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NHP Theme Options is just what the name says: an options framework for creating advanced WordPress themes. What is an options framework? An options framework is a little piece of code that, when you integrate it with a WordPress theme, allows the user to customize various theme facets and settings via a nice & frien... |
24 May 2012
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VideoJS is one of the most complete HTML 5 video players to date. Leveraging HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash, VideoJS brings the wonderful power of HTML 5 video to any browser out there.
‘Flash?’ you might ask. Yes, Flash! But it's not for rendering HTML 5 videos, it's actually a fallback for all you peopl... |
21 May 2012
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With millions of people (still) blogging and more starting, it's important that you stand out in some way, especially if you're sharing a blogging platform with millions of other people.The best way to stand out is with great content, of course, but equally important is to make a good first impression and t... |
18 May 2012
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GRAND FlaGallery is one of the best image gallery plugins for the WordPress platform. And this statement includes both Flash and non-Flash-based plugins. That's how good and packed of features GRAND FlaGallery is. Unlike most other WP plugins that share their licensing model between the WP-standard GPL and a co... |
17 May 2012
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Fast Secure Contact Form is a nice little script that can be installed on your server, and via a nice GUI can help regular and advanced users alike, generate a fully-featured contact form to be integrated within their website. Fast Secure Contact Form comes in two versions, one for stand-alone websites running on PH... |
15 May 2012
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Tweet2Download is a WordPress plugin that can be used to block a visitor from accessing a file or site section. To gain access to the blocked content, the user will have to tweet about the site.
Even if installing it might seem a little bit lengthy, the plugin requiring a Twitter consumer key and secret code, it wil... |
10 May 2012
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There’s a new version of WordPress for Android devices available for download in Google Play store. The update adds lots of new features and enhancements that will greatly improve users’ experience.
Firstly, the new application allows users to edit comments by simply tapping the new “Edit” bu... |
9 May 2012
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Private Messages For WordPress is a must have plugin for WordPress sites having more than one admin or editor. It's very useful since the default WordPress installation does not support internal messages between users.
It allows registered site users to write and send messages to one another. Whenever a message... |
4 May 2012
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Experts say that cybercriminals have found a way to abuse WordPress automatic updates to infect blogs. Two days ago there were at least 1,000 sites infected in this manner.
Unmask Parasites’ Denis Sinegubko informs that many administrators believe that if they update a compromised blog, the process will automa... |
4 May 2012
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WordPress 3.4 is very close to release now, but its makers deemed it necessary to roll out another beta. So the fourth beta is here, ready for your testing pleasure. It's all bug fixing and polishing at this stage and WordPress didn't even see it fit to say anything about it, other than the fact that it... |
3 May 2012
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Wysija Newsletters is a very powerful and advanced WordPress plugin for sending out newsletters to subscribed users.
Unlike many other similar plugins, Wysija Newsletters works entirely inside the WordPress platform, with no connection to email campaign sites like AWeber or MailChimp.
This means all data is stored ... |
26 April 2012
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The third beta release of the upcoming WordPress 3.4 is here, a little over a week after the previous release. There's not much new stuff this late in the game, but there are plenty of fixes. Several security patches, included in the also new WordPress 3.3.2, are part of WordPress 3.4 beta 3 as well."Today we ar... |
20 April 2012
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A new version of WordPress for Android is now available in a beta flavor, namely 2.1, with some appealing enhancements included inside.
The app brings along an autosaver for posts while editing (it will save it at 60 seconds intervals), along with the option to edit comments and the possibility to set the width for... |
20 April 2012
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WP Deals is a WordPress plugin for running a daily deals website, using the WordPress platform. Run a Groupon-like website in just a few minutes.It's not just a frontend for presenting great offers, it also comes with plenty of backend utilities like newsletter integration, payment gateway setup, activity report... |
19 April 2012
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WP-FAQ is an advanced system for creating a Q&A section on a WordPress-powered website.
The plugin creates a new WP taxonomy that handles questions and question groups.
After adding all the questions, along with their respective answers in the WP admin panel, the FAQ section can then be inserted into any WP page o... |
12 April 2012
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The second beta release of the upcoming WordPress 3.4 has landed. As you'd expect at this stage, there are new features, but WordPress boasts that there are over 60 bug fixes and changes since the first beta last week.
"If you’ve been testing Beta 1, please update to Beta 2 to make sure things are still w... |
12 April 2012
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WP MashSocial Widget is a WordPress plugin which enables admins to add a sidebar widget for showcasing social profiles, just like on Mashable.
