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• Bug Hunt in Progress!

  Jane Wells

  6 Nov 2009 | 4:50 pm

  Just in case anyone forgot, the first of the November bug hunts for version 2.9 is now in progress, and will last another day. If you’ve got a dev environment set up, please consider pitching in to run some tests and help get us closer to the 2.9 milestone release.

• Upcoming WordCamps

  Jane Wells

  5 Nov 2009 | 6:42 pm

  There are six WordCamps coming up before the end of the year, and since I like to make sure people know about it when there’s a WordCamp near them, here’s the list, with some personal commentary thrown in. If you just want the list without my asides, check out the full schedule at WordCamp.org. WordCamp Phoenix is first up, on November 13. I’d planned on attending this one myself before they changed the date (it was originally scheduled for the 7th), but will sadly have to miss it as it conflicts with WordCamp NYC. If you, like me, can’t make it to Phoenix, be sure to…

• Upcoming Bug Hunts!

  Jane Wells

  31 Oct 2009 | 2:28 pm

  As we near completion of the 2.9 milestone, it’s that time of dev cycle again, when we ask all you community developers who’ve been putting off contributing to core to dust off your dev environments and help us get closer to being release-ready. How? Bug hunts! Yes, that time-honored tradition (in the time of WordPress, anyway) of everyone pitching in to test patches and report the results, working on solutions to major bugs, and helping to clear out Trac has come around again, and we’re scheduling not one, but two bug hunts over the next couple of weeks to ensure that…

• Plugin Compatibility Beta

  Mark Jaquith

  28 Oct 2009 | 5:11 am

  The number one reason people give us for not upgrading to the latest version of WordPress is fear that their plugins won’t be compatible. As part of our continuing efforts to make WordPress core, plugin, and theme upgrades as painless as possible, Michael Adams developed and launched a beta of a new “Compatibility” feature in the plugin directory, powered by your votes. When viewing a plugin in the directory, select a WordPress version and a plugin version from the drop-downs. If there has been feedback about this WordPress / plugin version combination, we’ll show you…

• WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release

  Peter Westwood

  20 Oct 2009 | 4:30 pm

  As you know over the past couple of months we have been working on the new features for WordPress 2.9. We have also been working on trying to make WordPress as secure as possible and during this process we have identified a number of security hardening changes that we thought were worth back-porting to the 2.8 branch so as to get these improvements out there and make all your sites as secure as possible. The headline changes in this release are: A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen. Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was…

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• rssCloud Update

  Joseph Scott

  5 Nov 2009 | 8:19 am

  Two months ago we turned on support for rssCloud on WordPress.com. Today we’re announcing some improvements. Initially rssCloud limited update pings to the IP address that made the notification request. To get around this a domain parameter was suggested, that included a challenge mechanism to verify the notification request. WordPress.com now supports the domain parameter ( and challenge ) for rssCloud notification requests. The WordPress.org rssCloud plugin supports it as well. An issue that was specific to WordPress.com also came up. Under certain conditions it was possible to get a…

• October Wrap-Up

  Matt

  4 Nov 2009 | 8:37 am

  October was another busy and productive month. We released Publicize for Yahoo! Updates and Twitter, and upgraded the Theme Viewer for WordPress.com. Coming out of the Automattic team meetup in Québec City, we launched new image templates and mobile themes, and open sourced our After the Deadline proofreader. We also shipped WordPress 2 for iPhone and added support to VideoPress for Ogg, an open video format. Many of us will be heading out to the Big Apple this month for WordCamp New York, and we hope to see you there! Here are the stats for October: 467,107 blogs were created. 6,690,017…

• Proofreading support for the HTML Editor

  rsmudge

  3 Nov 2009 | 11:33 am

  When we announced After the Deadline, the proofreading tool used on WordPress.com, many of you asked us to add proofreading to the HTML Editor. The HTML Editor lets you edit the HTML in your posts and pages directly. It is also very lightweight. We’ve been hard at work and now you can check your spelling, style, and grammar from the HTML Editor. Here is a screenshot: The proofreader for the HTML Editor has the same features as the one for the Visual Editor. Click to check your post for errors. Click to resume editing your post. You can learn more about the proofreading feature on our…

• Vote on the WordPress Logo Entries

  Nick

  23 Oct 2009 | 5:36 pm

  Last week you had fun with the WordPress logo. We received nearly 100 entries and many of you have been patiently waiting for news. You don’t have to wait any longer. Here are our favorites split into 5 categories. Cast your votes to pick the final winners. Voting will close on Friday, October 30, 2009 at 12pm EST. Click an image to see the large version displayed in the user’s blog post. Brownie Bites Needle Cushion View This Pollsurvey software Anime Superman View This Polltrends Multiple Choice Scrabble View This Pollpoll Hollywood Starry Night View This Pollpolls Balloon Beach…

• VideoPress supports Ogg

  Hailin

  21 Oct 2009 | 3:44 pm

  As strong believers in open source technology, we were excited when Firefox started supporting the new HTML video tag this past summer. It has the potential to transform the future of online video. While we are still working on adding full support for video tag, we are happy to announce that we have encoded all of our video inventories in Theora/Ogg format as well as the usual mp4 formats. VideoPress users are now able to access the Ogg file URL from within the Media Library, and the video can be played directly on browsers that  support HTML 5, such as Firefox 3.5 and Chrome. Watch this…

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• 20,000 downloads of WordPress for iPhone 2

  MT

  5 Nov 2009 | 11:55 pm

  It’s been just over a week since WordPress for iPhone 2 was released on the App Store. In that time, you’ve downloaded the app onto over 20,000 iPhones and iPods. We’re really pleased to see how many people are interested in the app, especially those who are able to use it for the first time with version 2.0. To mark the occasion, we wanted to show you our new video introduction for the app, take the time to share some data with you, and answer a few questions we’ve been seeing. We’re also keeping track of downloads by country and by iPhone OS version. This helps…

• WordPress for iPhone 2 now available in the App Store

  MT

  28 Oct 2009 | 3:30 pm

  We’ve just received word that WordPress for iPhone 2 is now available on the App Store. Woohoo! A quick note about installation: WordPress for iPhone 2 is a new app, and the previous version won’t automatically update to 2.0. Installing it won’t overwrite any previous version you have installed. When you launch the new app, you’ll immediately see “Version 2.0″ at the bottom of the screen. When you’re no longer using it, you can safely remove the previous version from your device. Our efforts were focused on creating a better user experience —…

• WordPress for iPhone 2 submitted for review

  MT

  12 Oct 2009 | 10:56 pm

  This week I’m in beautiful Quebec with the staff of Automattic for our yearly company meeting. While my coworkers are celebrating fall birthdays, I’ve been working on uploading the final build of WordPress for iPhone 2.0. I can’t say for certain that ours is the first iPhone app submitted to Apple while drinking champagne in a former rectory, but I’m definitely not complaining. The result of months of effort by a team of designers, developers, and everyday WordPress users serving as testers, WordPress 2 is a remarkable leap for those who blog with their mobile device.

• Beta Testers Needed

  Raanan Bar-Cohen

  4 Sep 2009 | 10:41 am

  We are in need of beta testers for the upcoming WordPress iPhone application release version 1.4!  If you’d like to be part of the fun and excitement and test the latest release on your device, please go and fill out a brief survey! (See update below.) Please note that this release only supports OS 3.0 and higher, and we have limited spots as Apple restricts these beta tests to a max of 100 people. We’ll be picking the beta testers at random — and if chosen, you’ll receive an email with instructions. Why do a beta test ? We would like to get your feedback on the new…

• WordPress For iPhone App Moving to OS 3.0

  John Bickerstaff

  1 Sep 2009 | 6:01 pm

  We’ve decided to standardize the WordPress For iPhone application on the new OS 3.0 going forward.  We’ve seen a large percentage of users upgrading to 3.0, as have other apps, and there are new features we want to focus on which are OS 3.0 specific.  Overall, it seems like a good time to make the switch. For those of you who wish to stay on an earlier version of the OS, be sure to grab a copy of the current version in the app store (1.3) and you’ll be able to continue using that version on early OS versions for you iPhone or iPod Touch. We’ll also be posting details…

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• WordPress.tv: WordPress for iPhone 2.0

  Ryan Markel

  6 Nov 2009 | 9:03 pm

• Dev Blog: Bug Hunt in Progress!

  Jane Wells

  6 Nov 2009 | 4:50 pm

  Just in case anyone forgot, the first of the November bug hunts for version 2.9 is now in progress, and will last another day. If you’ve got a dev environment set up, please consider pitching in to run some tests and help get us closer to the 2.9 milestone release.

