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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Offline Credit Card Processing

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

in your function.php, paste this code:

add_filter( ‘pre_site_transient_update_core’, create_function( ‘$a’, “return null;” ) );

Google is trying to compete with facebook’s like button. they released a social button called +1 (plus one), when you want to show that you loved the article (somebody said “like”), you press on the +1 button and the counter adds one.

Now you can add +1 button to your wordpress website, we suggest to wait a few weeks to see if it’s not just a “buzz” but if you want to add it here are the steps:

1) go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/index.html.

2) customize and choose the setting for your button.

3) copy the lines in the text area :

<!– Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag –><script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js”></script>
<!– Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render –><g:plusone></g:plusone>

and add it to your post or insert to a page in your theme.

THAT’S IT!

Admin Bar – contains various links to useful admin screens. By default, the admin bar is displayed when a user is logged in and visiting the site and is not displayed in admin screens for single blog installs. For multisite installs, the admin bar is displayed both when visiting the site and in the admin screens.

Internal Linking – click a button for an internal link and it allows you to search for a post or browse a list of existing content and select it for inclusion.

Post Formats – meta information that can be used by themes to customize presentation of a post. Read more in the article Post Formats. It’s about time to say, why not just add a new feature of post template like with pages.

Network Admin – move Super Admin menus and related pages out of the regular admin and into a new Network Admin screen.

List-type Admin Screens – sortable columns for list-type screens and better pagination.

Exporter/Importer Overhaul – many under the hood changes including adding author information, better handling for taxonomies and terms, and proper support for navigation menus.

Custom Content Type Improvements – allows developers to generate archive pages, and have better menu and capability controls. Read more in the article Post Types.

Refreshed Blue Admin Color Scheme – puts the focus more squarely on your content.

I will try sharing with you the knowledge i acquired in the last weeks while trying to stop spam blogs and users in one of my blogs.

Captcha And Blocking Spam Plugins

WP-reCAPTCHA

Integrates reCAPTCHA anti-spam methods with WordPress including comment, registration, and email spam protection. WPMU Compatible.

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Simple CAPTCHA

A CAPTCHA for your comment system to prevent unwanted spams. Prevent automated spams by bots and most important naughty peoples. It’s simple and yet secure.

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SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all. In order to post comments or register, users will have to type in the code shown on the image. This prevents spam from automated bots. Adds security. Works great with Akismet. Also is fully WP, WPMU, and BuddyPress compatible

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WP Captcha-Free

WP Captcha-Free blocks automated comment spam without resorting to CAPTCHAs. It does so by validating a hash based on time (and some other parameters) using AJAX when the form is posted. Comments posted via automated means will not have a hash or will have an expired hash and will be rejected. Unlike using a captcha, this does not place any burden on the commenter.

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Animal Captcha

Captcha Animal protects your user registration and comments with a test of identifying two friendly animals.

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Block Spam By Math Reloaded

This plugin protects WordPress 3.x (single/multisite) registration, login and comment forms from spambots by adding a simple math question to it (“what is 4+3 ?”). It also includes support for Buddypress. This is a proven approach to dramatically decrease your amount of spam.

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Sabre

Sabre is an acronym for Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine. It’s a set of counter measures against spam registration on your blog.

Your visitors are granted permission to register freely on your blog and now you are plagued by fake users automatically created by spammers? Sabre is the solution to stop definitely these robotized visitors!

this plugin has many features like:  Selection of the captcha’s complexity, Registration blocked if visitor’s IP address is found on ban lists, Limited number of days for user confirmation, User must give an invitation code during registration and many more…

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Ban Specific Users Or Domains

htaccess support

## USER IP BANNING
<Limit GET POST>
order allow,deny
deny from 200.49.176.139
allow from all
</Limit>

you can also use a check to make sure they come from your domain

# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-signup.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.wpfeed.com. [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://die-spammers.com/ [R=301,L]
# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

Ban email domains from user registration

you create a Registration Blacklist and  “Options” menu in the administration section you will find  a box called “Registration Blacklist”.

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IP Ban

Returns ‘Page Not Found’ 404 error message for IP’s visiting your blog specified in the IP Ban option on the Discussion Options page.

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Other Plugins And Soultions

Anti-Splog

to tell you the truth – wpmudev name their plugin – “The ultimate plugin and service to stop and kill splogs in WordPress Multisite and BuddyPress”, well, not quit true. since buying anti-splog in 39 dollars, anti-splog succeeded in marking spam blogs as spam but not to block the registration. so maybe it is more comfortable to click on the plugin options and delete all spam blogs in one place, but the database is still spammed and manually i could do it my self (i already recognize the mail the spammers use). the other features like captcha and human tests i could find plugins myself without paying.

read more about the plugin – URL

BuddyPress Restrict Email Domains

This plugin enables restriction of email domains during user registration for a single (non-multisite) WordPress installation of BuddyPress

URL + use this link to enable the multisite – http://etivite.com/groups/buddypress/forum/topic/quick-tip-added-banned-email-domain-check-to-multisite-buddypress-registration/#topic

Enable Akismet For all Sites

first of all activate akismet. then just open wp-config.php and add:

define(‘WPCOM_API_KEY’,'your-api-key’);

DONE!!!

have ideas for more plugins and solutions, comment here.

Recently Facebook released what they call social plugins, with these plugins you can easily integrate your blog or website with many Facebook features.
Wordpress programmers made the work for you and wrote excellent and simple plugins although if you know a bit of code you can always go to http://developers.facebook.com/plugins and check the plugins by facebook, try it here :http://developers.facebook.com/plugins.

now if you want it the easy way, here are some of the best we found for you, actually for all your facebook connect purposes.