The widget perfectly mimics the Mashable homepage social profiles widget, allowing anyone running a WordPress platform to embed it in their sidebar as well.
The plugin curre... |
6 April 2012
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WordPress has released the first beta of the upcoming WordPress 3.4. This first beta is aimed at getting the latest version in front of as many people as possible to iron out the kinks and squash bugs. As such, it's not intended for production use and it's probably not a good idea to use it for your blog, ... |
5 April 2012
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wpStoreCart is a battle-tested WordPress plugin for creating, running and administrating online stores from a simple WordPress installation.
After activating the plugin, a Setup Wizard will help the shop owner setup quick store settings. More in-depth settings will be available after completing the wizard.
wpStoreC... |
22 March 2012
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Any WordPress developer can tell you that creating a custom layout for the WP frontpage (loop file) is probably the biggest nightmare when building a non-standard blog. While in the past multi-column layouts drove developers mad and even made them switch platforms altogether, these days, with the help of a little pl... |
14 March 2012
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WordPress.com is doubling down on stats, the new My Stats tab being the prime example of that. The site is working on making the homepage the only place you need to visit, a hub for publishing, reading and keeping up with readers.The latest addition to the My Stats tab is the "View by Country" section, hardly an orig... |
10 March 2012
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WordPress for BlackBerry is nearing a new major release, and the team behind it has decided to offer an early glimpse at it, making a public beta version available for download for all BlackBerry users to enjoy.
The new release, WordPress for BlackBerry 1.6 Beta, brings along a modified user interface, along with a... |
7 March 2012
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Jigoshop is a WordPress plugin which allows webmasters to run a powerful online store right from their WP blog. Launched in 2011 by British development firm Jigowatt, the plugin has gathered quite a following, being already hailed as one of the top 3 WordPress e-commerce plugins. By default, it comes with a bare sho... |
6 March 2012
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In the past couple of months mass infections were not uncommon and now security experts believe they stumbled upon another one. Websense found that 30,000 unique websites are currently compromised to redirect their visitors to sites that promote shady antivirus software.
A total of 200,000 webpages, part of the 30,0... |
6 March 2012
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Gantry is a PHP framework developed by the professionals at RocketTheme to help developers create feature-rich Joomla or WordPress themes.
Unlike many other open-sourced frameworks from big theme marketplaces, Gantry was not left for dead after its launch, but has been releasing updates on a regular basis, supportin... |
4 March 2012
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WordPress.com recently added an interesting new feature, the ability to post something no matter where you are on the site. It does this via an in-line post editor that is loaded on top of the WordPress.com toolbar. It works on your blog and it works on any other WordPress.com blog that you use. It also works on blog... |
2 March 2012
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WordPress.com is making it easier than ever to create a new post no matter where you are on the site. When inspiration strikes, all you have to do is hit the New Post button in the top toolbar and you're on your way.
The feature is actually pretty impressive, it's certainly eye catching. Hit the new post b... |
2 March 2012
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WordPress.com is working on making it easier to interact and maintain your blog. It's improving the notifications area that it introduced a few months ago adding comment notifications but also ways of moderating comments right from the notifications box."Today we’re adding comment notifications, complete w... |
10 February 2012
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WordPress for Android has just been upgraded to version 2.0.5, now available for download via the Android Market, for all users of devices powered by OS flavor 2.1 and up.
Those who will download and install the new flavor of the app will benefit from a series of post editor improvements, the changelog unveils.
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10 February 2012
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The latest malicious campaign begins at the point where cybercriminals compromise a few hundred websites based on WordPress 3.2.1 and alter them to redirect visitors to a domain that serves the malicious Phoenix Exploit Kit. M86 Security Labs researchers came across around four hundred of these sites. Using a cleve... |
31 January 2012
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Whether they like to admit it or not, bloggers love stats. After all, they wouldn't be posting things publicly if they didn't care about whether people actually read them. WordPress.com knows this and it's got the data to back it up, the stats tab is one of the most popular screens in the dashboard.
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27 January 2012
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Reblogging has been around as long as blogs have been. Sometimes, 'reblogging' meant simply copy-pasting a post with no attribution or link, but most of the times people just wanted to highlight a post they found interesting.
