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WordPress 2.7 features are now announced and set. Weblog Tools Collection announced their WordPress Plugin Contest winners. WordPress wants your input on the the new WordPress 2.7 interface. Smashing Magazine toasts WordPress development resources. And there are so many WordCamps, you can plan vacations around them. Why not? WordPress News What s Really Going to be in WordPress 2.7? No more beating around the bush. Ryan Boren has pulled the curtain off WordPress 2.7 features to prepare us all for the upcoming release. They include the new crazyhorse WordPress Administration Panels interface, a new Write Post Panel that allows dragging and dropping of meta boxes so you can rearrange your writing surface, the ability to hide columns on the content index pages, inline editing of posts and Pages on the new content index pages, comments XMLRPC API, sticky posts, automatic WordPress Plugin installation and integrated Plugin browser, HTTPOnly auth cookies, and much more. The MOST exciting features are the ability to automatically upgrade WordPress and the total revamping of the Comments Panel to include replying to comments, keyboard shortcuts (hot keys) for managing comments, and threaded comments to help you keep track of the conversation. Expect an announcement any day on the Development Updates and other WordPress development sources that major testing of these core features will commence as WordPress developers move closer to the release candidates (alpha versions). Want a Say in the WordPress 2.7 Administration Panels Interface? In announcements on the WordPress Development Blog and on WordPress.com, WordPress users are invited to participate in a survey to have your say on how the navigation options on the WordPress 2.7 Administration Panels interface (UI) should look and work. Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Winners Announced: The Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition Winners have been announced. WP Comment Remix is the winner of $2,000 and a ton of goodies. Second prize goes to the author of the Manageable WordPress Plugin, followed by third prize, WP Easy Uploader. Consolation prize goes to Prelovac for his amazing work on WordPress Plugins recently. Check out these powerful WordPress Plugin on your own blog and congrats to all the entrants who each win USD $10 just for entering! WordPress 2.6.2 Upgrade Now: Many people are not taking the latest announcement about the WordPress 2.6.2 upgrade seriously. The security flaw this update repairs applies to all PHP applications, not just WordPress, and specifically targets those with open registration, which includes multiple blogger blogs and registration for comments. All are seriously recommended to has been released and WordPress users are required to download WordPress 2.6.2 and upgrade immediately. WordPress 2.6.2 was released with the fix five hours after the critical security flaw had been filed. Smashing Magazine Does WordPress Toolbox for Developers: Smashing Magazine offers the WordPress Developers’ Toolbox, a huge collection of tips, tricks, resources, WordPress Themes, WordPress Theme design help, documentation, and tutorials for WordPress users. It s overwhelming but there is a ton of great information in there. Please make sure that the article you are reading covers the version of WordPress you are using as some of the information is version-specific. WordCast Podcast: The latest WordCast Podcast featured Liz Strauss and should be out soon. Last week s podcast was WordCast 27: The National Floor League. Last Week s WordPress Wednesday News: Can t get enough WordPress news and tips? There is so much news coming out about the latest version, so you can catch up with the past news in last week s WordPress Wednesday News: 4 WordCamps, WordPress 2.6.2, Bad Themes, Count Twitterers, Threaded Comments, and Sticky Posts. WordPress on Your Calendar Exploring WordCamps on The WordCamp Report: The WordCamp Report is dedicated to WordCamp events and is looking for volunteers to live blog or report on WordCamp events around the world. The site is covering WordCamp news, events, and WordPress events, and includes tips for those who want to bring a WordCamp to their area. Recent articles include: WordCamp Hawaii Speaker Explores Chinese Tourism and Social Media WordCamp Utah in September Speakers Announced WordCamp Vancouver September 27, 2008 WordCamp Tokyo September 23, 2008 WordCamp China - We Need Volunteers to Cover the Event Blog World Expo in Las Vegas Boston WordPress Meetup for September WordCamp Portland Sold Out Latest News from WordCamp Portland - New Logo WordCamp Hawaii and PodCamp Speakers Confirmed Do You Have All the Information on Your WordCamp Blog? Using Your WordCamp Blog to Generate Interest All Year Long WordCamp Charlotte Announces Mark Jaquith as Keynote Speaker WordCamp T-Shirts Speak Out WordCamp New York Finds Venue WordCamp Denver Starts a Facebook Page WordCamp Indiana Looking For Help WordPress Meetup or WordCamp Near You? If you are putting together a WordPress event, please email me so I can publicize it here. If there is a WordCamp near you, go. If you are interested in setting up a WordCamp, stay tuned for news and information on to bring a WordCamp event near you. Here are some WordPress-related dates and events to put on your calendar as found on the WordPress Roadmap and the WordPress Meetup Group Listings (subject to change). WordPress UK Northern Bloggers Meetup (Get-Together Type Thing) - September 19, 2008 The Boston WordPress September Meetup - September 18, 2008 Blog World Expo, Vegas - September 20-21, 2008 WordCamp China - Beijing and Shanghai - September 20-21, 2008 WordCamp Tokyo 2008 - Tokyo, Japan - September 23, 2008 WordCamp Utah - Provo, Utah - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Birmingham - Alabama - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Vancouver 2008 - Canada - September 27th, 2008 The Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress September Meetup - September 27, 2008 WordCamp RDU - Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina - Oct 4, 2008 WordCamp New York - New York - October 5, 2008 WordCamp Toronto - October 4-5, 2008 Atlanta Web Design with WordPress Group - Atlanta, Georgia - October 18, 2008 WordCamp Bangkok 2008 - Bangkok, Thailand - October 19, 2008 Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii - Oct 24, 2008 MinneWordCamp - Minneapolis - November 15, 2008 WordCamp Australia - Sydney - November 29-30, 2008 Date change! WordCamp Las Vegas 2009 - Las Vegas, Nevada - January 10-11, 2009 Upcoming WordCamps not scheduled or confirmed: Wordcamp Ed(ucation) Twitter for Educators using WordPress WordCamp Washington D.C. 2008 WordCamp Denver 2008 WordCamp Indiana WordCamp Augusta WordCamp Miami WordCamp Israel - November 2008 WordCamps and WordPress Meetups Everywhere: A WordPress Meetup is a frequent meeting of WordPress fans. A WordCamp is a day or two long event with sponsors and dozens if not hundreds of WordPress fans gathering annually. If you would like to sponsor or host a WordCamp, check out the new official site for tracking WordCamps is WordCamp Central, which includes instructions and guidelines for running a WordCamp. If you would like to start a WordPress Meetup group, find a meeting place and announce it among your friends, and add a listing to the Yahoo Upcoming events for WordPress, as many track WordPress event announcements there. Also, check out the latest WordCamp news from The WordCamp Report. WordPress Plugins and Themes News WordPress 2.6.2 Brings New WordPress Plugin: Peter of Peter s Useful Crap released his Redirect WordPress Users Plugin with a new filter found in WordPress 2.6.2 which allows redirection of users to different locations after they log into a WordPress blog. For example, you can have a custom login landing page in the WordPress Administration Panels for editors with feeds and information they need to know. Authors and/or Contributors could be redirected to a page of assignments, reminders, or straight to the Write Post Panel, rather than the traditional WordPress dashboard panel. Expect to see more Plugins and uses of this new login redirection filter. Woopra WordPress Plugin Updated: The Woopra WordPress Plugin for the popular Woopra web analytics program, which incorporates Woopra statistics into your WordPress blog, has been updated again. Check out the WordPress Plugin Directory for the latest version. Still Using the Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin? John Pozadzides of One Man s Blog recommends you clean up your database after upgrading from WordPress 2.3 to the latest version if you were using the Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin. Upgrading is mandatory, but a lot of people so loved the Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin, they weren t willing to make the change. The latest versions of WordPress now include tags built-in and UTW is no longer supported by the author and WordPress. If you are having trouble, follow John s tips and clean out or delete the old UTW table in your WordPress database. And remember, the upgrades are also for security purposes. Don t leave your blog vulnerable. Interesting WordPress Plugins: Interactive Video WordPress Plugin adds basic and advanced video capabilities to upload, record, and import videos to your blog post. It also includes video responses, remixing, and managing your video content. Gorsel Koru WordPress Plugin (Turkish site) prevents hotlinking of images if someone tries to link to an image on your site. Archives by Selected Categories WordPress Plugin generates a list of posts separated by categories with customization features on which categories and how they are to be sorted. This would make a good site map Page for your blog. Amazon Wishlists WordPress Plugin shows the contents of any Amazon Wishlist in the sidebar of your blog. Daily Top 10 Posts WordPress Plugin tracks your most popular blog posts for the day and for all time. Finding WordPress Plugins: For more WordPress Plugins see the official WordPress Plugin Directory, the WordPress Plugins Database, and Weblog Tools Collection Plugin and Theme announcements. WordPress Techniques and Tips Here are some interesting WordPress tips I ve uncovered: Functions.php WordPress Child Themes WP Contact Manager Techtites - Upgrading WordPress via shell Stylized Web - WordPress Tricks How to: Create an Archive Page for your WordPress blog Want to Write a WordPress Tip and See It Here? If you would like your WordPress tip and technique included in this list, see Tips For Writing Good WordPress Tips and Writing and Publishing Code In Your WordPress Blog Posts. When its ready, contact me at . WordPress.com News SSL Now Available for WordPress.com Bloggers: WordPress.com announced the ability for their bloggers to protect blogs with SSL. If you are blogging on a public access point, blogjackers can prey on security vulnerabilities and possibly collect sensitive information. By adding SSL protection, you will automatically be logged onto your blog with an HTTPS connection (secure). You ve always had the option, but few WordPress.com bloggers understood how it worked. To activate this new feature, go to My Account > Edit Profile in the WordPress Administration Panels and check of Always use HTTPS when visiting Administration pages under Browser Connection. Another New WordPress Theme: WordPress.com announced the addition of the DePo Masthead WordPress Theme by Derek Powazek. It features a minimalist magazine design with dynamic features such as header font size changes depending upon the length of the blog title, column heights for front page articles will always be equal, interesting navigation options, and hidden, unfolding comments. WordPress.com FAQ Gets Screencasts: The WordPress.com FAQ now has screencasts on their guide posts helping WordPress.com users learn more about how to use specific WordPress.com features. WordPress Community News Things You Need to Know in the WordPress Community: WordPress Facebook Community: WordPress on Facebook WordPress Schwag for Sale: WordPress Shop WordPress Bugs: Reporting Bugs in WordPress Online WordPress Manual: WordPress Codex Have Your Say: WordPress Ideas WordPress Experts Found: Automattic WordPress Consultants List, WordPress Jobs, and the WP-Pro mailing list Help Installing WordPress: Installing WordPress for Free WordPress is Trademarked: You are not allowed to use WordPress in your domain name WordPress is WordPress: It s spelled WordPress not Wordpress . Oh, and Plugin is Plugin, not plug-in (what you put into a wall electrical socket). 