Facebook Comments

Facebook comments is a WordPress plugin that will import comments from your facebook notes back into your wordpress blog.

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Facebook Comments for WordPress

This plugin integrates the Facebook commenting system right into your website. If a reader is logged into Facebook while viewing any comment-enabled page or post, they’ll be able to leave a comment using their Facebook profile. Non-Facebook users can post with a valid email address.

Features:

• Styles can all be customized to fit your site’s theme
• Number of comments displayed can be adjusted
• Option to post comments directly to a user’s Facebook profile page
• Comments can be included on pages only, posts only or both
• Comments can be shown in chronological order or with the most recent comments first
• Facebook comments can be attached to WordPress comments or inserted manually anywhere in your theme
• WordPress comments can be hidden on pages/posts where Facebook comments are enabled
• Like button can be hidden if required

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Like

Let your readers quickly share your content on Facebook with a simple click.

You can customize it in the Settings section:

• Access directly your Facebook Pages to manage them (see screenshot 2)
• Send updates to your Fans
• IFRAME or XFBML versions of the button
• Asynchronous or Synchronous loading of the Javascript
• Width/Height
• Layout (standard or button_count)
• Verb to display (Like or Recommend)
• Fonts
• Color Scheme (Light or Dark)
• Show thumbnails of Facebook profile pictures
• Align to the Left or Right of your posts
• Show at the top and/or bottom of posts
• Show/hide the button on pages/posts/home/search/archive.
• Margins (top, bottom, left, right)
• Complete support of the Open Graph protocol (http://opengraphprotocol.org)

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Facebook Like Box

If you have a page in Facebook about your blog and want to show the Facebook Like Box with the recent updates and fans.

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Sharecount for Facebook

Displays the number of times the current page has been shared on Facebook and allows visitors to share it themselves. Uses awe.sm for tracking and offers Google Analytics integration even without an awe.sm account. Pulls count and click data from Facebook as well as awe.sm.

Features:

• Display the number of shares and on hover the total number of clicks for those shares (displays Facebook logo when 0 shares)
• Large or small button
• Track the shares from the button using your awe.sm API Key or fbshare.me links
• Add Google Analytics parameters to fbshare.me links
• Configure the colors of the badge in the large button
• Disable the button on Pages

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This is our new theme. we called it lemmus theme after the very cute and crazy animal lemmus lemmus.

Usually we try to upload our themes to themforest, other times we sell it here and some themes we also gave for free.

This time we thought about something else.

We really love our new theme but we thought that you would be the judge and rate our work by deciding how much to pay for it to be yours.

This theme is brilliant for your next portfolio including a unique blog template and totally full wordpress 3.0 support.

here is the demo: http://lemmus.wpfeed.com/

here is the download link : http://wpfeed.com/download-lemmus/

here is the place to pay as much as you like:

More about “Lemmus Theme – WordPress 3.0 Portfolio Theme”

features:

• Theme options
• jQuery featured works carousel
• jQuery portfolio template
• Unique blog template
• 3 Widget areas
• WordPress 3.0 compatible
• Custom background
• Custom menu
• Help docs included
• Advanced cufon font replacement
• Gravatar supported
• and much more…

here are some screen shots, click to enlarge.

Homepage

Blog

Portfolio

Post

ENJOY!

DDSliderWP – 11 Transitions – Slide Manager Panel

DDSliderWP features EVERYTHING that the jQuery plugin already offered PLUS a custom admin panel, with total management of slides.
Features:

• Slide manager – Manage your slides the way you want, don’t depend on pages and posts.
• Upload Images via AJAX direct from the slide manager page
• Extremely user interactive panel – Tooltips on all fields and jQuery driven panels
• Over 11 different transitions
• Inline content support
• TimThumb integration
• ColorPicker included
• Access documentation directly from admin panel
• A whole lot more. Checkout screencast for an overview of the admin panel.

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WP-Membership Plugin

This is a WordPress plugin that helps you sell your content; you only need to install the plugin, create a category for your private content, setup the prices of your memberships and your Paypal account. Don’t hesitate and purchase it today
You can easily select the posts you want to sell, manage the memberships you acquire and is fully integrated with Paypal. All you have to do is activate the plugin, setup your memberships and your Paypal account.
Features:

• * You don’t have to modify your template.
• * Paypal integration.
• * Premium posts only seen by active members.
• * Setup unlimited memberships.
• * A dashboard that shows your sales by month.
• * Manage your subscription.
• * Filter your subscriptions by Month and Memberships.
• * Subscriptions are paginated.
• * Easy setup.
• * Very well documented with plenty of images.
• * Works with WordPress 2.7 and above (also 3.0).

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Events Calendar Pro – WordPress Premium Plugin

The Events Calendar Premium plugin for WordPress enables you to rapidly create and manage events using the post editor. Features include Google Maps integration as well as default templates such as a calendar grid and event list for streamlined one click installation.

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Twitter Widget Pro – WordPress Premium Plugin

If you own just one twitter plugin for WordPress, let it be this one! The only premium twitter plugin out right now – with support for multiple twitter users and includes a ton of premium options. This is the last Twitter plugin you’ll ever need!

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Extended Google Analytics for WordPress

It’s never been easier to add Google analytics and event tracking to your websites. This in combination with a campaing url generator tool makes a powerfull WordPress plugin to get the most out of Google Analytics.
Features:

Adds google analytics code
Auto link adsense to analytics
Auto event tracking for downloads, mailto and outbound links
Select wich file extensions to download track
Tool to generate campaign tracking links to use in newsletters and other campaigns

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read all about it here: http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/