suprisingley there isn’t yet a function to use if you want to check if a post is attached to a custom taxonomy (unless you check it with a single term of that given taxonomy – like in this example – http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-taxonomies-conditional-tags?replies=13#post-1110167)

let’s say you created a custom taxonomy called “video”, and you want to display different border to the featured image in the LOOP or any other icon near this post to show that it is a video.

you can use this function which returns the list of objects of a given taxonomy:

$video_terms = wp_get_object_terms($post->ID, ‘video’);
if(!empty($video_terms)){
if(!is_wp_error( $video_terms )){
//show your icon or any other sign of this taxonomy
}
}

in its first version videos were created like posts but categorized under “Videos” category. Now we upgraded the theme to work with videos as Custom Post Type, one of the latest wordpress features, so posts are blog posts and videos can be created separately.

We added the options to create your own custom menu.

we fixed some css bugs and php problems.

we added theme options to the theme, you can upload your own logo.

wordpress 3.2.1 compatible.

php fixes – if no videos – no player will be shown

WordPress 3.2 – soon to be released

Every WordPress new version is a reason to check things, upgrade, improve your website security and change the interface, in the new version to be released in the next few weeks there are some major changes. here is a list of the changes taken from the official WordPress website:

• Performance improvements like you wouldn’t believe. What’s that mean? Things are faster!
• Distraction-free Writing. The visual editor’s full-screen composing experience has gotten a major overhaul, and is now available from HTML mode, too. More than ever, WordPress allows you to focus on what matters most — your content.
• Admin UI Refresh. The last major redesign of the WordPress admin was in 2008. This isn’t a major redesign, just a little facelift to keep us feeling young. WordPress turns 8 later this month, you know.
• New Default Theme. Introducing Twenty Eleven, based on the popular Duster theme. Rotating header images, post format support, and more.
• Browse Happy. WordPress is made to work with modern browsers. If you visit your Dashboard using an outdated web browser, we’ll let you know there’s a newer version available.
• Admin Bar. We’ve added more links to the admin bar to make it even more useful.

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.

Our New Website
We published a new website, http://wpbooks.net, the website is intended to be the main reserve for WordPress Books, a very important and useful for wordpress developers and users.

We are about to review books and link to them for more reviews, hope we will cover all WordPress books.

enjoy

wpfeed.com

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

New Registration Details, No More Admin and generated password

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.

New Default Theme – twentyten

finally the default wordpress theme is changing. there are lots of new features in the new default theme called “twentyten” (2010) like Drop Down Page Menus, 6 Widget Areas, Gallery Posts Styling, HTML 5 Validation, Header Image , Background changing support and much more.

Menu Manager

Now you can add menu manager to your theme and let your users create their own menu, not just by pages but also from categories, posts and custom links. excellent feature.

Custom Header Support

WordPress 3.0 supports changes in your header built in without any need of theme options. you can let your theme users upload new header images and use them, they can also choose the colors of the header and many more options.

Custom Background Support

In the new version you will be able to add your own background and change the colors of it. as long as the theme support it.

Network – the WordPress mu part of the story

When WordPress version 3.0 will be released (they talk about may 2010), wordpress mu will cease to exist and the two platform will merge into one will be called – WordPress Multi Site. there suppose to be a script to tranform your WPMu to reular wordpress. more details about this in the near future.

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Download wordpress 3.0 alpha !!! – http://wordpress.org/nightly-builds/wordpress-latest.zip

read about Custom Post Types – http://kovshenin.com/archives/custom-post-types-in-wordpress-3-0/1

more about the new default theme – http://2010dev.wordpress.com/ and here – http://blog.ashfame.com/2010/02/wordpress-3-new-default-theme-twentyten/

more about Background support – http://wpengineer.com/wordpress-3-0-custom-background-support/

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();}

2. If you have selected ‘Before Content’ as the location of the button, which is default, then the Google Buzz button will be automatically inserted on all the posts and pages after the title and before the content.

3. If you have selected ‘After Content’ as the location of the button, which is default, then the Google Buzz button will be automatically inserted on all the posts and pages after the content.

4. The anchor tag has the class attribute as ‘google_buzz’, you can customize it with any CSS styles thru your theme template style sheet.

We have already submitted this plugin on WordPress Directory for approval. Till then youcan download this plugin from our server and start using that. Please share your thoughts and feedback about this plugin.

here some more info about some new features and plugins for wordpress and google buzz:

5 Ways to Incorporate Google Buzz Into WordPress and BuddyPress

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-buzz-er/

WordPress Plugin for Google Buzz

Add Google Buzz Button To WordPress Blog

WP Google-buzz – plugin

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.

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

The Furniture Store

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wopshop

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