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Great to see that RIM has relaunched their official BlackBerry blog, using WordPress.
The blog is called Inside BlackBerry, and aims at “bringing you authoritative content about BlackBerry® smartphones directly from the people who make them”:
[ Visit Inside BlackBerry & be sure to check out the WordPress for BlackBerry app ]
Part two of our best of series. While were looking back, feel free to post in the comments a link to what you consider to be one of the best articles about WordPress you’ve read all year. If enough submissions are received, we may just create one more best of 2009 post featuring articles submitted by you. Please do not submit links to articles on sites you own or maintain.
Official WordPress Commercial Theme Directory is live
How Do You Post Content To Your Blog?
Best Method To Post Content To WordPress
Licensing is the vehicle, our users are the environment
Tips For Troubleshooting Problems With WordPress
Should I Update a Plugin if an Update is Available?
WordPress for Beginners: Publish post tips and tricks
What would you like in a WordPress Plugin?
Developing Post Ideas for Your WordPress Site
Create Private Twitter Like Site With WordPress
Why Should You Add Your Plugin to WordPress Extend?
Do you use the WordPress Codex?
Do You Use Scheduled Posts Feature In WordPress?
Fare Thee Well WordPress 2.0
Use WordPress To Highlight Your Business/Portfolio
26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog
Convert PSD Files To WordPress Themes
Notifying Unconfirmed Feedburner Email Subscribers
Download all the Competition Plugins!
The Correct Way To Report A Security Issue With WordPress
WP.me: URL Shortening Service From WordPress
Why Is Gravatar Still Not Mainstream?
10 Useful WordPress Hook Hacks
21 Great Plugins for Manage Multi-Author Blogs
Actions and Filters and Classes, Oh My!
Display Thumbnails For Related Posts in Wordpress
WordPress Stats Plug-in Review
Roles And Capabilities In Plain English
¿Habla HTML?
Old WordPress version? Attack warning. Please upgrade!
WordPress For Beginners: Understanding User Roles
WordPress Cheatsheet
Are You Responsible Enough To Run WordPress?
The Best-Of Series: SEO Tools
Excellent Guide To Make Most of Your WordPress Install
Dealing With 404 Errors & Permanent Redirects In WordPress
WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Runner Ups!
WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Winner!
The Best-Of Series: Contact Forms
When Is A Plugin Considered A Ripoff?
Inject Plugin Ideas Here ->
Do You Check Your Spam Comments? Tips to Deal With Spam.
Pinging Your Own Blog Posts? Good or Bad?
FTC says bloggers must disclose payments and freebies
Theme Authenticity Checker
Gravatar Encouragement
Using Conditional Statements In WordPress
Are Your Plugins Compatible?
Bulk Plugin Upgrades In 2.9
How Would You Leverage The WordPress Community?
WordPress Warriors From Across The World
WordPress for the Desktop… Would You Use It?
The Best-Of Series: Download Managers
Darn You WordPress!!
How to Create an Author Info Section in WordPress
How Do You Do That?
Is Automattic Evil?
How to Create Micro Blogs Within WordPress
So we tried Intense Debate . . .
Google To Help Notify You Of New Updates
How To Disable Delete Post Functionality For Everyone Except Administrator
Translators – Thank You
The Geekier Side Of WordPress 2.9
Why are good plugins becoming orphans?
WordPress Trademark Usage
WordPress 2.9 Packs in Loads of Features: Hands-on Review
Do You Use The Code Editor?
How Often do You Use Functions.php in Themes?
Publish The Feed Later
Is WordPress Spyware?
bbPress Lives
Assortment Of Tips For Consultants
2.9.1 Around The Corner
Trend For 2010 – Paying For Plugins
Four Great Questions
Two column, widget ready theme with support for threaded comments and an options page for customizing the theme
2-3 column widget ready and adsense ready theme
The theme includes four different color schemes which you can conveniently switch to in the built-in theme options page.
