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March 2, 2009

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WordPress and blogging links for 02.03.09

WordPress

Episode 50: WordPress 2.7.1 released, WordPress.tv, How much do YOU love WordPress?

Episode 50 of The WordPress Podcast is made possible by Mozy- the world’s most popular backup service, proving simple, automatic and secure backups for your important files, and GoDaddy – world’s largest domain name registrar and provider of shared, dedicated and virtual dedicated hosting plans.
- By Charles Stricklin and Jonathan Bailey on The WordPress Community
WPInspiration Launched!

It’s been months in the working and a project we decided to put off until after the new year to focus more on WPCoder, but we’ve finally tied up the loose ends on our latest project and have launched WPInspiration. WPI is a new website gallery that showcases the best looking WordPress-powered websites on the internet. We had a great base to worth with from our old gallery and will continue that gallery with WPInspiration.
- By Dan Philibin on WP Candy
11 Non-Traditional Uses of WordPress

WordPress is probably the most popular blogging platform and it can also be used as a CMS to power other types of websites, such as a portfolio site. However, with some creativity and a growing number of available resources, WordPress’s limits seem to be expanding constantly.
- By Steven Snell on DesignM.ag

WordPress tips/tutorials/how to’s

How to Disable Post Revisions in WordPress

Since WordPress 2.6 post revisions have been included, which means every save of a draft is saved as a revision of that post. This is a great feature for those working in a collaborative environment with multiple editors and is a way of tracking changes, but for those of us who blog alone, it is an unnecessary feature that adds a lot of additional data that will really increase the size of the WordPress database.
- By Kim Woodbridge on (Anti) Social Development
Keep Your WordPress Comments Clean

I don’t know about you but I am getting a little tired of what I call Drive-By comments on my WordPress posts. Not to mention those sneaky ones that put affiliate links, or even worse links in URL box.
- By Jeff on WordPress Max
How To: Update Your WordPress Database

Last week while I was doing some spring cleaning, I decided to move a few of my sites over to a new CPanel. The move went fairly smoothly, but once everything was moved, there was the matter of updating the WordPress database to show the new database name. If you are wanting to do something similar, here is what you need to do.
- By Kyle Eslick on WP Hacks
How to: Promote your WordPress blog

Sadly, having great content doesn’t mean that you’re going to get big traffic on your blog. Sure, there’s sites as such as delicious, StumbleUpon or digg but reaching their homepage isn’t that easy. Here’s an easier and more relevant way to promote your WordPress blog.
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes

WordPress themes

The Future of WordPress Themes 2009

Last year’s Future of WordPress Themes (read it here) found 11 people committed to thinking creatively about WordPress themes stopping to look where WordPress theming was heading—and now we’re doing it again! These 15 people—designers, developers, and WordPress enthusiasts—are some of the people who will shape WordPress themes, and what they mean, into version 3.0 and beyond.
- By Ian Stewart on Theme Shaper

WordPress plugins

Wordpress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart Plugin

WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart is a very easy to use wordpress plugin created by Tips and Tricks HQ which allows you to sell products or services online in one click from your WordPress blog. If the wordpress shopping cart plugin by Instinct is too complicated for you, this plugin might be a good alternative.
- By ThemeLib
Released WP Greet Box 4.6

This version of WP Greet Box has a few minor enhancements.
- By Thaya Kareeson on Omninoggin

Pro blogging

Using Gravatars On Your Blog – Why And How

Blogs are simply awesome for building a community. There is innate two-way communication to you posting something and others offering their two cents by way of comments. That sense of community, though, is enhanced when you can SEE them.
- By David Risley
Is Blog Searching Dead?

When I first started blogging over three years ago, blog search engines including Technorati and Google Blog Search were my favorite tools for keeping on top of who was talking about my topics, who was linking to my site and finding posts to comment on and offer help to.
- By Jonathan Bailey on The Blog Herald
6 steps to make your blog visitors loyal commentators

Having loyal readership is a very important part of having a successful blog. Having large RSS readership, having lots of loyal readers and commentators, is important as your readers are the lifeline of your blog and will help your blog grow by spreading the word about it to their friends.
- By Marko Saric on How to make my blog

WebDevelopment

Remote Linking

Remote Linking is what I call it when a single anchor link has multiple clickable areas in different locations. It can be used for pretty neat effects and requires nothing but CSS.
- By Chris Coyier on CSS-Tricks