New plugins Business Hours Plugin allows you to post your daily working hours and show it to your visitors in a configurable and templatable widget. WP Users Exporter allows you to export the users of your site in a spreadsheet, csv or html format with all metadata. Updated plugins Revision Cleaner will clean up your revisions automatically (each authors can set their own interval).

Annotum Base is an open-source, open-process, open-access scholarly authoring and publishing platform. NomNom is a Twenty Eleven child theme which makes things easy to get your site looking the way you want with just the click of a button. Quill is designed with genealogy sites in mind, but would suit a wide variety of topics including art, history, writing, literature, etc. zeeStyle is a flexible and colorful theme with a unique and professional design.

It is time once again to poke WordPress with a sharp stick. WordPress 3.3 Beta 4 has been released, and all major tickets have been closed. Along with the bug fixes come some subtle UI tweaks, more real text (instead of placeholders), and jQuery 1.7.1. The developers feel that they are “very close to a release candidate,” so now’s the time to start poking, prodding, and breaking as many things as you can. If you run into any bugs, don’t forget to report them and contact the support forum if you need help.

I tried to help a co-worker with a professional blog for a TV channel yesterday and ran into some weird issues. We host the blog on a Windows 2008 server with IIS and Plesk. The WordPress install from within the Plesk worked fine but ours did not. The “white screen of death” on the install screen was perplexing (more on that at the bottom of this article), but every time he tried to either upgrade WordPress or install or upgrade a plugin or theme, he would receive warnings or failures stating that WordPress was unable to find the wp-content directory. This warning can take various forms but circle around the fact that WordPress did not find the right directory in the expected place. The obvious and painless solution is to upload the files directly to the server using FTP and then control the blog from within wp-admin. In this case, […]

New plugins Email Address Encoder protects email addresses from email-harvesting robots by encoding them into decimal and hexadecimal entities. Free Stock Photos Foter lets you easily search, manage and add free photos to your blog posts. Updated plugins beCounted creates a multiple item count up widget based on annual statistics showing the number of occurrences since the page was loaded. Shashin displays photos and videos from Picasa, YouTube, and Twitpic.

Do you think you’re an expert on WordPress trivia? Then, try your hand at The WordPress Game Show, fresh from WordCamp Detroit 2011. This handy Jeopardy-inspired game is build entirely on WordPress and is sure to be a crowd pleaser at your local WordPress meetup, or perhaps even the centerpiece to your Thanksgiving celebrations.

Graphite is a simple, clean, highly readable theme that would suit any type of blog or website. Lagom as a visually clean design with a classic blog layout. Mistletoe is a two column minimalist Christmas-themed blog design with a cute snowman illustration and chic handwriting fonts.

Jetpack 1.2 has been released, bringing more core WordPress.com features to self-hosted WordPress blogs. This major update to the popular plugin brings super-easy email subscriptions (just add the widget and you’re done), Google+ has been added to the sharing buttons, new short codes for VideoPress and Google Maps, and a quick and easy Image widget. If you’re using Jetpack, upgrade now! If not, now is the perfect time to try it!