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Another WordPress Milestone

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:50:08 +0000

At approximately 19:38:33 on December 1, 2008 Ryan Boren became the owner of the 10,000th changeset to the WordPress code. This particular code set change was a re-ordering of font families for Windows font selection that was initially patched by Matt Thomas. There has been a discussion taking place within the WP-Testers mailing list that the Bitstream font is horrible and that it needed to be replaced by Verdana. Looks like they received their wish.
By the way, the first Changeset to appear since the WordPress team began using Trac happened on April 1, 2003 (6 years ago). The changeset involved a new respository initialized by cvs2svn and the author is anonymous.
cvs2svn is a program that can be used to migrate a CVS repository to Subversion (otherwise known as “SVN”) or git. Documentation:

A hearty congratulations goes out to not only the core development team, but to all those who have […]

Original post by Jeff Chandler

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/01

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:57:10 +0000

New Plugins
WP-CopyProtect
A simple plugin that will disabled right-click and prevent selection of text on your blog.
Ciao Box
Allows the user to display a Ciao Box in the sidebar.
Autodownload
Autodownload is a WordPress plugin that enables your blog to provide downloadable files either in your posts or pages.
Show authors without posts
Shows the authors page even if the author has no post.
Updated Plugins
Cronjob Control
This plugin shows you all active WP cronjobs (scheduled tasks) of your weblog in the “Site Admin” area and if you want, you can stop the cronjob(s).
ProjectManager
This plugin is a data manager for any recurrent datasets. It can be used to manage and list a DVD collection,to to present portraits (e.g. athletes of a team) or anything you can think of.
Collapsing Archives
This plugin uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapse the set of months for each year and posts for each month in the archive listing.
phpbb_recent_topics
This plugin grabs your recent phpBB […]

Original post by Ajay

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Drupal 5.9 To WordPress 2.6

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:32:32 +0000

For quite awhile now, I’ve been monitoring a specific blog post from May 15th, 2007 which is a tutorial on how to migrate from Drupal 5 to WordPress 2. Many things have changed since then between both pieces of software and thus, the scripts provided on the site will not work.
Every now and then, someone publishes a comment that contains a link to an updated version of the script to work with newer versions of Drupal and WordPress. DovDox is the latest blog to publish an updated portion of the script albeit with a caveat.
Taking my usual hacksaw-and-duct-tape approach, I simply deleted the portions that didn’t work. That means my version moved all of the posts and comments to the new blog, but didn’t preserve any of their categories. Drupal’s ridiculous “taxonomy” system just isn’t easy to map onto Wordpress’s much more rational categories and tags, and in any case […]

Original post by Jeff Chandler

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/30

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:35:41 +0000

New Plugins
Add to Feed
Add to Feed is a feed enhancement plugin that allows you to easily add a copyright notice and custom text/HTML to your WordPress blog feed. The custom text can be entered before and/or after the content of your blog post.
Amazon Plugin
Amazon shop plugin that allows a blogger to add products with Amazon associate ID embedded in it and earn revenue by showing Amazon products right into the blog posts.
Related Blog Links
This WordPress plugin will display the blog links related to your posts and pages.
Techytube XHTML
This plugin allows you to embed YouTube videos on your blog.
ZD YouTube FLV Player
Display FLV and YouTube Video in you blog in a Custom Player.
WordPress Gallery Slideshow
This plugin adds the JW Image Rotator to the WordPress Media.
Easy AdSenser
Easy AdSenser provides a very easy way to insert Google AdSense code into your existing blog posts.
Feed Comments Number
Add an image that displays the number of […]

Original post by Ajay

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WordPress In A Book

admin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:46:43 +0000

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.
WPWeekly Meta:
Next Episode: Friday December 5th, 2008 8P.M. EST
Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: Click here to subscribe
Length Of Episode: 1 Hour 26 Minutes
Download The Show: WordPressWeeklyEpisode31.mp3
Listen […]

Original post by Jeff Chandler

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WordPress Theme Releases for 11/28

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:23:20 +0000

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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Original post by Ajay

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Giving Thanks

admin — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:41:52 +0000

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 […]

Original post by Jeff Chandler

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/27

admin — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:23:20 +0000

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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WordPress Theme Releases for 11/25

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:58:27 +0000

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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Original post by Ajay

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WordPress News for 11/25/08

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:38:01 +0000

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.
Download […]

Original post by Mark Ghosh

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