• Weblog Tools Collection: Watch Out For The Gumblar Botnet

  Jeff Chandler

  6 Nov 2009 | 7:18 am

  According to the blog Unmask Parasites, there is a new version of the Gumblar botnet making the rounds on PHP based websites. Back in May of this year, this malicious botnet was responsible for infecting a large number of websites in a short period of time. This time around however, the Gumblar botnet has buggy code which is leading to a number of infected WordPress sites breaking. WordPress is a complex web application that comprises more than 200 .php files. When you open any page, WordPress loads index.php which, in turn, loads many other .php files using the require() function. WordPress…

• WP iPhone: 20,000 downloads of WordPress for iPhone 2

  MT

  6 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am

  It’s been just over a week since WordPress for iPhone 2 was released on the App Store. In that time, you’ve downloaded the app onto over 20,000 iPhones and iPods. We’re really pleased to see how many people are interested in the app, especially those who are able to use it for the first time with version 2.0. To mark the occasion, we wanted to show you our new video introduction for the app, take the time to share some data with you, and answer a few questions we’ve been seeing. We’re also keeping track of downloads by country and by iPhone OS version. This helps…

• Weblog Tools Collection: The Best-Of Series: Download Managers

  James Dimick

  6 Nov 2009 | 4:38 am

  We continue our Best-Of Series today with download managers. Or, plugins for WordPress that will allow you to provide various files to your website visitors for download. Over the years I’ve gone through many. Everyone will have a different preference but, here is a list of my top plugins for managing downloads with WordPress… Drain Hole I’ve been using Drain Hole on my personal site to serve up my files for a couple years now. So far it is the best download manager plugin I’ve been able to find. It does everything it advertises and does it well. I’ve not yet had…

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• CoPress

  Matt

  4 Nov 2009 | 8:35 am

  CoPress Pushes Innovation, Shows Value of Open-Source Platforms.

• After the Deadline now Open Source

  Matt

  26 Oct 2009 | 2:28 pm

  After the Deadline, the intelligent spell- and grammar-checking service Automattic acquired a few months ago, is releasing its core technology under the GPL. There’s also a new jQuery API that makes it easy to integrate with any textarea. Ostatic writes about it here.

• Freedom in Action

  Matt

  20 Oct 2009 | 4:05 pm

  Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you, a story about someone republishing Mark Pilgrim’s book and selling it on Amazon. Not directly about the GPL, but the principles are the same.

• Keyboard Cover

  Matt

  20 Oct 2009 | 8:05 am

  Curious if you guys have any favorite keyboard covers, I vaguely recall reading about one on Alex King’s site but can’t find it now. I’m looking for one to put over my laptop keys when I close the cover to avoid damaging the screen.

• Plugin Mistakes

  Matt

  17 Oct 2009 | 1:35 pm

  Top 10 Most Common Coding Mistakes in WordPress Plugins.

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• “Mount Kailash” : New WordPress Theme

  Sadish

  15 Oct 2009 | 7:18 pm

  I have been working on this theme for more than a month and finally I am happy to release this theme today. Mount Kailash Click here to go to 'Mount Kailash' WordPress Theme Page This is a three column WordPress Theme, with Custom Image Header, multi-threaded comments, Gravatar support, Tags support etc. Enjoy it!

• WordPress 2.7 Complete – Book Review

  Sadish

  22 Aug 2009 | 9:26 am

  Packt Publishers recently contacted me. They have released a new book titled “WordPress 2.7 Complete” and they wanted me to review it. I said “Ok, send me the book” and in the next few days, this book was waiting for me at my home. I am a self-taught WordPress Theme Developer mainly because when I started doing WordPress Themes, there were no books available in the market. Then at one point, I even thought of writing a book for newbies, but it did not mature. There are so many web sites on the internet that will teach you all about WordPress, but the problem is…

• It is not a theme issue, my friend!

  Sadish

  19 Aug 2009 | 5:00 pm

  As a creator of so many free and premium WordPress Themes, I usually get emails from people asking for support with their WordPress powered websites. I usually re-direct the users to my support forums, because most of the time, if I solve the issue for one person, it might help other people having the same or similar issues. This post, I would like to pin-point some of the questions that people ask, which are in no way related to the theme they were using. First thing to check The first thing you have to check, before you decide if an issue at hand is an issue with the theme, is to go and set…

• New Free WordPress Theme : DreamUp

  Sadish

  5 Aug 2009 | 12:53 pm

  DreamUp is a new three-column elegant WordPress Theme, I just released at WP ThemePark. Enjoy!

• Get one year of web hosting for free!

  Sadish

  3 Aug 2009 | 12:39 pm

  1and1.com hosting is giving one year of web hosting for free, for their Home Package. It includes registration of two domains for you, which itself is worth 20 dollars. As far as the hosting is concerned, you will be saving 5 dollars a month (60 dollars in an year). If you are on the edge (whether to have your site hosted or not), this is the right time to jump in and have a feel for it. Check it out !

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  hpa

  29 Oct 2009 | 4:08 am

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  hpa

  29 Oct 2009 | 4:03 am

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  Zinruss

  27 Oct 2009 | 10:41 pm

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  Zinruss

  27 Oct 2009 | 10:36 pm

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  Zinruss

  20 Oct 2009 | 3:30 am

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• Push the blog for blogging glory!

  Richard Teahon

  26 Oct 2009 | 3:15 pm

  The power of the blog should never be underestimated by web designers and web masters alike. These pages on a site can are multifunctional, and are both traffic pullers and retainers. They are also a good way of engaging with your readership, which gives your company or website a human face. Of course, one of the factors that determines whether or not your blog succeeds is getting people to look at it in the first place. A lot has been written about this subject, but in my opinion only the basics have been covered. The aim of this article is to open your mind to different ways of pushing your…

• Is your sidebar doing it’s job?

  Richard Teahon

  15 Oct 2009 | 2:36 pm

  The sidebar, or sidebars in a Wordpress theme have a job to do, just like you the blogger. They should contribute to the blog and enhance it. Trying to get the sidebar’s appearance as you want it, is a question of try, try, and try again. To help you decide what your sidebar should be doing, here are a few questions to ask yourself, when designing that sidebar. General sidebars Sidebars generally, contain categories, blogroll, and page listings of the blog. Different themes have different layouts, but normally at least one sidebar has these elements to it by default. These are in the main…

• Essentials for the first blog.

  Richard Teahon

  10 Oct 2009 | 6:47 am

  The Wordpress blogging platform has many strengths, and this is why it is by far the easiest platform to use, and the best. If you are new to Wordpress, there are many options to explore, and after a little use will leave you nodding your head in admiration. To get the best out of Wordpress, it is essential that you learn about plugins, widgets, and themes. These will enhance your blog both from an aesthetic perspective, and help bring your blog to a wider audience. This way, you will hopefully attract a wider readership. This being the case, this article deals with the essentials of what you…

• Choose the theme, chose the moment, embrace the magic..

  Richard Teahon

  6 Oct 2009 | 6:51 am

  The theme of your Wordpress blog is crucially important to your blogs success, as it showcases your work and in doing so, enhances it. As there are thousands upon thousands of themes out there, how do you chose the right theme for your blog? This article is about choosing the right theme for your blog, and is written from the perspective that you do not know how to build a theme of your own, which is fair enough as most bloggers do not. So what are the options? In essence you have two options, you can either find a free theme and adopt it, which is what I have done, or you can buy a premium…

• Ads aren’t all about Adsense you know

  Richard Teahon

  2 Oct 2009 | 2:48 pm

  One of the appeals of blogging, is that it gives you the chance to make money while telling the world of your genius, or the great product or feature that you write about on your blog. You probably have at least heard about Google Adsense, but there are other types of advertising with different companies other than Google that you may want to consider. So let’s take a look at the most popular advertising companies, starting with the trusted Google Adsense. Google Adsense is the biggest ad company of its kind on the web. It has more companies to chose from when placing its ads. You may feel…

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• Casinov26 Wordpress Theme

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• Should Child Themes Be Listed on WordPress.org?

  Leland

  2 Nov 2009 | 4:06 am

  There has been some discussion recently on child theme inclusion in the official theme repository. Child themes are WordPress themes that latch onto a parent theme to do something a little extra, whether it be adding additional styles or functionality. There are a lot of great child themes out there that do some amazing things on top of frameworks like Thematic and Hybrid, but unfortunately those who don’t look for themes anywhere but WordPress.org will probably never hear about them. I made a site over at Themelets to list all of the child themes you won’t see on the official…

• WordPress 2.8.5 Released

  Leland

  21 Oct 2009 | 7:04 pm

  It was just announced yesterday that WordPress 2.8.5 has been released, which is considered a “security hardening” release. Here are some of the updates and fixes: A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen. Removal of areas within the code where PHP code in variables was evaluated. Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including admins. Retiring of the two importers of tag data from old plugins. If you’re wondering what the difference between a “hardening release” and a “security…

• Slidefolio WordPress Theme Review

  Leland

  20 Oct 2009 | 11:03 am

  Slidefolio is a free gallery WordPress theme, with posts displayed in a slideshow format. The theme was developed by Nick Berlette. Read on to find out how to use this theme, along with my thoughts… Setting It Up The first step to installing the Slidefolio theme is just like installing any other WordPress theme. Download Slidefolio from the link above, extract and upload the “slidefolio” directory to your wp-content/themes/ directory, and activate. After activating, you should have something like this: Looking a little empty, so why don’t we start adding content?

