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Joe Brockmeier writing on Readwriteweb.com has posted an interesting article on using Amazon S3 Storage with WordPress websites and blogs. The article has useful links to WordPress plugins that can implement Amazon S3 Storage in various ...

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moShare, announced the availability of the moShare WordPress plugin, that allows the free and easy integration of moShare’s mobile content sharing functionality to any website built using WordPress. moShare is the quickest way for users to ...

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BuddyPress Portfolio is a BuddyPress plugin that allows members to create their own portfolio (a set of projects : IT projects, recipes, achievements of designer, … ). Right now each project includes a title, a description, ...

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WP AdminTools is a WordPress plugin by seibel that allows comprehensive SEO optimization, cleaning up the database and many useful features that extend your WordPress Blog. Get all SEO features you need with this plugin. Features ...

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Instant Pressroom is a new WordPress plug-in that automatically formats a company’s online media room design within minutes. Instant Pressroom does not require the help of IT experts or any tech knowledge to create a ...

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Google Plus Author Information in Search Result (GPAISR) by floriansimeth is a WordPress plugin that replaces the author link with your Google+ Profile Link or adds the Special Link in your blogpost. Create a Google+ Profile ...

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WordPress for Android has been updated with several new features and improvements, including: Autosave timer while editing posts. Every 60 seconds the post will be autosaved. Full support for editing comments Added support for setting the width of ...

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Download Media Library Plugin for WordPress by aneeskA.com helps admins to backup the media files available in the media library of the wordpress site. The WordPress Media Library Screen allows you to edit, view, and delete ...

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Contact vCard is a WordPress plugin by Sheridan, санаторий имени Г.К. Орджоникидзеdesigned to create a contact list and placing them on the site.Supports vcard.vcf file and generate vCard QRCode The procedure works as follows: 1. ...

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googleCalendarList is a WordPress plugin by Crisium that shows a fancy event list from your google calendar. Use [googlecalendarlist] on your pages or posts. Google Calendar is a free time-management web application offered by Google. Google Calendar ...

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New plugins Monster Widget provides a quick and easy method of adding all core widgets to a sidebar for testing purposes. Updated plugins Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. Yepty is yet another pay per click advertising plugin.

The WordPress core team is pulling out all the stops this year and shooting for a big summit to be attended by prominent contributors and community members. Instead of the traditional meet up, which is typically attended by only the core developers and their chosen guests, the core team is now looking for your nominations to decide who will attend the first ever WordPress Community Summit. The Summit will allow the core developers to get to work with the best and brightest of the WordPress community (support forum volunteers, the Theme Review Team, volunteer documentation editors, community organizers, theme shops, etc.), and who knows what amazing things they’ll come up with when they put their heads together! If you have any favorite community members or companies, even that lone support forum volunteer who rescued your blog, make sure that you leave a nomination for them right away. Sure, you can nominate [...]

Flourish is a lovely, simple, pastel theme with subtle decorative flourishes in the background and accents and features a vibrant, colorful image of needlework in the header. Galaxy is a professional theme for corporate business websites and blogs.

New plugins Add To Post allows you to add additional content to either the start, end or both areas of your blog posts. Rewrite Rules Inspector is a straightforward WordPress admin tool for inspecting your rewrite rules. WP2Cloud seamlessly integrates with Amazon S3 to provide high availability, high reliability, quick and easy disaster recovery, and serving content in a highly scalable fashion. Updated plugins Fast Secure Contact Form lets your visitors send you a quick e-mail message and blocks all common spammer tactics. Additionally, the plugin has a multi-form feature, optional extra fields, and an option to redirect visitors to any URL after the message is sent. Yepty is yet another pay per click advertising plugin.

Blossom is a very simple and colorful layout with a floral theme and faint pinstripe background in an earthy green. Live Wire was designed with a mobile-first attitude, supports post formats, and is translation-ready.

New plugins Ad Code Manager allows you to manage your ad codes through the WordPress admin in a safe and easy way. Updated plugins FoxyPress is a custom plugin made to integrate FoxyCart e-commerce functionality into your WordPress website. Simple Google Connect is a framework and series of sub-systems that let you add any sort of Google based functionality you like to a WordPress blog.

