Ever wanted to change the design of your admin panel? here’s a list of 7 themes you can use.

Fluency Admin 2.0

URL | DOWNLOAD

JP Admin – Stylish Blue

URL | DOWNLOAD

Leopard Admin

URL | DOWNLOAD

WP Tiger Administration

URL | DOWNLOAD

Planet X7 WordPress Admin Theme

URL | DOWNLOAD

afd wordpress2 admin theme

URL | DOWNLOAD

**** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ** extra ***** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *

iPhone / Mobile Admin

Mobile Admin adapts the WordPress admin UI to be more friendly to mobile devices, specifically phones.

URL | DOWNLOAD

Popularity: 22% [?]

WordPress 2.7.1 RC1 released

following bugs fixed on this new release:

• URL column in Edit Links removes www. from domains that end in www
• Theme preview fails when theme in subdirectory
• ‘Draft Saved’ current_time not reflecting timezone setting in the edit area
• Revisions do not respect time zone offset
• Canonical redirect of feed URLs with suffixes is wrong
• index.php file in the plugins folder makes the Dashboard fail

more info at boren.mu and here at weblogtoolscollection

Track WordPress Blog Visitors in Real Time

recommended plugin of the week – Now it’s really easy to Track WordPress Blog Visitors in Real Time. There is no need to have any additional Java Scripts and HTML Codes.

more about the plugin here and on the official homepage

Some new Elegant themes from elegantthemes.com

egamer

excellent theme for games portal.

evid

great theme for video bloggers.

————————————————————–

this is for this week. have a great weekend.

wpfeed.com

Popularity: 9% [?]

Many great new options comes with the new 2.7 version of wordpress. One of the great new features is the “reply to” comment option.

Don’t forget to:

1) upgrade your wordpress version to 2.7.

2) enable threaded (nested) comments in Discussion settings.

Next upload these two plugins and play with their settings. that’s it.

WordPress Thread Comment

This Plugin is an enhancement for WordPress’s comment function. It enables users to reply on a exist comment, and the discussion will be displayed threaded or nested.

URL | Download

replyMail

This plugin only have one aim: send a email to the comment author, notice him/her: ‘Someone has replied to your comment’.
URL |  Download

You can see how it works down here at the comments section.

Popularity: 9% [?]

The long waited version of WPMU is finally released. with the new admin interface like its bigger sister, and a few more surprises, read some more about it here.

You can upgrade from 2.6.5 quite easily, just:

1) backup eveything

2) delete your WP-admin and WP-includes

3) delete all files in the root directory (I prefare leaving the wp-config, and not delete this file)

4) add these two lines:

define( ‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘HStKtEP!B&KF8RVr!FgrVoMM’ );
define( ‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘sGoBeog@D8KB91I7oeCu&e(&’ );

before:

/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

5) and you’re done.

tell us what you think of the new version.

———-

some more information about WordPress Mu 2.7:

the timeline – http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/timeline

from the blog of Donncha O Caoimh – http://ocaoimh.ie/2009/01/28/wordpress-mu-27/

from the WordPress Mu official forum – http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=10163

Popularity: 12% [?]

maybe a new tradition and maybe not, i don’t know yet, but here are some interesting news from the world of wordpress for this week.

WordPress 2.7

released officaily this month, beside the change of the admin interface, a lot of improvements comes with this new WP version.

actually we upgraded too but you can’t see it becasuse it only affects the admin area. here you can read more about the many changes of 2.7 and here is a video from wordpress.org blog about the new version:

Buddypress

the long anticipated official beta version of the Automattic tool for social networks. here is a link for the buddypress website and this one is for the download. Make sure you have WordPress MU set up and working correctly.

BuddyPress is a set of WordPress MU specific plugins, each plugin adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you’d expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact.

here is a link for a test of mine with wordpress – ajaxexample.com

WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/18

each week weblogtoolscollection.com release a list of the weekly updated and new plugins. also pay attention to the themes released every week. you can see everything here

this is it for this week, have a great weekend.

Popularity: 7% [?]

How To Install WordPress A Visual WordPress Guide

If you are somewhat technically challenged and have tried to install WordPress yourself you may find that the “Famous 5 minute install” takes much longer. Depending on what hosting account you choose you may experience database issues, if you can even figure out what a database is. You may need to add some code to your. htaccess file, or create one if you don’t have one.

How To Install WordPress A Visual WordPress Guide

Step by Step WordPress Installation

Although the WordPress installation is much easier than most people realize, you will save yourself a lot of frustration if you take some time to prepare first.

If you can host multiple domains with your hosting company, I recommend using a totally separate domain for your blog. At the very least you will need a subdomain.

Verify that your web hosting company supports the following programs.

• PHP version 4.2 or greater
• MySQL version version 4.0 or greater
• The Apache mod_rewrite module

You must also have an FTP program of some sort for uploading your files. This will also allow us to change permission on files as needed.

Step by Step WordPress Installation

How to install the latest version of WordPress

So you see a theme you like on our free wordpress themes page, but have no clue how to even install WordPress in the first place? Not to worry, we’ve written a little tutorial, complete with screenshots, so even a total newbie can figure it out! After five easy steps you’ll have a freshly installed WordPress installation, ready to start blogging.

There are a few ways of installing WordPress using autoinstaller scripts such as Fantastico, but in this tutorial we will be focusing on installing WordPress the old fashioned way – manually. This tutorial assumes you already have hosting configured for the URL you plan on having your installation of WordPress set up.

How to install the latest version of WordPress

Installing WordPress (the Official wordpress guide)

WordPress is well known for its ease of installation. Under most circumstances installing WordPress is a very simple process and takes less than five minutes to complete. The following installation guide will help you, whether you go for the Famous 5 Minute Installation, or require the more detailed installation guide.

Installing WordPress

How to Install WordPress

Ok … now you know what a blog is and you’ve been thinking of starting your own. You also heard of the term ‘wordpress’ but you don’t know exactly what is it all about. In just few words, wordpress is the most used blogging platform on the planet. It is a free open source platform that lets you create and publish your blog. You just install it on your website and you’re good to go.

How to Install WordPress

you can always buy an hosting plan which has a one-click install of wordpress, soon we will write a post about this.

Popularity: 8% [?]