New plugins 123 Flash Chat WordPress Plugin can be used to create your own chat room in WordPress. It allows you to insert a chat room to your sidebar. LinkXL enables you to monetize your blog, automatically. Once you install the plugin, we handle the rest! LinkXL has relationships with digital agencies, large corporations and other link building companies who are looking for high-quality and relevant ads for their clients’ goods and services. My Foursquare makes it easy to show off your Foursquare badges and mayorships on your WordPress blog. It shows up as a widget in your WordPress sidebar. You can customize the widget to display your badges, mayorships, last checkin venue, and a map of your last checkin. Updated plugins DukaPress is an open source and free to use e-commerce platform. With DukaPress you can quickly and easily set up a fully featured online shop which can be […]

Automattic’s “Master of Suggestion,” Jane Wells, had a chance to speak at WordCamp Boulder 2010. Her session, What’s Next for WordPress, covers the new features in WordPress 3.0, the future of WordPress, and a few additional topics thanks to questions from audience members. The entire session makes for a very educational weekend view. I’m sure that you’ve read a lot about WordPress 3.0 and the future of WordPress by now, but there’s just something about this particular format that I’ve always found to be more informative. Enjoy!

The AppleZoom WordPress 3.0 Theme comes with 8 Widget Areas and a Mac look. Four of the sidebars are adsense optimized, the big horizontal bar in the footer can hold up to four widgets, and you can put HTML or a banner at the very bottom of the theme. Cloistered works either as a stand-alone or a framework and is heavily based on the new WordPress default theme Twenty Ten by the WordPress Team. This theme is two-columns fixed-width, with support for a custom-header, custom-background, threaded-comments, sticky-post, and microformats. Featuring a Full-Width No Sidebars page template. There is an options page for setting the background color and header image. Freshblog is a free, clean, elegant, and flexible blog/magazine WordPress theme. TemPuteh is an elegant free WordPress theme, perfect for your personal blog. The theme package comes with 2 different color schemes, 1 custom flickr widget, tabbed sidebar for popular posts, […]

New plugins HTML5 Player Plugin for WordPress allows bloggers to embed video and audio using the respective HTML 5 tags with Flowplayer as fallback, for example if a web browser doesn’t render HTML 5 video or audio, it will use Flowplayer (Flash) for that web browser. IFRAME Embed For YouTube enables you to insert iframe code for a particular YouTube video on your WordPress blog. YouTube has recently released the IFRAME embed code for videos but still that code is not available on YouTube, forcing people to still use the OBJECT embed code for the flash player. Simple Portfolio allows you to manage your portfolio projects easily and use them everywhere you like. This plugin is very simple to use, though it’s very powerful. Updated plugins After the Deadline uses artificial intelligence to check spelling, style, and grammar in WordPress. eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed […]

Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plug-In: Joost de Valk’s list of seven lessons learned from writing and maintaining a WordPress plugin. I was nodding my head all the while I was reading through them. Some of these are applicable to the general WordPress plugin developer while others are more particular to the individual project that Joost was working on but almost all of them are good advice. All in all, I think this is a good read for both seasoned as well as newbie WordPress plugin developers.

Use 2010 Weaver to tweak almost everything with this Twenty Ten child theme, or pick one of many included predefined example themes. With minimal effort, you can easily customize: colors, fonts, the header, the footer, sidebars, background colors, or add your own custom CSS or javascript definitions. RedBel is a simple and stylish fixed width WordPress theme. Voidy is the perfect theme for great authors. It is clean, clear and beautiful. It is minimalistic two-columns theme with the widgets all arranged in the right sidebar. Voidy was designed to make your content stand out and make everything else get out of the way. Outline is a child theme of Hybrid framework that was designed exclusively to take advantage of the new WordPress 3.0 features such as nav menus and custom backgrounds.

WordPress 3.0.1 has been officially released. This release fixes 55 minor issues, including a frequently reported export error and an incompatibility with PHP 5.0.5. The upgrade should be available for most of you from your Dashboard. If you don’t see the announcement, go to Dashboard/Updates. If you encounter any trouble with the automated updater, try deactivating your plugins before reinitiating the update. As is accustomed with Murphy and his fabled law, a manual upgrade many be required, but it shouldn’t take too long. If you need help, please submit your request to the WordPress Support Forums.

New plugins FourSquare Integration for WordPress allows you to view your last checkins either as a list or on Google Maps on Pages and Posts. DynamicWP Featured Post is a free WordPress jQuery plugin that will list your featured post based on the post tag and displayed as a widget. The post will cycled automatically. DukaPress can be used to build online shops quickly and easily. It is built to be both simple and elegant yet powerful and scalable. Add image_src Meta Tag ensures your content has a relevant thumbnail when shared on social sites, by adding an image_src meta tag to your header which contains your post thumbnail image. 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. The AddToAny: Subscribe […]