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WordCamps are popping up everywhere, in China, Japan, Australia, Israel, Utah, Toronto, Vancouver, Portland, and more. Are you tracking WordPress 2.7 development? Martha Stewart now does WordPress and windows. Super Cache updated. WordPressMU upgraded. Ozh wants your input on the next version of WordPress Theme Toolkit. And more WordPress news. WordPress News Tracking WordPress Development: Did you know you can track the development of WordPress and WordPress related applications? Here is a list: WordPress Development Updates Blog WPDevel Twitter WordPress Development Trac Timeline WordPress iPhone App Trac Timeline Martha Does WordPress: Matt Mullenweg announced that Martha Stewart us upgraded from a TypePad blog to WordPress after careful research and the desire to switch to a platform offering more programming options. WordPress 2.7 Development News: The following are some of the news items and information about WordPress 2.7 development which includes a new updated interface for the WordPress Administration Panels. Ability for the Administrator to reply directly from the Comments Panel has been added to the WordPress 2.7 trunk. Comment moderation and management now has keyboard shortcuts. Weblog Tools Collection offers a first look at WordPress 2.7 with a warning that while there are some very exciting new features in the Administration Panels, this is all subject to change. Live on the Bleeding Edge of WordPress with SVN by Techtites reminds you that using the latest build of WordPress means risking your blog s life. These versions are for testing purposes only. Not for the uninitiated. Ryan Boren announced that the Ryan Boren Warns WordPress 2.7 is Experimental so take care running the test version. Inline Documentation almost completed by Jacob Santos for WordPress 2.7, helping developers, Plugin authors and hackers. Jacob Santos - Don’t Use WordPress 2.7 Trunk on a Live Blog is another warning that those who are running their blogs with the latest trunk alpha testing versions should stop whining when it breaks their blogs. The trunk versions are stable but they are test data and likely to break when combined with various Plugins and Themes and systems. Joseph Scott on WordPress Performance and Scalability: Joseph Scott presented the program WordPress Performance and Scalability (slides) at the Utah Open Source Conference recently. Super Cache Updated: Some bugs were found in the Super Cache WordPress Plugin and it s been updated and a fix is also available. WordPressMU Updated: WordPress MU 2.6.1 is now available for WordPressMU, the multiple user version of WordPress which runs WordPress.com. This is a mandatory upgrade as it fixes critical bugs in the program. WordCast Podcast: WordCast 25: WordPress Normal covered WordCamp San Francisco, WordPress 2.6.1 release, the WordPressMU Plugin competition, Olympic WordPress bloggers, and favorite WordPress Plugin picks. WordCast 26: It’s Jeff’s Fault! featured Jeff Chandler, Kym Huynh, Beth Skinner, and Dave Moyer talking about WTF Blog Design Clutter, writing code in posts, a blogger arrested for leaking songs from Guns n Roses, Magazine Themes, interview with Jeff Chandler about blaming WordPress, and some great WordPress Plugins. WordPress Weekly Returns: Jeffro2pt0 announced that his WordPress Weekly Podcast is coming back due to popular demand. It will be now a part of Weblog Tools Collection and he s looking for co-hosts and more. Last Week s WordPress Wednesday News: Can t get enough WordPress news and tips? There is so much news coming out about the latest version, so you can catch up with the past news in last week s WordPress Wednesday News: WordCamp 2008, Copy and Paste in WordPress iPhone, Count Your Comments, WordCamp South Africa. WordPress on Your Calendar WordCamp 2008 San Francisco Videos: John Pozadzides of One Man s Blog was the official video guy at WordCamp 2008 and here are the videos he s released so far from the event: Chuck Lewis - The SEO Rapper at WordCamp SanFrancisco WordCamp 2008: Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word WordCamp 2008 San Fran: Kathy Sierra - Kicking Ass and Creating Passionate Users WordCamp 2008 San Fran: Stephan Spencer - SEO Mistakes Most Bloggers Make WordCamp 2008 San Fran: Alan Levine - It’s All You Can WordPress at the EduBlog Diner WordCamp 2008 San Fran: Andy Skelton Sings ‘Deserve’ WordCamp 2008 San Fran: Ben Huh - LOLcats and the Secret of Virality WordCamp 2008 San Fran: Lloyd Budd - Switching to WordPress Painlessly WordCamp 2008 San Fran: Stephen O’Grady - Open Source Business Models For more tweets, videos, live blogging, and more coverage, see WordCamp 2008 - Snapshot of the Changing Social of Conferences. Matt Videos from WordCamp South Africa: A week ago was WordCamp SA 2008 and here are some videos of Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, speaking at the event: Matt Mullenweg - WordCamp South Africa - Part 1 Matt Mullenweg - WordCamp South Africa - Part 2 Matt Mullenweg - WordCamp South Africa - Part 3 Matt Mullenweg - WordCamp South Africa - Part 4 WordCamp Utah: WordCamp Utah - Provo, Utah - September 27, 2008 is scheduled for September 27, 2008, in Provo, Utah, and the speakers list is now up and registration is now open for $20 a ticket which includes lunch, stickers, t-shirts, and the full day event activities. WordCamp Australia Date Change: The new WordCamp Australia dates are November 29-30, 2008, and the venue has now been confirmed to be at The Red Box in the Suburb of Lilyfield. Registration is now open so get your tickets as soon as possible as the price will rise as the event gets closer. Matt Mullenweg has confirmed that he will be a speaker. A WordPress Meetup is scheduled for September 11 in Sydney for volunteers and WordPress fans. WordCamp Augusta: cdharrison has twittered about a WordCamp Augusta in 2009? Interested? WordCamp Israel: Tal Galili, the man behind the first WordCamp event in the Middle East, is working on WordCamp Israel 2009 (Hebrew) and looking for help. You can reach him (in Hebrew or in English) through his site or through his Twitter account at @talgalili. WordCamp for Educators: Wordcamp Ed(ucation) is a Twitter account just set up for a WordPress WordCamp event specifically geared towards educators. Oh, how I would love to be part of that. Twitter @wordcamped if you are interested. WordCamp Birmingham: Dougal Campbell will be speaking at WordCamp Birmingham on The Future of WordPress and would love your input. He is just one of the many top speakers at this WordCamp event in Alabama. They are still looking for more speakers, sponsorship opportunities, and volunteers. WordCamp Indiana: WordCamp Indiana is looking for volunteers, sponsors, and participants to put together their event. See Watershed Studios to let them know if you are interested. WordCamp New York Taking Registration: WordCamp New York in New York on October 5, 2008, is now accepting registrations. The location is set for Sun Microsystems Office at 101 Park Avenue, New York, and is now set for Sunday, not Saturday. WordCamp Charlotte, North Carolina, Coming Soon: There is a new WordCamp site up on WordPress.com for WordCamp Charlotte. They don t have a location or date, but they do have a Participants page you can sign up for to volunteer, sponsor, speak or attend. That s great faith. WordCamp RDU is scheduled for October 4, 2008, in Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, which is exciting. This could be the first time there are two WordCamps in one state. WordPress Meetup or WordCamp Near You? If you are putting together a WordPress event, please email me so I can publicize it here. If there is a WordCamp near you, go. If you are interested in setting up a WordCamp, stay tuned for news and information on to bring a WordCamp event near you. Here are some WordPress-related dates and events to put on your calendar as found on the WordPress Roadmap and the WordPress Meetup Group Listings (subject to change). WordCamp Philippines - September 6, 2008 The Boston WordPress September Meetup - September 18, 2008 Blog World Expo, Vegas - September 20-21, 2008 WordCamp China - Beijing and Shanghai - September 20-21, 2008 WordCamp Tokyo 2008 - Tokyo, Japan - September 23, 2008 WordCamp Utah - Provo, Utah - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Birmingham - Alabama - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Vancouver 2008 - Canada - September 27th, 2008 The Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress September Meetup - September 27, 2008 WordCamp RDU - Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina - Oct 4, 2008 WordCamp New York - New York - October 5, 2008 WordCamp Toronto - October 4-5, 2008 WordCamp Bangkok 2008 - Bangkok, Thailand - October 19, 2008 Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii - Oct 24, 2008 MinneWordCamp - Minneapolis - November 15, 2008 WordCamp Australia - Sydney - November 29-30, 2008 Date change! WordCamp Las Vegas 2009 - Las Vegas, Nevada - January 10-11, 2009 Upcoming WordCamps not scheduled or confirmed: Wordcamp Ed(ucation) Twitter for Educators using WordPress WordCamp Washington D.C. 2008 WordCamp Denver 2008 WordCamps and WordPress Meetups Everywhere: A WordPress Meetup is a frequent meeting of WordPress fans. A WordCamp is a day or two long event with sponsors and dozens if not hundreds of WordPress fans gathering annually. If