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April 26, 2009

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WordPress and Blogging links for 26/04/05

WordPress

WordPress News: WordPressMU Updated, WordPress 2.8 News, WP.com, WordPress Events
Some Administration Panel Redesigns in WordPress 2.8: While WordPress committed to no changes in the WordPress Administration Panels interface, there will be a few minor tweaks. In “Design Tweaks: Who’s In? (An idea in three acts),” Jane Wells explains that your help is wanted to redesign the header area of the interface. UX and design guidelines have been posted and you are welcome to have your input until Tuesday, April 27, 2009. The submissions will be offered for voting for only one day due to the pressure to get WordPress 2.8 released.
- By Lorelle VanFossen on The Blog Herald
Blogging and WordPress links for 4/25/2009
- By Mark Ghosh on Weblog Tools Collection
First Ohio WordPress Meetup A Success
The first Ohio WordPress meetup went off last night as a success. While we did not have a huge crowd (only five people) the first event proved to be a nice base to build upon. Kim Parsell, Angelo Mendato, Jeff Lee, Brian Layman and myself were all in attendance. We discussed everything from caching to databases to WordPress MU, BuddyPress, and finally social media stuff like Twitter and Facebook. A couple things I noticed about the event.
- By WP Tavern

WordPress Tips/Tutorials/How to’s

Show Tags On A WordPress Theme
There are numerous tagging plugins available that can do this for you. But if you want to control where the tags are shown on your WordPress blog then you might want to disable the plugins and edit the themes files to show the tags exactly where you want them to.
- By WordPress Max
A Crash-Course in WordPress Plugin Development
Despite an extensive codex, many WordPress users remain unfamiliar with how to create their own custom plugins. In today’s screencast, we’ll start from scratch and build our first usable plugin. For this example, we’ll write a simple “tuts formatting” function that allows a blog editor to more easily format articles.
- By Jeffrey Way on Nettuts

WordPress Plugins

Wanna WordPress Wiki
The bright folks over at Instinct Entertainment, makers of the WP e-Commerce Plugin, have released the WordPress Wiki plugin which converts an innocent WordPress blog/site into a Wiki.
- By Ryan Hellyer on WP Tavern

WordPress Themes

WordPress Theme Releases for 04/25
- By Weblog Tools Collection

Pro Blogging & SEO

31 Days to Build a Better Blog – Two Thirds Through Update
We’re at Day 20 (almost 21) in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge and at two thirds of the way through the project I thought I’d give a quick update with a few random highlights, updates and thoughts
- By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
How to Create A Better Online Portfolio
Since last few years it’s very essential for a designer to look again at how he presents himself to existing and potential clients. It doesn’t matters which one is your creative discipline as your website is the only foundation of how you are perceived. Even if you are very good at what you do and your work is predominantly in print or broadcast in interactive media, your online portfolio is usually the first stop of call for people looking to commission or hire you as clients are always be nervous or hesitant about purchasing freelance services.
- By Anders Ross on instantShift
Leave Comments on Other Blogs
If there’s one piece of advice for building traffic to a blog that is given to new bloggers more than any other it is about leaving comments on other blogs.
- By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
Article Marketing=Better Backlinks=More Money For You!
I’ve been busy writing articles for a new site I’m building (more on that in my next post;o). Why? Because I think you can get some of the very best backlinks that way! Why? Because you are in total control of everything (anchor text, content of article, length of the article, ect, ect.)
- By Cash Blog
How Do Your Come Up, Store and Organize Ideas for Blog Posts?
Joel Drapper asks: I would like to know how you come up with ideas for posts, and also how you store, and organize those ideas.
- By Daniel Scocco on Daily Blog Tips
How to Create the Right Avatar for You and Your Brand
In contrast to corporate or business avatars, personal ones are simple: crop a photograph you like and that’s it. It doesn’t matter whether people like it or not. That avatar represents who you are, and since you don’t care about branding that much you don’t need to worry about what’s in that little picture that will be associated with your name in the social network you’re using. Besides, if you use social networking just for personal reasons, changing that avatar every now and then could be fun and it will also attract some attention from your followers.
- By Mihaela Lica on SitePoint

Freebies

21 Truly Impressive And Eye Catchy Collection Of Free Textures
We know that textures, backgrounds and patterns are the most wanted freebies on the internet. Specially designers who love all of those textures that can help their designs to become more beautiful and attractive.
- By Smashing Apps