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January 4, 2009

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New week and new links from the WordPress community.

As always, I urge you to contact me if you have, or know about a site that writes about WordPress. Contact me via this page.

Happy New Year everybody :)

10 Ways Twitter Will Change Blog Design in 2009

In 2009, Twitter will become much more tightly integrated with the rest of the blog in a variety of ways – watch out for tweetbacks and tweetstats to make their debut, and tweet comments to TwitterRolls to start appearing on blogs. Here are 10 ways Twitter will impact blogs this year.
- By Rachel Cunliffe on Mashable
Ski With Me to WordCamp Whistler

One of the most unique WordCamps ever will be January 24, 2009, in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. WordCamp Whistler is a combination ski, photowalk, and WordCamp event for winter and blogging fans around the world at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort.
- By Lorelle VanFossen
How Does Your Blog Grow? A Tool for Analysis

In this post Mara Rogers of SecretsForMoney.info shares a reflective exercise to help you grow your blog.
- By Pro Blogger
WpSender2.1 Soft: Auto Submits WordPress Comments

I have been recieving some WordPress spam comments originating from a new automatic comment submitting tool called WpSender2.1 Soft. Akismet has still not started marking them as spam.
- By Quick online tips
Price of SPAM you are prepared to pay

SPAM is no.1 enemy of all blogs, especially new ones. It usually comes in the form of automated comments submitted by various SPAM software but also in the recent days I have been seeing more and more human made SPAM comments.
- By Vladimir Prelovac

Adding tabs easily in your WordPress theme

When you are running a blog for some time, you will have more and more contents to display, and the same space where to make them fit.
- By Emanuele Feronato
How to: Get a particular header, footer, or sidebar

Since WordPress 2.7, it is easier to choose which header, footer or sidebar file you want to include on your theme. In this recipe, I’ll show you how to do.
- By WP Recipes
Installing Wordpress via MAMP

Do you want a website that you can play around with? If so then you most likely don’t want to pay for an online server. What you are looking for is a application that can run a web server on your computer.
- By Computerwhiz1
Aligning Images In RSS Feeds

When inserting an image into a post, WordPress lets you choose an alignment (left/right/center/none) and even add a caption. This usually works well when viewing the post on the blog itself, but will often look messed-up in the RSS feed. Basically, the image becomes unaligned and breaks the intended post layout. I’ve found an easy way to fix it.
- By W-Shadow

Plugin Review: Simple:Press Forum

We’re kicking of our plugin review process with a feature rich plugin labeled Simple:Press Forum. This was also the first plugin review request that we received.
- By Weblog Tools Collection
Secure Your WordPress Blog with Maximum Security for WordPress Plugin

We have seen many instance of wordpress blog getting hackedin past, even today some one’s blog will be under attack by link spammers, Hackers or by some script kiddie. It could be easier for computer experts to manually secure WordPress blog however not all bloggers are computer experts and the reasons of WordPress blogs getting hacked could be anything from vulnerability in WordPress itself, weak passwords, wrong files permission etc.
- By Blogs DNA

12 Tools And Sites I Use To Run My Web-Design Business

Running your own business can be quite a challenge sometimes! But fortunately for us there are some cool folks out there who create tools and sites to help get things done better and faster. I’m often asked what tools and sites I use and why, so here it is! Note that many of the tools on this list are for the Mac
- By Spyre Studios

Two New bbPress Releases

bbPress has just been released in two brand new ..well, releases. One release is a security fix to stop a potential XSS attack on login pages with Internet Explorer 6, as well as a MySQL speed-up, and the other release adds an important fix when integrating bbPress with the Wordpress Content Management System.
- By JungleJar

The Woork Handbook

The Woork Handbook is a free eBook about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other topics about web design… directly from Woork!
- By Woork
Tricks to Solve 960 CSS Framework Problems

A couple weeks back we have learned about the basics of the 960.gs CSS framework. Today we will talk about 2 problems with the 960 framework you might have struggled with. This post acted like a problem solver.
- By Divito Design