Twitter made the whole process of re-posting someone else's content triviall... |
23 January 2012
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WordPress.com has introduced an interesting new feature, a blog reader, a cross between Google Reader and reader apps like Flipboard. Through it, you can keep track of blogs from WordPress.com but also other places.They don't even have to be WordPress blogs, Blogger ones work as well. In fact, any site with a RS... |
20 January 2012
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Both WordPress.org and WordPress.com are joining the protest against the abusive SOPA and PIPA bills. They're doing it in different ways, but you are very likely to notice the protests if you use any of the two sites.
But bloggers using either WordPress.com or their own WordPress install can join in as well, by... |
18 January 2012
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WordPress.com has debuted a new free theme, dubbed Forever, that may come in very handy if you're planning to add an online component to your wedding and, in 2012, there's no way you're not. Granted, you're still going to have a WordPress blog, but there are a few special features and customizatio... |
13 January 2012
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WordPress.com has upgraded the amount of space you can buy for your blog, all of the amounts have doubled while the price stays the same. WordPress.com blogs get about 3GB of storage for free. Anyone that needs more than that has to pay.
Until now, the upgrades started at 5 GB and went all the way up to 100 GB. All ... |
6 January 2012
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A couple of Indian security researchers, Aditya Modha and Samir Shah, found an easy-to-exploit cross-site scripting (XSS) weakness that affected all WordPress 3.3 websites, but version 3.3.1 was quickly released to fix the issue. The researchers showed that by posting a comment on a targeted site using a special scr... |
4 January 2012
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Indian security researchers Aditya Modha and Samir Shah found a zero-day cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the recently released WordPress 3.3.
Modha and Shah tested the proof of concept on an Apache server, proving that by simply posting a comment on a WordPress website, an attacker can execute arbitrary ... |
3 January 2012
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WordPress users who don’t want to wait for the next core release to fix bugs, can now turn to this latest unofficial plugin for upgrading their WP core.
The 0.8 release of the Hotfix plugin resolves an issue in which plugins and theme styles bled into the dashboard. This means that if the patch is applied them... |
23 December 2011
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WordPress.com is debuting a new publishing process that should make it easier to check out your post just as you've published it, but also to find out more about your readers from social networks. There are several tweaks and new tools for the entire process.
"For months we’ve been studying how, when and ... |
13 December 2011
08:56 GMT |
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WordPress 3.3 is here, it seems that the last release candidate was bug-free so the final version of the popular blogging and content management software is now available for download for everyone. Existing users should also be getting an update notification in their dashboard. A big emphasis with the new release ha... |
13 December 2011
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WordPress 3.3 is one step further to being a reality. The developers hope this is the last step as well, now that the third release candidate has been made available.
If everything goes well at this late stage, WordPress 3.3 should be released to everyone within days, meaning that it should be powering all of your f... |
12 December 2011
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A second release candidate for WordPress 3.3 has been made available. The team reckons it's very close to a final release now, but there may still be another release candidate out.
WordPress 3.3 RC2 comes one week after the first release candidate. The first beta came out a couple of months ago, but development... |
7 December 2011
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The water&stone Agency published its annual Open Source CMS Market Share Report, the most comprehensive study about open source CMS usage amongst web professionals.The report comprises statistical usage data about the 20 most used CMSs around the web.As in the previous years, the top three remained the same, with Wor... |
2 December 2011
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Remember when having snow on your desktop was cool? Pixelated snowflakes falling from the top of the screen, settling on the My Computer shortcut or way below on the taskbar. Windows 98SE wasn't really that bad, now was it?
Well, WordPress.com is bringing back the nostalgia, of either your childhood Christmas o... |
2 December 2011
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Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, the hosting service, and behind much of the development of WordPress - the open source blogging software, has been looking for ways to make money for a long time.It's running several strategies at once, but it is now debuting something new, ads for WordPress.com blog... |
1 December 2011
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WordPress 3.3 is almost here. In fact, the team thinks it's done, but it's putting out a release candidate to make sure. In an ideal world, there would be no more bugs and this is the version that will get pushed to millions of users around the world.
But things rarely work out this way, so expect some las... |
1 December 2011
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Black Friday is upon us, meaning every retailer out there is hustling to sell you the most stuff at the cheapest prices. Luckily, you don't have to go out in the cold to take advantage of this momentous day, in fact, you don't even have to get up from your chair.
WordPress.com is running a Black Friday sal... |
25 November 2011
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WordPress 3.3 is getting even closer now that the fourth beta is here. As you'd expect at this point, it's just a bug-fixing release. That said, this only makes it more stable so if you've been weary of testing it, perhaps it's time.
"In Beta 4 we’ve fixed a bunch of bugs, cleaned up the U... |
24 November 2011
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