New plugins Drafts Scheduler will schedule all of your drafts to be published at some time in the future. Ultimate Post Type Manager is an easy to use custom post type manager. WordPress SEO is an all in one solution to search engine optimize your WordPress blog, featuring titles, meta descriptions, optimized breadcrumbs, and XML sitemaps. WordPress Twitter Forums places a unique floating Twitter Forums button on the right edge of your WordPress Blog that expands with an animated slide-in effect to reveal a Retweet@ Twitter powered forum. Updated plugins Inline Quote Tag adds a button to the WordPress Visual editor to add an inline quote tag. Register Plus Redux enhances the user registration process with complete customization and additional administration options. swfObject Reloaded allows easy embedding and better management of swf files. WP System Health provides a comprehensive overview of your WordPress parameter and server performance.

Like any web platform, application, or operating system, WordPress can be hit by sudden unexpected problems. Fortunately, general troubleshooting is easy and will usually reveal the source of (and sometimes fix) most problems. Before we continue to general troubleshooting, there are a few popular cases that have relatively specific fixes. If you’re seeing a blank white screen, consult WordPress and the White Screen of Death. If you’re seeing “Fatal error: Allowed memory size,” consult WordPress and the Fatal Memory Error. If you’re seeing an internal server error or error 500, consult WordPress and the Internal Server Error. And, if you’re seeing a headers already sent warning, consult WordPress and the Headers Already Sent Warning. As you can probably guess from the articles linked to above, many sudden WordPress problems can be traced back to plugins, themes, or corrupt core files. If your problem is not directly related to one of […]

Constellation is an assemblage of awesome resources, put together to form an extremely flexible WordPress foundation. My Theme with Grass and Dew is a beautiful green and white simple theme for WordPress. My Lovely Theme is a beautiful pink, black, red, and white simple theme for WordPress. SimpleDark is a dark right-sidebar theme.

A couple of days ago, James mentioned the 2010 WordPress Honors website, which aims to be to WordPress what the Oscars are to the movie industry. This site is a very good initiative and there are three compelling reasons why you should register and vote.

WordPress.com has just launched a new text messaging feature. Users can now do a variety of blog management tasks via the new 77377 (PRESS) short code. By simply activating the service at Settings/Text Messaging in your admin panel, you can receive notifications when users are added or removed, and when the theme and privacy settings have changed. Users who choose to upgrade the service for only $20/year will be able to add extra protection to their blog via an SMS-enabled two-step login process, receive new comment notifications with the ability to moderate or reply via text message, receive new post notifications, and publish a post of 160 characters or less. This feature is only available in the USA, though the WordPress.com team will look into expanding the service to other countries if the feature proves popular enough.  As always, standard text messaging and data rates apply. What do you think of […]

New plugins Beautiful Image Widget allows you to display random image from Beautiful Landscape’s huge high-quality image collection on the sidebar of your blog. WP Overview shows overview and memory usage on your dashboard. Updated plugins Gravatar Signup Encouragement encourages users without a Gravatar to make one. Highlight Search Terms is a lightweight search terms highlighter using jQuery. Posts 2 Posts allows you to create many-to-many relationships between posts of all types. WP-DBManager allows you to optimize, repair, backup, and restore your database, as well as drop/empty tables and run selected queries. WP SlimStat is a simple but powerful real-time web analytics plugin for WordPress.

Gravatar recently launched Hovercards, a new feature that servers as a nifty bridge between your Gravatar and your Gravatar Profile. Hovercards have already been enabled throughout WordPress.com and WordPress.org, and there is an official plugin in the works, but what if you can’t wait for the official plugin to add Hovercards to your WordPress blog? If your theme has a functions.php file, just add the following line within the file: wp_enqueue_script( ‘gprofiles’, ‘http://s.gravatar.com/js/gprofiles.js’, array( ‘jquery’ ), ‘e’, true ); If your theme doesn’t have a functions.php file, or you’d rather not mess with it, use a plain text editor to create a file called hovercards.php with the following content, then use an FTP or SFTP client to upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, and activate it via the Plugins section of the admin panel. <?php /* Plugin Name: Hovercards */ wp_enqueue_script( ‘gprofiles’, ‘http://s.gravatar.com/js/gprofiles.js’, array( ‘jquery’ ), ‘e’, true ); ?> […]

Friendly Fast is both fast loading and optimized for our search engine friend Google. Parquetry is a simple 2-column right sidebar WordPress template with a woodgrain background and an eye-catching header graphic. PurpleSatin was designed using stylish purple colors and a slim design.