On the last two months we’ve been working on a huge wordpress website, soon i will be able to share it with you, it’s an old website, written in asp.net and one of the main targets was to transfer the CMS to wordpress while saving all the features from the old website. the main features were classifieds area, articles, not a complex but different registration from the one we familiar with in wordpress.
After two months I can honestly say, each problem had a plugin to solve it. here is a list of the main plugins i used so far:
my first choice to handle the classifieds area on the website was to use Another Wordpress Classifieds Plugin, it turned out to be an excellent choice, very easy to manage and lots of features.
I had to add some extra fields to the user registration and some of the authors, i did it using the awesome plugin Cimy User Extra Fields, the option “can only be modified by admin” is very important if you want to add some hidden fields to the user. and to solve the captcha fields which Cimy User extra fields doesn’t have i used WP-reCAPTCHA.
I had to allow the users to login with their email and not UserName as wordpress always ask, for this i found Email-Login it lets the users login with username and email too. and just to make all the login / register pages more pleasant and well designed i used InsiteLogin.
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a lot has been said about the new wordpress version and indeed there are some excellent new features, the post thumbnail, edit image, trash status, mass plugin upgrade, snd much more…
here is the official list from wordpress.org:
New Features
User Features
- Trash status for posts, pages, and comments (includes restore and permanent delete)
- Add support for ‘include‘ and ‘exclude‘ to (Gallery Shortcode)
- Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
- Add support for sticky posts to the WXR exporter and importer
- ‘rel=canonical‘ for singular pages
- Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin and Theme editors
- Correct comments and remove unnecessary echos from the default themes sidebar template file
- Enable the APP (Atom) attachment file download to work correctly
- Support location of category templates based on ‘category-slug’ as well as ‘category-id’ (Ticket 10614)
- Support location of tag templates based on ‘tag-id’ as well as ‘tag-slug’ (Ticket 10868)
- Support location of page templates based on ‘page-slug’ and ‘page-id’
- Set “Allow my blog to appear in search engines” to checked in installation
- Don’t offer to make a category its own parent
- Remove Sphere from search list
- Minify admin CSS
- Show correct max upload filesize error message
- Add ‘rel‘ attribute to next/previous post links
- Make the default and classic themes comment textareas valid XHTML
- Clean up ‘.button‘ and ‘.button[disabled]‘ CSS classes, add ‘spinner‘ and ‘gray-out‘ buttons after clicking Publish or Update post
- Fix race condition with autosave when clicking Publish immediately after entering post title
- Add Comments for Pages in the WordPress Default theme
- Define ‘$content_width‘ for Kubrick
- Better feedback on publishing of future posts and pages
- Display comments in descending date order, consistently
- Add means of automatically repairing tables
- Press This bookmarklet fixes
- Give plugins and themes simple control over the text displayed at the end of an autogenerated Excerpt
- Don’t show “Change Permalinks” button when editing the page set as “Front page”
- Image editing
- Retire BunnyTags importer
- Retire Jerome’s keywords importer
- Explain that the permalink is temporary for autosave generated permalinks
- Update SimplePie to 1.2
- Eliminate the redundant and confusing comment threading depth of 1
- Easier Embeds with oEmbed support (see Ticket #10337) (oEmbed discovery disabled by default, use plugin to enable it)
- TinyMCE 3.2.7
- Remove rel=’tag’ on links in Tag Clouds
- Add a title to the Home link output by wp_page_menu()
- Adjust comment moderation keyboard shortcut keys ‘d = trash‘ or delete depending on the screen
- Show “Draft updated” instead of “Post updated” when saving draft
- Show the login form in a popup when autosave hits the login grace period
- Open View/Preview post in a new window from the link in the Saved/Updated message
- Separate fields for ‘image alt‘ and ‘image caption‘ in Media uploader
- Display better information about broken themes when there is no stylesheet
- Improve situation when tables such as wp_options table were ‘corrupt‘ new installation message was offered. Add means of automatically repairing tables
- Export and import custom taxonomies
- Admin copy improvements
- Don’t show page templates in the drop down if they are in a subdirectory
Development, Themes, Plugins
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From time to time you need an ads section to your website, or maybe a client is asking you to design him classifieds area, here are the top available Plugins And Themes:
This plugin is designed to allow you to add a classifieds ad section to your blog. You can use it to add pretty much any type of classified ads service that can run under a simplified structure taking some basic information from the user.
DEMO
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One of the more exciting features we talked about in the past is plugins for wordpress that can turn your blog into an excellent website designed for your mobile phone .Now, here’s a list of the top wordpress mobile themes:
More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. Modeled after Apple’s app store design specs, WPtouch makes your WordPress website load lightning fast on touch mobile devices, show your content beautifully, all while not interfering with your regular theme.
wptouch
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Some interesting news to all you Wordpress lovers.
Wordpress 2.9
wordpress 2.9 is just around the corner, here is a list of some of its exciting features, 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9
40 free themes
High quality free Wordpress Themes have become harder and harder to find in the past year, with the influx of premium themes, more and more designers and developers are selling themes (and rightly so, they do amazing work). However, the quality of freely available themes has improved as well; in fact, some themes are very advanced and professional and can serve as a solid foundation for your next designs.
here’s the amazing list by Smashing Magazine
New E-Commerce themes for wordpress
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We are happy to release our new Premium wp-e-commerce theme for wordpress WOPSHOP.
as we already know, many people want to create their own store using Wordpress, this theme helps you create a unique and exclusive look and feel for your store.
for the next 30 days the price will be $5.99 and then it will cost more.
A new and exclusive designed wordpress theme to use with wp-e-commerce plugin.
- wp – e – commerce theme
- theme options
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We are happy to announce our new free theme for wordpress. after 2 premium themes wpShow, wpBlog and our first wpStore free theme here comes wpFolio – A free cms / portfolio wordpress theme with a help document included.
A wordpress CMS / Portfolio theme with lots of features:
* 5 colors theme
* Theme Options Page
* twitter feed
* Jquery featured carousel
* Easy Portfolio Management
* Blog Section
* 3 page temaplates
* CMS functionality
* Widget ready
* Well Documented
* Well designed text replace for a nicer font
* Valid XHTML
* IE6 + Compatible
* CHROME Compatible
Homepage
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Recently we came through great lists of wordpress themes and one of the main conclusions is that many people are looking for colorful themes. here is a great list of colorful themes:
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After several themes we developed lately, we decided to create a new one for the original purpose of Wordpress. A blog theme.
Our new themes called, wpBlog, A new and well designed theme for Wordpress blog. easy to setup with a highly detailed help document.
Features:
- Custom theme options page which includes: – Social networks URLS – Ads area
- Jquery carousel for featured posts
- Drop Down menu for sub pages
- Footer widgets
- Gravatar and widget ready
- Valid xhtml strict/css 2.1
- Tableless code
- Post thumbnails
- Customized search results
- Wordpress 2.8.4 Compatible
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