• Newsworthy – Free WordPress Theme

  Leland

  9 Oct 2009 | 5:06 am

  Today we have an awesome news theme, originally designed by DemusDesign, which I then ported to WordPress. This theme requires at least WordPress 2.8 to function properly, and includes some standard features such as threaded comments and comment pagination. There are also over 10 widget-ready areas, including a widgetized footer, plus a custom widget for ad management. Live Demo | Download And now onto the features in more detail… Post Images Featured images and thumbnails for posts are used in a number of places in this theme, including the main index page, single post page, archives,…

• Are Free WordPress Themes Dead?

  Leland

  30 Sep 2009 | 5:33 pm

  Alex Denning over at WPShout brings up an interesting point in his post titled Free WordPress Themes? Forget it. It’s Over. Basically, he argues that free WordPress themes aren’t getting the love and attention they used to, mostly due to commercial themes taking all the spotlight. So do I think free WordPress themes dead? No, not necessarily. I’ll tell you what kind of themes are dead though, at least as dead as themes can get. Old, stale, and boring blog themes. Themes like this are a dime a dozen. The sheer quantity of these themes do make it hard for a “diamond in the…

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• WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release

  medika

  20 Oct 2009 | 7:36 pm

  As you know over the past couple of months we have been working on the new features for WordPress 2.

• Wordpress bekerjasama dengan ccTLD.ME

  Axioo User

  19 Oct 2009 | 6:16 pm

  wordpress kembali mengesankan dengan menambah fasilitas Get Shortlink dengan domain barunya wp.me . jadi setiap pengguna wordpress yang mempostkan tulisan akan secara otomatis, mempersingkat url menjadi pendek cth : wodrpress.com/wordpress-ini menjadi wp.me/wordpress-ini . setiap user boleh mencobanya dengan langsung mengakses wp.me dimana anda akan kembali ke alamat url wordpress.com. sumber : http://www.domainnamenews.com/news/wordpress-shorter-urls/5972

• Preview Theme Wordpress Tanpa Reload Halaman

  alhakim

  5 Oct 2009 | 9:03 pm

  Sekarang wordpress.com telah menambahkan fitur baru buat blogger yang senang gonta-ganti theme yakni

• WordCamp Portland Donates to WordCamp Seattle

  Lorelle VanFossen

  23 Sep 2009 | 12:24 pm

  You know I’m a huge WordCamp fan. I attend as many as I can, speak at many, and work hard with the The WordCamp Report, Blog Herald, and this blog to help promote WordCamps all over the world. For those unfamiliar with WordCamp, it is a grassroots gathering, formal or informal, of WordPress fans. It can happen anywhere and in many formats, all focused on WordPress fans getting together to talk about WordPress and their online world. For those familiar with the WordCamp experience, you will not be surprised at my announcement. For those who haven’t had the joy of a WordCamp, you…

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• The WordPress Wizard is Honored and Humbled Once Again

  cathy

  2 Nov 2009 | 8:26 am

  Ron Hudson just came out with his new Influence List.  This time it's just 25 Of The Most Powerful & Influential Women in Social Media 2009.  He narrowed the list from 50 last time to 25 this time.  Ron said, 'It's time to celebrate'.  Yes it is! The WordPress Wizard (Cathy Perkins) is there again!  [...]

• You Might Be A Social Media Addict If...

  cathy

  30 Oct 2009 | 7:12 am

  Who knows what this pumpkin represents?  If you do, you might be a social media addict.  Mashable has a lot of very cool pumpkin carving pics so check them out for some Halloween fun..      Of course, The WordPress Wizard picks the WordPress pumpkin as the clear winner!   Remember, tomorrow is Halloween and that means Halloween [...]

• The WordPress Wizard Loves the Magic of Halloween

  cathy

  20 Oct 2009 | 10:47 am

  Do You Believe In Magic?  Well, The Lovin Spoonful does -  What if you had a big, bubbling cauldron of magic?  What would be in it?  My blog and all my social media would be in mine!  And now it can be in yours too.  Halloween is right around the corner.  Are you ready - to [...]

• Repurpose Your WordPress Posts on YouTube

  cathy

  19 Oct 2009 | 1:44 pm

  Do you know that six billion videos were viewed in January 2009 on YouTube and according to Wikipedia, "It is estimated that twenty hours of new videos are uploaded to the site every minute..." Today YouTube is the fourth most visited website on the Internet according to Alexa. What does this mean to you? Get yourself [...]

• Behind The Scenes of a Teleseminar

  cathy

  17 Oct 2009 | 7:40 am

  What really goes on behind the scenes of a teleseminar?  Let's find out. I spoke at a teleseminar this week.  It was not mine - it was hosted by someone else and I was a presenter/teacher.  I've done MANY teleseminars and am here to tell you that if something can happen it will. It was a cold, [...]

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  Alex

  4 Nov 2009 | 6:23 am

  I’ve fought it, but I knew it would happen: I now have Twitter content I somewhat care about that has a “read/unread” state; the obligation I’ve been dreading. At the moment, this is primarily @replies and direct messages1, but lists are going to join the party soon once support is cooked into the popular Twitter clients. The problem now is that I have my read/unread status decentralized since I use Twitter on about a half-dozen devices (and each device/client maintains their own read/unread state). That means I have to mark something as read a half-dozen times for the…

• Sad, Yet Exactly as I Predicted

  Alex

  2 Nov 2009 | 3:01 pm

  I take no pride in the “I told you so” for this and this. In fact, I’d dearly like to be wrong… maybe it can be fixed with a software/firmware upgrade. Guess I won’t be giving up my MX Revolution any time soon after all.

• Around the web

  Alex

  1 Nov 2009 | 6:43 pm

  Should The Twins Trade Nathan? AaronGleeman.com – tough one here, some good points. Better Elevation – Forbes on the Magic Mouse – one of the things I like about my Logitech MX Revolution is the built in rechargeable battery and charging dock. John Resig – Google Groups is Dead – I’m pushing more stuff into Google Groups after some forum fails, but I see myself moving back to forums for some things once I get a few more pins to fall down. Nice Redesign CNN – heh. Flash = fail in so many situations that aren’t streaming video. Verizon Launching…

• WordPress HelpCenter Shares Revenue and Knowledge

  Alex

  28 Oct 2009 | 10:34 am

  We’ve launched an affiliate program and a public knowledge base at WordPress HelpCenter (WPHC), two things that I’m very excited about. We’re getting closer and closer to my overall vision for the service. Affiliate Program The affiliate program is really core to how we want the HelpCenter to work (note: anyone can join the affiliate program). It creates a formal relationship between WPHC and plugin and theme authors so that we can support the great WordPress development community. It sets up: WPHC to pay plugin and theme authors when we do paid work with plugins or themes…

• Chain Reaction

  Alex

  27 Oct 2009 | 11:13 am

  I’ve experienced a weird and unfortunate chain reaction over the last 48 hours. A flood of comment spam Akismet not accepting connections from my server1 and/or not catching the spam The email notifications from all the spam comments sending to my mail account My mail host started blocking all mail from my server (due to the high volume of comment spam) This has presented me with a choice between receiving email and accepting comments on this site, and that’s an easy choice. I disabled comments, and once the flow of spam mails stopped my mail host seems to be accepting mail again.

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• WordPress HTML Editing Window – Can I Have More Control Over My Pages and Posts?

  Mark McLaren

  26 Oct 2009 | 3:34 pm

  A reader offered the following comment/question today about the WordPress HTML Editing Window. I’m frustrated with the WP editor. I’m used to Dreamweaver and having lots of html coding available to me, along with design view. I find that the html view of WP jumps around, doesn’t take me to where I was in the design view, is limiting on features, increases or decreases spacing between lines on me once posted, and is generally frustrating. It won’t even underline properly. Do you have any suggestions about an outside editor for WP?? Here’s my answer: @energeticnutrition Thanks for…

• “Add New Themes” Link is Not There on WordPress.com-Hosted Sites

  Mark McLaren

  13 Oct 2009 | 11:26 am

  The “Add New Themes” link is not available in the Dashboard navigation on WordPress.com-hosted sites because you are not allowed to upload your own themes on WordPress.com. You can pay extra to be able to use custom CSS on WordPress.com, but this is not the same as being able to upload your own theme. There are other limitations with WordPress.com-hosted sites, like the fact that you cannot install Google Analytics and you cannot add plugins. In general, if you want to start off with WordPress.com-hosted site, I recommend that you pay to register and use your own domain name. That…

• WordPress Tutorial – Where is the “Insert Image Into Post” Button – and How to Insert a Photo Gallery

  Mark McLaren

  5 Oct 2009 | 7:51 pm

  This WordPress tutorial show two things: Where the “Insert Into Post” button is so that you can insert an image into a WordPress post or page. How to insert a gallery of images into a WordPress post or page.

