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March 23, 2009

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WordPress 2.8 – Small Insights

WordPress sticks to the publication date in April this year. In advance, I would like to briefly mention some innovations, which from my personal point of view are quite exciting.
- By Frank on WP Engineer

Adding Scripts in WordPress (Theme Development)

The use of AJAX and JavaScript frameworks are so predominant nowadays and WordPress has also hopped on to the AJAX bandwagon. Thus, I am sure that at some point of theme development, you might want to include some form of AJAX function also.
- By Gerald on WP Thoughts
How to: Show related posts without a plugin

Displaying related posts is a very great way to help visitors staying longer on your blog. You can use a plugin, but you also can use tags and a custom code to show related posts. Let’s see how to do!
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
PHP Parse_Str() Function

If you’ve ever worked with WordPress’s “template tag” functions, you may have noticed that some of them take arguments in a strange way. Instead of passing arguments like function($1, $2), they are handled much a URL query string, like function('exclude=this&order=asc'). This enables you to pick and choose what arguments you want to specify, and the order in which you do so.
- By Matt on Webmaster-Source

18 WordPress Plugins for RSS Management and Tweaks

Real Simple Syndication (RSS) enables site owners to automatically syndicate their content to readers in an easily digestible format. There are a number of WordPress plugins to help you manage your blog’s RSS feed, track subscribers, and much more.
- By Sean P. Aune on Mashable
WordPress Gallery Plugins

For anyone who uses WordPress as their blogging platform, there arises a need for an effective and working Gallery plugin at some point of time. If you are a photo blogger, the need for Gallery plugins is even higher. Although, after the release of WordPress versions 2.5+, a gallery feature has been integrated into WordPress, where once you upload some images on a post or a page, WordPress allows you to insert that group as an image gallery into your post or page.
- By Jai on Blog Oh Blog
Plugin Review: WordPress Filter

Do you have filters set in your email program, be it Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail or even Outlook? Anyone who uses filters knows how their ability to improve productivity by getting basic things done easily.
- By Ajay on Weblog Tools Collection

How To Deal With Sites That Steal Your Blog Content

Once your blog gets a little bit of popularity, it is practically inevitable that somebody out there is going to rip off your content. What do you do about it?
- By David Risley
Blog Setup = Huge Business Opportunity

Blogs are sprouting up all over the place these days. And it isn’t going to stop anytime soon. I expect this recession is resulting in a huge growth of blogging. This opens up a huge opportunity for people who know even basic blog setup.
- By David Risley
Getting Connected through Blogs

What have blogs done for people over the past decade or so? To fire off a quick list, I would have to say that they have given people opportunities, helped create and define a separation between mainstream media and user-created content, and have made it that much easier to express your interests with others through personal blogging. Applying the final idea to your blog, what other ways could you become personal?
- By ThemeLib

30 Awesome Design Enhancing jQuery Plugins

There is a vast range of ready made jQuery plugins available from generous designers and developers from across the web that can help add stunning functionality and effects to your website. Check out these 30 awesome examples, including content sliders, image galleries, tooltips, accordions, lightboxes and modal windows. Download the pre-built scripts and add the code along with the jQuery framework to quickly and easily enhance your web designs.
- By Chris Spooner on Line25