A new wordpress version is available, 3.5 “elvin” named for jazz drummer elvin jones.

some major updates here like new media manager, new default theme ready for mobile with responsive layout, admin enhancements and many changes for developers.

here is a full and detailed post by wordpress.org – http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5

AND HERE IS A GALLERY WE CREATED IN 5 SECOND WITH PHOTOS WE HAD IN MEDIA LIBRARY

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A few years ago we wrote this post about wordpress store. this post was very popular and useful but since then a lot of things have changed in the wordpress world.

here are the main steps to create your own wordpress store in 2012:

1. install wordpress.
2. choose the right e – commerce plugin for your needs.
3. pick one theme answering all your design wishes.

Installing WordPress

if you wish to install locally you can use xampp.

if you want to install on a server, most of them have auto install for wordpress.

Download the latest release of WordPress.

Unzip the downloaded file to a folder on your hard drive.

open a new database with phpmyadmin.

more details about how to install wordpress:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

E – Commerce Plugins

the most popular and most used plugin is WP e-commerce. (http://getshopped.org/)

but there are more plugins:

Ecwid

Ecwid is a free full-featured shopping cart and an e-commerce solution that can easily be added to any blog or Facebook profile. It offers the performance and flexibility you need, with none of the hassles you don’t.
“Ecwid” stands for “ecommerce widgets”.

eShop

eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features.

Jigoshop

Jigoshop is an eCommerce plugin for WordPress developed by professionals with years of experience delivering online shops for global brands.

 Cart66

The Cart66 WordPress ecommerce plugin makes it easier to make money online than ever before.  Not only can you sell physical products, digital products, and services, Cart66 will also turn your WordPress site into a membership website allowing you to sell subscription access to your content.

Shopp

Shopp is built to belong in WordPress: seamless administration tools, widgets, shortcodes, custom menus, post types and taxonomy support – take your pick. Shopp is the WordPress e-commerce plugin that sets the bar for a natural WordPress experience.

woocommerce

Transform your WordPress website into a thorough-bred online eCommerce store. Delivering enterprise-level quality & features whilst backed by a name you can trust. Say hello to WooCommerce.

 Wordpress Store Themes

Sentient

Sentient is a smart, innovative WooCommerce theme. Products are cleverly aligned using jQuery masonry allowing you to cleanly showcase a great number of products on your shop pages without any wasted space. Sentient has also been fully optimised for use on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones.

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WP Flexishop 2

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ShopMe

“ShopMe” is a theme designed and developed by us in collaboration with wpfeed.com. the theme is working with wp e-commerce newest version 3.8 which is now intended to work with the latest wordpress releases and use the custom post type features.

you can create your own store very easily now. the theme features a very fancy carousel, top products in homepage and sidebar widgets. you can control the main menu and some more options comes naturally with the theme.

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ReStored – WP Ecommerce for Easy Digital Downloads

ReStored is built to make use of the Easy Digital Downloads ecommerce plugin, making your WordPress install an awesome looking store. ReStored makes it easy to get your digital products front and center to start making sales.

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Argentum

Argentum is a WooCommerce theme featuring a unique, responsive design optimised for mobile devices. It is the perfect theme for selling your catalog of products, small or large to users at their desktop computers, or on their smartphones.

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Mazine WordPress Theme

Flexible e-commerce theme, with wp-e-commerce plugin, ajax contact form, animated sortable gallery and much much more

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SiSo: Woo Commerce WordPress theme

Mojo Themes – All e-commerce themes

ThemeForest – All e-commerce thems

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Pinterest design is spreading very fast, it’s unique and very accessible, as usual wordpress developers takes the opportunity in two hands and creating wordpress themes looks like pinterest.

Pinterest Theme

Pinterest WordPress theme is a premium theme that exactly resembles your favorite Pinterest site. The theme delivers multi column layout with facility to add any number of pins to the pinboard.

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Gridnik – Elite Portfolio WordPress Theme

Gridnik is a WordPress Theme for those who dare to be unique! With it’s flexible layout it can be resized to large sized monitors or even to small and narrow screens e.g. Mobile Phones. It also comes in 9 slick colors enhanced with 15 font’s options served by Google! Can you feel it?

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The Narrow Way WordPress Theme

The Narrow Way is a powerful WordPress Theme Pack including 2 stand-alone themes

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FolioGrid Pro – A Next Generation WordPress Portfolio Theme.

Designed to be a fluid WordPress Portfolio Theme, FolioGrid has shown an impressive flexibility to be used for much more. Video embedding, fluid layouts and multiple colour schemes make FolioGrid Pro great.

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iPhoto Free WordPress Theme Like Pinterest!

Create amazing photo blogs with the iPhoto free WordPress theme! The theme is a best of clone for Pinterest!

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Imbalance 2

Imbalance 2 turns you WordPress-based website to an attractive blog, portfolio or even online magazine. This free template designed in strict modern style with a minimalistic touch. Imbalance 2 can easily fresh up your web-magazine or blog. Due to modern flexible features and layout Imbalance 2 fits to almost any project and your visitors won’t remain indifferent.

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ecoStrips

A funky new theme to showcase your posts in a slick, dynamic wall that arranges itself beautifully based on the user’s screen size. Also bundled is the ‘Dynamic filter’ plugin that lets your users filter your posts dynamically with one click. Get on with the Pinterest craze with ecoStrips!

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Gridler – WordPress Portfolio Theme

Gridler is a grid-based portfolio theme with a tumblr style blog supporting a range of post formats.

