Here are the latest premium themes for your blog from the best theme providers around:

Elegant Themes

eBusiness

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ePhoto

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Lately i found a real problem on one of my blogs, i’ve noticed that Google Analytics shows traffic to this website (not the one you are in) after visitors searched for adult content. done a little research and found at the bottom of the footer some links to spam content and some hidden spam links in the theme.

What To Search?

so how can you find out if your blog has some hidden spam links or even not hidden. first, scan your blog for some links that was planted in the theme originally and that you didn’t remove them by yourself. if you find such links just remove them with your favorite theme editor. (or ask for help here, we would love to help you).

after scanning “manually” right click somewhere on the blog and view the source of the page, now look for style="display: none;", or something similar. move all the unwanted hidden links inside your source.

What Else To do?

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Every blogger and developers should know that immediately after installing wordpress activating some SEO plugins is necessary.

Wordpress by itself already doing 50% of the SEO work a website should have or do, most of the themes are very well coded, the system is very popular for its tags and categories and google tend to really like it.  the rest is on you.  Here’s a list of the top SEO plugins for Wordpress:

SEO Slugs

The SEO Slugs Wordpress plugin removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve search engine optimization.

For example, when you publish a post with a title like this:

“What You Can Do Immediately For Higher Rankings”,

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Display status in your blog became very useful when you write often and want to update your readers what you do and where you are.

here are some great Status Bar plugins to add to your blog:

mystatus

This one is the easiest one to use, simply lets you add a status, divided to two parts, title (bold) and a text. great!!!

This plugin allows you to create a number of fields specifying your current status and easily insert them into your templates.

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wp_twptter

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Now it’s offiicial Wordpress 2.8 - baker is released with a whole new exciting features.
Major improvements are:
- Wordpress 2.8 is much faster
- Themes directory with new options like browse, install and preview.
- Redesign of the widgets area. all widgets on the same page.
- new Screen Options on every page.

Some more links are here:

2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets - From the official Wordpress.org blog

WordPress 2.8 Tips and Tricks Collection From our favorite weblogtoolscollection.com

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From time to time you need to change some things from the Wordpress default. One of the easiest hacks to do is creating double posts columns.

all you need is a bit PHP and some Css tweaking, here is the example:

CSS

.row {clear:both;}
.col1 {width:300px;float:left;padding:10px;}
.col2 {width:300px;float:right;padding:10px;}

* change the width of the columns according to what you need.

in your index.php (in the theme folder) look for the posts loop and before that paste this:

<?php $col = 1; ?>

after the loop begins add this:

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From time to time you get projects demanding multilingual websites, even if you’re not a developer, you can you use these multilingual wordpress plugins to reach more visitors.

WPML Multilingual CMS

WordPress is a great blogging platform with a potential of being an easy to use content management system. WPML helps it go the extra mile.

Features

• Multilingual content support based on Drupal i18n architecture.
• CMS navigation allows adding drop down menus, breadcrumbs trail and sidebar navigation (all wigetized).
• Creates internal Sticky Links so that they never break.

DOWNLOAD

xLanguage

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On May xxth, 2009, WordPress Version 2.8 will be released. some interesting new features will be included:

Custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8 - http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/05/06/custom-taxonomies-in-wordpress-28

More About Exciting New Features In Wordpress 2.8 - http://xavisys.com/2009/04/exciting-wordpress-28/

All the full details from wordpress.org - http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8

While working on an online shop using wordpress there are several important decisions you need to take.

The Plugins

WP-Ecommerce Plugin on wordpress.org The WP e-Commerce shopping cart plugin for WordPress is an elegant easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online. WP e-Commerce is a Web 2.0 application designed with usability, aesthetics, and presentation in mind. Perfect for:

• Bands & Record Labels
• Clothing Companies
• Crafters & Artists
• Books, DVDs & MP3 files

you can download the plugin from here

WordPress eStore Plugin -

In a Nutshell… this plugin allows you to sell any form of digital products and services from your wordpress blog securely with complete automation. complete automation is that once you set it up the whole process (The buying and the delivering of the product without revealing the real URL of the product or redirecting the buyer to a web page) works on its own.

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This week on one of my projects i needed a good Social Bookmarks Plugin to use at the end of the post. All the plugins i’ve used weren’t good enough. I needed it to be hidden and when i click on the word share it will appear, i need to display the plugin with a tag in the code and not automaticlly, and it has to include an email option, i’ve tried Sociable, Social Bookmarks and share it. all of them, great plugins but not answering all my demands. do you know any plugin has all the things i need? please comment here.

and now for the news:

some weekly plugins from weblogtoolscollection - http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/27/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0427/

Participate in the Wordpress.org next version (wordpress 2.8) design here - Over 1600 votes so far on the design challenge. Have your say on the evolution of WordPress design: go vote! - http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/design-tweaks-vote/

Ever wanted to develop your own plugin - A Crash-Course in WordPress Plugin Development - Despite an extensive codex, many WordPress users remain unfamiliar with how to create their own custom plugins. In today’s screencast, we’ll start from scratch and build our first usable plugin. For this example, we’ll write a simple “tuts formatting” function that allows a blog editor to more easily format articles.