As we wrote before, the much anticipated wordpress 3.0 version, is now officially out.
read all about it here: http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/
This week I’ve downloaded and installed locally the much anticipated wordpress 3 version. the much talked about version where wordpress Mu will no longer exist and will merge into wordpress, it will be called Wordpress Multi Site. apart from that feature there are numerous new and exciting features in wordpress 3.0, here are some of them:
Wordpress 3.0 is changing right from the very first stage, installation and registration, no more default admin user name and generated password, now the admin can set is own username and insert the desired password by himself.
This week google released its newest and very exciting feature – Google Buzz. it took several days and the new plugin for google buzz is here:
On Google Buzz Button plugin settings panel, you can change the location of button. For example, you can place the button after or before the content of the post or page.
1. If you have selected ‘Manual Insertion’ from the Google Buzz Button settings page, then insert the below code in the Wordpress Loop wherever you want
if ( function_exists( ‘add_google_buzz_button’ ) ) {
add_google_buzz_button();}
In 2010 WordPress will get a new Default Theme, replacing the beloved/hated Kubrick Theme with a new Theme called 2010. I’ve got opinions on the matter. Oh, do I have opinions. I’ve even gone so far as to create a working idea for a new Default WordPress Theme. Read more on the themeshaper website.
As some of us already know, in Wordpress 3.0 there will be many new features, and a merge with Wordpress Mu. I only hope this guys will continue there excellent work – WPMU.org, here is their latest post about the greatest buddypress websites.
Some interesting news to all you Wordpress lovers.
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
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
Here are some great links and news from the wordpressphera this week.
a very clever way to use widgets for text areas or text blocks in wordpress, let’s say you want to display some text in your sidebar, footer or CMS website homepage, you can do it like this: look-ma-editable-text-regions. until i read it I used to open category called, let’s say, “textareas” and to add posts to that category. and then pell the data with a single post plugin, like this one, Get A Post plugin.
A new movie called “phobidilia” is going to show on the toronto international film festival, as many films does, they promote themselves with a trailer and downloads website, this one used wordpress to do that. very nice work.
http://jobs.wordpress.net/ – The official Wordpress jobs website, Post or browse jobs requiring experience with WordPress development.
http://jobs.wpfeed.com – Our newest service for developers, designers, bloggers or any other people looking for wordpress jobs, for freelancers and full time jobs also. come find the one.
http://www.wordpressfreelance.com/ – Wordpress Freelance is a “ONE STOP” full service site where a “Webmaster” can post a project for FREE and have one of our highly skilled “Freelancer’s” competitively bid on your projects.
http://www.indeed.com/q-Wordpress-jobs.html – A wordpress search query in the popular job board Indeed.
unfortunately there is not enough wordpress E-commerce themes. here is a list of some of the best e-commerce themes available online, free and not.
wopshop
Name: wopshop
URL: http://wpfeed.com/2009/11/wopshop-e-commerce-wordpress-theme/
Demo: http://wopshop.wpfeed.com
price: $5.99
HTML 5 free wordpress theme – If you you downloaded the new firefox 3.5 you’ve probably noticed that except the real faster engine it also supports HTML 5. here is the first HTML 5 wordpress theme i’ve stumbled upon: free-html-5-wordpress-theme
Our colleague WPZOOM has a great new look – WPZOOM new look
and a new post about 15 Premium Themes from 5 New WordPress MarketPlaces
A very recommended new themes marketplace – wpnow.com
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?
