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• WPWeekly Episode 52 – Matt Mullenweg Interview
  This edition of WordPress Weekly featured a special interview with the WordPress project leader, Matt Mullenweg. In this interview we asked a wide variety of questions. Some of which were mine while most of them came from you, the listeners of the show. It was great to get Matt back on the show again and I hope we can do this every three or four months just to talk WordPress. Here are the list of questions we covered during the show.
  - By WP Tavern
• What Automattic Should Do With WP.com
  I’m happy to see that Automattic has been able to acquire WP.com, from Yahoo incidentally, who also sold the blo.gs domain to the creators of WordPress and Akismet not so long ago. Matt is thrilled, and rumor has it* that he spent a full day just typing in wp.com and watching it resolve to wordpress.com (*not confirmed).
  - By Thord Daniel Hedengren on The Blog Herald
• Announcing Wordpress Plugin Competition 2009 (3.0)
  It is that time of the year again. We will be holding another WordPress Plugin Competition. The Plugin Competitions held in the past years have generated a tremendous amount of interest in WordPress and our entrants have come up with fantastic plugins such as WP Comment Remix, Manageable, Who Sees Ads and of course OneClick in addition to hundreds of others that were voted upon by readers like you.
  - By Mark Ghosh on Weblog Tools Collection
• Automattic Purchases WP.com
  Being a long time domainer, I’ve always understood the value of a strong domain name. It can literally make or break a product before it even launches! Automattic appears to understand domains as well, and wants to protect their brand. In a brilliant move, it seems they recently completed the purchase of WP.com, the common abbreviation for WordPress, which was previously owned by Yahoo.
  - By Kyle Eslick on WP Hacks

WordPress Tutorials/Tips/How to’s

• WordPress Plugin-Path
  When working on a Plugin I noticed that the path to its files is not always complete, which depends on the WordPress version.
  - By WP Engineer
• Display the total number of users of your WordPress blog
  If your blog allow user registration, what about displaying the total number of registered users? This simple code will allow you to do it easily.
  - By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
• WordPress for Designers: Day 14
  Moving full steam ahead with our WordPress series, it’s time to finish our static home page that we have been creating. Today, we will utilize all kinds of cool WordPress tricks and functions to bring our home page together. Get ready for a day full of custom fields, WordPress queries, and special functions!
  - By Drew Douglass on In the Woods
• The Hidden Gem Of WordPress
  The other day, I was thinking about how easy it is to make a mess on the web. For example, purchasing a domain that you attach an email address to that is used for a year only to end up wanting to use a different domain.
  - By Jeff Chandler on Weblog Tools Collection

WordPress Plugins

• 5 WordPress Plugins I Never Blog Without
  Those of us who use WordPress know well the power of its plugin system. WordPress plugins can help you do everything from spell WordPress correctly to adding a full-fledged message board.
  - By Jonathan Bailey on The Blog Herald

WordPress Themes

• 20 Wordpress Theme Frameworks And Starting Resources
  A theme framework is a theme that is designed to be a flexible foundation that can serve as a parent theme for building child themes. The use of WordPress theme frameworks may ease theme development by reducing the volume of work which may be needed in creating a backbone for your theme (usually by using PHP and WordPress Template Tags). Theme frameworks also make theme development more accessible, removing the need for programming knowledge. I listed here the best Wordpress theme frameworks available as well as several child themes and related articles to help get Your foot with Wordpress theme developing.
  - By Dainis Graveris on 1stwebdesigner

Pro Blogging & SEO

• Article Marketing=Better Backlinks=More Money For You II
  Article marketing is a source of quality backlinks you really should devote some serious time to. Why? Because you are in complete control of the quality, the amount of content, and of course the all important anchor text used to link back to your site! Not only that, but write a good solid 500 to a 800 word article giving needed information, and more than likely it will be picked up by people looking for content for their ezines, blog, newsletters, ect. and your number of links well grow, grow, and grow some more!
  - By Cash Blog
  
• Pay Special Attention to a Reader
  The Task – Choose one (or more than one) of your current readers and do something out of the blue that acknowledges them, shows them that you see them as valuable and highlights them to your other readers.
  - By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
• America’s Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire
  In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than Americans working as computer programmers or firefighters.
  - By E. Kinney Zalesne on The Wall Street Journal
• The best piece of SEO advice I’ve given so far
  Ask your non-techy friend, neighbor or brother to evaluate your site.
  - By Vladimir Prelovac
• Sunday Morning SEO: Improve Your Rankings by Increasing Your Traffic
  Sugarrae published an interesting study on her blog a couple months ago. It’s entitled You Don’t Need SEO to Rank in Google. It basically shows that increasing your traffic can help your rankings. Usually we think of it backwards. We do SEO to increase our traffic, but if you have a knack for attracting visitors without doing SEO, your rankings will improve as a by product.
  - By Dee Barizo on The Blog Herald
• Tracking Your Affiliates with OSI Affiliate Software
  I would like to tell you about this piece of software that I use to track my affiliates. But before I get to that, let me explain a bit about affiliate marketing. If you are unfamiliar with the term, in short it is an affective advertiser’s solution that track stats based on a pay-per-performance model.
  - By ThemeLib
• Is your Blog yet another Partial Blog?
  Feeds were originally invented so that people could keep track of their favorite blogs without having to manually check them for updates. When publishers choose to keep RSS Feeds partial, it does not serve the purpose, which in most cases can be read as ‘you end up with lesser subscribers’.
  - By Arun Basil Lal on Million Clues