you would like to sponsor or host a WordCamp, check out the new official site for tracking WordCamps is WordCamp Central, which includes instructions and guidelines for running a WordCamp. If you would like to start a WordPress Meetup group, find a meeting place and announce it among your friends, and add a listing to the Yahoo Upcoming events for WordPress, as many track WordPress event announcements there. WordPress Plugins and Themes News Still Using the Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin? John Pozadzides of One Man s Blog recommends you clean up your database after upgrading from WordPress 2.3 to the latest version if you were using the Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin. Upgrading is mandatory, but a lot of people so loved the Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin, they weren t willing to make the change. The latest versions of WordPress now include tags built-in and UTW is no longer supported by the author and WordPress. If you are having trouble, follow John s tips and clean out or delete the old UTW table in your WordPress database. And remember, the upgrades are also for security purposes. Don t leave your blog vulnerable. Should You Use a Magazine WordPress Theme? Smashing Magazine explores when, and when not, to use a Magazine-style Theme for your blog and makes some very good points worth considering. For the past year, Magazine WordPress Themes have been all the rage, but they do have some limitations. A lot of the emphasis is put on the front page of your blog, a page that few people may see as they arrive from search engines and click directly through to single pages, categories, and tags. Some magazine designs put so much work into the front page, they ignored the intricacies of designing for all the various dynamic pageviews found on a WordPress blog. Before you choose, look at all the pros and cons. Adding Boxes to the Write Post Panel Inconsistencies: Vladimir Prelovac discusses adding boxes to WordPress 2.5+ Write Panels and some inconsistencies between versions. If you are adding any boxes to the Write Post Panel, and having trouble, this might be your solution. Viper Quicktags Updated: The popular Viper’s Video Quicktags WordPress Plugin has just been updated after almost two months and 3,200 lines of code, and a total code rewrite. There are a ton of new features. Compatibility Issues with Libraries and Plugins: Weblog Tools Collection covers WordPress Plugin compatibility issues with popular libraries which could cause fatal PHP errors between Plugins. WordPress Plugin Models Set an Example: Jacob Santos contemplates Plugin models using WordPress Plugin models as an example of good functionality and a simple and easy-to-use method. PlanetOzh Wants Input On WordPress Theme Toolkit: Ozh of Planet Ozh is asking for input on the next version of the WordPress Theme Toolkit, an amazing tool that allows WordPress Theme authors to add an panel to the WordPress Administration Panels simple and easy. It is used by many WordPress Theme back ends. He wants to update it and is looking for suggestions from those experienced using this or if your Theme is using the Toolkit. Interesting WordPress Plugins: Most Popular Posts WordPress Plugin displays links to your top commented blog posts. MarkItUp WordPress Plugin replaces the old Quicktags toolbar on the Write Post panel with a lightweight jQuery WordPress Plugin which turns any textarea into a customizable markup editor for code syntax writing. PhotoJAR: Post Thumbnail WordPress Plugin requires PhotoJAR: Base to work. It displays a post thumbnail for posts with galleries automatically. Finding WordPress Plugins: For more WordPress Plugins see the official WordPress Plugin Directory, the WordPress Plugins Database, and Weblog Tools Collection Plugin and Theme announcements. WordPress Techniques and Tips Here are some interesting WordPress tips I ve uncovered: How to Add Google Reader Subscriptions to a WordPress Page Finding Your CSS Styles in WordPress Opening Links in New Windows Author Description Outside the WordPress Main Loop Want to Write a WordPress Tip and See It Here? If you would like your WordPress tip and technique included in this list, see Tips For Writing Good WordPress Tips and Writing and Publishing Code In Your WordPress Blog Posts. When its ready, contact me at . WordPress.com News WordPress.com August 2008 Stats: The August Wrap-Up for statistics on WordPress.com included 286,860 blogs created, 298,655 new users, 3,442,638 file uploads, 439 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters, 6,750,960 comments, and 1,196,661 active blogs and 14,056,683 active posts. WordPress.com also crossed four million blogs this past week. They are anticipating the 5 million mark coming up very soon at this rate. New Theme for WordPress.com Members: WordPress.com announced the Albeo Theme for WordPress.com bloggers designed by Elena at Design Disease. WordPress Community News Hack WordPress Looking for Guest Bloggers: Hack WordPress is looking for guest bloggers to write technical articles on using WordPress. WordPress Facebook: Fan of WordPress? Check out the WordPress on Facebook fan page and join the fun! Get Your WordPress Mug: I love my new WordPress mug. Go get yours at the WordPress Shop along with t-shirts and hoodies. Don t want to buy one? Found a Bug in WordPress? If you find a bug in WordPress, report it by following the instructions in Reporting Bugs on the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users. Vote for WordPress Ideas: Want to have your say in what happens with WordPress. Vote for ideas on upcoming versions of WordPress in the WordPress Ideas section. Looking for a WordPress Expert? If you are looking for a WordPress expert, try the WordPress Consultants list from Automattic, the WordPress Jobs listings, and the WP-Pro mailing list. WordPress Installed For Free: Installing WordPress for Free (aka Install4Free WordPress) is a free, volunteer-driven service is limited to personal blogs only, and they help only with installations, not upgrades. Don t Use WordPress in Your Blog s Name: It s about respect. Please use WordPress names right because WordPress is a trademark and you are not allowed to use WordPress in your blog s domain name or URL unless you have permission of Automattic and WordPress. Also, remember, it s spelled WordPress not Wordpress . Oh, and Plugin is Plugin, not plug-in (what you put into a wall electrical socket). 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WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco was a hit! The WordPress Scavenger Hunt fundraiser was great fun. WordPress hosts the US Government, as well as Britain. WordPress 2.6.1 released. The first WordPress Plugin API for a WordPress Plugin announced. Want to copy, cut, and paste in your iPhone with WordPress? How about a beautiful comment count chicklet added to your blog? Could be a new competition. How many comments do you have? Super Cache WordPress Plugin updated. WordCamp South Africa this weekend. WordPress News US Government Agencies Using WordPress: Attendees at WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco were stunned when Matt put up a list of US Government agencies using WordPress for their blogs, CMS, and intrasite networks. Mark Jaquith has published the list which includes the US Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Goard, the Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of State, Department of Treasury, DEA, FBI, CIA, SNA, and more. Matt s point was that if they are using it, WordPress must be doing something write with security - especially with these security concious agencies helping the WordPress community. WordPress 2.6.1 Released: WordPress 2.6.1 has been released. They cleaned up the problems with the right-to-left languages and fixed over 60 things needing fixing. Ajay of Techtites has released a WordPress 2.6 to 2.6.1 Upgrade File to make the process of updating your blog easier. Ozh Offers the First WordPress Plugin API for the Admin Drop Down Menu WordPress Plugin: Planet Ozh updated the popular Admin Drop Down Menu WordPress Plugin with localization, fun icons, and an API that will allow others to hook into the Plugin with their Plugins. This is the first time a Plugin has had its own API that I know of. Think of the possibilities! Sticky Posts in the Future: Lester Chan reports that WordPress 2.7 will incorporate a simplified version of his popular WP-Sticky WordPress Plugin into the core of WordPress, allowing users to stick a post to the front page of their blog. Weblog Tools Collection - Giving Back is the Best: Be Kind, Educate by Mark Ghosh of Weblog Tools Collection is a beautifully written post on his history of involvement in WordPress and his blog, and his determination to give back to the WordPress Community. Mark and his WTC team give so much to WordPress fans through the great forums, Theme and Plugin promotion, Plugin Competition, and WordPress news. If you are considering a WordPress-specific blog, or any user community blog, check out the amazing social networking and medium Mark and his team have created. They set an example for the rest of us. Show Off Your Comment Count: Liz Strauss Comment Counter WordPress Plugin honors the popular blog conversation expert, Liz Strauss, with a chicklet comment counter similar to Feedburner. It is very configurable and shows off the number of comments on your blog. I expect some comment competitions to arise from this Plugin. Super Cache Plugin Updated: The Super Cache WordPress Plugin has been updated for better support for Win32 NTFS, improved vary headers for proxy servers, clean up of expired cache files in the background, fixes for compressing gzipped files, and much more. Copy, Cut and Paste with WordPress for iPhone: OpenClip WordPress Plugin allows copy, cut, and paste within your iPhone and works with the WordPress for iPhone application. You can see how it works on Copy and Paste for iPhone with Cali and Neal of Geek.tv. You can learn more about it on the WordPress iPhone Development Blog and study the source code on the WordPress iPhone SVN. Having Trouble Publishing Code in Posts and Comment? If you publish code in your WordPress posts and comments, WordPress may think it is code. To prevent code acting like code, WordPress automatically filters it out of the posts and comments, as does many other blogging and CMS programs. To publish code as content, see Writing Code in Your WordPress Posts and Writing and Publishing Code in Your WordPress Blog Posts. Last Week s WordPress Wednesday News: Can t get enough WordPress news and tips? There is so much news coming out about the latest version, so you can catch up with the past news in last week s WordPress Wednesday News: WordCamp 2008, WordPress Rules the UK, and WordPress Plugin News. WordPress on Your Calendar WordCamp 2008 San Francisco: WordCamp 2008 was amazing with several hundred in attendance in San Francisco. The speakers were the best of the best covering a wide variety of topics for