Part 2 of the 2010 best of series on WeblogToolsCollection.com. James Huff did a great job this year as well as some other authors. Lots of stuff to chew on here. Enjoy! July: One Click Multisite in WordPress 3.0 What’s Your Take On the GPL Argument Between Matt and Thesis? Thesis Adopts a Split GPL License A New Way to Install Plugins August: Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plug-In WordPress and Forums WordPress and the White Screen of Death Drive Traffic to Old Content with “Tweet Old Post” Plugin Common WordPress Multisite Problems and Solutions Regarding Plugin And Theme Digests WordPress Support Forum All-stars Should You Remove Post Dates from Your WordPress Blog? WordPress and the Fatal Memory Error September: Lorelle’s Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins Find Your Spam Magnets WordPress Trademark Donated to WordPress Foundation WordPress and the Internal Server Error WordPress and the Headers Already Sent Warning Boost […]

FreeDream 2010 is a free, colorful and translation-ready standalone WordPress theme based on almost all the handy functions from the default Twenty Ten theme. GChrome is a lightweight theme based on the highly coveted Google Chrome browser.

The year is quickly coming to a close, and it’s time to look back and reflect on the year that we have so commonly referred to as 2010. We’ve already shared part 1 of our highlights from 2010, but what about you? What is your most memorable WordPress-related highlight from the year 2010? This could be anything from the first 3.1 release candidate to that time when you spent all night fixing your friend’s blog. To start the ball rolling, I’d have to say that the hiring of Andrew Nacin as a full-time developer certainly stands out as my favorite WordPress moment of 2010. So, what’s yours?

In terms of WordPress stuff, WeblogToolsCollection.com publishes a large amount of content over the course of a year. In this two part series, I’ll be highlighting some of the best content that will not only give you a glimpse of the progress made regarding WordPress but also remind you of some of the more important stories that took place during the year. For me personally, 2010 has been a really tough year both financially and personally. Not only did I lose my future father father-in-law to prostate cancer, but my little endeavor to create a WordPress centric community site that helped me to pay the bills flopped. I’m hoping 2011 is much better than 2010 and for those of you that celebrate it, Happy New Years!. January: WordPress Search Based DOS Attack Anatomy Of A WordPress Release WordPress 2.9.1 Final Released Flattered Or Ripped Off? The Merge Has Begun A […]

New plugins Global Content Blocks allows you to create your own shortcodes to insert reusable code snippets or HTML including forms, opt-in boxes, iframes, Adsense code, etc, into pages and posts. You can insert them using the shortcodes or via a button in the TinyMCE visual editor toolbar. Updated plugins AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. Dynamic Widgets gives you full control on which pages your widgets will appear. It lets you dynamicly place the widgets on WordPress pages by setting conditional rules with just a few mouse clicks by role, dates, language (WPML), for the homepage, single posts, pages, authors, categories, archives, error page, search page and custom post types. (review) Exploit Scanner searches the files on your website, and the […]

WordPress 3.0.4 has been released to plug a critical security vulnerability. [It] fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as “critical.” I realize an update during the holidays is no fun, but this one is worth putting down the eggnog for. In the spirit of the holidays, consider helping your friends as well. If you’re currently testing WordPress 3.1, make sure that you upgrade to the latest nightly release to get the same security fixes.

One of the greatest strengths of WordPress is the widget system. As long as a theme supports sidebars, it can use widgets which can be anything from a Twitter status update area to a static text box. The beauty of the system is that you can move content around without using any extravagant code. Thankfully, themes have really started to embrace the sidebar/widget system in 2010 by providing an ample amount of sidebars and in some cases, the opportunity to create as well as place sidebars where you want them. However, the default widget system in WordPress does not offer granularity out of the box. When a widget is placed within a sidebar, that widget will show up on every post/page that the sidebar is on. I’ve personally been waiting to see WordPress come up with their own system of being able to dictate when and where widgets will show […]

The year is almost over and WordPress 3.1 is almost ready to go, which begs the question, “What do you think the WordPress team should focus on in 2011?” Jane Wells has posted a topic asking for what you think 2011 should hold WordPress. The suggestions are being collected for the core leadership meeting, and the topic will be closed on January 4th, so stop by to share your ideas before it’s too late.