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• Where next for premium themes?
  The GPL debate seems to be abating now with the conclusion that buying a theme means paying for support, or, for those that are simply not going to release under GPL that they will live with the consequences of being left out of official channels. Is this the final solution though?
  - By WP Fun
• WPWeekly Episode 56 – Back On Track
  In this episode of WordPress Weekly, special guests Brian Gardner and Lisa Sabin Wilson give us the lowdown on WordCamp Chicago taking place this weekend. Afterwords, David and I discussed the news of the week getting everyone back on track.
  - By WP Tavern
• WordPress 2.7 User Guide In PDF
  Yes, it’s here – the new WordPress 2.7 User Guide first draft
  - By Spectacu.la
• WPWeekly Episode 55 – WordCamp Toronto/Columbus Recap
  In episode 55, we had a roundtable discussion of sorts centered around the various WordCamps we attended over the past two weekends. David Peralty and Jeremy Clarke discussed WordCamp Toronto, I talked about WordCamp Columbus and Brad Williams talked about his experience at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic. We discussed the good, the bad, and the ugly regarding our experiences. If you’re thinking about organizing a WordCamp event, be sure to tune in and take a listen as you might be able to pick up a thing or two to help improve your event.
  - By WP Tavern
• WordPress 2.8 Beta 2
  - By WordPress.org
• Some WordPress News from WordCamp San Francisco
  For all you fans of WordPress, this weekend has been a good one. Although I personally wasn’t able to attend the WordCamp San Francisco event, many were able to go and we’ve been receiving a lot of great information.
  - By WP Hacks

WordPress Tutorials, Hacks, Tips & How to’s

• Get rid of auto media enclosures on your WordPress blog
  When you’re adding a multimedia file as such as a mp3 or flv file, WordPress automatically create a custom field named enclosure and add the media url to your rss feed. Great for podcasters, but unusefull for most bloggers. Let’s see how to get rid of it.
  - By WP Recipes
• Prevent WordPress stylesheet from being cached
  Stylesheets, as well as external JS files or images, are cached by browsers. This is mostly good because it saves bandwith, but it can be a pain when you’re upgrading your stylesheet and want your visitors to see the changes without having to manually refresh their cache.
  - By WP Recipes
• WordPress tip: Create invisible custom fields
  Existing Custom fields are visible and editables when you edit a post. But when the custom field is created by a piece of code, you may not want to display it publicly. Here is how to do.
  - By WP Recipes
• Adding classes to comments
  A couple of days ago I was trying to add classes to comments using WordPress 2.7+ filter comment_class. I ran into a little confusion which I thought could tie someone up and though I should share it.
  - By WP Fun
• Correct Pagination with get_posts
  If you like to show your posts a little bit different on your homepage or category page. For example having a different amount of posts showing on these pages, as it is set in your admin, you will get a problem with the pagination function. Because WordPress and several paging Plugins use $wp_query->max_num_pages
  - By WP Engineer
• Multilingual Website With Wordpress
  From time to time you get projects demanding multilingual websites, even if you’re not a developer, you can you use these multilingual wordpress plugins to reach more visitors.
  - By WP Feed
• The Ultimate Guide to Setting up WordPress after an Install
  There are a few essential steps that need to be taken with any new wordpress install. Obviously not every wordpress blog will be the same but there are some basics that I feel should be done regardless of what kind of blog you’re creating.
  - By Pro Blog Design
• How To: WordPress Tag Archive
  Tags have become a very popular way to browse sites online. You pick the keyword you’re after and get a set of posts specifically related to that topic. They’re ideal for bloggers for because one post can be tagged multiple times and it’s very easy to do.
  - By Pro Blog Design
• Secure Visitor Posting for WordPress
  Normally, when visitors post a comment to your site, specific types of client data are associated with the request. Commonly, a client will provide a user agent, a referrer, and a host header. When any of these variables is absent, there is good reason to suspect foul play.
  - By Perishable Press
• 9 Ways to Set Dynamic Body IDs via PHP and WordPress
  When designing sites, it is often useful to identify different pages by adding an ID attribute to the element. Commonly, the name of the page is used as the attribute value
  - By Perishable Press
• Browser Detection and the body_class() Function
  Yesterday, I wrote an article introducing and unwrapping the new WordPress body class function that will be included in WordPress 2.8. Today, I want to take it a step further by giving you a practical example of how you you can use the function to make things easier for yourself.
  - By Nathan Rice
• WordPress 2.8 and the body_class() Function
  Back on February 7th, I was casually browsing the WordPress trunk code, and discovered a very cool new function in the wp-includes/post-template.php file.
  - By Nathan Rice
• WordPress for Designers: Day 15
  We’re back with our Wordpress for Designers series! Moving on with our ‘Paper Business’ theme, it’s time to bring in the slider. Today, we will build and implement a jQuery slider plugin into WordPress, style it properly, and discuss how we will pull out the information from the admin panel. Let’s get our slide on!
  - By In the Woods
• 3 ways to Change WordPress Default Username
  Changing the default username of WordPress blog is one of the most elementary security measures for preventing it from being hacked.
  - By Million Clues
• 10 Twitter Hacks For Your Wordpress Blog
  Twitter has grown exponentially in the past few months and Still, It’s growing like crazy. Twitter has surpassed Facebook and others to become the fastest-growing site in the “Member Communities” category. Twitter is a powerful marketing and promotion tool that no active blogger can ignore.
  - By InstantShift
• Even More Advanced Thumbnail Selection in Wordpress
  About 3 weeks ago I did a screencast on how to build a dynamic thumbnail selector for Wordpress. When I wrote that function, I noticed that if the post was in more than 1 of the specified categories, then it choose the first one (alphabetically). This bothered me enough that today I devised a system that will select the category based on a hierarchy we give to the options.
  - By Fire Studios
• Create An Awesome WordPress Theme Options Page (part 1)
  These days with so many WordPress themes being released, you need something to make your theme stand out from the crowd. One of the ways you can do this is by creating an awesome theme options page. In this post we’ll explore exactly how to do that.
  - By Nometech
• Create An Awesome WordPress Theme Options Page (part 2 – implementation)
  Continuing on the ‘Create An Awesome WordPress Theme Options Page’ series, and following directly on from part one
  - By Nometech
• How To Optimise Your WordPress Ping List
  I came across a lot of blogs not touching their default list of “ping” URL. Blogger’s need to pay more attention to their Ping list.
  - By Pimp My WordPress
• The (Really) Ultimate Guide to Creating a Photoblog With WordPress
  The “ultimate” measure of whether a guide is really the ultimate is not in how many links it can put into one place, but in how many dodgy resources it leaves out. I have sifted through the vastness of space we call the interwebs, employing all manners of searching, in order to bring you the best resources available on creative a WordPress photoblog – minus, of course, the outdated, useless and repetitive information you really don’t need.
  - By Theme Playground

