The WordPress for iOS mobile app has received a significant update with a slew of bug fixes and the following new features:
Video: “record video within the app and then upload it directly to a blog.”
Local Drafts: “save posts locally before they’re published or saved online.”
Autosaves: “If something happens and you need to revert to an older version of a post, you can just select a previous version and restore it without issue.”
Setup Process: “allowing WordPress.com users a quick way to add their blogs, and giving WordPress.org users a faster, more streamlined experience when adding their sites.”
Media Library: “a new Media Library more along the lines of what you’re used to with WordPress.”
This release would not have been possible without your feedback and beta testing skills, so keep doing whatever you can to make each release better than the last!
Despite all the bug fixes, I had to re-enter the password for […]
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New plugins
Better Delete Revision allows you to remove old post revisions and related meta content and optimize the database.
GTS Translation provides high quality human translation of your blog content using community translation (crowdsourcing).
IE9 Pinned Site adds support for Internet Explorer 9′s pinned site features to your WordPress blog.
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AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites.
All in One Webmaster has options to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahoo’s Webmaster and Analytics code (meta tags).
FourSquare Integration allows you to display your last checkins as a list or on Google Map on pages and posts.
Simple Twitter Connect is a series of plugins that lets you add any sort of Twitter functionality you like to a WordPress blog.
YOURLS: WordPress To Twitter allows you to use YOURLS […]
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The most requested search item on this blog is “WordPress admin themes”. With variations of the various search terms, I would guess that we receive many hundreds of hits a day on just this blog from WordPress enthusiasts looking for themes to adorn their admin panel with. A simple search on Google reveals an old post from this blog listing 9 admin themes (I don’t link to it because most of the themes listed are dead or deprecated). Here is a list of nice admin themes that I can find, which are still being produced and regularly updated.
Fluency Admin by Dean J. Robinson. A nice looking, well documented, well translated admin theme that is often updated.
Wait for it ….. thats it!! (that I could find, please let us know if you know of others that are of high quality and updated regularly) There are various useful and popular tools to […]
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Last week I talked about 960 Grid System is Getting Old. Surprisingly a lot of comments have been made. It seems like people are using 960gs because of the "golden ratio" — all numbers are even. I’m a designer, not a grid scientist. Why restrict your layout so that it can fit into this 960gs? A grid is supposed to help you in design, not to limit your creativity. The 978 grid, that I mentioned before, is not just about increasing the page width, but to loosen the gutter space so users can read it more comfortably. Today, I would like to write a follow up post to further ellaborate on some of the points I brought up initially.
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WordPress 2.6 introduced a post revisions feature, which automatically saves a draft as you begin to write a post or page and saves a revision for each change made afterwards. That’s right, every time you make even the slightest alteration to a post or page, a new revision is saved. Now don’t get me wrong, this is an incredibly useful feature, especially if you accidentally cut half of your post during a late night edit or lose power while composing your latest masterpiece, but these revisions can slowly build up in your database.
If it’s been a few days since you’ve last edited your blog, chances are that you don’t need to keep any revisions around, and they’re probably just siting in your database taking up space and growing cobwebs. To remove all of your revisions safely without harming your published posts and pages, backup your database, then […]
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WordPress.com and Windows Live are partnering together and providing an upgrade for 30 million Windows Live Spaces customers. This partnership was announced at TechCrunch Disrupt. You can read more about the partnership, the Windows Live Spaces importer for WordPress.com, the added ability to Publicize on Messenger on the WordPress.com blog. Via: Windows Team Blog.
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Art Simple Black is a black simple widget ready WordPress theme with two columns, fixed-width, valid XHTML and a right sidebar.
BirdSITE is a simple photo blogging theme for WordPress.
Langit Biru is a smooth blue 3 column fixed css layout theme.
Ultra is a black simple widget ready WordPress theme with two columns, fixed-width, valid XHTML and a right sidebar.
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Original post by James Huff
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Microsoft recently released a public beta of their newest web browser, IE9, that has quickly become very popular. In its first 48 hours of availability it was downloaded 2 million times.
You know what that means – more users are visiting your WordPress site using IE9 everyday.
So why not take advantage of a feature that combines new capabilities in IE9 and the Windows 7 Taskbar to ask visitors to place a permanent link to your site on their Windows 7 Taskbar?
Some real quick background. On the Windows 7 Taskbar any icon that is placed there can be programmed by the software’s author to have interactive menu items on what is called a Jumplist. This Jumplist typically contains shortcuts to program features and commands to provide quick access to them.
Well with the introduction of IE9 webpages can have code added to them that will allow a visitor to drag the favicon […]
Original post by Richard Hay
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If you’re writing or editing your new WordPress plugin or theme, and you’re in need of a handy repository of cool and popular code snippets, WordPress Snippets is the place for you!
Let’s pretend that you needed a way to identify logged in users. You could hunt through the Codex for this function, or go to WordPress Snippets and quickly find this straight forward snippet.
The incredibly simple WordPress Snippets is currently packed with forty-six useful code snippets, it appears to be growing steadily, and feedback and suggests are welcome.
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New plugins
Bungie.net Tools is a series of shortcodes for adding information from Bungie.net to WordPress sites.
Haiku is an exceptionally simple HTML5-based audio player that inserts a text link to control playback.
ImageMagick Engine improves the quality of re-sized images by replacing standard GD library with ImageMagick.
Ozh’ Tweet Archiver allows you to import and archive your tweets and convert #hashtags into post tags.
Simple URLs is a complete URL management system that allows you create, manage, and track outbound links from your site.
Updated plugins
DukaPress allows you to easily set up a fully featured online shop which can be used to sell digital or physical goods to customers all over the world.
Facebook Like for Tags allows you to connect with your audience for ongoing updates and sharing based on user interest.
Google Scribe allows you to enable Google Scribe on the WordPress comment input box.
OSM displays maps in your WordPress blog using the OpenLayers technology.
WP […]
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