all levels of WordPress users. The Sunday WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt was great fun with eleven teams of four each racing all over town to solve the scavenger hunt clues, being only slightly interrupted by Obama s entourage blocking traffic. A lot of money was raised for the worthy cause with several matching donors. The WordCamp Report with Patrick Havens and Andrew Mager from ZDNet.com had great live blog coverage of the event. TechCrunch reported on The State of WordPress 2008 reporting Awesome Growth. Matt showcased a lot of photographs from the vent and the Scavenger Hunt. Here are some of the slide shows and blog posts summarizing the speaker s presentations: Global Voices - Democratising the Web with WordPress Lorelle at WordCamp 2008 - 260 Ways to Break WordPress WordPress APIs Color Theory and the Making of Monotone Quercus WordCamp 2008 Secure Coding with WordPress - WordCamp SF 2008 (blog post) BuddyPress @ WordCamp WordPress + OAuth Make Cash. Using Open Source. And WordPress. Findability Abwc2008 (blog post) WordPress Meetup or WordCamp Near You? If you are putting together a WordPress event, please email me so I can publicize it here. If there is a WordCamp near you, go. If you are interested in setting up a WordCamp, stay tuned for news and information on to bring a WordCamp event near you. Here are some WordPress-related dates and events to put on your calendar as found on the WordPress Roadmap and the WordPress Meetup Group Listings (subject to change). The Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress August Meetup - August 23, 2008 WordCamp South Africa - Cape Town - August 23, 2008 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden WordPress Meetup - August 24, 2008 The New York City WordPress August Meetup - New York - August 26, 2008 Central Coast WordPress Meetup - Pismo Beach, California - Aug 30, 2008 WordCamp Philippines - September 6, 2008 The Boston WordPress September Meetup - September 18, 2008 Blog World Expo, Vegas - September 20-21, 2008 WordCamp China - Beijing - September 20-21, 2008 WordCamp Utah - Provo, Utah - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Birmingham - Alabama - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008 WordCamp New York - New York - October 4, 2008 WordCampRDU - Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina - Oct 4, 2008 WordCamp Toronto - October 4-5, 2008 Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii - Oct 24, 2008 MinneWordCamp - Minneapolis - November 15, 2008 WordCamp Australia - Sydney - December 6-7, 2008 WordCamps and WordPress Meetups Everywhere: A WordPress Meetup is a frequent meeting of WordPress fans. A WordCamp is a day or two long event with sponsors and dozens if not hundreds of WordPress fans gathering annually. If you would like to sponsor or host a WordCamp, check out the new official site for tracking WordCamps is WordCamp Central, which includes instructions and guidelines for running a WordCamp. If you would like to start a WordPress Meetup group, find a meeting place and announce it among your friends, and add a listing to the Yahoo Upcoming events for WordPress, as many track WordPress event announcements there. WordPress Plugins and Themes News List of Links of Where Did They Go From Here Updated: Where Did They Go From Here WordPress Plugin by Weblog Tools Collection guru, Mark Ghosh, has been updated. It adds a list of links to the bottom of each post of the pages on your blog visitors went to after visiting a particular post. What a great way to add related posts set by your visitors standards. Write Better Plugins: PlanetOzh offers How, And Why, Keeping Plugin Sources Clean, a great tutorial to help improve your Plugin writing. See also Safest Way to Include Plugin Code in Themes for more ways to help you with your Plugins. WordPress Theme Directory Lists Over 200,000 Downloads: Joseph Scott reports on the WordPress Themes Directory stats. More than 150 new Themes have been added, bringing the total to 170 themes and 261,451 downloads. The top WordPress Themes in the directory are: Atahualpa deLight WP-Andreas01 Journalist Dum-Dum Store Your Twitter Tweets Plugin: Tweet Tweet WordPress Plugin archives your Twitter tweets and the tweets of those you follow, plus replies you receive from strangers and direct messages, and stores them in your WordPress database - just in case. There is an Administration Panel to review your latest tweets and go back in history. The goal is to make your tweets safe - just in case. WordPressMU Domain Mapping Plugin: The WordPressMU Domain Mapping WordPress Plugin by Donncha O Caoimh has been released and is entered in the WordPressMU Plugin Competition. This Plugin works with WordPressMU to redirect or map individual blogs to a new domain name from the subdomain name structure. Learning WordPress Plugin Techniques from a Master Plugin Writer: Automatic Timezone WordPress Plugin is part of the Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Competition and helps set the timezone for your blog, but more importantly, it contains code that will help Plugin authors write better Plugins. The code serves as a tutorial, giving examples of how to modify the Plugin options on the fly and modifying sections of the core Administration Panels. If you are a WordPress Plugin author, consider digging into this Plugin to find out how a master works and how to make your Plugin even better. Interesting WordPress Plugins: Woopra WordPress Plugin integrates Woopra analytics, traffic statistics, and user visit information into your WordPress Administration Panels. It works in conjunction with Woopra. Woopra is in private beta testing and you must be an approved beta tester. Kaltura Interactive Video WordPress Plugin adds interactive video capabilities to your WordPress blog with the ability to upload, record, import, edit, remix video content, enable video responses, and manage and track video content. Wet Maintenance WordPress Plugin hides a blog from non-registered users with a warning sign that the blog is undergoing maintenance. Actionable WordPress Plugin creates a categorized list of action items for blog users to check off and track - a great idea for blogs with mutliple bloggers or an active community. Finding WordPress Plugins: For more WordPress Plugins see the official WordPress Plugin Directory, the WordPress Plugins Database, and Weblog Tools Collection Plugin and Theme announcements. WordPress Techniques and Tips What Does The Number on the Plugins Link Mean? Weblog Tools Collection asks What Does the Blurb on Top of Plugins Link Mean? WordPress 2.6 lists a number above the Plugins menu tab link in the WordPress Administration Panels. The number shows the count for the WordPress Plugins you have installed that have updates available. Go to the Plugins Panel to update these so you have the most recent version, and can make the next WordPress upgrade easier on yourself. Here are some interesting WordPress tips I ve uncovered: How You Can Use WordPress Functions to Run a Smarter Blog Quick Online Tips: How to Add Gravatars to WordPress Themes Making Better Use of Your Error “404? Page Inserting images full-sized in WordPress.com Recover WordPress Password When You Have Forgotten It Want to Write a WordPress Tip and See It Here? If you would like your WordPress tip and technique included in this list, see Tips For Writing Good WordPress Tips and Writing and Publishing Code In Your WordPress Blog Posts. When its ready, contact me at . WordPress.com News WordPress.com Press This Added: The Press This Bookmarklet has been added to WordPress.com blogs. There is a video tutorial on how it works. The Press This Bookmarklet is added to your bookmark toolbar in your browser and allows you to blog about whatever page or thing you are viewing in your browser without switching back to your blog. WordPress Community News WordPress Facebook: Fan of WordPress? Check out the WordPress on Facebook fan page and join the fun! Get Your WordPress Mug: I love my new WordPress mug. Go get yours at the WordPress Shop along with t-shirts and hoodies. Don t want to buy one? Found a Bug in WordPress? If you find a bug in WordPress, report it by following the instructions in Reporting Bugs on the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users. Vote for WordPress Ideas: Want to have your say in what happens with WordPress. Vote for ideas on upcoming versions of WordPress in the WordPress Ideas section. Looking for a WordPress Expert? If you are looking for a WordPress expert, try the WordPress Consultants list from Automattic, the WordPress Jobs listings, and the WP-Pro mailing list. WordPress Installed For Free: Installing WordPress for Free (aka Install4Free WordPress) is a free, volunteer-driven service is limited to personal blogs only, and they help only with installations, not upgrades. Don t Use WordPress in Your Blog s Name: It s about respect. Please use WordPress names right because WordPress is a trademark and you are not allowed to use WordPress in your blog s domain name or URL unless you have permission of Automattic and WordPress. 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WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco is this weekend and WordPressers are flying in from around the world to attend the big event. Look for them prowling around San Francisco in a fundraising Scavenger Hunt on Sunday! WordPress is now running the British government, with WP Super Cache supporting it. Vote now for your favorite WordPress Plugin. Learn the secrets behind the new WordPress Theme Directory. WordCamp Utah speakers announced. Lots of news about WordPress Plugins. And more! WordPress News WordPress Rules the British Government: As has been widely reported, number10.gov.uk for Number 10 Downing Street, home of the British Primer Minister s office, is run with WordPress. Donncha is excited for that, but mostly because they are using his WP Super Cache WordPress Plugin to handle the traffic load smoothly fairly well. Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition - VOTE NOW! Have you voted yet? Get your vote in for your favorite in the WordPress Plugin Competition. There are some top notch Plugins included, and Ozh has written his review of the entrants in part one and part two of the competition, giving you insights into which are the ones he likes and why, and things WordPress Plugin authors can learn along the way to improve their Plugins. WordPress 2.6.1 Beta 2 Released: Last week, the beta 1 version of WordPress 2.6.1 was released, and WordPress 2.6.1 Beta 2 is out this week. Ryan Boren reports that the first draft of the automatic upgrade is in the truck for the next major release of WordPress: It is hairy, ill-tempered and eats kittens. You can use it to automatically upgrade to each nightly build if you are brave. Don’t use it on blogs you want to keep. WordPress Theme Directory Revealed: In an interview with Matt Mullenweg and Joseph Scott about the WordPress Themes Directory with Theme Shaper, they reveal some of the goodies coming up soon with the new repository for WordPress Themes, including the news that if you want to get exposure for your Theme in the upcoming WordPress 2.7 release that will access the directory through the Themes Panel, you better get your Theme in the directory! WordPress iPhone: The WordPress iPhone is now at version 1.1 with a lot of improvements and a couple bug fixes. You can learn more about it on the WordPress iPhone Development Blog and study the source code on the WordPress iPhone SVN. Got an Idea for a WordPress Plugin? Blue Fur is looking for WordPress Plugin requests from the WordPress Community of fans, collecting suggestions for Plugins they can develop. Some interesting Plugins have been mentioned, but be really specific in your requests so they and all of us watching know what your intension and usage is for the suggested Plugin. Any other Plugin experts taking requests? WP-Vote: WP-Vote is a new Digg-style site by Jean-Baptiste Jung to help support the WordPress Community by submitting WordPress-related stories and voting upon them. WordPressMU 2.6 Released: WordPressMU 2.6 has been released and Donncha offers details on the improvements, including bringing it up to WordPress 2.6 specs. Having Trouble Publishing Code in Posts and Comment? If you publish code in your WordPress posts and comments, WordPress may think it is code. To prevent code acting like code, WordPress automatically filters it out of the posts and comments, as does many other blogging and CMS programs. To publish code as content, see Writing Code in Your WordPress Posts and Writing and Publishing Code in Your WordPress Blog Posts. Last Week s WordPress Wednesday News: Can t get enough WordPress news and tips? There is so much news coming out about the latest version, so you can catch up with the past news in last week s WordPress Wednesday News: WordPress 2.7, WordCamp News, 2.6.1 Beta Released. WordPress Podcasts WordPress Podcast: The WordPress Podcast: Episode 44 includes news and information on the release of WordPress 2.6, the WordPress iPhone, XML-RPC controversy, and an exclusive interview with Woopra co-founders, Elie Khoury and Jad Younan and their Woopra WordPress Plugin. WordCast Podcast: WordCast 24: Non-blog Blog with Beth Skinner, Kym Huynh and Dave Moyer featured WordPress 2.7 news, tag clouds, WordPress.com 24/7 support, using WordPress as a CMS, what defines a blog, delicious, and more WordPress news, Plugins, and tips. WordPress on Your Calendar WordPressers Invade San Francisco: WordCamp 2008 is bringing WordPress fans from around the world to San Francisco. The line up of speakers for the one-day event includes the best of the best. There will also be a WordPress Genius Bar to get personal one-on-one WordPress help and advice, and a special fundraising charity event on Sunday called the WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt. There are a few spaces left, so register now for WordCamp 2008. Hope to see you there. WordCamp Utah: WordCamp Utah is now open for registration for the September 27, 2008, event. The speaker schedule is out with some top speakers including Matt Mullenweg, Richard Miller, Cameron Moll, Thom Allen, Ash Buckles and Alex King. The rest of the WordPress pros will be at WordCamp Portland the same weekend. :D Okay, I ll be at WordCamp Portland. WordPress Meetup or WordCamp Near You? If you are putting together a WordPress event, please email me so I can publicize it here. If there is a WordCamp near you, go. If you are interested in setting up a WordCamp, stay tuned for news and information on to bring a WordCamp event near you. Here are some WordPress-related dates and events to put on your calendar as found on the WordPress Roadmap and the WordPress Meetup Group Listings (subject to change). WordPress Meetup UK North Northern Bloggers - Leeds Met - Aug 15, 2008 WordCamp San Francisco 2008 at Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF - August 16, 2008 WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt - San Francisco - Aug 17, 2008 The New York City WordPress August Meetup - August 16, 2008 The Boston WordPress August Meetup - August 21, 2008 The Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress August Meetup - August 23, 2008 WordCamp South Africa - Cape Town - August 23, 2008 The New York City WordPress August Meetup - New York - August 26, 2008 Central Coast WordPress Meetup - Pismo Beach, California - Aug 30, 2008 WordCamp Philippines - September 6, 2008 Blog World Expo, Vegas - September 20-21, 2008 WordCamp China - Beijing - September 20-21, 2008 WordCamp Utah - Provo, Utah - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Birmingham - Alabama - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008 WordCamp New York - New York - October 4, 2008 WordCampRDU - Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina - Oct 4, 2008 WordCamp Toronto - October 4-5, 2008 Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii - Oct 24, 2008 MinneWordCamp - Minneapolis - November 15, 2008 WordCamp Australia - Sydney - December 6-7, 2008 WordCamps and WordPress Meetups Everywhere: A WordPress Meetup is a frequent meeting of WordPress fans. A WordCamp is a day or two long event with sponsors and dozens if not hundreds of WordPress fans gathering annually. If you would like to sponsor or host a WordCamp, check out the new official site for tracking WordCamps is WordCamp Central, which includes instructions and guidelines for running a WordCamp. If you would like to start a WordPress Meetup group, find a meeting place and announce it among your friends, and add a listing to the Yahoo Upcoming events for WordPress, as many track WordPress event announcements there. WordPress Security News WP Contact Form: BlogSecurity reports vulnerabilities in the popular WP Contact Form. Recommended deactivate the Plugin until it is fixed and updated. WP Downloads Manager Security Vulnerability: BlogSecurity also reported that the WP Downloads Manager WordPress Plugin has a security vulnerability and should be discontinued until a fix is published. WordPress Plugins and Themes News WordPressMU Domain Mapping Plugin: The WordPressMU Domain Mapping WordPress Plugin by Donncha O Caoimh has been released and is entered in the WordPressMU Plugin Competition. This Plugin works with WordPressMU to redirect or map individual blogs to a new domain name from the subdomain name structure. Learning WordPress Plugin Techniques from a Master Plugin Writer: Automatic Timezone WordPress Plugin is part of the Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Competition and helps set the timezone for your blog, but more importantly, it contains code that will help Plugin authors write better Plugins. The code serves as a tutorial, giving examples of how to modify the Plugin options on the fly and modifying sections of the core Administration Panels. If you are a WordPress Plugin author, consider digging into this Plugin to find out how a master works and how to make your Plugin even better. Jacob Santos Finishes the WP-Admin Directory Inline Documentation: A long but worthwhile project, Jacob Santos is finishing the WP-Admin Directory Inline Documentation for the WordPress core programing, helping current and future WordPress users, coders, Plugin and Theme authors figure out what all this means under the hood. Thanks, Jacob, to you and your team. Well done! Also see WordPress Inline Documentation site with PHPdocumentor and the WordPress Codex Function Reference for more inline documentation resources. Custom Actions in WordPress Plugins: Nerdaphernalia writes about how to use custom actions in your WordPress Plugins that go beyond hiding the Plugin if it is deactivated. Have you explored all the custom actions your Plugin can take to make it even more powerful and flexible? Admin Drop Down Menus Updated: planetOzh reports an update to his popular Admin Drop Down Menu WordPress Plugin, one of my favorites. The Plugin converts all the Administration Panels into drop down menus. Instead of clicking one tab at a time to drill down to the various panels, move your mouse across the menus and select the subpage panel tab of your choice. It works with the latest version of WordPress. Fixing the Pagination of Query Posts: Kafkaesqui helped StylizedWeb fix a problem with the query_posts() pagination feature which puts bak the page navigation when using the function for customization of your various multi-post page views. If you are having a problem, check out the post for some great tips on this aspect of the function. WordPress Meets Disqus: DISQUS WordPress Plugin has been updated for handling comments with Disqus, an external comment system. The new version will allow importing of old comments and moderation from within the WordPress Administration Panels, and synchronization between Disqus and WordPress. Interesting WordPress Plugins: WP Microsummary Comment Track WordPress Plugin displays the number of approved, pending, and spam comments on your WordPress blog. Scheduled Post Shift Plugin for WordPress automatically updates your oldest post and regenerates it as the latest post on your WordPress blog to shine new light on your old posts. Customization includes setting the schedule between rotating periods. Breadcrumb Titles For Pages WordPress Plugin modifies the wp_title() function which creates the title of your web page to output all parent Pages when viewing a Page on a WordPress blog. It doesn t impact the rest of the pageviews. Finding WordPress Plugins: For more WordPress Plugins see the official WordPress Plugin Directory, the WordPress Plugins Database, and Weblog Tools Collection Plugin and Theme announcements. WordPress Techniques and Tips Here are some interesting WordPress tips I ve uncovered: Perishable Press: WordPress Tip: Link Author Comments to the Home Page Create a Flash Arcade site using WordPress WordPress Hacks: Build a Web Directory How To Display Most Popular Tags In WordPress Using the WP_TAG_CLOUD Function Want to Write a WordPress Tip and See It Here? If you would like your WordPress tip and technique included in this list, see Tips For Writing Good WordPress Tips and Writing and Publishing Code In Your WordPress Blog Posts. When its ready, contact me at . WordPress.com News WordPress.com Members Invited to WordCamp San Francisco: Matt Mullenweg made a invitation to all WordPress.com members to join other WordPress fans at WordCamp San Francisco 2008 on August 16 and for the WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt. WordPress.com Gets Improved Stats Charts: WordPress.com reports improvement in their stats charts, fixing a bug long past due which allows charts to display days with zero pageviews. They ve also added similar charts for the Referrers, Search Terms, and Clicks. WordPress.com Now 24/7 Support: WordPress.com announced full-time 24-7 member support. You got a problem, they are there for you, no matter what time zone or time. Response time is about 24 hours, though usually it is less than that. The WordPress.com Forums continues to provide help