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March 9, 2009

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WordPress and blogging links for 09.03.09

WordPress

WordPress Forums To Be Revamped Soon?

MichaelH who has been a long time contributor to the WordPress.org Forums created his own wishlist for what he would like to see in the forum software, that being BBPress. The reason why this is important is because of Michael’s status on the WordPress.org forums. Some of the things that is mentioned in his wishlist are items that have been preached about before by others so I’m hoping that with Michael’s wishlist, some of those items are finally addressed.
- By Jeffro on WP Tavern
Tags vs Categories

I have always wondered what the difference between tags and categories of the WordPress blog are. Up until fairly recently, tags were only added as part of some plugins such as Ultimate Tag Warrior, however, they have now been included as part of the WordPress core.
- By Andrew on WP Thoughts

WordPress tips/tutorials/how to’s

How to: Remove widget areas on your blog homepage without editing template files

Ever wanted to be able to remove your widgetized areas (Sidebar, most of the time) on your blog homepage, but don’t feel like editing your theme files? No problem, here is the solution.
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes

WordPress plugins

Open your WordPress blog to the world of investment with the Stock Quotes plugin!

One of my friends recently started a blog about one of his passions: Finance and investment. As you can guess, he asked me to go visit his blog and give my opinion. I liked what I’ve read, but I must admit that I don’t have strong knowledges about investment, so many terms he used in his posts was totally unknown for me.
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on Cats who code
Plugin Review: “Top 10?

Ajay D’Souza has done it again and brought fellow WordPress users another much needed plugin called Top 10. This plugin counts daily/total visits per post and displays the most popular posts based on the number of views. Now you might just smirk and say that this is just another popular post plugin, but if you continue reading, I will go over how this plugin is different from many other popular posts plugins.
- By Thaya Kareeson on Omninoggin
WP Greet Box: Say ‘Hi’ to Your Readers

One of the most difficult problems bloggers face is turning visitors into long-time subscribers. With “bounce rates” for most blogs being traditionally much higher than other kinds of sites (by some estimates well over 70%) and visitor retention is a very tough challenge, especially for for new bloggers that have yet to really build their audience.
- By Jonathan Bailey on BloggingTips

WordPress themes

20+ WordPress Theme Releases for March 2009

As you have already used, I’m continuing to present you a new collection of themes discovered by me from the beginning of March. I hope you will like them, and don’t forget to submit new themes that have not been published here.
- By Pavel Ciorici on WP Zoom

Pro blogging/SEO

Do We Really Need to Optimize Our Sites for Mobile Phones?

If you have a website or blog, you probably already heard about the importance of optimizing it for mobile phones, creating a specific version for the iPhone and so on.
- By Daniel Scocco on Daily Blog Tips
Top 15 Tips To Increase Twitter Traffic To Your Blog

Twitter has taken the blogging community by storm. A lot of people are now hooked to it and are now active Twitter users.
- By Brian on Template Lite
Blogging is your opportunity and career-booster

Having a blog can be good for your career. Both in your current job or when you’re looking for what to do next, blogging can give you an opportunity to stand out and set you apart as an expert in your field.
- By Marko Saric on How To Make My Blog

WebDevelopment/Design

Slideshows In Web Design: When And How To Use Them

The key to smart strategic Web design is finding an appropriate and interactive way to display information. One comes upon endless possibilities when searching for ways to display information. One solution, slideshows and sliders, is an excellent way to display information such as images in an organized and compact manner. Slider galleries are excellent for organizing content into a nice clean module.
- By Matt Cronin on Smashing Magazine
How to Create PDF Files With PHP

PDF is the de-facto electronic document standard because of its security and integrity. Making a PDF isn’t limited to high-end desktop software though; they can be created quite easily on the fly from your web application. Add in a sprinkle of free code, and you got one great recipe for PDF-ala-mode! In this tutorial I’ll show you with PHP and FPDF.
- By Robert DeBoer on In the Woods
HTML Validation Made Easy

While looking for an easy to use desktop application to do some HTML validating on a layout I was working on, I ran across CSE HTML Validator Lite. This tiny program does a lot when it comes to checking HTML syntax.
- By Mitch on Mitchelaneous
16 Very Useful Smarty Scripting Tips and Techniques to Make Templates Smarter

A compilation of useful Smarty template scripting tips and techniques to help build smarter dynamic templates for PHP programmers and template designers. Great practical resource for people who are learning to script Smarty templates. Saves valuable time on research.
- By Jamp Mark Web Creations
70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques

As the Web grows and becomes more dynamic, more and more websites have user-generated content and tools that greatly improve the user experience in terms of usability and accessibility.
- By Noura Yehia on Smashing Magazine

Freebies

43 Creative Examples Of High Quality Free Icon Sets

This is the post dedicated to the creative examples of high quality free icon sets. In this post, we will give you an idea in one place to see an incredible collection of icon sets to get viewers attention. We are listing 43 Creative Examples Of High Quality Free Icon Sets.
- By AN Jay on Smashing Apps