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• WPWeekly Episode 54 – Warmup For WordCamp Toronto
  In this episode, David and I discussed WordCamp Toronto which started yesterday and will last until Sunday May 10th. So far, it looks like not all things are going according to plan at the event as the venue has awkward placement of outlets, no dedicated video or audio equipment and expensive food. Hopefully, David has a better time the rest of the weekend.
  - By WP Tavern
• Talking WordPress With Vladimir Prelovac
  Back on episode 47 of WordPress Weekly, I had the chance to interview Vladimir Prelovac but due to technical difficulties, I had to edit out the interview. So to make up for that interview, I’ve asked Vladimir a set of questions from the interview which covers most of what was discussed on the show. Thanks to Vladimir for answering these and maybe next time, the interwebs won’t be so mean to us.
  - By WP Tavern
• WordPress News: BuddyPress News, WordPress 2.8 News, WordCamp Toronto & Virginia, WordPress.tv Feeds, and More
  - By Lorelle VanFossen on The Blog Herald
• Contributing to WordPress, Part III: Usability Testing
  One of the reasons WordPress 2.7 was such a success is the amount of usability testing that took place during the development cycle. Starting with testing 2.5 and the Crazyhorse prototype and following with the 2.7 beta, the testing program looked at almost every feature and function in the application. That kind of thing? Takes a lot of time.
  - By Jane Wells on WordPress Blog
• What Makes a WordPress Theme Premium?
  Recently our friend Andrew of WP-Fun.co.uk wrote an interesting post titled A New Name for Premium Themes: Themes. In his post, Andrew attempts to define what a premium WordPress theme is, then compares that definition with the most downloaded themes at the Free WordPress Theme Directory.
  - By Kyle Eslick on WP Hacks

WordPress 2.8

• WordPress 2.8 Feature Password
  WordPress 2.8 is going to be published soon, even though they do not have a date yet. Nevertheless, another small insight into a new feature.
  - By WP Engineer
• Custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8
  Imagine you ran a website that reviewed books, movies, and music. When writing posts in WordPress, you want to label something as a book, yet you also want to further label it by genre or by author.
  - By Justin Tadlock
• Exciting new things in WordPress 2.8?
  WordPress 2.8 is slated to be released late this month. Unfortunately, I’ve heard a lot of talk that 2.8 isn’t anything to get excited about. People are saying that it doesn’t have a lot of new features. As a matter of fact, in the WordPress Weekly Podcast – Episode 49 Were You Fooled?, David Peralty even said that it only had “stuff that should have been in WordPress already”.
  - By Aaron D. Campbell on Xavisys

WordPress Tutorials/Tips/How to’s

• WordPress Function to Make Links Clickable
  Apparently I’ve been doing things the hard way in my WordPress-related coding. I’ve been using regular expressions to turn URLs into clickable links, when WordPress already has a built-in formatting function to do just that.
  - By Webmaster-Source
• Build A Theme With Thematic
  Thematic is a free, open-source, highly extensible, search-engine optimize WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples and styling for popular plugins.
  - By WP Tavern
• Dissecting the WordPress Text Widget
  In this tutorial, we will take a close look under the hood of the WordPress text widget to uncover the process of creating a widget that can be added to multiple widget locations.
  - By Jarkko Laine on NETTUTS
• WordCast 53: The Twitter Wars
  Kym Huynh and Jonathan Bailey come together this week to bring you the latest WordPress controversy; what’s this? A Twitter fight? New releases abound this week in the WordPress community including the much anticipated BuddyPress from Andy Peatling to a theme development series by Ian Stewert. PLUS: The exclusive release of the latest WordPress rap!
  - By WordCast
• Five Tools to Increase the RSS Subscribers for your WordPress Blog
  When you build a website one of the things most people want are visitors. New visitors are great because they tend to turn into return visitors. People will return to your website because they find the content entertaining, informative and worth their time. However, you know how busy we get these days. We save a link to our favorites for a website and promise that we will be back on a regular basis. How often do you really go to your favorites directory and go back visiting websites? I know my answer – rarely.
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• 110+ Massive Wordpress Video Tutorial Collection
  On this list You’ll find all available WordPress video tutorials on Internet with a lot of links for every level of knowledge. Video screencasts in my opinion teach You skills a lot faster than the best book You can find. In future You should check for updates on those sites, because WordPress is rapidly growing, but sites offering such great video screencasts stay and update.
  - By Dainis Graveris on 1stWebdesigner
• WordPress Links for 5/6/09
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• Blogging in Realtime With The P2 Theme
  - By Pimp My WordPress
• 101 Techniques for a Powerful CMS using WordPress
  This is the first article in the four-part series, “The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress“. Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.
  - By Noupe
• How To Build a Social Networking Site using Wordpress
  To create a social networking site, you can either register a free account with a third party social networks provider or install open source software on your server and be your own administrator. There are pros and cons in these two methods. The first method allows you to handle your social networks without any technical knowledge, but you risk losing all your data when the third party site close down. The latter requires you to have certain technical knowledge, but you get full control over every single detail in your site.
  - By Damien Oh on Make Use Of
• 10 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress Blog
  - By Alex Denning on Cats Who Code
• Important Security Fix for WordPress
  The other day, my server crashed and Perishable Press was unable to connect to the MySQL database.
  - By Jeff Starr on Perishable Press

