New plugins Blogroll to Page outputs your blogroll links to any page or post on your blog by using its ‘blogroll-to-page’ custom short code. Facebook Like Thumbnail will set the first image of the post as the thumbnail which shows up on FB like and share. Updated plugins DukaPress is an open source and free to use e-commerce platform. Mute Screamer uses PHPIDS to detect attacks on your WordPress site and reacts in a way that you choose. Posts By Tag provides sidebar widgets which can be used to display posts from a specific set of tags in the sidebar.

Ari is a minimalistic, flexible three-column blog theme. The theme makes use of CSS3 media queries for its flexible layout and is optimized for tablet pcs and smart phones (the theme switches to a two-column layout when viewed on a horizontal iPad screen, and to a one-column layout on iPhones). Pink and Purple has an esthetic tab menu in the header, with a modern background, and is widget ready. zeeReputation is a clean two column theme for personal blogs with several features: Custom Logo, Several Color Schemes, Custom Color via Colorpicker, Content Slider, 125×125 Banner Widget, Dropdown Navigation, Google Analytics Integration and more.

If you’re heading out to SXSW next week, don’t miss all of the hot WordPress events! On March 11, catch Matt Mullenweg on the Future of WordPress at 3:30 pm, followed by Making Money with WordPress on March 13 at 9:30am, and stop by the WordPress Genius Bar at booth 829 during the trade show for awesome swag and one-on-one support. If you’re going, have a great time at SXSW, and bring us back a t-shirt or something! 🙂

New plugins Admin Bar Disabler allow you to disable the WP Admin Bar in 3.1+ entirely, or only for roles and capabilities which aren’t in the ‘whitelist’ or ‘blacklist’. Admin Bar Minimizer allows you to minimize/maximize the new WordPress 3.1 admin bar at the click of a button jQuery Drill Down iPod Menu Widget allows you to create a drill down ipod style menu from any WordPress custom menu using jQuery. jQuery Drop Down Mega Menu Widget allows you to quickly and easily create drop down mega menus from any WordPress custom menu. SDAC Author Search gives logged in authors the ability to do a normal site search or the ability to search their content only. Unwanted Plugins Remover allows you to remove unwanted plugins on a WordPress core upgrade process. Updated plugins Crony Cronjob Manager allows you to create and manage cronjobs in WP by running scripts, functions, and/or […]

When WordPress 3.1 premiered, the new admin bar was probably the most noticeable new feature. Hiding it is as simple as unchecking an option at Users -> Your Profile in your Dashboard, but what if you’ve embraced the admin bar and actually want to add to it? As you may have expected, there’s already a healthy handful of plugins that add functionality to the admin bar. Admin Bar ID Menu displays the ID number of the page, post, category, or tag you are looking at in the WordPress Admin Bar. Debug Bar adds a debug menu to the admin bar that shows query, cache, and other helpful debugging information. When WP_DEBUG is enabled, it also tracks PHP Warnings and Notices to make them easier to find. When SAVEQUERIES is enabled, the mysql queries are tracked and displayed. Debug Bar Console adds a PHP/MySQL console to the debug bar. (requires the […]

Keep Calm And Drink Tea is a grunge type theme with a retro based feel. Minimo is a next generation WordPress 3.1 theme that comes jam-packed with all the awesome new wp features. Plus, it has a clean and minimal design perfect for all sorts of blogs. Pongsari is a simple and clean WP Theme, modified from TwentyTen. Simple Blog is a theme for those that want a super clean and simple blogging solution while still keeping some premium-like features. zeeMagazine is a clean two column theme in magazine style with great features: Costum Logo, Colorpicker, Content Slider, Shortcodes, Dropdown Navigation and more.

If you hate to read about security, then this great presentation by WordPress Core Developer Mark Jaquith on WordPress Theme and Plugin Security from WordCamp Phoenix 2011 is just for you! The presentation is great to watch and quite educational for both WordPress users and developers.

So, you’ve just installed WordPress, but you’re not happy about the /wordpress/ that it adds at the end of your domain, or you’d just like to move it elsewhere. Fortunately, the process is rather easy. Go to the Settings section of your Dashboard and change the two URLs there to the location that you want to move WordPress to. Don’t panic, this will effectively kill your blog until you move all of the WordPress files to their new location. You may need to re-generate your permalinks at Settings/Permalinks in your Dashboard. Once that’s done, see our handy guide for changing links and images after a move. Moving a WordPress installation is not too much of a complicated procedure, but feel free to contact the WordPress Support Forums if you run into trouble.