April 7, 2009
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WordPress articles for 07.04.09
WordPress
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Round WordPress: Summer of Code, Kubrick Retired, How Tos, WebWare 100, and WordPress Fan Blogs
In my Blog Herald WordPress News, I used to feature a round-up of WordPress-related podcasts and fan blogs offering great tips and useful information on using WordPress from the beginner level to advanced techniques. I’ve decided to continue this tradition here on Lorelle on WordPress.
- By Lorelle VanFossen -
7 Wordpress Admin Themes
Ever wanted to change the design of your admin panel? here’s a list of 7 themes you can use.
- By WP Feed -
WordPress News: Widget API, Bye-Bye Kubrick, Query_Posts Plugin, and Template Tag Plugin
New WordPress Widgets API Feedback Wanted: The WordPress developers are seeking testers and feedback on the new Widgets API which will be released with WordPress 2.8.
- By Lorelle VanFossen on The Blog Herald
WordPresst tips/tutorials/how to’s
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Wordpress Must Do’s – Part I
Wordpress is growing to be the most popular blogging platform today and since lot of people are using it, it’s quite possible that your blog looks like just another blog in that pool of 1000’s of blogs. So, to make it stand out amongst the crowd, here are some Must Do’s for your Wordpress blogs.
- By Blog Oh Blog -
WordPress Links Categories In Different Sidebar Widgets
So far up to version 2.7.1, WordPress is still showing all the Links or Blogroll in just one sidebar widget. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could separate those links by categories? You can with a little help from a plugin.
- By WordPress Max -
Build A WordPress 2.8 Widget With The New Widget API
One of the main changes in WordPress 2.8 is the new widget API. This API is fully object oriented and provides the programmer all the necessary functions to create a WordPress widgets. Also, it now allows multiple use of each widget.
- By WP Engineer -
How to: Automatically insert content after each post
Most blogs automatically displays some text after each post, for exemple to ask readers to subscribe to their rss feed. This text is very often hardcoded. Why not using function.php instead, and be able to keep the text when you’ll switch theme?
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes -
How I Got Started With Wordpress
A common question I receive is how to get started with Wordpress. I’m speaking more of the theme-development part of Wordpress, not so much how to use Wordpress to run your blog. I don’t know if this is the best way, but it’s how I first got acquainted with Wordpress.
- By For the Lose -
How to preset text in the WordPress post editor
I came across an interesting forum post the other day titled NO ONE can answer this: Preset Text In Wordpress
[sic]Posts. Of course, I took this as a personal challenge to actually figure out how this is done.
- By Justin Tadlock’ -
60+ Awesome WordPress Tutorials
Everyone want to have their own WordPress theme, they want to be unique and be able to present their own style. Here I have compile a list of “how to create your own WordPress theme” tutorials/articles. I hope this can save your time on searching and pay attention to your very own WordPress theme development.
- By Themetation
WordPress plugins
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Configuring Contact Form 7
I installed Contact Form 7. Copied that line of code onto my page. The contact form shows up by nothing comes in to my email box. What am I doing wrong?
- By Jeffro on WP Tavern -
Wordpress Plugins That We Consider Essential
Over the years I’ve come across a few Wordpress CMS Plug-ins that I have found essential and have used at one time or another on a few, if not all, of my websites.
- By JungleJar -
All In One SEO Pack for Windows Live Writer
Windows Live Writer and All in One SEO Pack are two really good pieces of softwares available for WordPress users. Windows Live Writer allows users to write and publish blog posts from their desktop, on the other hand All in One SEO pack gives users the ability to optimize the post title for Search engines, and allows users to specify custom keywords and descriptions for the post.
- By Keith Dsouza on Weblog Tools Collection -
5 Awesome Plugins for Community Building
Frequency of Updates, Reader Feedback and an active Community, these are the elements that distinguishes a blog from a Website. And when you have all these factors right, you are on the right track to success. It’s easy to control Frequency, but the User Feedback greatly depends on the Community around the blog.
- By Arun Basil Lal on Million Clues
WordPress themes
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WordPress Theme Releases for 04/06
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Free (Highly Customizable) WordPress Theme: Introducing NomeBlog
Recently WordPress has had a huge popularity surge, with the rise of ‘magazine themes’. At the same time that WordPress’ popularity has soared, people have forgotten about what WP is all about: fundamentally, it is a blogging system. Trying to keep that in mind, I’m releasing my first WordPress theme, NomeBlog.
- By Alex Denning on WP Hacks
Pro blogging and SEO
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Sneak Peek: PostRank’s New Topic-Based Discovery Engine for Web Content
PostRank is about to get a makeover with some very useful features for bloggers and readers alike.
- By Ben Parr on Mashable -
5 Reasons Why URL Shorteners Are Useful
URL shorteners, such as bit.ly and tinyurl, are services that help take longer URLs (which can be over a hundred characters long) and transform them into manageable links that almost never exceed 20 characters. URL shorteners are not new – TinyURL has been around since 2002. But their popularity has skyrocketed with the rise of Twitter, which only allows for 140 characters in any message.
- By Ben Parr on Mashable -
Write a List Post [Day 2 - 31DBBB]
Today your challenge in the 31 Day project that we’re running here at Problogger is focused around writing a post and is to write a ‘list post’.
- By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
WebDevelopment/Design
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20 Useful PHP + jQuery Components & Tuts for Everyday Project
Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty neat effects. In an effort to help you take it up a notch, we’d like to share some methods for helping your site anticipate a user’s next move.
- By Noupe
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