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:

How to Install Google Buzz Button

• Download Google Buzz Button Wordpress Plugin
• Upload in wp-content/plugins folder on your server
• Activate the plugin from Plugin Dashboard
• Done! A new Google Buzz Button will start appearing after the post content on each single page. You can customize the location of Buzz Button.

Usage of Google Buzz Button Plugin

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();}

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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

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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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

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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?

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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

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.