Episode 31 of WordPress Weekly featured a special 1 hour 26 minute interview with none other than Lisa Sabin Wilson, the author of WordPress For Dummies. Keith and I grilled Lisa on the topics of:
Writing a book for a piece of software which has an extremely fast development cycle
How different versions affect the publishing of the book
WordPress For Dummies The Second Edition
Lisa’s thoughts on WordPress 2.7
Lisa’s explanation on permalinks and slugs
Lisa’s take on premium themes versus free themes
much, much, more.
Keith and I really enjoyed our time with Lisa and wish her the best for the second edition of WordPress For Dummies.
Announcements: The two lucky recipients who will each receive a signed copy of WordPess For Dummies 2nd Edition are Chris Thompson and Lenire.
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Journalized v2
Journalized is a one, two or three column theme available in six different themes, with threaded and paged comments with an administration interface.
Wasteland
It’s a 5 Column (main content, 2 sidebars and 2 top sections), widget-ready fixed width theme in soothing Creme and Brown colors featuring an author box, author info page, gravatars and with Custom Archives, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates.
Underground
Fixed width, three columns, widget ready theme
Weblog Magazine Theme
Widget ready, three columns, fixed width theme with adsense / advert ready areas which are easily edited for ease of use and monetization. Available in 10 colors.
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Here in the states, it is Thanksgiving. The time of year when most stop to think about what it is they are thankful for. In keeping with that tradition, I wanted to give my thanks to the WordPress development team but the thanks doesn’t end there. I also pass on my thanks to each and every one of you who have contributed code to the WordPress project. I’m no coder and I appreciate those who are to help guide me around the more interesting parts of WordPress. A very special thanks goes out to plugin and theme developers. You folks really enable end users to take WordPress up to the next level. I would also like to give thanks and recognize those who cover WordPress within the community. These are sites which keep users informed, provide great information, and increase the end users knowledge of what this piece of software […]
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New Plugins
WP-Niceforms
Niceforms is a script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones.
K2 Hook Up
K2 Hook Up exposes the seven hooks in K2 theme to the admin as friendly input boxes, where you place any HTML, CSS, JavaScript or PHP code (including template tags, other WordPress functions, or even code from other plugins) that you like.
Custom Post Template
Provides a drop-down to select different templates for posts from the post edit screen. The templates replace single.php for the specified post.
SuperSlider-Show
Animated Gallery slideshow uses Mootools 1.2 javascript replaces WordPress gallery with a slideshow.
Use Google Libraries
A number of the javascript libraries distributed with WordPress are also hosted on Google’s AJAX Libraries API. This plugin allows your WordPress site to use the content distribution network side of Google’s AJAX Library API, rather than serving these files from your WordPress install directly.
Chitika | Premium
This plugin will automate adding Chitika|Premium to […]
Original post by Ajay
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Sirup
Sirup is a magazine and blog layout for WordPress 2.5 and above. It has a fixed width, is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, supports Gravatars and Sidebar Widgets. You can customize the appearance of your site with an options page.
Quoting You!
A light two column design with sleek and clean lines and cool colors.
Olivia
Two column, gravatar and widget ready theme with seven different styles.
Equilibrium
Clean and simple magazine styled widget ready theme.
CognoBlue
Three column, widget ready, with right and left sidebar SEO theme optimized for Google Adsense.
Floral Prints
A light three column design with an elegant topper with floral prints and cute little butterfly subjects.
Rainy Days
A rainy two column design full of the cool wet air of a fresh thunderstorm.
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First on the list is a large collection of WordPress video tutorials, tips and tricks ranging from the very basic to the very advanced from SpeckyBoy. This list also includes our very own Weblog Tools Videos which lists various WordPress and blogging videos, tips, tutorials and reviews.
Noupe has listed 11 new “Most Wanted” hacks for WordPress in a nice illustrated list. The new hacks include protecting your pictures from hotlinking and Custom Google Search for WordPress.
WPMU has received 37 nominations for their WordPress MU awards for 2008 and are looking for people to help choose the winners. View the nominations and vote for them.
Michael Kubler has written up a tutorial to make WordPress captioned images work as expected on your WordPress theme. Captioned images were introduced in WordPress 2.6 (I believe). This blog had the same problem till we managed to wrangle the extra CSS code for it to work.
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Original post by Mark Ghosh
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New Plugins
Strip
Strip! is a WordPress plugin that allows you hide links from a given comment. Unlike other plugins that do the same purpose, you can restore the links anytime you want.
JournalPress
A cross-poster supporting multiple LiveJournal Server journals.
Speed Test
This widget makes it possible that any visitor of your blog can test his bandwidth speed. The widget ist hosted on Amazon S3 storage and checks the speed from the nearest server worldwide. (Page in German)
Quizzin
Quizzin lets you add quizzes to your blog. This plugin is designed to be as easy to use as possible. Quizzes, questions and answers can be added from the admin side. This will appear in your post if you add a small HTML snippet in your post.
My Tag Cloud
My tag cloud provides you with a widget that actually gives you the ability to list the tags of your posts in a diiferent way than a tag cloud.
Exhibit to […]
Original post by Ajay
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This Friday at 8PM EST on WordPress Weekly, our special one hour guest will be Lisa Sabin Wilson who is the author of the book, WordPress For Dummies. During the show, we plan on discussing how hard it is to write about a piece of software that moves 100mph in print format, Lisa’s background in web design and what it is like to theme for WordPress, WordPress For Dummies The Second Edition and much more.
This Thursday is Thanksgiving here in the states. On Friday, I want to give my thanks to those of you who continue to show your support while telling your friends about the show and downloading it on a regular basis. On Friday, we will be giving away two signed copies of WordPress For Dummies 2nd Edition. Lisa will sign the copies and ship them once the new edition has been published. So how will we give […]
Original post by Jeff Chandler
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New Plugins
Quartz
Show random quotes/tips/links/pictures/something to visitors. These quotes can be added from the admin side. You can add the quotes one by one - or you can bulk import the stuff from a text file.
YouVersion
This plugin takes marked-up scripture references and pulls the verses from YouVersion.
CMS Navigation
Out-of-the-box support for full CMS navigation in your WordPress site including drop down menus, breadcrumbs trail and sidebar navigation.
Wordpress Politically Correct
Turns any blog into a haven of safe politically correct content.
Assign Missing Categories
Assigns the default category to all posts that have no category after you’ve converted your categories to tags.
Artists ilike
Displays the artists you have “ilike’d” from your ilike.com profile on your blog.
Updated Plugins
zeList
zeList is a plugin to run a directory on a WordPress power website.
Get Flickr Thumbnails
Get Flickr Thumbnails plugin can get thumbnails for photos on your site that from flickr.com
WordPress Link Directory
WordPress Link Directory is a link directory plugin for WordPress which […]
Original post by Ajay
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Keith, Andrew, Jacob and I discussed the news of the week. In fact, I tried to break the world record by opening up as many cans of worms as possible within a 60 minute period. You’ll have to listen to the show to hear if I was successful.
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Stories Discussed:
WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 Released
Why 2.7 Is Not 3.0
The Icons Have Been Chosen
Integrating Plugins - Is This Bad For WordPress?
Adding A Twitter ID Field To Comments
Listing Pages The 2.7 Way
10 Best WordPress Web Hosts Compared
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