Otto who is a well known and respected member of the WordPress community has published a pretty cool article (WordPress 2.7 Comment Enhancements) which explains the various comment enhancements which have made it to the core of WordPress 2.7 thus far. Otto’s reasoning behind the post was to allow theme authors to gain a head start on creating themes which will be compatible with WordPress 2.7. One thing to keep in mind while reading this article is that, this information was compiled from using the latest developmental version of WordPress 2.7. This means things may not be set in stone with further additions or retractions possible before the initial release.
Here are some of the enhancements that Otto covers:
Creating a 2.7 compatible comments.php file
Password protection check
The comments loop
The power of Ajax
Styling
Thanks Otto.
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Original post by Jeff Chandler
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StayPressed
StayPressed is a free WordPress theme, with a double-column right hand-sidebar and a magazine style - kept simple, to let your blog content do the talking
Case
Case is a dark WordPress theme with blue accents. It has an Ajax box in the sidebar that allows you to switch between categories, tags, recent comments, and recent posts without reloading the page and without taking up a lot of space, which keeps your blog nice and clean.
Iris
Iris is a a two column WordPress theme with Iris like colors. The theme is mostly purple, with pink, and blue, with nice gradients and textures. It has nice rounded corners on every post to separate them and drive focus to the content. It is widget ready and ready to demo and download.
Designredux
Two column, black and white theme
Jin
Two column gravatar and widget ready theme with ability to post images directly to the frontpage
Free Autumn
Three columns autumn theme […]
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Matt Mullenweg #14 most influential on the web - BusinessWeek.: According to BusinessWeek, Matt Mullenweg is one of the 25 most influential people on the web. He shares the accolade with the likes of Steve Ballmer, Steve jobs, Joi Ito and Jon Stewart. At first I thought that this was a ranking much like the 50 most important people of the web from PC World but this appears to be more of a collection. Matt is labelled as “The Publisher” and WordPress as “the blogging service that most serious bloggers turn to”.
The associated article is more about how the web is magnifying the influence of jon Stewart and others like him in engaging the American Public in online discourse about the political campaigns. Be sure to check out the whole slide show.
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Original post by Mark Ghosh
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We recently ran a reader survey to have you answer some basic questions that we had about Weblog Tools Collection and would like to thank all those who participated in the survey. We were not looking for specific answers but were trying to gauge some sentiments and help shape ourselves to serve you better. We are also looking for a better understanding of where we should spend our resources to provide the most value to our readers. In that spirit, most of the answers were helpful and some of the comments made us look a little closely at the mirror.
Here are the results from the survey
Where did you first hear about Weblog Tools Collection?
WordPress Dashboard 76.2%
WordPress Planet 4.8%
Google Search 11.9%
Link from Another site 4.8%
User Suggestions/Discussions 2.4%
Other (please specify) 0.0%
Are you subscribed to Weblog Tools Collection to receive daily updates?
Subscribed via RSS 25.0%
Subscribed via Email 0.0%
Already on Dashboard 50.0%
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WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2: Search box, Favorites menu, Future Publish.: You wanted more surveys and you got them! This time the WordPress 2.7 UI survey is about the search box, the add new post button and the future publish button. The poll is set for 5000 responses and will close thereafter. Have you voted yet?
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Original post by Mark Ghosh
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G4B Photo Gallery
G4B Photo Gallery is a free, flexible plugin for WordPress. It provides a simple and effective way to include a complete gallery anywhere on your site, just by typing in a keyword.
Avatars for Comment Feeds
It will allow you to add avatars or gravatars of comment-authors to the comment-feeds of your WordPress-blog.
WP Mollom
This is a plugin that brings the anti-spam power of Mollom to WordPress. WP-Mollom protects your website against comment and trackback spam. The difference with other spam services is that Mollom takes care of everything. The idea is to relieve you, the administrator, editor, maintainer,… of whatever moderation or clean up tasks you would normally need to perform in order to keep your blog spamfree.
DashboardZone
This plugin will help you and your readers to keep you on track for reaching your targets. We created this wordpress plugin that monitors the various blog goals and in an effort tries […]
Original post by Ajay
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WordPress Amazon Widget Shortcodes
This plugin is made for you if you use Amazon Affiliate links (aka Amazon Associates, Amazon Partenaires etc.).
comment2tweet
comment2tweet is a WordPress plugin which will automatically post new comments from a WordPress blog to a twitter account. The comment posted to twitter will be an excerpt 140 characters long, and includes a short url link back to the comment.
wpAFFI
Simple and rapid technique to hide your affiliate links.
Smart 404
Instead of quickly giving up when a visitor reaches a page that doesn’t exist, make an effort to guess what they were
after in the first place. This plugin will perform a search of your posts, tags and categories, using keywords from the requested
URL. If there’s a match, redirect to that page instead of showing the error. If there’s more than one match, the
404 template can use some template tags to provide a list of suggestions to the visitor.
Snooth Widget
Grabs Snooth.com Wine […]
Original post by Ajay
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Aqueous
Three column, blue and white theme with a fluid later, designed for higher resolutions.
Talian Reloaded
Talian is a 3 colomn premium theme with several new features (Post styling options, mini social bookmakers) and option pages e.g. custom sitemap, custom archives and custom link pages
WP Foto
Wp Foto theme is single layout theme designed for photo blogger. It uses custom fields for displaying thumbnail in home page, archive page, category and tag page.
Mediterranean
Mediterranean is a two column, widget ready WordPress theme, with right-hand sidebar, from an original XHTML template by DemusDesign.
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Original post by Ajay
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I’m very excited to announce that I will be speaking at Future of Web Design - New York 2008. The event will take place in New York City between November 3 & 4, 2008. I will be presenting a 20 minute speech on "Finding Inspiration from your Environment". Thanks to the courtesy of Carsonified, the first 50 person who purchase conference-only passes gets a 15% discount by entering the coupon code: FOWD/WDW.
In additional, we are giving out one FREE pass. For your chance to get a free conference pass, simply enter a comment in this post before Oct 9, 2008. (more…)
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Original post by Nick La
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PhotoQ
PhotoQ is a WordPress plugin that turns your blog into a photoblog. If you have a lot of pictures to post, PhotoQ is your ideal companion. With PhotoQ you can mass upload several photos at the same time thanks to its batch upload functionality.
Admin Drop Down Menus
Admin Drop Down Menus rearranges the existing default Dashboard/Admin menus into javascript driven dropdowns, making navigation around your Wordpress Admin quicker, easier and considerably more efficient.
Viper’s Video Quicktags
Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box.
Tabbed Widgets
Tabbed interfaces are the most common on newspaper type website where they can save a lot of vertical space and make it look less cluttered. This plugin allows you to create them.
Hatena Star
Hatena Star is a recommendation service for webpages, popular in Japan.
Blinko […]
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