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WordPress 2.8.1 now available

This is a two column magazine style layout for wordpress. Quite unique with a dynamic main banner that includes your latest 4 featured posts. The design is in black and muted grays in a 2 column interface, which has been fully tested and is xHTML compliant.

Dog’s Best Friend

Two column theme with the picture of a dog in shades of pink and white

Secondary

The Secondary WP theme, fully loaded WordPress theme design for a WP powered site with the Secondary theme, featuring a three column fluid layout,
enabled with theme option panel, pagenavi support, automatic image inserting and resizing, related posts, recent comments with gravatars are built into the theme.

BT Extended

The BT Extended WP theme, spruced newspaper style for a WP powered site with the brandnew revamped BT Extended WordPress Theme theme,
featuring a four column fluid layout, third and spiced up version of the BT Extended 3.17.3 WordPress Theme, enabled with flickr support, pagenavi support, flash clock, related posts and recent comments are built into the theme (requires NO plugin), as well as a nifty and new CSS/JS date display in the header section.

Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get listed in these release posts!

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WordPress Theme Releases for 07/09

However I came across a really interesting and aesthetically done plugin that can draw attention to sharing. The plugin called Sexy Bookmarks definitely draws attention.

The plugin allows you to setup custom username that will be used for sharing on twitter, a custom category for sharing on Yahoo Buzz and also a choice of URL shortening service you can use, including your own custom URL shortening in the form of Twitter Friendly Links plugin.

I just started using it on my personal blog and definitely find that it adds more charm to sharing.

What are your thoughts about this plugin? do let me know.

Download Sexy Bookmarks Plugin

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Nice & Interesting WordPress Bookmarking Plugin

If you do face a problem, please do understand that there may be certain factors that may not have been tested for (and it is virtually impossible to test for every factor in this world) as there are so many different factors that cannot be accounted for while testing.

However if you do come across a problem with WordPress, don’t panic. The first thing you should do is to take stock of what the problem is and then head to the WordPress forums and search for similar problems like yours, more likely than not you will find a solution for your problem.

If you do not find a answer, create a new forum post and describe your problem as clearly and in a detailed format as you can. Keeping the forum post detailed helps, here are some things you may want to include.

1. Which area of your blog is having a problem (admin area, write panel, home page etc)
2. What is the problem you are facing.
3. If you can provide Screenshots of your problems, it may help others who want to help you out and make it easier for them to understand.
4. Any other details that may sum up your problem.

More likely than not you will receive a answer to your question within a short span of time.

It also helps to keep in contact with people who have advanced knowledge as they may help you out if you come across problem.

One more area where you can get help fast is social networking, you can ask for help there, quite recently one of the persons I know posted that he had a problem with one of his sites on Twitter, I saw that and messaged him, we had a quick chat and the problem was solved in 15 minutes.

All in all help is just a matter of forum post or social networking entry away, if all fails, there is also a WordPress support service which provides support through phone at WordPress Help Center, phone calls under 3 minutes are free, anything above that will be paid support.

Are there any better ways to troubleshoot problems with WordPress? Do you want to add to this list, do feel free to do that through your comments.

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Tips For Troubleshooting Problems With WordPress

Expose It

This plugin practically adds a highlight/expose effect around any DIV with defined class=”expose”.

Blog Time

Display the time according to your blog via a widget, admin widget, and/or template tag.

Hobo Custom Link Love

A new plugin to handle dofollow comments in light of Google’s recent announcement of the way they handle Nofollow on blogs.

JS Banner Rotate

Create a javascript-driven rotating banner image on your WordPress site.

Comment Autogrow

Makes the comment textarea expand in height automatically

Add To digg

This places an add to digg button to the bottom of a post.

Country Filter

‘Country Filter plugin’ acts as a location based filter that allows you to control the visibility of Wordpress elements depending on the users country.

Shadows

This is a plugin to add shadows to a range of objects. Currently supported are images, divs and blockquotes.

Updated Plugins

SEO Ultimate

This SEO plugin can handle titles, meta, noindex, canonical tags, and 404 monitoring. Version 0.6 adds the Linkbox Inserter module.

Custom Field Images

Allows you to easily associate an image to a post and display it anywhere you like. Version 2.0 allows images to be stored by ID and size, instead of just by URL.

GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support. Plugin can be integrated with comments for making a review website.

Page Flip Image Gallery

FlippingBook Wordpress Gallery plugin helps you to create Image Gallery with Page Flip effects on your blog.

NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.

Relevanssi

Relevanssi replaces the basic WordPress search with a partial-match search that sorts the results based on relevance.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/08

EDIT: Direct OTA download link via @weblogtooltips

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WordPress for BlackBerry Public Beta Available

It would be interesting to know which versions of WordPress you are using, if you are using a earlier versions, if possible please let us know the reason you are still using it.