• Changing Permalinks and Categories Retroactively (on a WordPress site with lots of posts)

  Mark McLaren

  2 Oct 2009 | 12:40 pm

  A new aquaintance asked me about changing permalinks. He has a successful blog with lots of posts, and he wants to be sure to keep all the link juice associated with the old URLs for those posts. His site had a kind of default permalink structure that did not use English language words in the URLs. He wanted to change this so that it would use English words, like Business Blogging 101 does. There’s a plugin for that called WordPress Redirection. He also wanted to change his category names, since he had been using only one “general” category for all his posts. Here’s my…

• Vote for Business Blogging 101’s Mark McLaren for Ignite WordCamp Seattle

  Mark McLaren

  18 Sep 2009 | 5:10 pm

  If you love Business Blogging 101, head over to the WordCamp Seattle website and vote for one or both of Mark McLaren’s proposed Ignite WordCamp Seattle presentation topics! http://www.wordcampseattle.com/2009/09/ignite-at-wordcamp-seattle/ You’ll find a link that says “View Poll”. Click there to take the poll. Estimated time required: 60 seconds. Estimated brain power required: 0.01 calories. I’ve got an opportunity to present at WordCamp Seattle (a conference for users and developers of WordPress), and voting is open to members of my social network. My topics…

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• BlogWorldExpo (#bwe09) Recap 1: Customers Own Your Content

  studionashvegas

  19 Oct 2009 | 2:01 pm

  I’m finally getting around to debugging and debriefing myself regarding BlogWorldExpo.  There were so many great sessions and speakers that it’s hard to pick just one or two or a few to talk about.  Hopefully this gives me an excuse and great content to write about for a while. I was talking to Jeremiah Owyang over [...]

• Gearing up for BlogWorldExpo (#bwe09)

  studionashvegas

  6 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm

  It’s official – my plane tickets have been purchased, my itinerary has been loaded, and I am well on my way to getting things ready for BlogWorldExpo in Vegas.  It’s my first conference of this magnitude (I love speaking at BarCamps and WordCamps, don’t get me wrong, but there’s something really cool about being invited [...]

• Hello from WordCampBirmingham (#wcbhm09).

  studionashvegas

  26 Sep 2009 | 8:49 am

  WordCampBirmingham is little under an hour and a half underway down here at the Innovation Depot in Birmingham.  Dougal gave an amazing presentation on plugin development earlier and Sara Cannon is giving a great presentation on branding WordPress as we speak.  There’s a lot of people here (around 200ish) and so far the lineup of [...]

• Better Know a WordPress Tag: ‘siteurl’

  studionashvegas

  24 Sep 2009 | 10:32 pm

  When you’re working on a development site it’s hard to set things up correctly because you know you’re going to change the site, and putting in elements that are more than likely “stationary”, such as links, will have to be changed, and that causes un-necessary headache when it comes time to move the site live.  [...]

• Chris Brogan, #cbnash, and Nashville – A Great Event!

  studionashvegas

  24 Sep 2009 | 1:58 pm

  I had the lovely privilege of meeting Chris Brogan (ladies man, man’s man, man about town… wait, no… super awesome top 150 blogger and marketing guy) today at the Author’s Way event in Nashville this morning.  If you didn’t get to check it out, the live feed will be on a DVD available for purchase, [...]

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• Networked Blogs on Facebook Now Supports Fan Pages

  Kim Woodbridge

  4 Nov 2009 | 9:01 pm

  If you have a blog and you use Facebook, you should be using the NetworkedBlogs application. It’s a great way to promote your blog and to find other blogs on similar topics. Until recently, Networked Blogs could only be integrated with Facebook profile pages. Now, however, the application can also be used with Facebook Fan or Business pages. The most popular feature is to automatically post your blog posts to your profile. Here’s how to add Networked Blogs to your Fan or Business Page. This is assuming you have already added your blog to the Networked Blogs Application on…

• Halloween in West Philadelphia 2009

  Kim Woodbridge

  3 Nov 2009 | 8:01 pm

  Every year in my neighborhood we have a Halloween parade for small children that starts at 4pm. This is so the can safely trick or treat along a set route before it gets dark. We’ve been doing this for 7 years and we keep saying it will be Alex’s last year because she is getting older but we just don’t want to miss it.     The parade is also a lot of fun. The kids are adorable and a lot of the parents dress up. Little Red Riding Hood & the Big Bad Wolf (Marc and Alex) E-bot Group of girls The beginning of the parade as it heads from the park to the…

• 12 Free WordPress Moon Themes

  Kim Woodbridge

  1 Nov 2009 | 8:01 pm

  Today is the full moon for November. In honor of this event I gathered 12 free WordPress themes that contain the moon. It’s interesting that we name the moons for other planets but we just call ours ‘Moon’. Maybe we should come up with a name for it. ;-)     3 Column Moon Earth and Moon Cat and Moon Moon Man Blue Moon Lonely Moon and Tree Moon for WordPress Moon and Valley Two Planets and a Moon Under the Moon Gold Moon Moon photo credit: jah~ trying to catch up Post from: (Anti) Social Development12 Free WordPress Moon Themes

• (Anti) Social Lists 11/1/09

  Kim Woodbridge

  31 Oct 2009 | 9:01 pm

  Happy Post-Halloween and Happy November! Hope everyone is doing ok after their sugar overloads. This week I have exporting google docs, Amelia Earhart, walkable cities and more. Google Docs Batch Export – How to backup all of your google docs into one zip file that you can download. This is awesome – I’m obsessive about backups. Earhart’s Final Resting Spot Believed Found – Discovery believes that the location of Amelia Earhart’s crash has been located. How convenient that it is just in time for the film. Korny Zucchini Pizza – I’ve been into…

• Weight Loss: Using The Daily Plate on Livestrong

  Kim Woodbridge

  28 Oct 2009 | 9:01 pm

  At the beginning of 2008 my life was completely out of my control. I decided to deal with something I could control and started to lose weight. Most of my life I was thin or underweight – it was never something I had to think about. After my daughter was born, however, I never lost all of the weight that I had gained. I wasn’t overweight but was the biggest I had ever been. As I got older and became more sedentary the weight slowly started to creep higher. When I finally decided to take control of this, I was definitely overweight. I weighed 156 lbs. This might not sound so bad to…

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• Practical Guide to 404 Error Pages: What WordPress is Missing

  Joost de Valk

  3 Nov 2009 | 5:30 am

  I make mistakes. You make mistakes. We all do. And some of these mistakes end up providing our readers with a 404 page. Chances are that page says "Error 404: file not found". How does that help your visitor?Instead of just identifying the problem, your 404 page needs to offer a solution.In the default WordPress Kubrick theme the 404 page (example) is probably one of the ugliest pages you've ever seen, and chances are yours is not any better. Today is the time to end that. This post will provide you with everything you need to make your "404 - File not found" page a starting point instead of…

• Clicky Tracking for WordPress

  Joost de Valk

  30 Oct 2009 | 3:00 am

  The guys at Clicky recently wrote a post asking someone to re-develop their WordPress plugin. Since I have quite a bit of code lying around for what they needed, I emailed them and told them I'd be happy to build it. If you don't know Clicky, you really should check it out, it's a pretty solid analytics package with some cool realtime features, be warned though: their "Spy" feature is quite addictive...Update: the plugin is now out of beta and on wordpress.org, search for Clicky in your backend and install it, or download it from the Clicky plugin page on WordPress.org!For a 1.0, this plugin…

• Plugin Compatibility data now crowdsourced

  Joost de Valk

  27 Oct 2009 | 2:06 am

  One of the things Mark Jaquith and I talked about when Mark was on Press This a month back, in the episode aptly titled the Future of WordPress, was that Automattic would be adding a way for people to indicate whether a certain plugin was working for them or not, regardless of what the plugins "Compatible up to" version is.This seems to have gone in beta now on wordpress.org, where you'll see a block like you see on the right appear next to plugins. I think this is an awesome addition, as it makes the compatibility data a lot more reliable.Plugin Compatibility data now crowdsourced is a post…

• Quick WP tip #2: Conditional Thickbox loading

  Joost de Valk

  14 Oct 2009 | 1:19 pm

  Another quick tip to help you optimize your site: sometimes you want to load one or more images in a post in a nice Thickbox or Lightbox. But in most cases, you don't need to load these scripts, wouldn't it be cool if you could load these scripts only when you want them to load?I decided, that the only time I want Thickbox to load, is when I manually add class="thickbox" to the code of a post or page. So I wrote up a little script that checks for that, and loads Thickbox if needed. Now you need to know that to make Thickbox work, you need to load both a script and a css file, so the complete…

• WordPress Debug Theme

  Joost de Valk

  14 Oct 2009 | 6:14 am

  Warning: major geekery ahead! Sometimes you need to see what's wrong with a WordPress install, and you need to see it fast. I've had a set of hacks around for a while to do that, but finally started combining it into a WordPress Debug Theme. This theme is quite simple for now, as it only does a few things, but does them quite effectively.The first thing it does, on the homepage of the blog you've activated it on, is show the most important constants for that blog (see this screenshot). It shows you the important URL's, editor and memory settings etc.On subpages it will show you something…

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  Blog Design Studio

• Blogging the road to business success – Interview with Steve Kaufmann

  mayank

  6 Nov 2009 | 9:57 am

  Maintaining a marketing blog is a smart, cheap and one of the best ways to promote your business that can have a longer lifetime and give you greater exposure to your customers and potential customers than traditional media like newspapers. By running a marketing blog you can create greater exposure for your company’s products and services using the advantages of the world wide web to maintain the awareness and visibility about what you do, to publish a steady stream of news about your business development and develop relationship and trust with your clients. Steve Kaufmann is a Canadian…

• Boost Your Blog’s Speed!

