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April 19, 2009

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WordPress Articles for 19/04/09

Articles about WordPress, SEO, blogging and blog development from the WordPress Community.

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WPWeekly Episode 51 – TalkPress And More

David Peralty didn’t make it this week but a wide range of people did. It was a blast from the past episode as it mainly consisted of a roundtable discussion on a number of topics ranging from TalkPress to the WordPress HelpCenter to Plugin Style Sheets. This is an insanely long episode but when you get a group of WordPress faithful together in a tavern serving free drinks on a Friday evening, this is what you’re going to get.
- By WP Tavern
WordPress contest: Win themes, hosting and ebooks at WpRecipes!

Great news for WpRecipes readers! To celebrate WpRecipes new theme as well as almost 3000 rss readers, I’m launching a contest and make you win many great prizes
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on Cats Who Code
WordPress News: 2.8 Patch Marathon, TalkPress, and Commercializing WordPress Plugins

- By Lorelle VanFossen on The Blog Herald
WordPress 2.8 – What Can We Expect?

Let’s talk about WordPress 2.8, shall we? The new version is planned to released somewhere this month (and April is almost over!) and the bug hunt will start pretty soon. Time to see what’s coming.
- By WP Toy
One More Way To Get WordPress Help

Alex King, who is most well known for his popular WordPress plugins and more recently, his Carrington theme framework, made a big announcement the other day regarding a project that his company Crowd Favorite has partnered with called the WordPress HelpCenter.
- By Jeff Chandler on WP Candy
WordPress News & Notes – April 16, 2009

From time to time, I run across a number of very useful WordPress resources or interesting posts related to WordPress, which I share in my WordPress news and notes posts.
- By Kyle Eslick on WP Hacks

WordPress Tips/Tutorials/How to’s

How I Stopped Blog Content Theft

If you have an established blog with original content posted on a regular basis you too may be a victim of the lame and lazy. There may be many other ways to stop content theft from WordPress blogs, but I have found the easiest for me is to add little something to each new post.
- By WordPress Max
Video Tutorial – Style Threaded Comments

I didn’t realize how complicated styling threaded comments can be until I watched this video. David Perel published a screencast on From The Couch.com which goes over how to style threaded comments in WordPress complete with source files for the code but more importantly, hand holding to figure out all of the CSS required for good looking threaded comments. While this is a basic tutorial, it was easy for me to get lost between parent comments, sub comments, sub-sub comments, etc, but that is not his fault.
- By WP Tavern
How to: Automatically insert text in WordPress editor

Do you always insert the same text on all your posts, for example to tell people to subscribe to your rss feed? If yes, you should definitely set up WP to have it automatically inserted in the editor.
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
Disable WordPress Search

Not always is the search in WordPress desired. The one or another application with WordPress doesn’t need this feature. Even if it is an added value in my opinion. In some cases, it still shouldn’t be displayed and so I have them deactivated with access to two hooks. For now, I can see no other place where you could access it in my applications and it works so smoothly.
- BY WP Engineer
Plugin Style Settings – Database Or CSS?

Today I wanted to talk about a problem which Justin Tadlock will be covering in more detail at some point in the future and that is, plugins which contain a CSS file to edit their style. Don’t get me wrong, Lester Chen is a great plugin author, but I find it increasingly annoying that after I make the necessary styling changes to his WP-PageNavi plugin so that it blends in with my theme, I overwrite those changes once I upgrade his plugin.
- By WP Tavern
WordPress Child Theme Basics

In this post you’ll learn all the basics of WordPress Child Themes: WordPress Child Theme file structure, how to make any WordPress Theme a blank framework, how to import Parent Theme CSS styles, how to override Parent Theme styles, and how to override Parent Theme Template files. You’ll also learn that all of this is incredibly easy and within your grasp and that it might just change how you think about WordPress and Theme development.
- By Ian Stewart on ThemeShaper
250+ Super Cool Wordpress Tutorials – Newbie To Pro

There is no reason to deny that WordPress is world’s favourite blogging software and there are many sites out there who publish great wordpress tutorials, following these tutorials one can easily learn wordpress in no time. Here is my list which is divided into different categories, each list is arranged in way that it goes from basics to advanced level. Hope you have a great time learning them.
- By Ants Magazine

WordPress Plugins

WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/19

- By Weblog Tools Collection

Pro Blogging & SEO

Sunday Morning SEO: How to Combine Catchy and Keyword Rich Titles

In my last post, I talked about the importance of inserting keywords in the title tags of your blog posts. The title tag is by far the most powerful onpage SEO factor. But what about catchy titles that don’t have many keywords? Is there a place for them in SEO?
- By Dee Barizo on The Blog Herald
Update a Key Page on Your Blog

Today your task is to update some of the key pages and posts on your blog.
- By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
5 Tips for Getting a Blogger To Review Your Product

If you are a blogger with traffic, you become a person of interest to anybody out there looking to attract eyeballs to their product. I get requests routinely for both of my main blogs to check out and review various products. Unfortunately for them, I don’t really respond to most of them. Why?
- By David Risley
I didn’t have time to write a short post, so I wrote a long one

Try writing a post without losing details in fewer words. It needs a lot of thinking and time. So essentially, writing a short post without compromising on the details is not as easy as writing a long one. Why is the length so important?
- By Arun Basil Lal on Million Clues

Blog Development/Design

404/403 Website Error Pages With PHP Auto-Mailer

Website error pages are perhaps one of the most overlooked pieces of a fully rounded website. Not only are they important but they give you the opportunity to have a little fun. Although many web developers rely on server logs to keep an eye out for hits on error pages, I’m going to take a different approach by using a PHP generated email. In addition, we will spice up the design a bit, add basic navigation and link to the website sitemap.
- By Jarel Remick on Nettuts
84 Amazingly Useful CSS Tips & Resources

As a dedicated Web Standards gal, i appreciate the beauty and power of CSS, in fact my design studio – Postscript5 is built on the aim of producing beautiful, accessible websites. The love and respect for web standards is continually growing in the online community and the push to create more and more unique web designs and layouts means the use and functionality of CSS is more keenly discussed.
- By Grace Smith