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March 13, 2009

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WordPress News: Plugins Reach Milestone, New WordPress Community Project, Help to Search for WordPress Help

WordPress Plugins reach 100,000 milestone. Jane Wells working to build new WordPress Community team where everyone can help WordPress. Lots of tools to search for WordPress help out. iPhone for WordPress new version in testing phase. WordPress 2.8 delayed to April 1. PollDaddy has new API and Twitter tool. Want to publish a WordPress Plugin review for the Weblog Tools Collection blog? And a lot of news for WordPress Plugin and Theme developers.
- By Lorelle VanFossen on The Blog Herald

Page templates: The untapped potential of WordPress

I frequently get questions about how to tweak something on a blog’s front page or change how something works in a theme. Many times, users don’t understand how easy this could be. I see this as a major problem because so many people are missing out on one of WordPress’ greatest features.
- By Justin Tadlock
How to: Remove the [...] from the excerpt

Did you ever wondered why the the_excerpt() function always display [...] at the end of the post excerpt? To be honest, I don’t find this very beautiful. So, what about remove it? Just read on.
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
3 Codes for a Far Better WordPress Search Page

The search page in a WordPress blog is normally a bit of an after-thought. I know that until I replaced the WordPress page here with a Google search page, my search results were just like any other category page.
- By Michael Martin on Pro Blog Design

18 Useful Plugins & Hacks To Protect Your WordPress Blog

Without a doubt, for a self-hosted blog, WordPress is the best blog CMS that you can get. However, being a popular and open source software, it also means that hackers have full access to the code which they can scrutinize to find any exploits they can use to hack into any WordPress-enabled site.
- By Damien Oh on Make use of
The 13 Most Essential Plugins for WordPress

WordPress is a very powerful and flexible blog/content management system, but the thousands of plugins really help to extend the basic functionality. Here are 13 essential plugins that you should immediately install after finishing the WordPress installation.
- By Trevor Davis on Nettuts

WordPress Theme Releases for 03/13

- By Ajay on Weblog Tools Collection
Theme Re-Release: Stitches

That’s right. Another Wordpress theme release from ForTheLose.org. Well, sort of. I’m re-releasing my premium Wordpress theme Stitches, only this time around, it’s completely free of charge! Ain’t that just dandy?
- By Ralph on For The Lose

How to Shut Down A Blog

While there are numerous articles and blog posts with best practices on how to start and grow a blog, there are very few on how to properly shut down a blog. There are many reasons why you’d want to shut down a blog, perhaps the topic cooled down, maybe you’ve lost interest, or maybe you simply don’t have the time to devote to it any longer. In this article I’m going to walk you through some best practices for how to shut down your blog. I’m going to be using some WordPress specific plugins or tools. If you’re on a platform other than WordPress look for ways to adapt the process to suit your needs.
- By Michael Gray on ProBlogger
12 Excellent Tools for Picking a Domain Name

Selecting the perfect domain name for your website is the most important, and oftentimes hardest, step in establishing a web presence. There are plenty of tools out there that can help you ease the burden of checking available domains and suggesting similar names that are related to your searches.
- By Jacob Gube on Six Revisions

60 Layout design tutorials

In this post I gathered 60 layout design tutorials, from which you can learn how to make your own website design. This post together with 43 PSD to XHTML, CSS Tutorials Creating Web Layouts And Navigation could teach you how to make your own website.
- By Opariuc Mihai on Area 1
100+ RSS Feeds for Freelance Web Designers

Keeping up with the latest news, trends and techniques is all part of being a freelance web designer and with RSS feeds, the task is made much easier by simply subscribing to the most useful content.
- By Dave Woods

10 Best FTP Clients

FTP is a file transfer protocol for exchanging files over any TCP or IP based network to manipulate files on another computer on that network regardless of which operating systems are involved.There are many existing FTP client and server programs. FTP servers can be set up anywhere between game servers, voice servers, internet hosts and other physical servers. Here are 10 Best FTP Clients in which some are free.
- By Jyoti on Just Skins