and support for members by members and staff, and is also a great place to meet fellow WordPress.com members. WordPress Community News WordPress Facebook: Fan of WordPress? Check out the WordPress on Facebook fan page and join the fun! Looking Back Into the History of WordPress: Keith Dsouza of Weblog Tools Collection shares Evolution of WordPress: B2/Cafelog to WordPress 1.0 , a history lesson on how WordPress grew out of B2/Cafelog in the early days. Get Your WordPress Mug: I love my new WordPress mug. Go get yours at the WordPress Shop along with t-shirts and hoodies. Don t want to buy one? Enter the WordCast Mugshot Contest and you could win one, alone with some other fun schwag. A lot of blogs are offering WordPress mugs for prizes. Why not you? Found a Bug in WordPress? If you find a bug in WordPress, report it by following the instructions in Reporting Bugs on the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users. Vote for WordPress Ideas: Want to have your say in what happens with WordPress. Vote for ideas on upcoming versions of WordPress in the WordPress Ideas section. Looking for a WordPress Expert? If you are looking for a WordPress expert, try the WordPress Consultants list from Automattic, the WordPress Jobs listings, and the WP-Pro mailing list. WordPress Installed For Free: Installing WordPress for Free (aka Install4Free WordPress) is a free, volunteer-driven service is limited to personal blogs only, and they help only with installations, not upgrades. Don t Use WordPress in Your Blog s Name: It s about respect. Please use WordPress names right because WordPress is a trademark and you are not allowed to use WordPress in your blog s domain name or URL unless you have permission of Automattic and WordPress. Also, remember, it s spelled WordPress not Wordpress . Oh, and Plugin is Plugin, not plug-in (what you put into a wall electrical socket). 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WordPress iPhone has already been updated. Over 201,000 blogs using WordPress 2.6. More than 300 WordPress Themes uploaded to the new WordPress Theme Directory. Simon Dickson rocked WordCamp UK with great info on WordPress as a CMS for businesses. WordCamp San Francisco opens registration. Need help tracking changes in WordPress versions? There is now a Plugin that will help your WordPress Themes and Plugins make the transition. WordPress 2.5 is dead. WordPressMU 2.6 is alive. And Mark Jaquith writes a one line WordPress Plugin. WordPress News WordPress iPhone: The WordPress iPhone is now at version 1.1 with a lot of improvements and a couple bug fixes. You can learn more about it on the WordPress iPhone Development Blog and study the source code on the WordPress iPhone SVN. WordPress 2.6 Released: WordPress 2.6 was released last week and appears to be a fairly stable release. It is a mandatory release with security patches and you should Download WordPress 2.6 now. Over 194 bugs were fixed, too. I ve included a lot of the new features in past issues of the WordPress Wednesday News. For those with WordPress Themes that have not been updated to handle the new image placement, see Hack WordPress and WP Lover for technical help. WordPress 2.6 Stats: Matt Mullenweg released some numbers on WordPress 2.6. Within the first 10 days, there are 201,000 blogs using 2.6. The English version had been downloaded on average 23,000 a day. According to the WordPress Development blog, there have been 34 issues fixed so far for the upcoming release of 2.6.1. WordCamp UK Simon Dickson Presentation: The presentation by Simon Dickson has been declared a showstopper at WordCamp UK and he goes into more detail about the things he covered on using WordPress within a business, including a the use of WordPress for 10 Downing Street, the seat of the British Prime Minister. He also offered tips on how WordPress could improve, especially as a CMS. WordPress 2.5 Branch No Longer Supported: The announcement of the release of WordPress 2.6 came with the news that WordPress 2.5 will no longer be supported. It is nearly identical to the new version and has little impact on Themes and Plugins. WordPress Theme Directory Submissions: Matt Mullenweg reports that more than 300 WordPress Themes have been added to the new WordPress Theme Directory in the first 6 days. Jeff Chandler of Performancing offers a guided tour of the new WordPress Theme Directory. WordPressMU 2.6 Released: WordPressMU 2.6 has been released and Donncha offers details on the improvements, including bringing it up to WordPress 2.6 specs. As mentioned last week, the signup page is more secure, improvements have been made in WordPress Themes, Plugins, custom front page posts, and more. A lot of security issues have been addressed and a bunch of bugs fixed in this multiple user version of WordPress. Checked out Weblog Tools Collection Lately? One of the best resources for top-notch information on WordPress is the Weblog Tools Collection blog. They cover everything including frquent WordPress Plugin Releases (see WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/29, WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/28), and WordPress Plugin Releases 07/24), WordPress Theme Releases and Announcements (see WordPress Theme Releases for 07/25 and WordPress Theme Releases 07/23), and now offer a summary of WordPress Tips they find along their daily WordPress surfing (see WordPress Tips for 7/27. They are also the host of the annual Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition and voting is on right now, so go vote for your favorite WordPress Plugin in the competition and turn a Plugin author into a rockstar and WordPress guru! Having Trouble Publishing Code in Posts and Comment? If you publish code in your WordPress posts and comments, WordPress may think it is code. To prevent code acting like code, WordPress automatically filters it out of the posts and comments, as does many other blogging and CMS programs. To publish code as content, see Writing Code in Your WordPress Posts and Writing and Publishing Code in Your WordPress Blog Posts. Last Week s WordPress Wednesday News: Can t get enough WordPress news and tips? There is so much news coming out about the latest version, so you can catch up with the past news in last week s WordPress Wednesday News: iPhone, 10 Downing Street, WordCamp UK, WordPress 2.6 Rocks, WordPress International, and WordPress Themes Directory. WordPress Podcasts WordPress Podcast: The WordPress Podcast: Episode 43: Out Of Date Blogs Hacked, All-In-One SEO Gets Dropped, Then Picked Up covered those topics and the development of the Crazy Horse new WordPress Administration Panels interface, Batcache, HyperDB, WordPress Plugins, WordPress 2.6, and security issues. WordCast Podcast: WordCast 23: Sexy Asian Commenters has been released and features WordPress Plugins, Liz Strauss pushing WordPress by releasing over 260 blog posts - one a minute - using the future post feature, the WordPress iPhone, WordPress 2.6 statistics and news, and more. The WordCast Mugshot Contest is still on. Send in a photograph of your Mug and you may win. WordPress on Your Calendar WordCamp San Francisco 2008: Registration is now open for WordCamp San Francisco 2008 on August 16, 2008 at the Mission Bay Conference Center. There is a constantly updated list of attendees and the schedule is yet to be announced for the speakers and events. Lloyd Budd is looking for WordPress Geniuses to help set up a help bar during WordCamp to help answer WordPress questions and solve problems. Interested? Record Breaking WordCamps: We ve got some record breakers coming up for WordCamp events. There are 5 WordCamps set for this September, and three will all be on September 27: WordCamp Utah in Salt Lake City, WordCamp Birmingham in Alabama, and WordCamp Portland in Oregon. Three WordCamps are scheduled so far for October. It s going to be an autumn stuffed with WordCamp and WordPress fun. WordPress Meetup or WordCamp Near You? If you are putting together a WordPress event, please email me so I can publicize it here. If there is a WordCamp near you, go. If you are interested in setting up a WordCamp, stay tuned for news and information on to bring a WordCamp event near you. Here are some WordPress-related dates and events to put on your calendar as found on the WordPress Roadmap and the WordPress Meetup Group Listings (subject to change). WordCamp San Francisco 2008 at Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF - August 16, 2008 The New York City WordPress August Meetup - August 16, 2008 The Boston WordPress August Meetup - August 21, 2008 The Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress August Meetup - August 23, 2008 WordCamp South Africa - Cape Town - August 23, 2008 Central Coast WordPress Meetup - Pismo Beach, California - Aug 30, 2008 WordCamp Philippines - September 6, 2008 Blog World Expo, Vegas - September 20-21, 2008 WordCamp China - Beijing - September 20-21, 2008 WordCamp Utah - Salt Lake City - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Birmingham - Alabama - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008 WordCamp New York - New York - October 4, 2008 WordCamp Toronto - October 4-5, 2008 Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii - Oct 24, 2008 MinneWordCamp - Minneapolis - November 15, 2008 WordCamp Australia - Sydney - December 6-7, 2008 WordCamps and WordPress Meetups Everywhere: A WordPress Meetup is a frequent meeting of WordPress fans. A WordCamp is a day or two long event with sponsors and dozens if not hundreds of WordPress fans gathering annually. If you would like to sponsor or host a WordCamp, check out the new official site for tracking WordCamps is WordCamp Central, which includes instructions and guidelines for running a WordCamp. If you would like to start a WordPress Meetup group, find a meeting place and announce it among your friends, and add a listing to the Yahoo Upcoming events for WordPress, as many track WordPress event announcements there. WordPress Plugins and Themes News Mark Jaquith - One Line WordPress Plugin: After publishing How to Write a Solid and Stable WordPress Plugin, Mark Jaquith wrote a WordPress Plugin all on one line just to prove it could be done. The Post Timestamp Visible WordPress Plugin opens the post timestamp editing fields so they are visible all the time for those who use the future posts feature of WordPress. The technical article on writing WordPress Plugins is a good guideline for creating consistent, well-written, and secure Plugins and worth adding to your references. Inline Documentation for WordPress: Peter Westwood has created the WordPress Inline Documentation site with PHPdocumentor which outlines all the classes, functions, and more in WordPress. This is excellent for Theme and Plugin authors. This joins the ranks of other core programming functions and resources such as the WordPress Codex Function Reference. Peter Westwood also has a good guide on how to track deprecated functions for WordPress coders and extenders. Prologue WordPress Theme Upgraded: The Prologue