WordPress Plugins

• 20 Best WordPress Plugins – April 2009
  In this article we present a collection of best WordPress plugins.
  - By AjaxLine
• Plugins 015 – Subscribe to Comments Plugin
  The Subscribe to Comments WP plugin allows comment contributors to receive email notifications when additional comments are left for the specified blog post. This is a great way to encourage both comment contribution and increase your returning visits to your web site.
  - By WordPress Plugins Podcast
• Plugin: Flipping Book WordPress Gallery
  FlippingBook Wordpress Gallery is an excellent way of working with images in blogs. You download photos, and the plugin creates a small photo gallery out of them. If you need to post several pictures, you don’t have to make large posts. Being joint together, pictures can be put in a beautiful album-book and don’t take up much space.
  - By Blog Perfume
• WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/05
  - By Weblog Tools Collection

WordPress Themes

• WordPress Theme Releases for 05/07
  - By Weblog Tools Collection

Pro Blogging, Business & SEO

• How to Get More Subscribers?
  Do you have a new blog? Do you wish to attract more subscribers?
  - By Blog for Beginners
• How to monetize your blog by selling your own product
  Making money online is always a very popular topic. The general advice for making money from a blog is to clutter it with ads, ruin the user experience by putting the ads within the content and making the ads look like the content itself.
  - By Marko Saric on How To Make My Blog
• How To Stop Spammers From Getting Your Private Info from Forums or Blogs
  I spend a good part of my day posting on blogs and forums. I have always tried to obscure my email address when posting by making it a little bit harder on bots by using something like karl at mydomainname dot com instead of the normal karl@mydomainname.com . The single most important reason for doing this is to avoid the bots that hit the internet and collect email addresses for their spam lists and other evil mis-deeds.
  - By Karl L. Gechlik on Make Use Of
• Exclusive URL Shorteners: Why?
  A few weeks ago, I happened across NytUrl.com, a sort of TinyURL site that would only redirect to pages on the New York Times website.
  - By Webmaster-Source
• 4 More Somewhat Interesting Ways to Earn Money Online
  Internet has turned into a great place to earn for a living. Some of the advantages it offers are: working from home, (partial) independence and freedom, plenty of various opportunities.
  - By Ann Smarty on Make Use Of
• What Makes A Comment Spam?
  The post I wrote a while ago, ‘Dealing with Spam Comments‘ was meant to cover this, but instead got a bit sidetracked, so I thought I’d cover in this post a simple, but difficult subject: what makes a comment spam.
  - By Alex Denning on Nometech
• Plan the Next Steps for Your Blog
  Today for your last task in 31DBBB I’d like to encourage you to take step back from the last month of activity and learning and to plan your next steps.
  - By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
• Getting Started with Search Engine Optimization
  Search engine optimization is an aspect of blogging that many avoid, due to the fact that it can take some time. Once you learn the basics, most of the work is cut out for you, as learning how to properly optimize your site is the hardest part.
  - By ThemeLib
• AdSense Announce ‘Google Ad Planner’ – Showcase Your Site
  If you run AdSense on your blog and are looking to attract advertisers to target it specific with their ads then you’ll want to check out a new tool that AdSense have just announced on their blog – Google AdPlanner’s Publisher Center.
  - By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
• 8 Things I Wish I Knew When Starting My First Business
  I have started a handful of companies and every time I start another one, I always learn something new. If you are a new entrepreneur you are going to make a lot of mistakes, but hopefully you won’t make the big mistakes I made.
  - By Neil Patel on Quick Sprout

Blog Development/Design

• How to make a Anchor link
  Ever wondered how to make a link to a specific place on a post or page?
  - By Terje Asphaug on WP Start
• Worldwide Conferences for Web Designers
  We’ve arranged a massive list of events of interest to graphic design professionals.
  - By WebDesigner Depot
• 10 Transition Effects: The art of Showing/Hiding Content
  Delivering informative structure is the primary task an interactive user interface should be able to cope with. The more intuitive layout structure is designed, the better users can understand the content.
  - By devSnippets
• Creating an Advanced Password Recovery Utility
  In my last tutorial, ‘A Better Login System‘, a few people commented on how they would like to see a tutorial on password recovery, which is something you don’t always see in user access tutorials. The tutorial I am bringing you today will deal with just that. Using mySQLi, we will learn to recover unencrypted and (one-way) encrypted passwords.
  - By Andrew Steenbuck on NETTUTS