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• Google’s Matt Cutts on WordPress
  Matt Cutts is the head of the webspam team at Google where he specializes in search engine optimization (SEO) issues. He is known in the webmaster and SEO community for applying Google’s Quality Guidelines. Before working in the Search Quality group at Google, Matt worked at the ads engineering group and on Google’s SafeSearch. The point is, unlike many “SEO Professionals” who only claim to know what they’re doing, Matt Cutts is well respected because he really does!
  - By WordPress Informer
• WordCamp Chicago Photos
  The photos below were all taken by either Ashley at WordCamp Chicago last weekend or taken from the official Flickr Group. Feel free to use any of our photos, but do ask those responsible (marked in the photo comments) before using theirs.
  - By Theme Playground
• State of the Word from WordCamp – Part 2
  “WordPress should be invisible” was something I loved to hear Matt Mullenweg say during his “State of the Word” address at WordCamp San Francisco. What did he mean by that?
  - By WordPress Informer

WordPress Tutorials, Tips & Hacks

• How To Create Double Posts Columns On The Homepage
  From time to time you need to change some things from the Wordpress default. One of the easiest hacks to do is creating double posts columns.
  - By WP Feed
• An Introduction to WordPress Action Hooks
  If you’re going to be doing any level of WordPress development, themes or plugins, you will invariably run into the need to take advantage of the WordPress Action Hook system. But the more I am able to talk to people in the community, the more I realize that people simply don’t understand the concept very well, or at all.
  - By Nathan Rice
• 10 Useful WordPress Loop Hacks
  The loop is a very important aspect of WordPress blogs. In fact, the loop is what allows you to get posts from your WordPress database and print them on the screen. A set of useful and user-friendly functions, the loop is incredibly powerful. With it, you can get a single post, a list of posts ordered by date, title or category, a list of posts written by a specific author and much more.
  - By Smashing Magazine
• WordPress: How to get custom fields outside the loop
  Custom fields are definitely very useful and are used on many WordPress-powered blogs. In this recipe, I’m going to show you how to easily get custom fields values outside the loop.
  - By WP Recipes
• 10 Ways to Get That Elusive ‘Magazine’ Look in WordPress
  WordPress ‘Magazine’ themes haven’t been around for long, but they’ve exploded in popularity. In this post we’ll look at ten ways to get that elusive ‘magazine’ look into your own WordPress theme.
  - By Nometech

WordPress Plugins

• Set Meta Links For WordPress Plugins
  In the past I explained in the article „How To Improve WordPress Plugins“ , how you can expand Plugins with useful functions and therefore optimize their usage. One of the suggestions was a simple link to the options page of your Plugin.
  - By WP Engineer
• Shadowbox JS WordPress Plugin v3.0.0.0 Released
  The Shadowbox JS WordPress plugin has been updated to version 3.0.0.0. This is a large update to the plugin. The majority of the plugin has been rewritten to load only the minimal amount of code needed for either the admin or frontend. New to this release is Shadowbox 3.0b1, programmatic loading of Shadowbox only when needed, selection of which Shadowbox players to load.
  - By Sivel

WordPress Themes

• 45 Best Free WordPress Themes of All Time
  WordPress is very powerful and easy to use. We have been searching for some of the best free WordPress themes available on the internet, and compiled them into 45 Best Free WordPress Themes of All Time. All of them are nicely designed and look really professional. You should be able to find the suitable one for your WordPress blog.
  - By Blog Perfume

Pro Blogging & SEO

• CMS Showcase Galleries – Submit your site
  In today’s article from the “Webdesign Gallery Week” series, we will look at the different Content Management System galleries
  - By Mogdesign
• Six Rules of Blogging (That Also Apply to Twitter)
  I’ve been blogging for around 4 years now and despite all the changes we see in technology and software, the ‘rules’ to a successful blog tend to have remained the same. Yet, while the rules haven’t changed much, a lot of our traffic generation methods have. Gone are the days where 50 votes would guarantee a Digg homepage or you could place some technorati tags in your post and get thousands of visitors.
  - By Daily Blog Tips

WebDeveloping

• 13 Must-Have Add-ons To Strengthen Firebug
  Firebug is probably one of the most helpful tools used when developing websites.
  - By WebResources Depot