WordPress Theme is now version 1.4.1, updated with fixes in the CSS for lists, improved comments login message, iPhone stylesheet integration, and much more overall improvements and fixes. The Prologue WordPress Theme is a social Theme produced by Automattic, and considered a Twitter-style blog format. Log Your Deprecated Calls: Stephen Rider has released the Log Deprecated Calls WordPress Plugin especially for Plugin and Theme authors. If WordPress calls a function or file that has been deprecated due to version changes or modifications, a message is logged in a PHP file that identifies the call s location and makes a recommendation on what to replace it with. It should allow faster and easier upgrades and modifications from version to version. Using Classes in WordPress Plugins: Stephen Rider of Nerdaphernalia wrote about how to use classes in your WordPress Plugins to improve code portability and minimize name conflicts within the code. He discusses the pros and cons and highly recommends you wrap your Plugins functions in a PHP class to future proof your Plugins. Interesting WordPress Plugins: Here are some interesting and unusual Plugins I found recently: WordPress Tabs and Slides WordPress Plugin adds accordion-style navigation to your WordPress Theme with tags and slides, creating a multi-page structure within a single pageview. MaxRef WordPress Widgets adds unlimited widgets to your WordPress blog sidebar to display posts from a specific category, links from a link category, comments, and a variety of other sidebar options. uses a filter to display a keyword cloud based upon search engine queries to your blog. Display Google Spreadsheet WordPress Plugin allows embedding of Google online spreadsheets within your WordPress blog post. Peter’s Collaboration E-mails WordPress Plugin takes advantage of the Pending Review feature of recent versions of WordPress to send an email to the moderators or editors when a post is submitted and ready for review, and another to the contributor when the post is approved for publishing. Finding WordPress Plugins: For more WordPress Plugins see the official WordPress Plugin Directory, the WordPress Plugins Database, and Weblog Tools Collection Plugin and Theme announcements. WordPress Techniques and Tips Here are some interesting WordPress tips I ve uncovered: ZEPREZ WordPress Video Guides - How To Publish Posts To Your Website With WordPress 2.0 How To: Display the Recent Posts of Specific Categories HACK: Fixing The Code Syntax Highlighter WordPress Plugins To Work With WYSIWYG How to Put Adsense on Your WordPress Blog Want to Write a WordPress Tip and See It Here? If you would like your WordPress tip and technique included in this list, see Tips For Writing Good WordPress Tips and Writing and Publishing Code In Your WordPress Blog Posts. When its ready, contact me at . WordPress.com News Post Revisions on WordPress.com: The WordPress.com Blog goes into greater detail on how the new Post Revisions feature works for WordPress.com bloggers. For those with multiple bloggers, it helps track who has done what on the blog posts. If you make a boo boo, you can easily go back to an older version. Adding Captions to Images on WordPress.com: You can now add captions to photographs on your WordPress.com blog. Captions have been a real bear for web page designers, so this is a major accomplishment to add to WordPress.com blogs. To add a caption, type it in the Caption field on the Media Library Image panel and it should appear. There are also shortcodes you can use to create the caption. iPhone updated for WordPress Themes: The new iPhone WordPress application has been updated to work with the Prologue and Mdot WordPress Themes on WordPress.com. The mobile interface has been updated, which can be reached at m.wordpress.com. They are working on improving the look, but for now, you can post to your blog, check stats, add a bookmark, and other goodies to your WordPress blog from your iPhone. WordPress Community News Looking Back Into the History of WordPress: Keith Dsouza of Weblog Tools Collection shares Evolution of WordPress: B2/Cafelog to WordPress 1.0 , a history lesson on how WordPress grew out of B2/Cafelog in the early days. Get Your WordPress Mug: I love my new WordPress mug. Go get yours at the WordPress Shop along with t-shirts and hoodies. Don t want to buy one? Enter the WordCast Mugshot Contest and you could win one, alone with some other fun schwag. A lot of blogs are offering WordPress mugs for prizes. Why not you? Found a Bug in WordPress? If you find a bug in WordPress, report it by following the instructions in Reporting Bugs on the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users. Give Something Back to WordPress: Jeff Chandler of Weblog Tools Collection has written 24 Ways To Contribute To WordPress with suggestions on how to get involved in helping WordPress development. If you would like to help with the WordPress Codex, the official online user manual for WordPress users, we need you. If you would like to contribute to WordPress as a volunteer in the WordPress Support Forums, testing, coding, and more, see Contributing to WordPress. If you would like to help improve WordPress by reporting bugs, please report them via the WordPress Bug Report form. Your help is needed to ensure WordPress works. Vote for WordPress Ideas: There is still time to get your vote in for ideas on upcoming versions of WordPress in the The WordPress Ideas section. Why not take advantage of it and add your voice to the vote. Looking for a WordPress Expert? If you are looking for a WordPress expert, try the WordPress Consultants list from Automattic, the WordPress Jobs listings, and the WP-Pro mailing list. WordPress Installed For Free: Installing WordPress for Free (aka Install4Free WordPress) is a free, volunteer-driven service is limited to personal blogs only, and they help only with installations, not upgrades. Don t Use WordPress in Your Blog s Name: It s about respect. Please use WordPress names right because WordPress is a trademark and you are not allowed to use WordPress in your blog s domain name or URL unless you have permission of Automattic and WordPress. Also, remember, it s spelled WordPress not Wordpress . Oh, and Plugin is Plugin, not plug-in (what you put into a wall electrical socket). 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WordCamps in Australia and Hawaii announced. Worried about security? New WordPress Plugin to scan for WordPress exploits. Lots of tips for WordPress Plugin writers. Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Competition heating up with great Plugins. WordPress 2.6 Beta Candidate part two released. Google Gears for WordPress.com. Lots of news on WordPress 2.6. And if not WordPress, what? WordPress News Scanning for WordPress Exploits: WordPress Exploit Scanner WordPress Plugin by Donncha O Caoimh searches the files and database of your WordPress blog for signs of suspicious activity. It won t prevent attacks but will help you find them if they do occur. WordPress 2.6 News: There have been two beta releases of WordPress 2.6, the most recent one is WordPress 2.6 Beta 2. Improvements and changes include tag auto-suggest, Visual Text Editor, Media Library fixes and changes, SSL and i18n localization fixes, inline documentation, and more. More news and commentary on WordPress 2.6 include: What Plugin Coders Must Know About WordPress 2.6 by Ozh of PlanetOzh. Weblog Tools Collecton - What You Need To Know About WordPress 2.6 covers post revisioning, improvements in the Press-It (now called Press This ) bookmarklet, faster WordPress Administration Panels, incorporation of Google Gears to enhance speed improvements, XML-RPC requires Administrator Permissions to enable, ability to activate multiple Plugins at once and delete them, ease of deleting Plugins you no longer use, the ability to move the config file to different directory, moving the content directory, image previewing, and customizable default avatars. Dougal Campbell - Update on WordPress blog APIs covers the issues around changes to the XML-RPC and Atom blog APIs being disabled by default in WordPress 2.6. Aaron Brazell - 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.6 covered Shift Click selection of multiple check boxes in the WordPress Administration Panels, Google Gears support for pre-caching, avatar options, XML-RPC as an option to enable XML-RPC editing and upgrading, Press This, Theme preview, post versions, Page Templates over XML-RPC, and Plugin mass activation and deletion. Shoemoney likes Post Revision, the new feature that allows you to compare the same post in multiple windows, excellent for Internet glitches and multiple authors. Dougal Campbell is also jazzed about Post Revisions and Google Gears support, and describes some of the other new features in greater detail including support for the XML-RPC and Atom client APIs being turned off by default for security protection, improved SSL access to Administration Panels, a new version of the Press This (formerly Press-It) bookmarklet, avatar options, improved WordPress Plugin management, and more. Blog Security explores the security improvements in WordPress 2.6 and reports that a number of XMLRPC features will be deactivated by default, adding more protection, along with improved password and cookie security improvements in past versions. They say it s on the right track for strong security standards. Peter Westwood is excited about the improvements in the security of WordPress 2.6 including support for SSL and disabling remote publishing protocols by default. Lester Chan, popular WordPress Plugin author, is excited about the new features including the new link in the top menu called Speed Up which connects with Google Gears, the new Dashboard Panel feature Right Now which gives a breakdown of your blog s activity in the moment, the new Word Count feature, and Theme Previews. However, with the some recent changes in WordPress versions which impact WordPress Plugins, Chan is debating whether or not to maintain WordPress 2.5 compatibility for the next wave of WordPress Plugins, especially those impacted by the new features that allow wp-config.php to move up one level from the WordPress root and allowing the wp-content directory to be in a custom location. Many are reporting their excitement about the new WordPress Auto-Upgrade feature which will make upgrading WordPress easier, though rumors are flying that this might be pushed back a version. WordPress Plugin Competition: The Weblog Tools Collection s WordPress Plugin Competition for WordPress 2.5+ continues to grow with new prizes and Plugins. Here are the Plugin entries listed on the Plugin Competition Blog so far: PhotoJAR: Base tWPtter ~ Wordpress Microblogging New WP Comment Remix Version Sidebars PostGroups v1.1.0 WP Easy Uploader Upgrade and backup *all* your WordPress blogs with one click! Current tags PostGroups Manageable ZdMultilang Post Tabs MailPress Great Real Estate WPMU Plugin Commander SEO Smart Links Adminimize DL-MENU Tab generation and dynamic