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April 5, 2009

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WPWeekly Episode 49 – Were You Fooled?

David and I discussed recent development news into WordPress 2.8 as well as BuddyPress 1.0. We also had a chat regarding how to offer paid support packages while offering the main product for free. Last but not least, we covered a premium theme directory which is aimed squarely at showcasing the premium themes that exists across the community.
- By Jeffro on WP Tavern
WordPress for Designers: Day 11

After a short break, we are back! Today is a big day as we continue on with our “WordPress for Designers” series and introduce the .psd that we will be converting. Join us as we get to know the ins and outs of the design we are working with and the basics of getting our images out of the .psd and ready for the web.
- By Drew Douglass on In the Woods
10 Changes To Wordpress That Would Make It A Killer CMS

Since going freelance, I’ve supplied customers with a number of “Wordpress as a CMS” solutions. Not only because Wordpress is free and fairly userfriendly, but because for most websites Wordpress is more than enough and certainly more than solely a blog platform. So much, in fact, that I’ll bet you Wordpress is the next big thing on the CMS scene. It’s just waiting to happen, like a big secret waiting to pop out and say “Howdy”.
- By Noscope

Awesome WordPress Shortcode Tips

Have you ever now, that WordPress support shortcode? With shortcode we can easy insert some code or function on the post. Example we can put some Advertisement on the post without write a lot of bloated code. We can save a lot of time with shortcode.
- By Jauhari
How to: Prevent post images from being displayed on homepage

When using images in your posts, you not always want them to be shown on your blog homepage. In theses cases, here is a little piece of code that prevent any images from the post to be displayed on the homepage.
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
Automatic SEO Titles for All Your Pages

The title of your page (The few words in the very top bar of your browser window) is arguably the most important thing search engines look at as they decide where to rank your page.
- By Michael Martin on Pro Blog Design
Adding a favicon to your site

Looking to add a favicon to you site?
- By Austin on WP Cult

Breadcrumb Trail: WordPress Plugin

One of the things I always try to include in all of my WordPress themes is a breadcrumb menu. That way, users don’t have to fiddle around in the template files and test out a lot of other plugins. So, I’ve been building up my breadcrumb script for well over a year now.
- By Justin Tadlock
Plugin Review: Post Templates

If you find yourself writing posts and pages on a regular basis which have the same structure, then this plugin would be a great addition to your WordPress plugin arsenal. Written by Vincent Prat, Post Templates plugin helps you save time blogging by letting you save and recall templates for writing posts and pages.
- By Thaya Kareeson on Weblog Tools Collection
Saying No to Digg’s new shackles

Digg has just joined the growing number of top sites that will use your content as theirs by using browser frames to show your site.
- By Vladimir Prelovac
WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/04

- By Ajay on Weblog Tools Collection
Did SEO Wordpress Plugin Cause Our Google Pagerank Drop?

All in One SEO Pack is a very popular wordpress plugin and does some SEO tweaks for optimizing your WordPress blog for higher search engine rankings. But as our pagerank dropped recently, investigation revealed some canonical url options possibly messed our google pagerank.
- By Quick Online Tips
WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/02

- By Ajay on Weblog Tools Collection

Using PHP to control dynamic content

First here’s a bit better explanation of the title – How to control your dynamic output (posts, navigation, feeds…) with simple use of PHP, of course this can be used where every you have automatically created content, but since we develop themes here, we’ll stick to WordPress!
- By Dejan on Theme Galaxy
WordPress Theme Releases for 04/03

- By Ajay on Weblog Tools Collection

Planning to start a blog? Don’t plan it, just blog it!

Some advice blogs about blogging often give to their readers is to plan in advance, to research and to analyze the situation in their field before starting a blog.
- By Marko Saric on How To Make My Blog

Fun With CSS Shapes

I bet a bunch of you don’t realize that we can create the illusion of shapes by using 100% CSS. By utilizing the border property in creative ways, we can make some really interesting polygons. In this week’s screencast, we’ll figure out a way to create speech-bubbles without resorting to background images.
- By Jeffrey Way on Nettuts
8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs

Many people, designers included, think that typography consists of only selecting a typeface, choosing a font size and whether it should be regular or bold. For most people it ends there. But there is much more to achieving good typography and it’s in the details that designers often neglect.
- By Antonio Carusone on Smashing Magazine