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March 11, 2009

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Authentication in WordPress 2.8

I’ve spent a lot of time working with the WordPress authentication system. I took over the OpenID plugin for WordPress two years ago, and was hired by Vidoop last May to work on the DiSo Project full time. Last summer, Matt Mullenweg invited me to talk at WordCamp SF 2008 about OAuth. As you can see in my slidedeck, it was a lot of smoke and mirrors at that point… we didn’t have OAuth in WordPress, although it was on the roadmap for 2.7.
- By Will Norris
Changing the Blog Herald WordPress News: Your Help Needed

The Blog Herald WordPress News that I’ve been producing weekly will soon be changing, evolving naturally into something that meets the needs of the Blog Herald readers and editors. For over two years, every week almost without fail, I’ve brought you a summary of the news from around the WordPress Community. That’s over 110 issues stuffed with a ton of WordPress news, tips, resources, Plugins, and Themes. It’s time for the next step and we want you to be part of the process.
- By Lorelle VanFossen on The Blog Herald
WordCast 47: Sneeze for us!

We know you missed Kym (not to mention a regular show) so we’re glad to announce that WordCast is back to its (at least partially) normal self. With a great interview, great information and all the normal madness you’d expect from a show like this, WordCast is coming back with a bang this week.
- By WordCast

How to: Insert special characters between menus items

The wp_list_pages fnction is very useful, but sometimes it can be a bit frustrating, for exemple when you want to insert characters as such as “//” between menu items. Happilly, here is the solution to this problem.
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
Wordpress Tutorial: Make Your Page Titles SEO Friendly

If you’re a Wordpress Content Management System user, and you would like to make your page titles SEO friendly without installing any plug-ins or modifying your website too much, then this article might be for you. All it requires is a few lines of PHP in your header.php file.
- By Christopher on JungleJar
Do Not Forget Your 404 Page!

A 404 error page, or for those not familiar with the term, the ‘Page not Found error’ is important to have with any website. At Blondish.net, there is an article that illustrates the importance of a custom 404 page in detail, but it is really simple.
- By Nile WP Thoughts
How to Make Money Online With Wordpress Themes

Making money online. When you hear those words, what’s the first thing that pops into your head? A year ago, I would’ve instantly thought “Google ads on a website”. I’m sure that’s what many of you thought of too.
- By Ralph on For the Lose

WPUnlimited – The ultimate WordPress theme?

I have little doubt that most of you will have heard of WP Unlimited, David Peralty’s premium theme offering. David has chosen to brand it as ‘The ultimate WordPress theme’; I couldn’t let that one go, so I’ve spent the last few days playing around with it so I could give you my considered opinion of it.
- By Andrew Rickmann on WP Fun

40 WordPress Plugins to Improve your Blog’s Performance

This is my second article here and in it I collected some of the most popular plugins that everyone must have. Below is a list of 40 WordPress Plugins related to media, comments, content, traffic, feeds, ad managment and social.
- By Alex Vorn on WP Zoom
Alternate WordPress Themes with the LP Jumper WordPress Plugin

If you are an affiliate marketer, I’m sure you will be able to see the tremendous value in a new WordPress plugin (which was just released today) known as the LP Jumper WordPress plugin. I’ve been working with the author of the plugin for over a year now on various affiliate campaigns and was thrilled to be able to get a sneak peak at the Landing Page Jumper plugin a day early and try it out.
- By Kyle Eslick on WP Hacks
Released WP Greet Box 4.7

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

The Art of Writing Damn Good Blogs

Most bloggers have a topic in mind for their blog right from the start.
- By Salwa on Thou shall blog

New Plus Tutorial: Convert a Beautiful PSD to HTML and CSS

Not too long ago, I created a tutorial on psdtuts+ that demonstrated how to build a beautiful website PSD from scratch. This time, we’ll take things much further. I’ll show you how to slice and create the HTML+CSS of my design. You’ll learn how to keep the mock-up process simple, create a custom HTML framework to put your design in, some practical CSS tricks, save images for web, and more.
- By Alvaro Guzman on Nettuts
Image Rollover Borders That Do Not Change Layout

It’s a fact of CSS life that the ‘border’ of any block level element gets factored into it’s final box size for layout. That means that if you add a border on a hover to an element that didn’t already have a border of that exact size, you will cause a layout shift. It’s one of my pet peeves, for sure, when I see it in final designs. I find those little shifts, even 1 pixel, jarring and awkward.
- By Chris Coyier on CSS-Tricks