colorschemes Content By Country Automatic Timezone Plugin Simple Flash Video WordPress Plugin Sermon management WordPress Plugin for churches Reflex Automatic Blogroll WordPress Plugin Fun with In-Context Comments WordPress Plugin Why Not Use WordPress? The Best Already Are: BloggingPro looks at who is using WordPress and asks that if the big names like CNN, Yahoo, Sony, The New York Times, People, Ebay, and b5Media are using WordPress, is there anything else that is better they could be using? After all, these groups have the money, expertise, technology, and access to the research information that helped them make their decision. They must know what their options are. So what are the options besides WordPress? BlogSecurity s Next Generation Security Tester: BlogSecurity announces the launch of BlogSecurity Next Generation, the new modular, expanded version of the WP-scanner WordPress Plugin which tests your blog for security issues and vulnerabilities. Last Week s WordPress Wednesday News: Can t get enough WordPress news and tips? There is so much news coming out about the latest version, so you can catch up with the past news in last week s WordPress Wednesday News: Your Own Song in the Plugin Competition, WordPress 2.6 Beta and First Looks, WordCamp UK New Location, Batcache, Naked Themes, and More. WordPress Podcasts WordPress Podcast: The WordPress Podcast: Episode 43: Out Of Date Blogs Hacked, All-In-One Seo Gets Dropped, Then Picked Up covered those topics and the development of the Crazy Horse new WordPress Administration Panels interface, Batcache, HyperDB, WordPress Plugins, WordPress 2.6, and security issues. WP Weekly Podcast: WordPress Weekly Episode 21 Round 2 with Jeffro included WordPress 2.6 news, hacked blogs, Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Competition, and more. WordCast Podcast: WordCast 19: Irreverelevant covered new Theme releases, the Weblog Tools Collection Plugin competition, Underrated WordPress Plugins, WordPress 2.6, and more WordPress news. WordPress on Your Calendar WordCamp Announcements: WordCamp Australia has been officially announced and will be December 6-7, 2008, in Sydney. Oct 24, 2008, is the date for a PodCamp and WordCamp in Hawaii, so get out your surf boards and sun lotion, folks! WordCamp UK Changes Locations: Only a few weeks away, WordCamp UK has had a last minute change of venue to The Studio in Birmingham. Check out WordCamp UK for more details and maps. WordPress Meetup or WordCamp Near You? If you are putting together a WordPress event, please email me so I can publicize it here. If there is a WordCamp near you, go. If you are interested in setting up a WordCamp, stay tuned for news and information on to bring a WordCamp event near you. Here are some WordPress-related dates and events to put on your calendar as found on the WordPress Roadmap and the WordPress Meetup Group Listings (subject to change). Huntsville WordPress Meetup, Alabama - June 28, 2008 Nashville WordPress Meetup - June 28, 2008 Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress Meetup - June 28, 2008 The New York City WordPress - July 19, 2008 WordCamp UK - July 19-20, 2008, Birmingham, UK VENUE CHANGE Boston WordPress July Meetup - July 24, 2008 The Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress July Meetup - July 26, 2008 WordCamp San Francisco 2008 at Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF - Aug 16, 2008 WordPress 2.6 - July 7, 2008 WordCamp Philippines - September 6, 2008 Blog World Expo, Vegas - September 20-21, 2008 South by Deep South WordCamp - Birmingham, Alabama - September 26-28 WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008 WordCamp Toronto 2008 at Centennial College, Progress Campus, Toronto - October 4, 2008 Podcamp and Wordcamp Hawaii - Oct 24, 2008 MinneWordCamp - Minneapolis - November 15, 2008 WordCamp Australia - Sydney, December 6-7, 2008 WordCamp San Francisco August 16: August 16, 2008 is the next WordCamp San Francisco, considered by many to be the premier WordCamp event. This year, it appears it will be only one day instead of two, but details are still coming. It will be at the Mission Bay Conference Center this year. WordCamps and WordPress Meetups Everywhere: A WordPress Meetup is a frequent meeting of WordPress fans. A WordCamp is a day or two long event with sponsors and dozens if not hundreds of WordPress fans gathering annually. If you would like to sponsor or host a WordCamp, check out the new official site for tracking WordCamps is WordCamp Central, which includes instructions and guidelines for running a WordCamp. If you would like to start a WordPress Meetup group, find a meeting place and announce it among your friends, and add a listing to the Yahoo Upcoming events for WordPress, as many track WordPress event announcements there. WordPress Plugins and Themes News Do You Say WordPress Plugin on Your Plugin Page? I m finding a lot of WordPress Plugin authors are not using the word WordPress Plugin in their Plugin s official page, nor within the text. Remember that WordPress Plugin is a popular keyword search term and if you aren t using it, your chances of being found drops. Avoid separating the two words like WordPress Blah Blah Plugin and keep them together such as Blah Blah WordPress Plugin as the closer the terms are to each other, the more important they are. Most people search for how to do blah WordPress Plugin when they search, so help them find you by using the words and keeping them together. What WordPress Plugin Authors Need to Know About WordPress 2.6: While there will be little change for WordPress Themes, template tags, and functions, a few of the changes in WordPress 2.6 may make or break your WordPress Plugins. What Plugin Coders Must Know About WordPress 2.6 by Ozh takes you in detail through these such as the changes in how the wp-config.php will work in the future, and more. Ozh also offers some WordPress Plugin Coding Tips to help write better WordPress Plugins, as a complement to a series on WordPress Plugin code tips by Nerdaphernalia. If you have or are writing WordPress Plugins, check out these tips to help improve your WordPress Plugins and the user s experience. Interesting WordPress Plugins: Here are some interesting and unusual Plugins I stumbled on recently: Page Excerpt WordPress Plugin adds a meta box to the Write Post Panel for use as a Page Excerpt. Inline Google Docs WordPress Plugin allows embedding of Google documents into WordPress. Inline Google Docs WordPress Plugin allows the blog administrator to embed Google Docs and Spreadsheets as content in posts and Pages with a shortcode. WordPress Themed Categories Plugin assigns different WordPress Themes for specific categories, great for review sites. Authenticate WordPress Plugin enabled universal or targetted inclusion of custom content in feeds and posts for including copyright information, policies, special offers and more. It can be added before, after, or within the post content. Finding WordPress Plugins: For more WordPress Plugins see the official WordPress Plugin Directory, the WordPress Plugins Database, and Weblog Tools Collection Plugin and Theme announcements. WordPress.com News Google Gears for WordPress.com Blogs: WordPress.com users now have Google Gears for their blogs. In the upper right corner of the Administration Panels is a link called Turbo. You will be taken to a Google Gears installation. Google Gears is a browser extension for FireFox and Internet Explorer and allows the browser to use web-based applications like Google Docs and Remember the Milk. It can create a local database and file storage on your computer and run JavaScript in the background of your computer without slowing down the web browser as you work. For WordPress.com users, it will store all your images and other web page components from the WordPress Administration Panels to your computer, speeding up the process and reducing your web bandwidth and traffic. The question most people are asking is if this will be available for full versions of WordPress. According to the development news, it will be included in WordPress 2.6. WordPress Techniques and Tips Can t Find Your Category ID Numbers? How To: Finding Category Numbers in WordPress 2.5 by HackWordPress helps you find those missing category ID numbers for links to your categories by ID, selecting a specific category for the front page of your blog and magazine WordPress Themes, and other usages. Here are some more interesting WordPress tips I ve uncovered: WordPress Hacks: Using Custom Fields to Auto-Embed YouTube Videos Working with widgets at the new WordPress.com JJ and the Kids Podcast - Episode 5 - Create a Database for WordPress ZEPREZ WordPress Video Guides - How to Save An Edited Post Or A Draft In WordPress 2.0 Want to Write a WordPress Tip and See It Here? If you would like your WordPress tip and technique included in this list, see Tips For Writing Good WordPress Tips and Writing and Publishing Code In Your WordPress Blog Posts. When its ready, contact me at . WordPress Community News Get Your WordPress Mug: I love my new WordPress mug and shared my love with a lot of people recently. Go get yours at the WordPress Shop along with t-shirts and hoodies. Give Something Back to WordPress: Jeff Chandler of Weblog Tools Collection has written 24 Ways To Contribute To WordPress with suggestions on how to get involved in helping WordPress development. If you would like to help with the WordPress Codex, the official online user manual for WordPress users, we need you. If you would like to contribute to WordPress as a volunteer in the WordPress Support Forums, testing, coding, and more, see Contributing to WordPress. If you would like to help improve WordPress by reporting bugs, please report them via the WordPress Bug Report form. Your help is needed to ensure WordPress works. Vote for WordPress Ideas: There is still time to get your vote in for ideas on upcoming versions of WordPress in the The WordPress Ideas section. Why not take advantage of it and add your voice to the vote. Looking for a WordPress Expert? If you are looking for a WordPress expert, try the WordPress Consultants list from Automattic, the WordPress Jobs listings, and the WP-Pro mailing list. WordPress Installed For Free: Installing WordPress for Free (aka Install4Free WordPress) is a free, volunteer-driven service is limited to personal blogs only, and they help only with installations, not upgrades. Don t Use WordPress in Your Blog s Name: It s about respect. Please use WordPress names right because WordPress is a trademark and you are not allowed to use WordPress in your blog s domain name or URL unless you have permission of Automattic and WordPress. Also, remember, it s spelled WordPress not Wordpress . Oh, and Plugin is Plugin, not plug-in (what you put into a wall electrical socket). Found a Bug in WordPress? If you find a bug in WordPress, report it by following the instructions in Reporting Bugs on the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users. 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