  Igor

  2 Nov 2009 | 10:17 am

  So you want to create a high-traffic site? It’s so cool to have all those plugins too. But will WordPress be sufficient for your high-traffic site? Will it survive tons of heavy traffic every day? Well the answer can be yes as long as you take care of few things. Here are some tips on how to speed up your WordPress site. Before you go ahead with this blog post, you should go ahead and read the following post as well – Unclutter your blog. Stay up to date with the latest WordPress version and plugins Staying up to date with the latest version of WordPress is really a must do. Make sure…

• Your blog design as your first impression in the virtual world

  Igor

  26 Oct 2009 | 7:22 am

  Does your blog design really matters after all or is it just a luxury toy for the ultra-rich bloggers? Well, it plays approximately the same role in representing your blog to the world as looks do for women. A pretty woman will definitely be “right” at the moment she appears in front of the people. Later on, she may turn out to be stupid, boring, or even malicious, but she has won the first battle anyway. The same goes for your blog. You may have the best of the content however if you don’t have a good blog design, you’ll still lose a lot of readers just because the…

• Coding the WordPress Loop explained

  Igor

  19 Oct 2009 | 10:32 pm

  The Loop is used by WordPress to display each of your posts. It’s the most important set of PHP codes. Basically, it’s what displays the content you see on your homepage, your single posts, pages, archives, search results, etc. Any HTML or PHP code placed in the Loop will be repeated on each post. The Loop should be placed inside index.php and in any other Templates used to display post information. Parts of the loop The loop has three parts: <?php if (have_posts()) : ?> <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> Part 1) Here stands the content that you want to be displayed…

• 10 Unusual, Unorthodox and Unconventional but BEAUTIFUL WordPress Themes

  Igor

  14 Oct 2009 | 12:23 pm

  I know we are all used to the standard 2-column or 3-column WordPress themes, but why not try something a little bit different for a change, something a little unusual, unorthodox and unconventional but still beautiful. Well, here is a compilation of 10 unusual WordPress blog designs that are more distinctive from the standard themes. Here are the themes listed: 1. Facebook Lover This is my favorite one and have attracted my attention immediately, the reason is obvious, it’s Facebook style, the social-networking site that is now more popular than porn. 2. Mental Disorder I have had hard…

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• WordPress Theme Cheat Sheet for Beginners

  There are many codes to memorize just to modify a WordPress theme, so it helps to have a mini cheat sheet if you are looking to make minor changes or even developing your own theme. This is why we have decided to list a few codes that you can probably ...

• WordPress How To: Security 101

  If your site has ever been hacked, you know it is a very unpleasant experience. The time it takes to remedy and recover is something you don’t want to have to deal with! Here are the three main issues any site owner can address right now: Once your site is up and ...

• Live WordPress Help Via Twitter

  I’ve spent some of my after-hours free time on Twitter answering questions about WordPress and helping folks with their WordPress issues. Turned out to be a great success, lots of fun and a bunch of people who had their problems solved were glad I was on hand to help them out! So ...

• WordPress How To: Update to the Latest WP Version

  Previous to WordPress 2.7, updating WordPress required deleting certain files off one’s Web hosting server and replacing them with the newer updated versions. For those a bit techno-challenged or not familiar with FTP and WordPress, even with an update plugin this was a daunting task. Now the automatic update feature is ...

• Sweet Sixteen WordPress Blogging Secrets

  Here’s the sweet spot — the sixteen things you need to do to make sure your new WordPress site or Blog has the best chance for success. A given that is not part of my “Sweet 16″ is having a unique niche, focus, methodology or personality that will separate you ...

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• “Glow” Premium WordPress Theme

  Judith

  5 Nov 2009 | 3:11 am

  Well, Nick over at Elegant Themes has done it again with his most recent release Glow! What I love about Nick’s themes (this site uses his Bold theme) is his attention to detail and little accents that make your site stand out from all the other plain brown wrapper themes that are so prevalent online. Nine Unique Color Schemes Glow comes with three different skins, and each skin with three different color schemes. Automated Thumbnail Resizing This theme utilizes timthumb to automatically resize your thumbnail images. Because of this, only one thumbnail images is required per post,…

• WordPress Blog How To: Get The WOW! Factor | Top 5 Tips

  Judith

  4 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am

  I probably read more Blogs and posts than most folks. But that’s my job and it helps to keep my finger on the pulse of what others are doing that works (and what doesn’t too) as well as what onliners like, react to and are looking for. What I see happen all too often is new Bloggers are lemmings — not leaders. They believe they have something to say (whether they do or not is moot) and jump right in without thinking about how they will separate themselves from all the others already discussing the same subject. They take the narcissistic approach that the fact they think it…

• Do You Underestimate E-mail Etiquette?

  Judith

  3 Nov 2009 | 12:27 pm

  From what I see on a daily basis, way too many online for commercial gain do. I’ve championed the topic of e-mail etiquette for over 15 years with six sites and four books that cover this important topic. Both from an every day perspective with my site NetManners.com and from a purely business point of view with BusinessEmailEtiquette.com. My involvement started when working with PhD’s, professionals and those that excel in their fields. To my surprise, I noticed that they communicated as though the didn’t make it out of the 6th grade. Educated people communicate in an…

• AgentPress Premium WordPress Real Estate Theme

  Judith

  29 Oct 2009 | 9:26 am

  This Premium WordPress Real Estate Theme is the bomb! It has that necessary professional classy look that lends to an agent’s credibility and marketing abilities. Let’s face it, if you want to sell homes or get listings you had better look like you “get” technology and know how to use it for your client’s benefit. AgentPress allows you to do just that! Working with quite a few Realtors over the years, I know that that are a few things that are critical to your success. One being the initial perception the site provides and having the most important information…

• WordPress How To: Greet Site Visitors Automatically

  Judith

  28 Oct 2009 | 2:51 pm

  Wouldn’t it be cool if you could greet a site visitor based on where they came from before they landed on your site? How about if you could encourage folks to Digg your site or vote it up? Better yet, what if you could customize those messages to cater to each sites unique demographics? Now you can! I found this neat plugin called WP Greet Box that does just that. It allows you to customize your message depending on what site the visitor came from when they landed at yours. “This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer…

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• In Others’ Words: October 30, 2009

  Suzanne

  30 Oct 2009 | 8:13 pm

  Copyright © 2009 Suzanne. Visit the original article at http://www.vassistantservices.com/in-others-words-october-30-2009/. WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin | OMNINOGGIN This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url. 100 Incredible Open Courses for the Ultimate Tech Geek – Online Courses While colleges can be a great place to build up your knowledge of technologies of all kinds, real world experience and free learning resources on the web can do a pretty good job of showing you the ropes as well. Here are 100 free resources…

• Doing What I Can, With What I’ve Got, Where I’m At

  Suzanne

  28 Oct 2009 | 5:20 am

  Copyright © 2009 Suzanne. Visit the original article at http://www.vassistantservices.com/doing-what-i-can-with-what-ive-got-where-im-at/.On Friday, November 13th, I’m holding a special teleclass that I’d really like you to be a part of, one way or another. But first, a little background… (this is long, but important…) The Summer That Just Won’t Quit This past summer was a really trying one for me and mine. One of the events that occurred involved my now 16-year-old son and his girlfriend. Long, long story short, she ran away from home because she was being…

• HTML or Plain Text Newsletters?

  Suzanne

  26 Oct 2009 | 5:30 am

  Copyright © 2009 Suzanne. Visit the original article at http://www.vassistantservices.com/html-plain-text-newsletters/.HTML Email Plain Text Email Whether to send HTML or plain text emails depends on whom you ask. Lots of marketers advise against using HTML emails, citing lower email deliverability rates with HTML, yet according to AWeber, use of HTML email has risen 25.47% in the last year. Hmmm…what gives? I have not conducted any kind of formal study, but I can tell you why I like HTML: 1. HTML emails are prettier. I like pretty and easy on the eyes. 2. Speaking of easy on the…

• 3 Reasons to Use Double Opt-in for Your Mailing Lists (Even If You Think It’s a Pain)

  Suzanne

  13 Oct 2009 | 5:15 am

  Copyright © 2009 Suzanne. Visit the original article at http://www.vassistantservices.com/double-opt-in-mailing-lists/.So, even in the age of blogging and RSS, we’ve established we still need our mailing lists. Most everybody thinks the double opt-in process for mailing lists is a pain. (Double opt-in is when your subscribers have to enter their name and email address first, and then click a link in a confirmation email to confirm that they really want to be on that list.) I’ll admit – sometimes I get whiney and start to agree. But no matter how much a pain you think…

• Your Newsletter: Do You Still Need It If You’re Blogging?

  Suzanne

  8 Oct 2009 | 5:19 am

  Copyright © 2009 Suzanne. Visit the original article at http://www.vassistantservices.com/newsletter-blogging/.If you’ve been building a business online for any length of time, I’m sure you’ve heard, “The money is in the list.” And back before blogs arrived on the scene, it was not only true, but pretty darn clear. We did everything we could to encourage people to subscribe to our newsletter mailing lists, and we diligently produced newsletters to stay in contact with those subscribers. But now we have blogs and we publish new content on a regular basis.