WordPress Plugins

• WLTC Plugin Competition: WP-Devel
  What this plugin does, quite openly (i.e. this isn’t a criticism) is take the functionality provided by three plugins and package it up a little better using the fourth:
  - By WP Fun
• Cool Plugin Giving You System Information
  The highly skilled development team here at WebHostingSearch has created a great plugin that we think you will be able to benefit from. But first things first – we have to mention that the plugin is based on a PHPSysInfo script, customizable PHP script that parses and formats information adequately. Now, let us take a look at what you will be able to do with the plugin.
  - By WebHostingSearch
• Five Ad Manager Plugins for WordPress
  Next up in the “Five” series for plugins is a snapshot of five advertisement related plugins for your WordPress site.
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/29
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/27
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/23
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• Five Image Related Plugins for your WordPress Site
  Our next “Five” entry is for plugins that you can use to highlight images on your website.
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• 10 Wordpress Plugins Guaranteed to Save You Time
  In these days of the ever-increasing competitive world of the web, time is as valuable as money. To be noticed, and to stay at the top of the game, content writers must post a lot of content on a regular basis. To keep up with time constraints, Wordpress plugin authors provide an array of useful plugins that will drastically reduce the time required to write, format, and post your content.
  - By Six Revisions
• 13 Simply Useful Wordpress Plugins That Can Make Lives Easier
  This is another post about useful wordpress plugins. There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But it’s totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience.
  - By Smashing Apps
• 40 Exceptional “CMS Enabling” WordPress Plugins
  WordPress is a great blogging platform with a potential of being an easy to use content management system.
  - By Noupe
• Wordpress Plugin Templates
  Wordpress plugins have become my new addiction in the WP environment, thus I’ve noticed that I’m using the same few beginning steps every time.
  - By Fire Studios

WordPress Themes

• WordPress Theme Releases for 05/31
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• WordPress Theme Releases for 05/25
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• Wordpress Theme Development Frameworks
  If you build and develop Wordpress themes often, you will probably be fed up of all the repetitive code writing, the constantly checking of your mark-up and all you really want to do is focus on the design and the project-specific features. The answer is a Wordpress development framework.
  - By Smashing Magazine

WordPress SEO

• WordPress SEO – 6 basic tips for better SEO
  So … as you probably guessed from the title, I will talk to you about Search Engine Optimization for Wordpress.
  - By Area1
• Sunday Morning SEO: How to Use Anchor Text Effectively (Part 1)
  In my last post, I defined anchor text and talked about its importance in SEO. Today, we’ll look at a couple ways to use it effectively.
  - By The Blog Herald
• Sunday Morning SEO: How to Use Anchor Text Effectively (Part 2)
  In part one of this series, I gave a couple tips on using anchor text effectively including doing research on keywords and then inserting the keywords in your post titles. Here is part two where we’ll look at other tips including optimizing internal anchor text and avoiding anchor text spam.
  - By The Blog Herald