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.

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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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.

One of our favorite themes marketplace is WPNOW, it really has the nicest themes.

Now there are two great reasons to check them out, first there is a summer sale there, a 50 Percent OFF discount coupon that applies to all themes; 50% Off Coupon code: WELOVESUMMER

The coupon is only available for the next 30 days and will expire on the 26th of Sept 2009.

And the second reason is a new theme called GameNow, one of the nicest looking gaming theme’s currently on the market, packed full with features, including two color schemes and a review system.

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

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