Around the WordPress Community: WPMU Merger, Widgets, Custom Fields, Shortcodes
By lorelle, posted January 13, 2010 at 9:00 am | No Comments »
Here is your weekly round-up of WordPress tips, tricks, tutorials, and news from around the WordPress Community.
- WordPress Security, Upgrades and Backups: Alex King offers tips for securing your WordPress blog.
- Twitter Tools 2.1: The popular WordPress Plugin is updated to work with WordPress 2.9.
- Can themes style the visual editor?: Andrew Ozz talks about styling the visual editor in the WordPress Administration Panels with a WordPress Theme to maintain the look and feel of the two parts of your WordPress blog.
- Translation Strings: Mangling strings for fun and profit: Peter Westwood gives simple tips for improving the quality of translation strings in WordPress Themes.
- Child Theme Support for Carrington CMS Theme Framework: Alex King updates the Carrington Theme to include support for Child Themes to easily change the look and feel of the Theme.
- Include the Category ID via post_class: Digging Into WordPress looks at the category ID for post_class for WordPress Theme development.
- Why All-In-One SEO Deactivates: Digging Into WordPress takes apart the popular All-In-One SEO WordPress Plugin with sage advice on why you might want to consider it, too.
- 10 Practical WordPress Security Tips: Nometech.com offers some more security tips and advice for WordPress.
- WPWeekly Episode 83 – The WordPressMU Gurus: WordPress Weekly podcast talks to the gurus behind WordPressMU and its merger with WordPress soon.
- WordPress News Out Of Atlanta: WordPress Tavern showcases the highlights of Jane Wells’ presentation in Atlanta stuffed with WordPress Community news.
- WordPress Dev Chat For 1-07-10: WordPress Tavern sums up the WordPress Developer Live Chat from last week on the future development of WordPress.
- Should you use WPMU?: WPMU Tutorials digs into whether or not you should use WordPressMU, even when it’s merged into the core.
- WordPress 2.9 – XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes: Joseph Scott of Automattic covers the changes in XML-RPC and AtomPub in the latest version of WordPress.
- New in WordPress 2.9: Post Thumbnail Images: Mark Jaquith looks at the new Post Thumbnail image options in WrodPress 2.9.
- How To: Per User Options in WordPress: PlanetOzh looks at user options in WordPress 2.9, giving you more control over your users.
- Anatomy Of A WordPress Release: Weblog Tools Collection explores the process of releasing a new version of WrodPress.
- The Merge Has Begun: Weblog Tools Collection looks at the merger of WordPressMU and WordPress under the hood.
- Giving your WordPress a check up: Peter Westwood gives out tips on giving your WordPress blog a thoroughly check up.
- Display Always All SubPages in Sidebar: WP Engineer looks at how to display all the subPages in your sidebar and not just the parent Pages.
- Exclude A Category From Turn Off Comments Automatically: WP Engineer looks at how to turn off comments for your WordPress blog, but exclude specific categories from the exclusion, allowing interaction to continue where you want it.
- WordPress Widget-Areas with Description: WP Engineer looks at WordPress Widgets areas on a WordPress blog. It’s not just the sidebar any more.
- Creating Custom WordPress Widgets: Darren Hoyt looks at expanding WordPress Widgets beyond the sidebar.
- Enhance Your WordPress Themes With Shortcodes: Devlounge explores shortcodes to bring more content power to your WordPress Theme.
- Quick Tip: Using WordPress Slug-based Category Templates: Devlounge explores improving your category template files with “slug-based category templates.”
- Tina Daunt: The Secret History of Kubrick, the Blog Theme That Changed the Internet: A look back at how Kubrick, the “default” WordPress Theme changed the Internet.
- Filter caption-shortcode in WordPress: Nurudin Jauhari looks at filter captioning shortcode in the latest version of WordPress.
- Maria’s Guides: Upgrading to WordPress 2.9: Getting Your MySQL Database Up-to-Date: Maria’s Guides digs into how to update your MySQL database to keep it clean when making major version switches and updates.
- Get most commented posts with thumbnails: WP Recipes shows how to show off the most commented posts with post thumbnails.
- How to disable image caption in WordPress post editor: Jean-Baptiste Jung of WP Recipes shows how to turn off the image caption in the WordPress post editor.
- How to disable image caption in WordPress post editor
- WordPress tip : How to change the dashboard footer text: WP Recipes offers some code to help you change the text in your WordPress Administration Panels’ footer code for those offering WordPress installs for their clients with a custom interface.
Around the WordPress Community is a weekly feature on WordCast, your source for blogging, social media, and WordPress. Got suggestions for next week’s edition? Ideas are taken each week in the WordCast Forums.
yea,,,,its good i hope wordpress can exist again..