPress plugin will merit itself to a video review, please get in contact with me via e-mail (ronalfy+wltc […]

Two Column Themes Elegant Orange Elegant Orange is a very simple WordPress theme with a nice elegant style. The sidebar is widget-ready. Rainbow Rainbow a clean, light-colored template with a rainbow strip at the top. There is a area in the header to add a note or announcement for your readers. The theme is widget ready. FedBurned FedBurned is a fixed-width, widget ready 2 column with right sidebar theme. The theme resembles designs from Feedburner. Professor Professor is a theme which seeks to put text and images first and foremost, and create a pleasurable reading experience. It also has a option to show a feature post on the top of the home page. Underwater A unique theme where the readers experience content as if they are reading it under water. The theme has a dolphin image in the header.