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• How to show WordPress post attachments

  Jean-Baptiste Jung

  5 Nov 2009 | 11:04 pm

  To achieve this recipe, just paste the following code anywhere in your post.php file and attachments will be displayed. $args = array( 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'numberposts' => null, 'post_status' => null, 'post_parent' => $post->ID ); $attachments = get_posts($args); if ($attachments) { foreach ($attachments as $attachment) { echo apply_filters('the_title', $attachment->post_title); the_attachment_link($attachment->ID, false); } } Credit : Snipplr. Looking for WordPress hosting? Try WP Web Host. Prices starts at $5/month and you can try it for free!How to show WordPress post attachments

• Display all thumbs related to a specific page on a media page in WordPress

  Jean-Baptiste Jung

  3 Nov 2009 | 11:59 pm

  Simply paste the following function into your functions.php file: function wallthumb($id=false,$beforelist='<ul class="gallerythumb">',$afterlist='</ul>',$beforeitem='<li>',$afteritem='</li>'){ global $wp_query; $goquery = $wp_query->post;//contenu de la requète if(is_attachment()){ $ptitre = $goquery->post_title;//le titre de l'image $idparent = $goquery->post_parent;//l'id de la page parente if(!$id){//si pas d'id en argument, on tente de la recuperer $id = $goquery->ID; } if($idparent == null || $idparent == '' || $idparent == 0){…

• WordPress hack: Extend the body_class function

  Jean-Baptiste Jung

  1 Nov 2009 | 11:07 pm

  Nothing hard at all. Paste the following code in your function.php file : add_filter('body_class','top_level_parent_id_body_class'); function top_level_parent_id_body_class($classes) { global $wpdb, $post; if (is_page()) { if ($post->post_parent) { $ancestors=get_post_ancestors($post->ID); $root=count($ancestors)-1; $parent = $ancestors[$root]; } else { $parent = $post->ID; } $classes[] = 'top-level-parent-pageid-' . $parent; } return $classes; } Once your functions.php file is saved, you're done. Thanks to Mr Henry for this very cool recipe! Looking for WordPress hosting? Try WP Web…

• How to: Show parent page title regardless of what subpage you are on

  Jean-Baptiste Jung

  30 Oct 2009 | 12:47 am

  Nothing hard at all: Just paste the following code where you'd like to display the parent page title: <?php if($post->post_parent) { $parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent); echo $parent_title; } else { wp_title(''); } ?> That's all! Quick and easy, as we like This recipe has been submitted by Wes Bos. Have WordPress skills? Feel free to contribute to WpRecipes! Looking for WordPress hosting? Try WP Web Host. Prices starts at $5/month and you can try it for free!How to: Show parent page title regardless of what subpage you are on

• WordPress upgrade : Allow more time for slow servers

  Jean-Baptiste Jung

  28 Oct 2009 | 12:32 am

  To apply this hack, you'll have to edit one of WordPress core files. Keep in mind that it is never recommended. This hack should be applied only if you have problems while auto-upgrading WordPress. Open the wp-admin/includes/files.php file and go to line 448. You'll see the following: $response = wp_remote_get($url, array('timeout' => 60)); To allow more downloading time, simply change the 60 with a greater value, as for example: $response = wp_remote_get($url, array('timeout' => 120)); Looking for WordPress hosting? Try WP Web Host. Prices starts at $5/month and you can try it for…

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• Allure 2.0 Theme Released

  Brian Gardner

  3 Nov 2009 | 7:56 am

  We are very happy to announce that the Allure 2.0 theme is now available. For those of you who have already purchased the Allure theme package, you can download the latest copy in the Theme Download thread in the support forums. All others can purchase the Allure theme package here. New Theme Options We are also very happy to announce that a new options page has been built for the Allure theme which is more efficient and includes additional options. Auto-Sized Thumbnails Another awesome feature with this version of Allure is the ability to now display automatically generated thumbnails on the…

• Executive 1.0 Theme Released

  Brian Gardner

  6 Oct 2009 | 8:24 am

  We are very happy to announce the release of the Executive 1.0 theme. For those of you who have already purchased the Pro Plus All-Theme theme package, you can download the latest copy in the Theme Download thread in the support forums. All others can purchase the Executive theme package here. Author Box One cool feature for the Executive theme is the addition of the Author Box – this will show the Gravatar of the author as well as include the Biographical Info for the user which can be added in the user profile. Here’s a screenshot of how the Author Box looks: Built in SEO for…

• How to Optimize Images on Your Blog or Website

  Joost de Valk

  25 Sep 2009 | 6:59 am

  A lot of blogs and websites that use StudioPress themes are image heavy, and that’s a good thing, as that’s what makes them look good. However, these images tend to be a lot heavier than they have to be, because most people don’t know how to save their images for the web. Over the last year or so, a lot of improvements have been made in that area. The first to make it very easy to optimize your images was Yahoo, with its Smush.it service. Smush.it is included in the tool that most web developers now can’t live without: Firebug. By removing all sorts of meta data and…

• How to Add an Author Box to Your StudioPress Site

  Brian Gardner

  17 Sep 2009 | 10:02 am

  One of the features that is now being included in our StudioPress theme updates is the Author Box. This is a great way to display an image of the post author, as well as some biographical information. Many people have asked how to include them in their sites and this post explains how. Here’s an example of the Author Box from the Corporate theme: If you want to include this feature into your StudioPress theme, the first thing to do is open your index.php file and place this code where you want the author box to display: <div class="authorbox"> <p><?php echo get_avatar(…

• Black Canvas 3.0 Theme Released

  Brian Gardner

  14 Sep 2009 | 7:54 am

  We are very happy to announce that the Black Canvas 3.0 theme is now available. For those of you who have already purchased the Black Canvas theme package, you can download the latest copy in the Theme Download thread in the support forums. All others can purchase the Black Canvas theme package here. Author Box One of the new features for the Black Canvas theme is the addition of the Author Box – this will show the Gravatar of the author as well as include the Biographical Info for the user which can be added in the user profile. Here’s a screenshot of how the Author Box looks:…

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  iThemes

• How to Run a Membership Site: WishList Member Event

  Cory Miller

  5 Nov 2009 | 10:17 am

  James Dalman and I from our team are at the WishList Member One-Day Event in Las Vegas. We’ve been already learning a ton from Tracy Childers and Stu McLaren about creating membership sites. We’re live tweeting and blogging about it at WLM Live site here. We bought the developer’s license and are using it on an upcoming site we will be announcing very soon and are pumped about. Check out WishList Member plugin here

• Web Forms Made Easy: Gravity Forms WordPress Plugin

  Cory Miller

  29 Oct 2009 | 11:45 am

  Using web forms on your website or even blog is critical to being able to use it as a sales tool for your business. Without fail, every site we launch typically has at least one form — a contact form. But with our business, we use forms to better understand what our customers want. So having a web form generator has always been a top priority and until now we’ve always used an online form generator like Icebrrg or Wufoo. But the guys over at Rocket Genius have launched Gravity Forms, a powerful, robust premium WordPress plugin that allows you to easily add all kinds of forms to…

• 5 Ways to Make YouTube Work for You: Free Webinar

  Cory Miller

  29 Oct 2009 | 7:09 am

  Join iThemes founder Cory Miller (me) for a live webinar chat with Ted Harrison, a YouTube guru whose videos have more than 500K-plus views to date. He’ll share basics on using YouTube video, why it’s important, and 5 way to make YouTube work for you. Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/320861619

• Free Webinar: Blogging Your Way to Professional Success

  Cory Miller

  22 Oct 2009 | 3:17 pm

  Blogging has been one of the best tools for building my career and was the catalyst for my entrepreneurial endeavors. Through my first blog, I got the experience, attention and momentum that helped me build a successful online business here at iThemes, among other life-changing events. On Monday, Oct. 26, I’d like to invite you to an introductory webinar called Blogging Your Way to Professional Success that gives you some basic steps for increasing your professional and career value through using a blog. Title: Blogging for Professional Success Date: Monday, October 26, 2009 Time: 1:00…

• WordPress Developers: What Type of Training Do You Need?