Happy2010 is a simple New Year WordPress Theme with two Sidebars and Widget Support. There is an Option Page to populate the Footer. Page in German
PodPress version 8.8.2 is a maintenance and bugfix release including patches by Tim Berger. It makes podPress compatible with WordPress 2.9 and fixes several other bugs. If someone has other patches please open tickets on the plugins trac and leave a comment here.
Throughout the course of a year on WeblogToolsCollection.com, there is a ton of information published about WordPress whether it be a link to something cool or a home grown guide covering a specific feature of WordPress. The purpose of this two part series is to look back at the best articles published on the site but it’s also to reflect on the achievements the software has undergone during 2009. While it’s good to keep things moving along into the future, it’s healthy to look at the past every once in awhile to measure progress.
From all of us here at WLTC, we wish you a safe and happy New Year!
Plugin Review: Simple:Press Forum
Great Explanation Of Community
PHPBB And WordPress
Plugin Review: Referrer Detector
Do You Post By Email?
Plugin Review: WP Greet Box
Plugin Review: WP125
Michael Pick Of WordPress.TV
Et Tu Google? Then Fail, Net Safety
Plugin Review: Autoclose
Want To Buy Sandbox?
Updated WP Plugin: Where did they go from here?
Plugin Review: MailPress
Mastering WordPress Shortcodes
FeedBurner is Dead, Long Live Feedburner
Plugin Review: Yawasp
Plugin Authors, Are you making the best of Readme.txt?
Plugin Review: Post Avatar
The manual Excerpt in WordPress. What, why, how, tips and plugins
Plugin Review: Improved Plugin Installation
WordPress Plugin Development Beginner’s Guide
WPLookup – Find Functions and Template Tags Fast
How to Track RSS Subscribers in a Blog Contest
Plugin Review: WP Mollom
IE 8 and WordPress
How to write a good plugin review
New WordPress Plugin: Better Search
Plugin Review: WordPress Filter
Microsoft Web Platform Featured App: WordPress
Top 10 Characteristics of a Great WordPress Plugin
Plugin Review: cSprites for WordPress
Is It Time For Kubrick To Retire?
Plugin Review: Post Templates
An Introduction and a Plugin Review: Admin Links Widget
How to Highlight Search Terms with jQuery
WordPress Download Monitor Review
WordPress Add Twitter RSS Plugin Review
Automattic buys Blo.gs
Announcing Wordpress Plugin Competition 2009 (3.0)
The Hidden Gem Of WordPress
9 Ways to Make Your WordPress Blog “Smart”
BuddyPress 1.0 Has Arrived!!
Smarter Theme Development
Five Tools to Increase the RSS Subscribers for your WordPress Blog
Plugins to Spruce Up Your WordPress Based Website
I am sick of splogs Copying our Content!
Need Help With That?
Theme Development Checklist
WP PluginsUsed: A Plugin Review
What Are Your Theme Standards?
Five Comment Related Plugins for WordPress
Five Image Related Plugins for your WordPress Site
What can WordPress do for you?
Five Ad Manager Plugins for WordPress
WordPress Plugin Compatibility Checker
Publish Blog Posts In WordPress From Yahoo Mail
Resources To Get You Kick Started With WordPress Plugin And Theme Development
Checklist For New WordPress Installation
Killing The WordPress Bugs and Helping Out With User Problems [WordPress Community]
Should you use a Mobile WordPress Plugin?
Antivirus Plugin For WordPress
Security And Anti-spam Plugins For WordPress
How Has WordPress Changed Your {Blogging} Life?
Does It Matter If I Use 1 Plugin Or 100s Of Them?
Attention All Plugin Authors
Interviews: Matt Mullenweg – WordPress Co-Founder
Benchmarking the WordPress Admin Panel
WordPress Configuration Tricks
Every now and then someone finds something wrong with a WordPress install which, rather than be caused by a bug in WordPress itself, is caused by a server configuration error, an interaction between WordPress and something else installed on the server or is just a recommend optimisation for better site performance.
