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• WPWeekly Episode 57 – Live From Chicago
  This special episode of WordPress Weekly features four special guest interviews live from the WordCamp Chicago event. One of the interviews is with Matt Mullenweg. I apologize for the background noise in most of the interviews but I’ll be conducting better quality interviews in the future, especially once I get some decent equipment.
  - By WP Tavern
• Exciting new features for developers in WordPress 2.8
  WordPress 2.8 is tentatively scheduled to be released on June 10. Even though there are no major new features, there are certain features that will be exciting for WordPress developers like me
  - By Sudar Muthu
• WordPress 2.8 Release Candidate 1
  With Release Candidate 1, we think WordPress 2.8 is ready and complete. Download it, test it, and tell us what you think. If you don’t uncover any bad bugs, 2.8 will be released on Wednesday the 10th.
  - By WordPress Blog
• 10 Sites That Produce Quality WordPress Content
  - By Nathan Rice
• News About WordPress 2.9
  There was a meeting in IRC for WordPress developers yesterday. A release date for WordPress 2.8 was chosen, and they made some great decisions regarding WordPress 2.9 as well. Here’s a quick summary of the things I found important.
  - By WordPress Informer
• WordPress 2.8 May Be Released On June 10th
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• WordPress 2.8 Beta Hands On Review
  Over a period of time WordPress has evolved a lot integrating a host of interesting features in it, WordPress 2.8 is another exciting release which adds a host of new and interesting features.
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• Is WordPress Information Too Fragmented?
  Ryan Imel who runs the WordPress blog ThemePlayground.com got in touch with me the other night and we had a very interesting discussion about a topic I’ve thought about since the days before I launched WPTavern.com and that is the possibility that there are too many people writing about WordPress in too many places.
  - By WP Tavern

WordPress Tutorials, Tips & Hacks

• WordPress Maintenance Mode Without a Plugin
  - By Sivel
• Underused Plugin Function
  There is often a lot of talk about where WordPress plugin settings pages should be placed in the admin panels, and once the plugin author has decided where to put it, the user then has to work out where to find it. Well in WordPress 2.7, a new filters was added to solve the problem.
  - By Epic Alex
• The WordPress MU Manual
  Welcome to the most comprehensive an easy to use manual to installing your WordPress MU (WPMU) site on the web!
  - By WPMU DEV Premium
• How To Use Thumbnails Generated By WordPress In Your Theme
  Many WordPress Themes display post excerpts on blog homepage with a little thumbnail image of one of the images used within a post, but most of the WordPress themes I have seen, use some kind of external image resizing script like phpThumb or tinyThumb or they use some custom field in the post to show thumbnail image.
  - By Web Developer Plus
• Joomla to Wordpress – Content Converter!
  More and more people using WordPress as CMS nowadays and replacing systems like Joomla on their website. Marco from solariz.de provides a handy script to convert your Joomla content to your WordPress installation.
  - By WP Engineer
• How To Redirect a Page Using Custom Fields in WordPress
  Today, I wanted to share a very quick tip that will allow you to insert an internal or external URL in a custom field for a page, and when a user visits that page, they will be redirected to the URL you put in the custom field.
  - By Nathan Rice
• WordPress page template to redirect to first child page
  Many WordPress users uses parent pages and subpages to order the informations displayed on their blogs. A heavily requested recipe is how to be able to redirect to the first child page if the current page have children pages? here is the answer.
  - By WP Recipes
• How To Share A Blog Post Without A Plugin
  If you don’t want to use any sharing or bookmark plugins to help you share your latest blog post, I have come up with a list of the most popular sharing website links that you can drop at the bottom of your post. The examples are simple text links but of course you can add your own social bookmark icons.
  - By PimpMyWordPress
• WordPress hack: Display your tags in a dropdown menu
  I never liked tag clouds, for the simple reason that most of the time, they’re aren’t readable properly. Here is the solution to this problem: Displaying tags in a dropdown menu.
  - By WP Recipes
• Create An Awesome WordPress Theme Options Page (part 3)
  So. Here we are. Part three. After creating and implementing our options page in parts one and two, we’re now going to add some options to posts. Or that was the plan; trouble is, it’s a little too complicated to cram into a single post and I don’t have the time to write another five posts explaining how to do it. The good news though is that I found a tutorial explaining how to do it, which you can find on WeFunction.com. Handy that!
  - By Nometech
• How to Display Recent Posts From a Specific Category Using Widgets
  One of the things I like most about WordPress is the ability to pretty much do anything you want with it. With the help of a plugin, or custom PHP code, you can accomplish most things.
  - By StudioPress
• 10 Ways to Speed up Your WordPress Blog
  In this post we’ll explore ten ways to speed up your site, with tricks ranging from easy to even easier; none of the stuff in this post is difficult, so there’s no excuse for a slow-loading blog after reading this!
  - By Pro Blog Design
• 5 Useful WordPress Functions You Didn’t Know Existed
  Deep within the source code of WordPress lies an endless list of useful functions just waiting for you to use them in your theme or plugin. The problem is, most people don’t know they exist, probably because the Codex is ridiculously underdeveloped, and most people hate looking through source code. Luckily for you, reading the WordPress source code is a hobby of mine.
  - By Nathan Rice
• How to: hide portions of text to Google on your WordPress blog
  I already shown you how to easily prevent Search Engine indexing on a certain post or page. But how to only hide a portion of text to Google, your navigation menu for example? Just read on to get started.
  - By WP Recipes

WordPress Themes

• The TOP 6 Premium WordPress Themes For FREE
  Today is the opportunity for Noupe readers to get WordPress Premium themes for Free! Six Leaders in the Premium Theme Industry are offering to give away free copies of their recently-released themes just for you guys.
  - By Noupe
• WordPress Theme Releases by 06/06
  - By Weblog Tools Collection

WordPress Plugins

• Simply Show IDs
  Simply shows the ID of Posts, Pages, Media, Links, Categories, Tags and Users in the admin tables for easy access. Very lightweight.(updated for WP 2.8)
  - By Sivel
• WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/08
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• Make your front page a river of posts
  So, now we’re done with the revamp… we can get on with the really important stuff, delivering you darn great plugins and this is a particularly nice one I reckon.
  - By WPMU
• WordPress Plugin Compatibility Checker
  The biggest headache users face before upgrading to a newer version of WordPress, is whether or not all their plugins will work with the new WordPress version.
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• WordPress Plugins for Collaboration Emails
  In talking with publishers who are using WordPress as a full CMS for their sites, many folks are eager to enhance the “Submit for Review” feature for Contributors to include email notifications.
  - By WordPress Publisher Blog
• WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/02
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• Advanced Spell Checker For WordPress
  After the Deadline is an advanced spell checker plugin for WordPress that was released on Monday. In addition to the standard spell check and suggestions features, it also includes style and grammar checking.
  - By W-Shadow