hello everyone, writing these words i am using the new wordpress version, 3.3 “sonny”.

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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Two years have passed since we released our most succeful theme, wpShow - the multimedia and video theme for wordpress.

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

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From time to time we gather some interesting headlines form the WordPress world for you.

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.

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Our website wpfeed.com was hacked yesterday, we fixed the problem and now we’re back again.

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

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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();}

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

Popularity: 16% [?]

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.

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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

• Added ‘excerpt_more‘ filter to wp_trim_excerpt() function, which allow developers to change excerpt ‘[...]‘ more string (Ticket 10395)
• Add ‘smilies_src‘ filter so plugins can better add smilies
• Canonical redirects for post name queries
• Allow _wp_get_comment_list() to handle custom comment types
• Return an empty array instead of false for get_children() when no children found
• Add some filters so that HTTP requests can be filtered
• Move plugin update notice output to the plugin specific hook
• Limit wp-mail ‘blog by email’ checks to every 5 minutes
• Make it much easier to filter contact methods from user profiles
• Allow filtering of get_edit_post_link for custom post_type
• ‘get_sample_permalink_html‘ filter
• Enforce activation key to be a string, reject activation keys that are arrays
• Support for new post types
• Respect custom post_type in queries
• Send Retry-After header when in maintenance mode
• Various WP Filesystem related fixes and documentation
• Add constants for ftp connections timeouts
• Increase timeout on cron-based requests when checking for upgrades
• Don’t use has_action() before do_action() in http.php
• Speed up jQuery based scripts
• Use the current user as author for autosave
• Show My Posts as default view on the Edit Posts screen for users without ‘edit_others_posts’ cap
• Ensure that drafts viewed over XMLRPC have a correct gmt date set
• Pass user id to ‘get_’ the_author_meta filters
• Move _wp_get_user_contactmethods() into the registrations functions file
• Machine parseable db error codes
• Add global JS vars and actions to the media uploader iframe
• Add JSON compat for PHP < 5.2
• Make option_name the primary key for the options table
• Allow a plugin to do a complete takeover of Post by Email
• Logarithmic scale for tag cloud
• Pass Post ID to the ‘get_comments_number‘ filter
• Always filter the url in the media upload form
• Add a ‘the_terms‘ filter
• is_blog_installed() improvements
• Allow force_ssl_admin() to properly accept false as a value
• Pass logged_in cookie to async-upload and filter the cookie scheme in auth_redirect()
• Add more actions around database add/delete/update operations
• phpDoc for wp_”check|set”_post_lock functions
• Use the old strings which are more translator friendly and add a generic default string to aid re-use by plugins adding post_types
• Filter fields through kses upon display and introduce sanitize_user_object() and sanitize_user_field()
• Use null instead of 0 when setting content length
• Include ‘hidden’ directories in filesystem dirlist by default
• Pass args array to ‘wp_list_pages‘ filter
• Actions for taxonomy updates
• Key should be ‘comment_id‘ not ‘post_id‘ in comments table
• Add get_delete_post_link () to retrieve delete posts link for post
• Add ‘separator‘ parameter to wp_tag_cloud() and wp_generate_tag_cloud() functions (Ticket 10315)
• Added add_comment_meta() family of functions
• Use a post_parent of 0 instead of -1 to indicate unattached posts
• Improve get_page_hierarchy() function
• Deprecate the_content_rss(), add the_content_feed() and get_the_content_feed(). Convert places that called the_content_rss() with an excerpt length to the_excerpt_rss(). Remove the rss_excerpt_length option. Use the_content_feed() where the_content() was previously used in feeds.
• Add ‘pad_counts‘ argument to wp_dropdown_categories()
• Remove codepress
• Remove the php-gettext library
• Canonical post thumbanils
• Add a filter to the_author_posts_link()
• Merge post.js with page.js and slug.js, optimize categories and tags JS, standardize postboxes IDs and JS
• Introduce register_theme_directory() which takes a wp-content-relative path and will additionally scan it for themes. Plugins can use this to add themes without requiring copying by the user
• Add set_user_role action hook
• Allow theme devs to change attrs (like CSS class) of thumbnail images
• Add wp-post-image CSS class to post images
• Allow for plugins to enhance the number of metadata fields captured from plugin and theme headers
• Merge updated pomo code
• Switch to using NOOP_Translations for untranslated sites
• Improve wptexturize performance
• Provide context to the strings in the Plugin and Theme installers to allow for different grammatical gender
• Fixes for theme subdir support
• Introduce wp_kses_post() and wp_kses_data() for filtering unescaped data
• Add ‘orderby=comment_count‘ argument to query_posts()
• Honor Post Type for Sticky Posts
• Allow querying multiple post types
• Introduce add_theme_support(feature) and current_theme_supports(feature) for announcing and checking theme support for various features
• Introduce require_if_theme_supports()
• Add number of Embed related filters
• Add ‘IMAGE_EDIT_OVERWRITE’ constant to control edited image save or replace, most useful for setups that have dynamic image resizing
• Add load_child_theme_textdomain() to allow child themes to have their own translation files
• Add sidebar descriptions to sidebar settings and widget admin screen
• Make option_id primary. Add uniques for option_name and autoload
• Allow plugins to override the behaviour of load_textdomain() in a variety of flexible ways
• Mark _c() as deprecated. The new _x() function should be used instead.
• Allow plugins to change the redirect on post/page publishing/submitting
• Standardize on ‘user_id‘ instead of ‘user_ID‘ when passing comment data. Accept either ‘user_id‘ or ‘user_ID‘. Remove ‘user_id‘ global.
• Filter imported comments

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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

The Furniture Store

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wopshop

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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.

Popularity: 15% [?]

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.

Popularity: 11% [?]