WordPress 3.4 will ship with a powerful theme customizer to make alternations to some of the most basic aspects of any theme without even affecting your live site while you tinker. It’s a very fascinating tool, and WordPress superstar Samuel “Otto” Wood has created this short video highlighting some of its features. Now that you’ve seen the video, head on over to Otto’s incredibly detailed post on how to bring support for the new customizer into your own themes.

Futuristica is a futuristic, modern, customizable, clean, and readable theme with a custom created background. Lugada is a simple minimalist responsive two column theme with a built in slider. Wheels is an eye-catching, lively, colorful theme on a dark background featuring an image of a classic, vintage pickup truck in bright blue against a sunset background of varying shades of orange.

New plugins SPD Shortcode Slider is a jQuery featured content slider controlled completely by shortcodes for easy template integration. Yepty is yet another pay per click advertising plugin. Updated plugins Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. Sharexy is a powerful social sharing, bookmarking, and blog monetization tool.

WordPress 3.4 Beta 4 has been released, with quite possibly the most brief, and yet most simply descriptive, release announcement yet. I’ll take the liberty of forever preserving it below in all its glory: Less bugs, more polish, the same beta disclaimers. Download, test, report bugs. Thanks much. /ryan #thewholebrevitything So, let’s break that down just a bit in case you’re not yet familiar with what’s going on. First, WordPress 3.4 Beta 4 has less bugs and is a bit snappier and cleaner than the previous beta releases, but the same disclaimers are still valid. This is not yet meant for live sites, but please do take a few swings at it on a test installation, especially if you are a plugin or theme developer. If you find any bugs, please report them, and contact the support forums if you need any help.

New plugins Simple Google Connect is a framework and series of sub-systems that let you add any sort of Google based functionality you like to a WordPress blog. WP Coming Soon adds a coming soon page with a countdown clock. Updated plugins Email Log allows you to log all emails that are sent through WordPress. Keyring provides a very hookable, completely customizable framework for connecting your WordPress site to an external service. Social Login for WordPress lets your users log in and comment via their accounts with popular ID providers such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo, Live, and over 15 more.

Comments are an important part of blogs. They help readers relate to articles by asking questions and building discussion and are even credited with creating some of the strongest online communities today. But, how do you keep everything clean and on topic? Do your users know what to expect? I’m not just talking about common sense and anti-spam practices, I’m talking about a policy or a code of conduct. Do you have one? We have a comment policy here, and it’s as follows: Comments will be accepted if they meet the following conditions: The comment is not spam. The comment is not left solely to drive traffic elsewhere. (Yes, this is spam.) The comment is not widely off topic. The comment is not obscene or profane. The commenter has left a real name or proper screen name. (“Cheap Lawn Chairs” and “Joe @ MyCellPhoneTips.blah” are not real names). We do [...]

Chess is a vibrant, bright, high contrast theme that would suit sites dealing with games, chess, or sales. silverOrchid offers a wide range of customization possibilities with theme options, and is extremely simple to get up and running. Sunspot is a sharp theme with subtle grid lines and sun-splashed accents.

Konstantin Kovshenin, an Automattic Code Wrangler, has launched Theme Options Gallery, a new blog dedicated to the best and worst WordPress theme options screens. Each post features a screenshot of a theme options panel in action followed by a breakdown of what makes it either so great or so terrible. There are definitely some eye-opening observations here, especially when it comes to the themes that have so many options they might as well be their own blogging platform. If you know of a theme options panel that’s either amazing or terrifying, Konstantin has a handy submission form for you to share in the joy or madness.

New plugins I Recommend This allows your visitors to simply recommend or like your posts instead of commenting. WP Breaking News Mail allows you to send an email to your subscribers each time a post is published in one or more categories. Updated plugins Akismet filters out your comment and track-back spam for you, so you can focus on more important things. Jetpack supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com. Share Buttons by Lockerz / AddToAny helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts & pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, StumbleUpon, Digg and many more. Sharexy is a powerful social sharing, bookmarking, and blog monetization tool. Shortcoder is a plugin which allows users to create a custom “shortcodes” and store HTML, Javascript and other snippets in it. Super RSS is a jQuery based RSS reader widget, which displays the RSS feeds [...]