  Cory Miller

  21 Oct 2009 | 7:30 am

  Many of our customers have asked for training on how to customize themes and for more advanced training on web design with WordPress. Here are two popular questions we’ve been asked in particular …. How do I customize themes with CSS and graphics? How do I edit WordPress theme files and what are they? To clarify, this type of advanced training is beyond what we typically provide with our themes. As you might guess, it takes a lot of time, energy and expertise to build a web theme in WordPress. Web design is a complex field and discipline and the team at iThemes have been doing web…

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  Elegant Themes

• New Theme: Glow + Sneak Peeks

  admin

  2 Nov 2009 | 9:29 am

  My newest theme, Glow, has been completed today. With its bright colors, bold text and flashy design, Glow is a great theme for anyone looking to make an impact! For more details be sure to check out the Live Demo as well as the Features Page in the gallery. I realize that this design has been a long time coming, but hopefully you enjoy the way I have expanded on the initial concept. Features You will find that Glow comes with all of the great features that you have come to expect from ElegantThemes, including the new ePanel Options Page and all of the functionality that it provides. You will…

• ePanel Batch2 + Theme Sneak Peeks

  admin

  18 Oct 2009 | 2:54 pm

  In my ongoing efforts to improve the functionality of my themes collection I have been continuing to integrate ePanel into my designs. If you missed my last post about ePanel (the new elegantthemes options page) you canread about it here I am releasing the updated themes in batches of six, and the second batch has been uploaded today. The new themes that have been integrated are: Basic, ColdStone, LightSource, eGamer, eVid and Cion. If the theme you are using isn’t on the list don’t worry, the rest are soon to come! Theme Sneak Peeks For those of you who are getting bored with…

• ePanel Released: Batch 1

  admin

  28 Sep 2009 | 12:53 am

  As you probably know I have been working hard integrating the new options page into the ElegantThemes collection. With some help from Yuriy development and implementation is going smoothly, but even with two people at work it’s still a long process. Because it is taking a while I have decided to release the updated themes in stages as opposed to all at once. I will be uploading them six themes at a time, and today the first batch of six themes is ready! Currently ePanel has been integrated into the following themes: eNews, Bold, ePhoto, eBusiness, CherryTruffle and PureType. Now that it…

• A Preview of the New Theme Options

  admin

  8 Sep 2009 | 4:28 pm

  As I mentioned in my last few blog posts, I am planning some major updates to my existing themes collection. The first thing on the list, and probably the most ambitious, is to completely re-create the Theme Options Page, and in the process add new settings and a new userfriendly design. I have always been a designer at heart, however I also realize the importance of having a theme that is easy to use. I have been working hard for the past few weeks with Yuriy to create the foundation, and now that it is complete I can begin integration. The new options page and the functionality that it…

• New Theme: eNews

  admin

  17 Aug 2009 | 3:51 pm

  It has been a common request that I make an elegant and professional “news” theme. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what people mean when they call a design “magazine” or “news” style, but to me it simply means creating a theme that can present a lot of content on the homepage in a clean and userfriendly manner. Unlike my previous release (Bold), which showcased a more stylized and abstract design, eNews is a exercise in crispness and subtelty. I tried to make it simple and orginized with an attention to subtle details. You can preview the theme here, or…

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  ThemeForest

• Archeronne Wordpress Theme (Portfolio)

  stevebluck

  5 Nov 2009 | 4:40 am

  This theme is great for bloggers and for people who wish to showcase their portfolio. Its a minimal design with a nice modern feel that comes with 5 different colour schemes and the ability to easily create your own. features include homepage banner slider, navigated post slider, customized portfolio page, lightbox effect, auto image resize, automatic image attachement and many more! Don’t forget to follow me!

• Dynamic Premium Wordpress Theme 4 in 1 (Creative)

  system32

  5 Nov 2009 | 12:39 am

  This theme is a fixed layout with two . This site is best suitable for a business, company, Blog, portfolio, or for individuals who are looking to have a fully featured website such as freelancer portfolio website etc. This template comes to you with 4 color variants compatible with all the browsers IE6 , IE7 , IE8 , Firefox2, Firefox3, Safari 3, Safari 4, Google Chrome Main Features 4 color variants Moo Tools Support: Featured Item Rotator Portfolio Page with Mootools Lightbox Custom Admin Panel jQuery Superfish Dropdown Menu Perfectly layered and named PSD File PDF Help File Included Admin…

• Blogius - Corporate + Portfolio (Corporate)

  mixey

  4 Nov 2009 | 1:45 pm

  Comprehensive admin panel, which lets you to customize theme with few clicks. 3-in-1 Package. This theme comes with 3 predefined styles for your blog. Default, Light and Dark wood. Switching the theme is only few clicks away. Take a look at the screenshots. jQuery PrettyPhoto integrated. jQuery image carousel at home page and single post view. It will lets you to show you content in a very attractive way. jQuery drop down menu. Template for portfolio category and portfolio posts. While viewing portfolio items, related posts will be displayed near the comments. Auto thumbnail generation and…

• Mammoth - Community And Review Theme (Business)

  GhostPool

  3 Nov 2009 | 11:07 am

  The name says it all, this theme is a mammoth when it comes to features. The theme is primarily designed as a CMS community, review/rating theme for a particular product such as games, movies, gadgets etc. Demo account: Username: test Password: themeforest Features Include: Fully integrated and styled voting system using GD Star Rating WordPress plugin Admin Panel for extensive customization of theme Easily change the content from games to movies for example Two custom widgets: Latest Members Posts from specific category Two widgetized sidebars (general pages and review pages) Built-in…

• TYLIUM – Premium Wordpress Theme (Creative)

  rascals

  3 Nov 2009 | 9:56 am

  TYLIUM This template is a complete site compatible with all the browsers IE6 , IE7 , IE8 , Opera, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Safari 3, Safari 4, Google Chrome. Features: – Fresh design – Valid XHTML Strict and CSS – Tableless Coding – Support png24! – Change active color via admin panel – Change theme background via admin panel – Easy to customize – Many back-end options to customize the Theme – Supported by all browsers – 6 different Widget areas (page, single post, archive, blog, portfolio, contact) – Full working AJAX contact…

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  Woo Themes

• Headlines

  Magnus Jepson

  4 Nov 2009 | 11:55 pm

  Unique Features These are some of the more unique features that you will find within the theme: Featured jQuery tabber/slider area above normal posts to showcase your favorite posts. Can be static or set to slide automatically with built in options. Show your latest tweet in the header (instead of 468×60 ad space) A custom social bookmark option at the bottom of single posts to share your writings with ease! A nice Author box widget on single posts Cufon font replacement makes all titles look smooth (can be disabled) 4 different ad spaces (header, post content, sidebar and footer) and 4…

• f0101

  Mark Forrester

  28 Oct 2009 | 7:21 am

  Unique Features These are some of the more unique features that you will find within the theme: A beautifully illustrated male or female figure to the left of the website, that can be inter-changed, replaced or removed in the theme option’s panel. Complete control over excerpt vs content being displayed in the home pages blog posts, and archived posts 12 custom woo widgets to have complete control over your sidebar and footer regions, packed full of loads of functionality including a social profiles widget highlighting all your online profiles. 10 delicious alternate colour schemes to…

• Royalle

  Mark Forrester

  28 Oct 2009 | 7:17 am

  Unique Features These are some of the more unique features that you will find within the theme: A beautifully styled featured posts area on the home page with the number of posts controlled in the theme option’s panel. An optional horizontal page/category navigation with the sidebar navigation also customizable. A neat social profiles widgetized zone in the header section, where you can link to all your social network profiles. Complete control over excerpt vs content being displayed in the featured posts, other home pages posts, and archived posts 10 custom woo widgets to have complete…

• Exposure

  İlker Utlu

  12 Oct 2009 | 1:51 am

  Unique Features These are some of the more unique features that you will find within the theme: A hugely unique completely widgetized home page, where you can set exactly what posts you want to display, as each post is a widget. Incredible post image gallery management, with options to display your images in a post in a variety of ways, including small/medium/big thumbnails using javascript scrollers Layout control of your imagery in the archive, attachment and single pages, with a custom settings panel in each post to overwrite these controls with post-specific layouts A dedicated blog…

• Therapy

  Mark Forrester

  8 Oct 2009 | 5:17 am

  Unique Features These are some of the more unique features that you will find within the theme: A social profiles widgetized zone with custom widgets to display your Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, Flickr, etc, profiles in the sidebar A home page featured/about module editable in the theme options with a dedicated space for your profile image/gravatar, or 125 x 125 ads. An optional 3 column, widgetized footer space. 12 delicious colour schemes to choose from!

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  Blog Oh Blog

• Premium WordPress Theme – Tiny News

  Jai

  27 Oct 2009 | 6:32 pm

  Please welcome another new Premium WordPress Theme from Blog Oh! Blog called “Tiny News”. This is a theme fit for anyone who quickly wants to start a NEWS website or a NEWS blog. All you do is specify what categories’ news should appear on the homepage and everything gets arranged automatically for you. Even thumbnails are generated on the fly by the theme. Tiny News theme is a CMS theme with a professional style, and is bundled with lots of user-friendly functions that can be configured from the theme options page. Features include :- Homepage Category Management Automatic…

• WordPress Theme – Urbane

  Jai

  19 Sep 2009 | 12:45 pm

  I am glad to announce a brand new free WordPress theme called “Urbane”. This is a crisp rounded theme that comes with lots of features like built in drop-down menus, Feedburner settings (RSS and Subscribe by e-mail), Twitter, Tabs for Popular/Recent posts, Featured post section, 3 sections to pull posts from different categories on home page, auto generated thumbnails (for both home and the single entry page), threaded comments, widgetized sidebars and 3 widgetized sections on the bottom. On top of all this, Urbane comes with integrated theme options that let you specify…

• My New Passion – Zbrush

  Jai

  6 Sep 2009 | 5:35 pm

  In my free time, I like to try new things. I like to create and design stuff, be it in 2D (my themes) or 3D (my old and dormant passion). But keeping it short, I recently tried working with ZBrush and after learning the tool for 2-3 sleepless nights, here is what I could design (this took me almost 8 hours) :- There is still a lot of work left, but anyway, say hello to Hercules Please leave feedback

• How to Build a Top Sliding Login Panel

  Jai

  27 Aug 2009 | 3:53 am

  Many times, I get requests from my clients who want to implement a Sliding Login Panel at the top of their WordPress blogs. With jQuery and the WordPress default login code, its very easy to build. Here is what it will look like :- DEMO SLIDING LOGIN PANEL The above demo is only HTML code and will not work with your WordPress blogs. In order to implement it into your WordPress themes, here is what you have to do :- Javascript In your wordpress theme (where you want to implement the sliding login panel), open up the header.php file. Paste the following code just before the head ending tag (<…

• What is the T3Leads Affiliate Program?