Everyone has a different set of pitfalls that they have come across and I would like to collect together all these little things into a comprehensive community developed plugin which can hopefully become one of the first “canonical” plugins that we have talked about.
To that end I have developed a framework for this plugin, in the style of a unit test framework, to make it really easy to write tests and I am hoping that some of you will have ideas for tests and also that you will want to get involved.
For a while I have tagged tickets in the main WordPress trac where there are is possible inspiration for tests – http://bit.ly/healthchecktickets.
The following is an example of the code required to carry out one of these tests which recommends users of PHP4 upgrade to PHP5.
/**
* Check that we are running at least PHP 5
*
* @todo Provide a link to a codex article
* @link http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9751
* @author peterwestwood
*/
class HealthCheck_PHP_Version extends HealthCheckTest {
function run_test() {
$this->assertTrue( version_compare('5.0.0', PHP_VERSION, '<'),
sprintf( __( 'Your Webserver is running PHP version %s, which is no longer receiving security updates and will no longer be supported by a future version of WordPress.', 'health-check' ), PHP_VERSION ),
HEALTH_CHECK_RECOMMENDATION );
}
}
HealthCheck::register_test('HealthCheck_PHP_Version');
If you would like to get involved in the development of the plugin then you can check the source code out from the WordPress plugins subversion repository here: http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/health-check/branches/alpha/ and you can follow the development progress using the WordPress plugins trac here: http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/health-check/branches/alpha.
As the plugin is not yet ready for its first release we will be doing the development in this alpha branch and then move to trunk once we make the first release.
I am actively looking for fellow developers for this project as a community team we can make this a success.
So if you would like commit access to write some tests then drop me a note using the contact form with a bit about yourself and I will give you access.
A small update to the LibXML2 Fix WordPress plugin is now available, version 0.2.3.
The only change was the addition of 2.6.27 to the list of libxml versions that the plugin looks for. I’ve had a few reports that this version also has problems with stripping brackets.
For those that haven’t been following this problem here’s the short version of the story. Some combinations of libxml and PHP don’t play nice with each other, the result being that brackets get stripped out of XML content. This is a particular problem for XML-RPC requests in WordPress. This plugin injects a small hack into the XML-RPC data before it gets processed in an attempt to preserve the brackets.
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Thanks to everyone who tested 2.9.1 Beta 1. We’re following that up with Release Candidate 1. RC1 contains a few more fixes, bringing the number of fixed tickets up to 23. If you are already running Beta 1, visit Tools->Upgrade in your blog’s admin to get RC1. You can also download the RC1 package and install manually. If all goes well, 2.9.1 will be here soon.
Alex Denning who is the man behind WPShout.com has published the last of a four-part series which asks notable members within the WordPress community four interesting questions. The questions are as follows.
Why WordPress?
What Would You Change In WordPress?
What Problems Currently Face The WordPress Community?
What Is The Future Of WordPress?
I had the opportunity to participate in this community survey with the question regarding the future of WordPress being my favorite. Here is what I had to say:
WordPress will continue to be used as a platform to do things that go far beyond blogging. As these projects end up in the showcase and acquire press, more people will begin to realize that WordPress is an excellent blogging tool but it’s by far the not only thing it is capable of doing. WordPress will continue to evolve as a framework or a platform that will enable these creative uses of the software. Hopefully one day, when Matt is asked what is WordPress capable of doing, his response will be, anything you can imagine.
You don’t have to concentrate on answering this question in the comments but, I am interested in what your response to that question would be.
It is a single-column theme with bold headers and focuses on easy reading. There are no images used, it is SEO optimized, and is perfect for people that don’t want to get bogged down in all of the technicalities of other themes. There is also a widgetized footer with 3 places to put widgets in to help compensate for a lack of a sidebar.
It is minimalistic one-column theme with the widgets all arranged at the bottom. Clear was designed to make your content stand out and make everything else get out of the way.
It comes in 3 colors (green default, blue and black) , with a slideshow and a featured first page 4 posts from a category, two columns and dynamic widgets for the sidebar on the right and in the footer.
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