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WordPress, pro blogging, SEO and web development articles for 28.03.09

WordPress

WPWeekly Episode 47 – Interview With Vladimir Prelovac

While I really wanted to dive into plugin development with Vladimir Prelovac and talk about his WordPress plugin development book on the show, his Skype connection simply wouldn’t have anything to do with the show. Because the audio quality was so bad, I have edited the show to remove most of the interview so you won’t have to put up with the anger inducing Skype anomalies presented all throughout the first halfhour. So instead of an audio interview, I will most likely send Vladimir a list of questions via email and do things the old fashioned way. Also, David and I certainly had enough WordPress news to talk about which is what we did for the remainder of the show.
- By Jeffro on WP Tavern
WordCamp News: Tokyo, China, Montreal, Egypt, New Orleans, Toronto

Upcoming WordCamp and WordPress Events include…
- By Lorelle VanFossen
WordPress News: WordPress 2.8, Summer of Code, PodPress Returning, iPhone Update

WordPress 2.8 News and Development: The WordPress Development team has confirmed that WordPress 2.8 will be released in April.
- By Lorelle VanFossen on The Blog Herald
Using WordPress as Social Media Platform

Iguess many of you know about the flexibility of WordPress. There are WordPress based Galleries, Shops and whole sites, but there is more. With a good understanding of the WP core, combined with a solid foundation of PHP & MySQL, you can create almost everything with WordPress.
- By Stefan Vervoort on WP Toy

WordPress tips/tutorials/how to’s

9 Ways to a Faster WordPress Blog

When you build a site or blog with WordPress, you want to make the most of it. We have to remember though, not everyone is visiting your blog with the fastest browser connection. Also, with the of mobile browsing, we have to consider those users too.
- By Stefan Vervoort on WP Toy
WordPress: Working With Options

Options in WordPress are in an extra options table (with Prefix before) stored. Options include the blog name, which theme is used, etc.. Plugins define their settings as options.
- By Michael on WP Engineer
How to: Allow your visitors to send your articles by email to their friends

Many websites allow their visitors to send their articles to friends, so why not implement it on your WordPress blog? The following recipe contain an easy solution to do it.
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
Show Tweetmeme Button on Selected WordPress Posts

Tweetmeme is a Digg-like site for popular links on Twitter. Using a Tweetmeme badge can be a helpful reminder for your readers to retweet it – and if my experience is anything to go by, Twitter does send targeted traffic to your blogs.
- By Quick Online Tips
Get the latest sticky posts in WordPress

I came across an interesting question the other day. A user wanted to know how to query a specific number of sticky posts for the front page. Generally, I just point people to the Definitive Sticky Posts Guide for WordPress, but this question was not covered.
- By Justin Tadlock
How To: Use Custom Fields in Wordpress

Custom Fields are one of the most powerful features in Wordpress. Most newbies are either afraid of these mysterious input areas or simply don’t even know they exist. In this post, my goal is to enlighten you on what exactly the Custom Fields are and provide some examples of what they can be used for. Let’s get started, shall we?
- By Ralph on For the Lose

WordPress plugins

WP Gallery EXIF Reader

For those who don’t know, EXIF is the exchangeable image file format used to encode details about a photo in the file itself. It records things like shutter speed, aperture, and camera model. Among other things, it can help others see how you achieved the shot, or record where you were (via GPS data, which you can add in Picasa).
- By POS51
Link Hopper

If you run a Wordpress installation and want to use affiliate links, it can get a bit ugly. Wouldn’t it be nice to link to www.yoursite.com/hop/name instead?
-By fergusweb
SoJ Page Link

Simple plugin that allows you to point a page to an outside site. If you add a custom field whose key is “link to,” and whose value is a URI, any generated link to that page will point to the given URI. This way you can create page links in your menu that point outside your site.
- By Jeff Johnson on WordPress plugins
6 More Wordpress Plugins You Should Be Using

Back in February I put together a list of essential plugins for your Wordpress website or blog. Since then I’ve come across some additional plugins that I think would be useful to install and which I thought would be worth sharing.
- By Addicott Web
Plugin: Ultimate Category Excluder

