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Manage Comments From Your Windows or Linux Desktop |
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WP Comments Notifier is a open source application written in QT/C++ for Linux and Windows, which will allow you to manage new comments and reply to them from your desktop. In addition to that, it will also allow you to edit, spam or delete the comments.
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| (Published: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:13:35 +0000) |
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WordPress Theme Releases for 03/07 |
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Turquoise
The Turquoise Theme is a simple free WordPress Theme 980px wide with 3 Sidebars and an Option Page to populate the Footer. One Sidebar is on the right side optimized for Adsense 250px Ads. Two Sidebars are on top of the postings and below the Posting. Good for 468px Ads.
Greener Side
Smell the fresh cut grass
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| (Published: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:30:16 +0000) |
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/05 |
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New Plugins
Wordpress External Cron
Allows you to setup a cron to fetch any page on the server
PuSHPress
This plugin adds PubSubHubbub ( PuSH ) support to your WordPress powered site. The main difference between this plugin and others is that it includes the hub features of PuSH, built right in. This means the updates will be
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| (Published: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:00:19 +0000) |
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WordPress Theme Releases for 03/03 |
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Light Folio
Light Folio is a clean clean and light theme with a combination black and white color.
CleanTech
CleanTech is a clean, two column and elegant theme with support for threaded comments designed to focus your content.
Ultima
This is a 2-column, soft-colored, rounded theme that totally aims at content and nothing else.
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| (Published: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:00:59 +0000) |
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/01 |
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New Plugins
123 Flash Chat
123 Flash Chat WordPress Plugin can be used to create your own chat room in WordPress. It allows you to insert chat room to your sidebar, with either a lite chat client or a link to standard chat client in popup mod. And you can define the width and height of 123
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| (Published: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:00:58 +0000) |
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WordPress Theme Releases for 02/27 |
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DarkMood
The DarkMood Theme is a free dark greenish theme 980px wide with two Sidebars and an Option Page to populate the Footer.
Expressivo
Expressivo is a three-column theme with two righthand sidebars – going to a single sidebar on single posts and pages. With Cufon embedded fonts for post titles, threaded and paged comments – you can
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| (Published: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:58:49 +0000) |
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BuddyPress anyone? |
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By now you have surely read the news of the release of BudyPress 1.2 (which now will work with single WordPress.org blogs, previously limited to WordPress MU) and this dev blog announcement from Jane last evening about another plugin Andy wrote that lets you use your present theme with BuddyPress.
I have always been of the
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| (Published: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:54:56 +0000) |
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Passing Parameters as Variables vs Passing Parameters as An Array |
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Improvisation is the name of the game, and we tend to do a lot of it with plugins and themes. In that process we tend to modify functions by adding more variables to incorporate changes in them. However, unlike most of the other languages, PHP allows users to set default values for variables passed to
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| (Published: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:14:22 +0000) |
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 02/25 |
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New Plugins
Flickr Digest
A simple to use WordPress plugin based on Flickr API which digests all your photos posted in last X days in a single post periodically.
Feed Thumbnails
This plugin simply adds your post thumbnails to your RSS feed as enclosures. Nothing else to it.
Simple Twitter Connect
Simple Twitter Connect makes it easy to integrate your site
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| (Published: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0000) |
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WordPress Theme Releases for 02/23 |
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Presenter
Presenter is a child theme for the Hybrid theme framework. Presenter gives you a quick way to show your portfolio or services with few elements and easy customization from the back-end.
Neat Theme
Two column, gravatar ready theme with a featured section and theme options. Widget Ready, with four position widget.
42k
All major components are user changeable, be
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| (Published: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:42:51 +0000) |
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WordPress Plugin Developer Day, March 1st |
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About a month ago I was augmenting a client site with some added functionality that, while technically out of scope, I was able to add quickly thanks to a plugin. For whatever reason on this particular instance, I was really struck by how much value I was able to add to a client site thanks
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| (Published: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:26:02 +0000) |
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 02/21 |
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New Plugins
Mloovi Translate Widget
The Mloovi widget allows you to easily add links to 52 different language versions of your blog and RSS feeds.
Online Backup
The plugin allows online backup as well as email backups both on demand and scheduled. Put your backups on auto pilot with 50 MiB of free space and encryption. Save time and
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| (Published: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:33:29 +0000) |
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Footer Stuff Allows You To Seamlessly Add Content to Themes |
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The biggest reason many of us require to edit themes is to add JavaScript libraries, CSS codes or analytics tracking code. However, the problem with editing themes is that you will lose all your customization when you decide to change your theme or redesign it.
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| (Published: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:41:15 +0000) |
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WordPress Plugin Releases of 01/24 |
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New Plugins
PlaceWidget
PlaceWidget for Wordpress simplifies the process of adding a PlaceWidget to your Wordpress blog. You can create and configure your PlaceWidget right in the Wordpress Dashboard, then embed it in your sidebar with a standard Wordpress widget.
Category Ancestor
Category Ancestor is a plugin that adds a function you can use anywhere in your theme :
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| (Published: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:20:00 +0000) |
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WordPress Theme Releases for 01/22 |
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Detox
The Detox BuddyPress theme, clean magazine style for a BuddyPress powered site with the brandnew Detox WordPress Theme theme,
featuring a three column fluid theme layout, spiced up version of the Detox 3.17 WordPress Theme, enabled with flickr support, pagenavi support, frontpage slider, options panel, related posts and recent comments are built into the theme.
Unwakeable
The Unwakeable
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| (Published: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:45:15 +0000) |
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Making Site Wide Changes on Your WordPress Blog |
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Last week I wrote up a post to review the Real-Time Find and Replace Plugin and the comments on that story about other methods to make site wide changes permanent sent me in search of another way to search and replace information in my SQL database.