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Dealers – Daily Deals WordPress Theme

DEMO

Rustik – Minimalist E-Commerce Ready Theme

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Bravo WordPress Theme – A WordPress e-Commerce Theme

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Woo Commerce Theme – Super Store

DEMO

Fluence – A Flexible ECommerce WordPress Theme

DEMO

WP Mobile: A Mobile WordPress Blog, Store & Downloads Manager

DEMO

Digital Delivery Marketplace App:

DEMO

WP Marketplace: A Digital Delivery Theme by Sean Sr.

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FX Star – WordPress Theme

DEMO

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Using facebook “like” and comments plugins? why don’t you show your top posts?

a plugin that scans your blog and collects likes, share and comments data about your blog. then you can show your top liked, commented and shared posts. including widgets.

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

Installation

After downloading “Ultimate Facebook Stats”, extract the folder and upload “Ultimate Facebook Stats” folder to wp-content/plugins.

go to Plugins tab in the wordpress admin and activate “Ultimate Facebook Stats”.

Collect Information about your posts

you can have facebook stats for your posts in two ways:

1) let visitors visit your posts and slowly all your stats will be collected. (each visit to a post updates the facebook stats in the database)
2) scan manually all your posts by pressing the button below. this option can take some time depend on the amount of posts you have in your blog.

Widgets

there are 3 widgets comes with the plugin, Top Liked Posts, Top Shared Posts and Top Commented Posts. use them if you have widgetized sidebar

Use manually

if you want to insert the top posts manually to your theme, call this function:

ufs_show_top_posts(5, ‘like_count’, $showcounter = ‘yes’, $showurl = ‘yes’ )

parameters to pass:

1) How many posts to show

2) Which kind of top do you wish to display:

top likes – ‘like_count’

top shares – ‘share_count’

top comments – ‘commentsbox_count’

Examples

show top 5 liked posts (with counter and url)

<h2>TOP LIKED POSTS</h2>
<?php echo ufs_show_top_posts(5, 'like_count','yes','yes'); ; ?>

show top 5 shared posts (with counter and url)

<h2>TOP SHARED POSTS</h2>
<?php echo ufs_show_top_posts(5, 'share_count','yes','yes'); ; ?>

show top 5 commented posts (with counter and url)

lt;h2>TOP COMMENTED POSTS</h2>
<?php echo ufs_show_top_posts(5, 'commentsbox_count','yes','yes'); ; ?>

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we are proudly presents our first free plugin: “ultimate author box”, download and enjoy!

Ultimate Author Box

Use this plugin to show more information about your blog authors.

More features:

- Display fancy author box on each post automatically

- Show your facebook, twitter, linkedin and google links

- Style the author box by yourself

- Add your avatar to the author box

Install:

Unzip and upload folder to wp-content/plugins folder

Go to plugins and activate “Ultimate Author Box”

How to use it:

Go to setting - ultimate author box

Choose where to display your ultimate author box.

Style your box with the color picker.

Then go to your profile edit page:

Users – your profile (Extra profile information)

Here you can add or edit your:

Description,

Facebook, twitter, linkedin and google links

And add an avatar.

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ENJOY!!!

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Custom taxonomies is a great tool, you can create by yourself more ways to categorized posts or custom posts and in that way use wordpress as much better and advanced CMS.

suprisingley there isn’t yet a function to use if you want to check if a post is attached to a custom taxonomy (unless you check it with a single term of that given taxonomy – like in this example – http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-taxonomies-conditional-tags?replies=13#post-1110167)

let’s say you created a custom taxonomy called “video”, and you want to display different border to the featured image in the LOOP or any other icon near this post to show that it is a video.

you can use this function which returns the list of objects of a given taxonomy:

$video_terms = wp_get_object_terms($post->ID, ‘video’);
if(!empty($video_terms)){
if(!is_wp_error( $video_terms )){
//show your icon or any other sign of this taxonomy
}
}

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hello everyone, writing these words i am using the new wordpress version, 3.3 “sonny”.

many new features are available, fancy new look for the admin, excellent new media uploader with drag and drop options, more compatibility with iPad, pointer tips to introduce new features and many more…

For Users

Experienced users will appreciate the new drag-and-drop uploader, hover menus for the navigation, the new toolbar, improved co-editing support, and the new Tumblr importer. We’ve also been thinking a ton about what the WordPress experience is like for people completely new to the software. Version 3.3 has significant improvements there with pointer tips for new features included in each update, a friendly welcome message for first-time users, and revamped help tabs throughout the interface. Finally we’ve improved the dashboard experience on the iPad and other tablets with better touch support.

For Developers

here’s a list of all the changes: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.3

There is a ton of candy for developers as well. I’d recommend starting your exploration with the new editor API, new jQuery version, better ways to hook into the help screens, more performant post-slug-only permalinks, and of course the entire list of improvements on the Codex and in Trac.

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Our latest plugin – wordpress social counter, the best way to add social media counters to your blog so users can share your content and see how many others have shared. place your counters wherever you like and style them from the settings page.

This plugin adds social media counters to your blog posts from many services including Twitter, Facebook and Google +1. list of services so far:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Google +1
• LinkedIn
• StumbleUpon

SETTINGS

• Where to display – pages / posts
• How to display – horizontal / vertical
• if vertical you can control the position in your page
• What to display – Facebook | Twitter | Google +1 | StumbleUpon | LinkedIn
• Style your counters – background and border colors

you can preview it here on the blog (on your left) and see the screenshots here.

Download

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Credit Card Payments WordPress

DOWNLOAD

Offline Credit Card Processing

DOWNLOAD

http://www.visser.com.au/wp-ecommerce/plugins/offline-credit-card-processing/

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