When I was posting some beautiful WordPress based sites to WP TOY’s Gallery, I was facing some RSS difficulities. As I have build that gallery based on posts, those “posts” were threaded exactly like them. That means they are included in the general RSS feed.
- By Stefan Vervoort on WP Toy
Video posts and comments – the future of blogging

Maybe you heard about it, maybe not – but there are already some pretty cool ways to easily add video posts and comments to your blog.
- By Vladimir Prelovac
WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/26

- By Ajay on Weblog Tools Collection
Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

After looking at the options available for WordPress plugins for Silverlight, I found one that was outdated and the author’s URL looked to be broken. So I adapted/updated the plugin to work again.
- By Tim Heuer

WordPress themes

WordPress Theme Releases for 03/27

- By Ajay on Weblog Tools Collection
30 WordPress Theme Releases for March 2009 (part 2)

I want to present new WordPress Themes discovered by me in this month. I want to mention that this is the second collection of themes that appeared in March (here is the first collection), thing that means that daily appear more and more themes for WordPress.
- By Pavel Ciorici on WP Zoom

Pro blogging and SEO

What An Executive Blog Editor Needs to Know

I have a list of URLs for projects that I would love to do, if I had nothing better to do. All of these projects are content marketing related. In some cases, I want to write about something like business travel. In other cases, I want to write product reviews. In all cases, these are commercial ventures, and have a revenue plan as well as a larger business goal in mind.
- By Chris Brogan
Risley’s ProBlogger Toolbox – Software & Services Listed

As you know, I have turned blogging into a full-time business for me. And, yes, I do pretty well at it. Every day, I try to show people on this blog how to do things to turn their own blogs into a business. Another part of the story, though, is the tools and software I use to do what I do.
- By David Risley
How to choose a domain name for your blog

There is no doubt that having your own domain name makes your blog look more professional. Your domain name brands your blog and it represents your blog. It is one of the first things people recognize, and it is a very important factor in the success of your blog. Naming your blog correctly is a very important step to having a successful blog.
- By Marko Saric on How To Make My Blog

WebDevelopment/Design

The Importance of Color in Web Design

All too often, I see a great design concept with a poor choice of colors. Part of what makes a great web design “great” is layout, typography and color. When each of these aspects work to compliment each other, great design is born.
- By Jarel Remick on In the Woods
15 Surefire Ways to Break Your CSS

The life of a CSS developer isn’t all about attending glamorous champagne parties, jet-setting around the world and hanging out with supermodels. In fact, when your CSS doesn’t behave the way it should, the job can be downright tedious. I’ve spent untold hours of my life debugging my code — and I’m guessing I’m not alone here.
- By Rob Glazebrook on CSS Newbie
Beginner’s Guide To Ruby On Rails: Part 2

Last week we published Getting Started With Ruby On Rails, the first part of our Ruby On Rails introduction. We explained basic ideas behind Ruby and presented concepts and essential components of the language. In this article you’ll learn more about Rails, you will learn how to get Ruby on Rails running on your computer, and get an overview of the basic functionality of Rails and demonstrate how Rails’ main parts work together.
- By Jan Varwig on Smashing Magazine

Tools

The 15 Most Popular Text Editors for Developers

For many developers, a trusty text editor is all you need for even the most complex web applications. Whether you’re creating a site from scratch, editing a CSS file, or messing around with configuration files on the server – a good, solid text editor will do the trick just fine. Last week, over 600 people voted for the text editor that they felt was the best from the large set of options out in the market.
- By Jacob Gube on Six Revisions

Freebies

200 Free Exclusive Icons: Siena
Siena is a brand new set of 200 free icons, developed exclusively for Webdesigner Depot. You can use them for your designs such as logos, websites and much more. They come in 6 different raster sizes and we have also included vector files for all the icons, so you can resize them as needed.
- By Walter on Webdesigner Depot
The Ultimate List of Sources for Free Background Patterns

As a designer, Background Patterns are one of the many things which i found still fascinating myself. Have you ever wondered the seamless patterns often used in every other website backgrounds where they came from or how to create them. It’s always essential for designers to have an good understanding of pattern usability and sources because patterns just could not satisfied designers needs.
- By Daniel Adams on Instant Shift