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The other day I was trying to style CSS3 border-radius to image element and I realized that Firefox doesn’t display border-radius on images. Then I figured a way to work around it — wrap a span tag around with the original image as a background-image. Thanks to Darcy Clarke for the jQuery code which does the magic tag wrapping automatically.
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Original post by Nick La
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New Plugins
Meteor Slides
This plugin makes it simple to manage a slideshow with WordPress by adding a custom post type for slides. The slideshow is powered by jQuery Cycle and has over twenty transition styles to choose from.
GetSocial
GetSocial is a WordPress plugin that adds an intelligent, lightweight, quick to setup floating social media sharing box on your blog posts.
Image-Based CAPTCHA from Confident Technologies
Confident CAPTCHA™ is a unique, image-based CAPTCHA solution that stops spam and bots in a way that is easy and intuitive for your website visitors. Rather than forcing people to decipher warped and distorted characters or words, Confident CAPTCHA presents the visitor with a grid of randomly-generated pictures and simply asks them to click on specific pictures to verify that they are human and not a bot.
Post Address Shortening
With this Plugin you optimize your workflow as it enables you to auto-generate a shortened URL to your blog posts and […]
Original post by Perurry
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Twenty Ten Inverted
2 column theme for WordPress 3.0 which has inverted colours of Top Ten
Twenty Ten Blogging Inside Edition
Twenty Ten Blogging Inside Edition WordPress 3.0 Theme is based on the new WordPress 3.0 default Theme with a few modifications.
The Sidebar is optimized for Adsense 236px Ads. Changed sidebar with a different look&feel and with posts metadata grey frame to make the posts more compact
SimpleText
SimpleText – a simple theme for Wordpress, sidebar on the left, in the theme used not standard fonts (js typeface), theme compatible with wordpress 3.0, to create a paging navigation use the plugin wp-pagenavi.
Goodness
Goodness is a two-column layout WordPress theme, with a righthand sidebar with a horizontal dropdown jQuery custom menu, a replaceable logo area, custom header and paged- and threaded- comments.
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Original post by Perurry
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WordPress 3.0: Multisite Domain Mapping Tutorial. As an extension of the excellent walk through of the multisite functionality of WordPress 3.0 by our very own Klint Finley, Otto has put together a domain mapping tutorial that is receiving rave reviews. Follow the steps to map multiple domain blogs from within the same WordPress 3.0 install.
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Original post by Mark Ghosh
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Inspired by the CargoCollective and David DeSandro’s site, I asked my Twitter followers (@nickla) on how to do the scrollto posts with jQuery. Within a day, Ben Bodien of Neutron Creations sent back a quick demo on how to replicate the similar result with the ScrollTo plugin. The script finds your current view position and scroll to the next or previous post accordingly. Check out the demo to see what I’m talking about.
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Original post by Nick La
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Actually this should not be a big surprise for those of us who frequent sites like this to see that the latest version of WordPress is moving out the door at this kind of pace.
If you want to watch the parade of downloads then you should check out this site:
http://wordpress.org/download/counter/
Personally I do not remember a similar download counter on past versions but that does not mean it did not exist. Maybe someone from WordPress can comment on how this versions download pace compares to past updates. I think that would be interesting to know and compare.
I grabbed this screenshot at 8:20 AM EDT just to give you a frame of reference
I did some very rough calculations and watched the counter for 60 seconds to get an idea of just how fast those downloads are happening:
50 downloads per minute
3,000 downloads per hour
72,000 downloads per day
504,000 downloads […]
Original post by Richard Hay
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WordPress 3.0 came out couple of days ago and there might have been people who have upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. Though I am really not impressed with WordPress 3.0 yet and am exploring it throughout (a full review is coming soon ) to be able to explain what it has and what it does not.
I found that the latest and greatest update to the best blogging platform does not pack in much features which the end user will find useful. That said I thoroughly understand that I am speaking for myself here and want your inputs about what you liked about this update.
Of course, the merging of MU into WordPress core was a really huge thing, but other than that what did you like or find useful in WordPress 3.0. I am looking forward to your inputs, and I promise that a full review […]
Original post by Keith Dsouza
New Plugins
Private Email Notifications
Remove Email and IP address information from Email Notifications to protect the privacy of folks commenting on your blog. This is accomplished by overriding three pluggable functions and removing all email and IP address information from being sent out.
WordPress-MU Helpers
This plugin is for WordPress-MU Developers and provides two fast functions for querying for all of the blog posts on all of the blogs on your MU network and will sort the resulting list quickly. There is a second function for doing the same for all blog comments across all of the sites on your MU network.
Custom Post Relationships (CPR)
Most of the “related posts” plugins out there while they provide some kind of control on how to create related posts, they all rely on an algorithm and the results are automatic. With CPR you get total control as you can manually select the posts that you want to […]
Original post by Perurry
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As of yesterday, WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” is out of beta and ready to be installed! There is a lot to look forward to in this point oh version, including a whole bunch of new features, a whole new default theme called Twenty Ten, integration of WordPress MU and multiple blogs into WordPress (boy that seems like such a huge goal from just a few years ago to compete with MT) and a whole slew of bugfixes. The WordPress produced video is embedded below. This is a big one and I am really looking forward to having our team dive into the nitty gritty of this release as soon as possible.
Six Revisions has an ultimate guide to the new features in WordPress 3.0, while Rohand Mehta tells us of the 10 features that he is looking forward to in WordPress 3.0. I also really appreciated Navjot’s list of Template Changes/Tags for […]
Original post by Mark Ghosh
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Guest Post by Lingo24
Web designers are a highly creative bunch. Whilst most will probably have a natural eye for what looks good and what doesn’t, experience is everything in the world of web design, and learning is a key part of the process en-route to the top. One of the fundamentals of any design – be it web or print – is that it’s the audience that counts, not you. With that in mind, the one golden rule of thumb web designers should remember when carefully crafting their sites is that the second they’re launched into cyberspace, they’re global.
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Original post by Nick La