Do feel free to share your views about which version you are using.

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Which Version Of WordPress Are You Using?

• Lloyd’s analysis on GPL and themes
• Daniel’s view from the other side of the fence (be sure to read through the comments, there is a lot of wisdom there)
• WPTavern’s forum post on the blog dev blog post and the forum post(s) leading up to it
• Brian Gardner wants the community to move on
• Other miscellaneous posts on the issue

I am a huge proponent of the GPL and consider it to be one of the primary pillars of WordPress, both as a piece of software, and as a community. This debate has, from time to time, devolved into whether the GPL is a valuable licensing schema for software such as WordPress. I have seen/read quite persuasive arguments on why a more liberal IP licensing could be beneficial for the community and for the software. But in all of this debate and conjecture, I could not help thinking about how it would affect one group of people. Our users.

I help make “business happen with software” at my day job. My team supports a couple of hundred thousand users in helping them perform mundane (to them) tasks. We also try to help our small company cope with the technology needs of a cutting edge industry and compete on that edge with corporations that have IT budgets that parallel our company’s entire revenue. We are so small and so busy that as long as we are complying with the licensing of a particular piece of software, we are good to roll. We use GPL software, we use proprietary software, we use CC licensed software, we use Apache licensed software and everything in between. The funny thing is that our users could care less what we use, as long as they can do what they want to do without having to call the help desk or spend too much time doing it. That is exactly where WordPress proudly shines like the Sun.

Matt’s vision for WordPress is to make it invisible, to help its users do what they do best without having a single thought about the tool they are using. To that goal, the GPL has no effect except for circumstantial reasons. The creators would also like the software to be freely available to anyone, for any purpose. The software should be open to modifications and freely distributable at no cost and without permission from the creators. The software should be extensible in so much that the core code does not have to be modified for cursory changes. The GPL as linked with WordPress, has unequivocally helped WordPress and its community get where it is today. It is not the only thing WordPress has going for it (thankfully), but it certainly is here to stay and has proven itself over and over again for us. It is just a licensing schema that bolsters the core philosophies of the people behind the code and helps them accomplish their goals with the software, get “business to happen” so to speak.

In all of our vacillations, are we getting away from our core philosophies? The freedoms that the GPL and WordPress have offered to the folks who choose to make money from WordPress, are also designed to help another, larger group of people. The people who use the software.

If in our exuberance to make everyone happy, we trip up and let our millions of users down, it would then truly be a catastrophe.

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Licensing is the vehicle, our users are the environment

Two column, WordPress 2.8 ready theme with an options page and featured posts using SmoothGallery

Game RV

Game RV is a compatible with WordPress 2.8 with gravatars, threated comments, widgets, etc. It has a right single sidebar.

Facebook Look 2

Three column theme that looks and feels like Facebook

Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get listed in these posts.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 07/05

And the winner and best way to post content to your blog is the WordPress Dashboard Write Panel, coming in a distant 2nd is desktop applications like Windows Live Writer.

So why do people prefer using the write panel? There could be several reasons for this, the most important one I can think of is that, when writing posts using the write panel users have access to the features plugins provide them with.

Another reason I think is not many users may be aware of the availability of desktop applications for blogging. Also many people may really feel comfortable blogging using the write panel too.

On the other hand desktop applications like WLW do provide users with a familiar interface and the flexibility to blog from their desktops.

What are your views on this poll results? Do let me know.

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Best Method To Post Content To WordPress

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bbPress 1.0 Bechet Released

External Files

External Files provides a shortcode [external] that wraps around a file path or url. The contents of the file/url are imported and outputted in an xhtml-friendly way. What’s more, the plugin auto-guesses the syntax of the file (by looking at the extension of the path or the content-type of the url).

RSS Shortcode

Allows you to embed an RSS feed in your blog post by using WordPress shortcodes.

BuddyPress Contents

BuddyPress content aggregation and organization.

Real-Time Find and Replace

Set up find and replace rules that are executed AFTER a page is generated by WordPress, but BEFORE it is sent to a user’s browser.

Supr by StumbleUpon

Su.pr is the only URL shortener that gets you more traffic and save time posting to Twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon.

Updated Plugins

Shorten2Ping

Sends status updates to Ping.fm or Twitter everytime you publish a post. Using Bit.ly or Tr.im for the permalinks (accounts on these services required). So this way you can send status to many sites at once if you have a Ping.fm account.

Meebo Me

meebo me lets you chat with your site visitors using your Meebo account. Visitors on your blog can hit a simple button and chat with you when you are logged into meebo. This is an easy and free way to interact with your visitors.

GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support. Plugin can be integrated with comments for making a review website.

WordPress Console

An interactive console for WordPress developers

Flickr + Highslide

This plugin displays flickr photos using highslide.

