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April 13, 2009

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WordPress articles for 13/04/09

WordPress

WordPress 2.8 Widgets Options Page – First Screenshot

In the current trunk of WordPress is a “first run” of the new widget management available to see. This is a development version, it shows the warning “This page is not 100% ready, please use only on test installations.”.
- By WP Engineer
Media Management In WordPress 2.9

How long has it been since we started talking about the media management system in WordPress receiving a major overhaul? Based on what I’ve read, the plan is to revamp the media system in WordPress 2.9 instead of WordPress 2.8. Shane who operates Bugssite.org has released his proposed wireframes for media management in WordPress aimed at version 2.9.
- By WP Tavern
WPWeekly Episode 50 – Interview With Cathy Perkins

This week on our big Five-O episode, we had the chance to interview Cathy Perkins otherwise known as The WordPress Wizard. We discussed a number of issues pertaining to WordPress such as the complexity of the software, how its changed over the years, tips on how to choose a theme as well as plugins and much more. This episode was geared more towards end users rather than developers.
- By WP Tavern

WordPress tips/tutorials/how to’s

Set Up WordPress as a CMS

If you’re used to how WordPress works, then using it as a CMS (Content Management System) to power a standard website is an excellent idea. It’s lightweight and easy to use, has fantastic support from the WordPress community and is easily extendable with the various CMS style plugins available. If you also want a news or continual archive style section for information (eg. news, announcements, events etc) then you can still utilise the blogging system that we know and love.
- By Stuff By Sarah on Blogging Tips
WordPress Tip: Valid, SEO-Friendly Email Permalink Buttons

In addition to your choice collection of “Share This” links, you may also want to provide visitors with a link that enables them to quickly and easily send the URL permalink of any post to their friends via email
- By Jeff Starr on Perishable Press
Screen Options To Customize The WordPress Dashboard

With the latest version of WordPress new options have been added to customize the view of each module. Now you can choose what to show on the screen. To keep your view as simple and uncluttered as you want.
- By WordPress Max
How to add Fullsize in WordPress

Fullsize is very helpful when you have a lot of pictures on you blog and you want to view the fullsize of the image in the same window just in a click.
- By Alex Vorn on WP Crowd
Comment Form Style with JQuery in WordPress

In this post I want to show you How you can change the style of your comment forms in WordPress making more great looking using JQuery.
- By Alex Vorn on WP Crowd
Backgrounds in WordPress, Tips and Examples

In this article I want to show you how to make a background to your WordPress blog, what kind of background style you can use, what CSS codes require to add in your style.css file and some great examples based on very creative blog designs.
- By Alex Vorn on WP Crowd

WordPress plugins

Highlight Search Terms WordPress Plugin

Highlight Search Terms is a WordPress plugin that can highlight search terms on your blog’s search page. The plugin is based on a tutorial by Thaya Kareeson, but it also includes several additional features not present in the tutorial and better browser compatibility.
- By W-Shadow
15 Useful SEO Plugins For Wordpress

Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which is an art and a science that helps search engines discover your content and understand how relevant it is to specific search queries. This post will help you choose the right tags, tell search robots what to work on, optimize your post titles and more.
- By Just Skins
WordPress Download Monitor Review

When you build a website – what is your goal? Most of us want to get visitors and provide a product that our readers and visitors will enjoy. One of the ways you can add some value to your website is to offer downloads. These downloads an be pretty much anything you want them to be – the goal of course would be having something that people want.
- By Weblog Tools Collection
Social Bookmarking With WordPress Plugin

In this article by Vladimir Prelovac, we will learn to create our first functional WordPress plugin and learn how to interact with the WordPress API (this is the WordPress interface to PHP) on the way. The knowledge you will gain in this article alone will allow you to write a lot of similar plugins.
- By WP Tavern
WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/11

- By Weblog Tools Collection

Pro blogging & SEO

Blog As An Online Reputation Management Tool

Most people who blog are blogging for either two reasons: making money from the blog or just passionate enough to blog (even without getting compensated). Only few people do understand that blogs can be used as an online reputation management tool.
- By Blog for Beginners
Danny Outlaw Talks Personal Branding & Promotion: Tips on How to Get Yourself Out There

Starting out as a designer, or blogger isn’t always easy. The hardest part is promoting yourself & your blog. Danny Outlaw, from Outlaw Design Blog talks us through how he tackled the problem, and gives us some seriously useful and true tips to help you build your own personal brand. Danny is re-launching his blog soon, and talks us through his strategy of building his brand.
- By Function Web Design & Development
How to float to the top of Google Search Results, without paying

Seems like too many websites and brands start up from scratch, and get absolutely NO WHERE. Without the blitzkrieg of press releases and public relations broo-haha, it can be damn hard to get relevant traffic to your site, especially with no money. Here’s my comprehensive guide for getting traffic to your site when you have no fan base, no tribe, no cult following, no page rank, no domain age, no public relations, and most importantly, no money.
- By Assault Blog

Blog Development/Design

Be Inspired, but Don’t Copy

There’s a thin line between inspiration and copying. We are surrounded with objects and art in our every day life. Finding inspiration for a design is an easy task these days. In this article, I will guide you through the design process of a website I recently finished. I will provide images of websites that inspired me to create a new and unique web layout.
- By In the Woods
Design a Clean Corporate Website With Illustrator

Corporate web design is rather simple, because it often follows basic guidelines and trends. Today, we will go over the complete process of creating a clean and relatively simple corporate web design using Adobe Illustrator. I will talk about the best techniques and approaches to creating a web design started in Illustrator, which is a great tactic. The image below shows what we will be creating. This style of design can be used universally, as it follows many trends, and looks very professional. We will use the most common corporate structure, which consists of a header, an introduction with welcome text and screenshots, and a simple grid-based information layout. After completing the interface in Illustrator, I will go over how to use the Slice Tool to prepare the design for the development stage.
- By Spoonfed Design