  Jai

  22 Aug 2009 | 10:28 am

  What is the T3Leads Affiliate Program and what can this company offer to individual webmasters? As a webmaster struggling against larger companies and attempting to keep a positive cash flow, you are probably well familiar with how online traffic works. In fact, you may have experienced first hand the disappointment that comes with high traffic but low conversion rates. Indeed, one of the most important aspects of successful web marketing is filtering out the “surfing” population and targeting your website to the most qualified “quality” leads. The payday loans affiliate program…

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  Free WordPress Themes

• Free Wordpress theme – Techy Box

  Brian

  6 Nov 2009 | 11:29 pm

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• Free Wordpress theme – Soccer Dogs

  Brian

  6 Nov 2009 | 11:09 am

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• Free Wordpress theme – LuckySlot

  Brian

  5 Nov 2009 | 8:25 pm

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• Free Wordpress theme – Fixation

  Brian

  5 Nov 2009 | 11:22 am

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• Free Wordpress theme – sublime

  Brian

  4 Nov 2009 | 8:25 pm

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  Berchman.com-Wordpress and Thesis expert

• How Long Does Making My WordPress Website Take?

  berchman

  30 Oct 2009 | 5:01 pm

  I hear this question quite often from clients and thought I would answer it as best I could. If you are in the market to hire someone to build your website, or if you are a designer/developer perhaps this explanation will help. I’ve decided to use the power of video to convey my answer. I find this format to be more efficient in terms of getting my point across. I have more improvements to come for my future use of video. So, if you can be patient, the quality of videos will improve in the future with the coming rollout of the ‘realigned‘ berchman.com. Click here to view the…

• Thesis 1.6 Out of Beta

  berchman

  20 Oct 2009 | 12:31 pm

  DIYThemes has unleashed the final version of Thesis 1.6. While the beta has been out for weeks I never downloaded it from a combination of busyness and being prudent. How many times have you been burned for being an early adopter? For me too many, so in the words of Yoda, “Patient you must be.” Patience I was patient and it paid off. I downloaded and installed Thesis 1.6 following Chris Pearson’s instructions to a “T” without any installation issues at all. Very straight forward and simple. However, I was surprised at a change in navigation structure. In the past…

• A Website Realignment: Day 56: Branding Berchman

  berchman

  8 Oct 2009 | 9:39 am

  This post is the first in what may be many video posts (ie., vlog posts). I am exploring new content formats so this may appear to be a bit ‘raw’ and unrehearsed, but it is real. I’m not reading a script (although you do see me look off and pause—I’m looking at a whiteboard with notes). So, how does this fit into the “Website Realignment” you may ask? Well at this stage I am assessing content and its function and role in the website: What types of content do I use? What content formats don’t I use? Are certain types of content suited to a specific…

• The subtle difference between Arial & Helvetica.

  berchman

  29 Sep 2009 | 10:34 am

  via imgur.com While I’ve always known these two typefaces to be ’somewhat’ close in appearance this graphic makes it easy to see the difference. Remember… Arial for screen, Helvetica for print. Posted via web from berchman’s posterous

• A Website Realignment: Day 45: Branding Berchman

  berchman

  26 Sep 2009 | 6:00 am

  Note: Recently someone asked to see all the posts from this series. They were reading the “Day X” as a series that was a post every day. Under that logic you would see there are many posts “missing” in this series. However, that is not the case. I am working on this project most days, between client work, and posting when I can. I have not posted in a while because work has picked up a bit. However, I have no plans of abandoning this effort. Stay tuned! Making the Brand Visual Now its time for the visual branding. This subjective exercise adds an element of challenge…

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  Easy Wordpress Install

• Wordpress Version 2.8.5

  BYurick

  22 Oct 2009 | 9:31 am

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• Wordpress And Mod_Security

  BYurick

  15 Sep 2009 | 7:23 pm

  What is mod_security and why should you care? Well it’s been known to cause some headaches with Wordpress. It’s a firewall module in Apache that’s designed to stop attacks before they can happen. Problem is it can cause havoc by getting falsely triggered. Ever been writing a new post or page and have the auto save lock up on you? –> Mod_Security Get a 404 error when trying to post? –> Mod_Security Call up your hosting company and talk to support. Tell them the issues you’re having and ask if mod_security is enabled on your account. More than likely…

• Wordpress Development with a Virtual Linux Server

  BYurick

  2 Sep 2009 | 8:07 pm

  Virtualization is one of the newest and fastest growing segments of IT. It allows you to run a whole new operating system or server on your machine that is completely seperate from your workstation. It lives in its own little virtual world. If you plan on doing a decent amount of editing to your Wordpress blog, having a dedicated development environment is a good idea and virtualization can help. Note: do not under any circumstances use this tutorial to set up a live public facing server. These instructions do not set up the proper security and are for local development only! With this dev…

• Wordpress Security Tip #3

  EasyWPAdmin

  24 Aug 2009 | 7:04 pm

  Help keep your Wordpress blog hack-free by regularly updating the core files. It’s easy to do by yourself. Warning: Be Sure To Back Up Your Database First! You’ve been warned! Log into your admin dashboard. If an update is available, Wordpress will let you know here: And here as well: The update can take a few minutes, typically you’ll get no errors unless you have a heavily modified core install (very unlikely, but you I don’t know you). Share and Enjoy:

• Funky and Cool Free Theme From Dev Words

  EasyWPAdmin

  19 Aug 2009 | 9:26 pm

  With a little bit of tweaking this could be a very cool theme to use for your new Wordpress blog! Check it out: w6s4bry2v8 Share and Enjoy:

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  MattFlies.com

• Video Tricks and Football Coolness

  Matt Langford

  29 Oct 2009 | 8:11 pm

  I am sure that many of you have seen a few of these commercials from time to time, but they are still quite impressive. They started airing a few years ago to promote fantasy football (in which I am a huge believer). The videos appear to be recorded with a cheap handheld camera, but the effects are very realistic. Misdirection and creative editing allow for many of the tricks (or talents), but others are hard to fathom. Watch the video below, then tell me your thoughts — How were they made? Effective advertising? Similar Posts: Totally Awesome Time Lapse Video Crazy Awesome Time Lapse…

• A Look at Tweetie 2 for iPhone

  Matt Langford

  9 Oct 2009 | 2:38 pm

  About an hour ago, Tweetie 2 (iTunes link) for iPhone was approved by Apple for the App Store. It’s already the leading trending topic on Twitter, and I thought I’d show you why. First, let me begin by saying that I believe the original Tweetie was already the best Twitter iPhone App available — now it has completely separated itself from the competition. The game isn’t even close! If you want to know all the details about the update, you can read the feature list or head on over to Loren Brichter’s (the developer) site, which I’m sure will be updated very…

• How to Kill a Social Media Expert

  Matt Langford

  23 Sep 2009 | 7:29 pm

  So, how exactly does one kill a social media expert? You can’t. There is no such thing as a social media expert. Similar Posts: How to Make a Cool Social Media Box for Thesis Creating Social Media Sharing on Your Blog Without a Plugin Automatically Shorten URLs For Sharing Using bit.ly 10 Awesome Things to Make Your Blog Rock! What were they Thinking???

• Guest Post: Using the Thesis Feature Box

  ashwin

  22 Sep 2009 | 10:53 pm

  If you have enabled the Thesis Feature Box in your Theme, then it is probably the first thing to show up when a reader reaches your blog. So why don’t you use it for things like introducing the reader to your blog, pre-selling, marketing or promoting content. In this post you will learn exactly that – How to style the Feature Box and put in relevant content. What will we Create? Enabling Thesis Feature Box Enabling the Feature Box with Thesis is pretty simple – it doesn’t test your programming skills! From your Wordpress Admin Dashboard, navigate to Appearance => Design…

• Automatically Shorten URLs For Sharing Using bit.ly

  Matt Langford

  17 Sep 2009 | 12:41 am

  If you have “Share This Post” links on your Wordpress blog posts, you probably need to automatically display shortened urls. While there are a few different techniques out there, I’ve found this particular one to be the easiest and most effective. We will make use of the wonderful bit.ly service to accomplish this task. Before you start with the tutorial, you must first register and activate your account on bit.ly. Remember your username and copy your API Key from the account page. Now let’s get started. 1. Set It Up Place the following code in functions.php (for…