The WordPress mobile apps for Android and BlackBerry have both been updated with some shiny new features, like a new comment notification system and improved VideoPress integration. There’s no word yet on an update to the iOS mobile app, but the team still has its eyes set on making this one a major bug-fixing release. These recent updates would not have been possible without your feedback and beta testing skills, so keep doing whatever you can to make each release better than the last! Do you use any of the WordPress mobile apps?  I use the iOS mobile app and can honestly say that it has certainly simplified my life when it comes to moderating comments and making last-minute post corrections. How about you? Have the WordPress mobile apps added to or detracted from your WordPress blogging experience?

Lukoo is a simple and stylish theme based around the color green. Modernist is a beautifully built yet transparent theme. It was designed with a focus on optimal typography in order to better showcase your content. Twist of Ten is a simple clean CMS style theme. Us and Them is a modern, clean, blog-style, 960 – 1200 px grid-based, smooth WordPress theme and features some cool jQuery plugins just out of the box as some neat tool-tips and accordions.

Remember the old days when your computer would crash because you were running too many applications simultaneously? Well, you might be surprised to know that WordPress can fall victim to the very same thing. You see, your server may be packed with 4 GB of RAM, but that doesn’t mean that all 4 GB have been allocated to PHP on your account. In fact, most decent hosting providers only allocate 32 MB to PHP under each account. Now, most WordPress installations with a good amount of plugins will run fine under 32 MB, but there’s always a chance that one more plugin or one seemingly innocent admin panel task (like exporting or importing posts) may put you over the edge, and you’ll see either a blank screen or the infamous error which starts off something like “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted.” If you see a blank […]

New plugins Custom sidebars allows you to create your own widgetized areas and custom sidebars, and select what sidebars to use for each post or page. LBAK User Tracking is a fully featured, page by page tracking plugin for your blog. Simple SEO lets you optimize your web site or blog by changing the title and menu output for any page or post. Term Management Tools allows you to merge terms and change the category hierarchy more easily. UserAgent Theme Switcher lets you change the theme to be displayed according to the detected browser. Updated plugins The 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. BackWPup allows you to backup your WordPress blog database and files. eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for […]

You may be wondering why anyone would want to do this. Think about it, you probably have hundreds of articles that you wrote years ago and when those same articles appear on Google search engine results, the dates appear next to the description.  You might think that this is great, users searching the web should be able to see when an article originally published, but research shows that users discriminate against older content just because it is old. An article that may be valuable despite its age would be subject to a user completely ignoring it and would click on the newer article, just because it was newer. As you can see in the image above, the search results page lists the post date for the article followed by the description. Do not confuse the intent here, if you are running a news site or writing about topics whose value […]

The SXSW staff wants to hear your feedback on the proposed panels for SXSW 2011. Your votes on the proposed panels will account for 30% of the final vote, so start voting today! Currently, there are ten WordPress-related panel proposals awaiting your feedback: Beyond Blogging: WordPress is a CMS Don’t Be Ashamed to Use WordPress Essential WordPress Search Metrics Knocking Out Application Layer and Open Source Threats Life After Blackbaud Making Money with WordPress (Without Working at Automattic) Web Development Simplified: Unifying Multiple Tools and Platforms WordPress: The Small Business Swiss Army Knife WordPress 3.0: The TV Series Publishing Platform Yahoo! and WordPress: A Marriage Made in Hell Are you planning to attend SXSW 2011? Which panel proposals captured your interest?

Columbus comes with a very clean and elegant design and some really great premium-like features. Modern Wood features a beautiful dark layout with a wooden background and some amazing CSS3 features. Third Style is based on the theme Twenty Ten, comes with 11 new header backgrounds, and supports six widgetized areas (two in the sidebar, four in the footer). TL Tweets is a free WordPress theme, designed to be used as an archive for your tweets, while automatically creating new posts from your Twitter feed. Webmagazine is a WordPress magazine theme built on the Twenty Ten default WordPress theme.

WordPress is a powerful blogging platform with a large community volunteering its time to provide support to users in the WordPress Support Forums. Last week, the WordPress Support Forums mailing list presented nominations for the top active support forum volunteers. These volunteers were nominated for being active on the support forums within the last month and for helping multiple users almost every day on their own free time. The nominees were then organized by the number of topics they have been involved in since joining the forums to find this year’s top fifteen. If you stopped by the WordPress Support Forums this year, you were probably helped by one of these fifteen volunteers, or you at least got the chance to see them in action. Without further delay, here are the top fifteen active WordPress Support Forum volunteers: Mel “esmi” Pedley: Professional web developer since 2001 with a special interest […]