Now I consider myself pretty decent at geeky things but
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| (Published: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000) |
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Matt Mullenweg Launches WordPress Foundation to Support Open Source |
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The WordPress Blog came out with some good news for the Open source and GPL community. Matt Mullenweg has officially started out the WordPress Foundation, a charitable organization to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.
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| (Published: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:48:42 +0000) |
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Watch Where You Download That |
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Craig Tuller of StudioPress.com has put together a post that contains information that needs to be repeated on a weekly basis. The basis of the post explains how downloading a theme or plugin from the wrong place can ruin your site. In the article, Craig publishes a small exchange that occurred between StudioPress and a
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| (Published: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:14:55 +0000) |
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Do You Automatically Close Comments on Old Posts? |
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Comments are the lifeblood of any website. It keeps pumping some interesting views and discussions into a post. However, I have seen several blogs which close comments for posts which are older than say a month or two.
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| (Published: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:58:26 +0000) |
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WordCamp Miami 2010 |
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Here in Northern Ohio, it’s been one of those chilly Winters. I wish I could attend the upcoming WordCamp in Miami, Florida on February 20th from 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (ET). The event will be taking place on the University of Miami Campus so there is bound to be great internet coverage. The speakers
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| (Published: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:04:05 +0000) |
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 01/20 |
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New Plugins
Page Manager
This plugin allow users to order pages easily in the page overview and also add some clarity to the overview.
Show more pages
With this plugin you or your clients can select how many pages they want to show per page in the overview.
I Make Plugins
A plugin for WordPress plugin authors to let them easily
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| (Published: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:06:23 +0000) |
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Easier Theme Upgrades |
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Do you find upgrading themes to be a pain? To be honest, I don’t upgrade themes very often if at all but if you do, there is a newly created plugin that ought to make the process much easier on you. It’s called Easy Theme Upgrades and was developed by Chris Jean of iThemes. It’s
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| (Published: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:04:40 +0000) |
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WordPress Theme Releases for 01/18 |
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Zada News
A professional looking Newspaper theme. Contains the features you’d expect on a news site such as breadcrumbs navigation and sub category menus. Has three columns, and is fixed width with straight lines. Code based on News Magazine Theme 640 by antisocialmediallc.com
Chad from bleach anime
This theme is focused on character referred as Chad from Bleach
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| (Published: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:39:00 +0000) |
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Real-Time Find and Replace Plug-in Review |
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According to the WordPress.com support page on short codes they are defined as follows:
A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can embed files or create objects that would normally require lots of complicated, ugly code in just one line. Shortcode = shortcut.
Many WordPress plug-ins make
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| (Published: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:00:00 +0000) |
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is_home(), is_archive() not Working? Here is a Fix |
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Quite recently, is_home() and is_archive() stopped working for me. I mean, that these conditional tags stopped working for me and the intended code I had was not performing as expected.
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| (Published: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:50:26 +0000) |
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 01/16 |
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New Plugins
cbnet MBP Auto-Activate
MaxBlogPress plugins require a two-step registration/activation process, as well as a forced opt-in to an email-list subscription, in order to use them. This plugin circumvents those requirements, enabling unrestricted use of the plugins.
BFT Autoresponder
This is the easiest to use sequential autoresponder plugin. Allows scheduling unlimited number of emails, members, import/export and customization
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| (Published: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:35:25 +0000) |
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How To Include CSS and JavaScript Conditionally |
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This post written on the WeblogToolsCollection.com forums as a news submission has been well received by plugin developers that have taken notice. The article explains how to include CSS and JavaScript conditionally so that the code is not loaded on every page of the site.
If you think about it, there are many plugins that
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| (Published: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:57:46 +0000) |
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What Was Your First Reaction on Using WordPress? |
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I started using WordPress more than 3 years ago and have been using it since version 1.5. Prior to using WordPress, I was using Joomla. Joomla is a great platform no doubt, but it was a bit complicated for my liking.
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| (Published: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:31:13 +0000) |
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10 Useful WordPress Hook Hacks |
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If you are a WordPress developer or designer or have been messing around in the world of WordPress for any period of time, you have by no doubt heard of WordPress hooks. Hooks are a set of custom written functions that can be added to existing functions in the WordPress core to increase, improve or
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| (Published: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:50:55 +0000) |
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WordPress Theme Releases for 08/16 |
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Outdated
Two column fixed width WordPress theme with some admin options at the back end.
So Fresh
A right sidebar theme that is nice and clean with emphasis on stunning typography.
Jade
JADE is a 3 column dark WordPress theme with left and right sidebars. This SEO optimized theme has been designed to accommodate a Wide Skyscraper (160×600) in the
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| (Published: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:09:27 +0000) |
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Tips To Protect WordPress Admin |
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WordPress is pretty secure and they release updates periodically to fix loopholes, to stay safe you should always make sure to upgrade to the latest version of the software whenever they are available.
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| (Published: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:15:00 +0000) |
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Why Is Gravatar Still Not Mainstream? |
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Remember Gravatar? That service Automattic acquired back on October 18th, 2007. It’s nearing two years since the acquisition and I don’t know about you but, I don’t feel as though Gravatar has gone mainstream. Just as a refresher course, the idea behind Gravatar is to host a globally-recognized avatar that is tied to an email
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| (Published: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:52:36 +0000) |
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/16 |
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New Plugins
Post Event
You often ask how could you create event using wordpress, organize jobs meeting, party or holidays with your friends and contact them easily ? Then “Post Event” is THE events plugin for wordpress you are looking for!
WP-IRC Plugin
WP-IRC Plugin can fetch the number of users online in any IRC channel and can be
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| (Published: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:58:58 +0000) |
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