Easy AdSense

Easy AdSense manages all aspects of Google AdSense for your blog: insert ads into posts and sidebar, and add a Google Search box.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/03

However we all use different methods to post content to our blog and it would be interesting to know which is the most used way to post content to a WordPress blog.

Here is a short poll, please choose the method you use frequently to post content to your blog, you can select more than one options, also don’t forget to tell us why you use a certain method to post content to your blog.

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How Do You Post Content To Your Blog?

I like the succinct explanation of the purpose and the listing criterion seem simple and straightforward to follow. Send your information to themes at wordpress dot org to get included in the list. From the site, if you want to be included:

• Distribute 100% GPL themes, including artwork and CSS.
• Have professional support options, and optionally customization.
• Your site should be complete, well-designed, up to date, and professional looking.
• Include a haiku about yourself to be included.

I am not sure how long this list is going to get, but I am curious to see how this page evolves. I am also glad to see a larger number of GPL based Premium theme vendors on there than I was initially surmising. Cool!

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Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory is live

Magloss is a magazine style WordPress theme packed with fully customized features. This 3 columns WordPress theme has integrated JonDesign’s SmoothGallery 2.0 for the rotating featured content. This theme also comes with an automatic thumbnail cropping feature for your front page posts. Besides the rotating featured content, this theme also enables you to use the category block feature to display recent posts for each category chosen. All these features are controllable inside the admin panel (Magloss Theme Option). Magloss is also comes ready with Twitter, Feedburner, 125×125 advertisement banners, adsense and featured videos. All you have to do is insert the appropriate html code within the theme option.

GreenTweet

Three column, widget ready theme with a big twitter icon, 125×125 ad support and page management for links in the top navigation.

Vina

Two column layout, widget ready, with features to auto-grab and resize images on the fly and compatible with WordPress 2.8

Omicron

Three column, gravatar ready, SEO friendly theme with custom 404 template. (page not in English)

Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get listed here

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WordPress Theme Releases for 07/01

AVH Themed By Browser

The AVH Themed By Browser plugin gives you the ability to set a correlation between browser and theme. The theme of your blog can change dynamically based on the browser the visitor is using.

Follow My Links

Follow My Links is a very simple plugin that prevents WordPress from automaticaly adding a “rel=nofollow” attribute to links in the post authors URL and comments.

YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter

This plugin is the bridge between YOURLS, Twitter and your blog: when you publish a post or a page, it will use your own YOURLS install, either hosted on the same webserver, or another server, to create a short URL for your post and send it to your Twitter account.

Sliding Panel

It is a panel that can be opened and closed with a click of a mouse that will allow you to house additional content on your site without it getting in the way.

Injection attack protector

Protects a list of web pages and files that are likely to be targeted by injection attack by restoring files from local backup whenever they are modified.

Single Post Template

Single Post Template gives you the ability to create and use “Post Templates” in much the same way you create and use “Page Templates” in WordPress.

GeoSmart

GeoSmart is a plugin for WordPress which allows you to determine where in the world the people who comment on your posts are located based on their IP addresses.

Updated Plugins

SEO Ultimate

This SEO plugin can rewrite title tags, noindex archives, edit meta data, and insert “link rel canonical” tags. Version 0.4 adds a 404 logger.

GD Press Tools

GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration, seo, maintenance and security related tools. This tools can be integrated into the various WordPress admin panels, can perform maintenance operations, change some aspects of WordPress, see detailed server settings and information.

Related Websites

Related Websites is a cloud based traffic exchange. Readers interested in additional reading are presented related posts from other blogs. Your posts are presented on other blogs when related. Balancing the exchange is traffic based.

Twitter Hash Tag Widget

A widget for displaying the most recent twitter status updates for a particular hash tag.

Transpose Email

Transpose Email plugin allows you to use JavaScript to create an encoded link. Clicking that link will trigger the user’s email client to open and create an email.

Shadowbox JS

Shadowbox is an online media viewing application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/30

Tips from that page that got me thinking (things that make you go hmmmmm?) include moving your wp-content directory, increasing your memory limit, changing the autosave interval, turning on debugging and finally the ability to specify a log file for errors. All of this through the wondrous wp-config.php file. The list is quite exhaustive.

While you are there, make sure you subscribe to the blog. Chris and Jeff are putting out some good stuff!

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WordPress Configuration Tricks

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Benchmarking the WordPress Admin Panel

In Greens and Browns this theme has a healthy balance of color with the main content area a very clear two column layout with a light background.

Vina

Vina is unique layout and auto grabbed image, multi widget, threaded comment and many more

Freshmade Software

A software company styled theme in light colors of white, orange and brown. Supporting widgets and nested comments.

FancyPress

2 columns, fixed width, widget ready theme

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WordPress Theme Releases for 06/28

I was at WordCamp Dallas last year but could not make it to this one. I am jealous!

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Live Stream and Chat from WordCamp Dallas