Surprise, WordPress 2.9 “Carmen” is out and available for downloads, you can either download it from here or use the inbuilt updater to upgrade to WP 2.9.
More info available at the WordPress blog. In case you want to know about the new features, check out my earlier review of new features in WordPress 2.9 or visit the WP Codex for WP 2.9.
Templatic.com has released a new theme based on P2 called GTD. GTD is meant for private use for collaborative teams of people. Asides from the default functionality supplied by P2, GTD has added file attachment and user notification functions.
For many, the attachment addition to P2 makes this an incredibly simple tool to collaborate on projects with.
Two column theme for fans of Japanese animation
Lumiere is the first theme released by the newly created SlackrThemes. It has a bright color scheme with a clean and easy-to-read layout that’s optimized for SEO, has paginated posts and comments, widgetized sidebars, and all of the amenities that you would expect from a theme.
Shofi Theme is grid based wordpress theme, powered by 960.gs framework 24 columns with features including Autograbbed Image and resize on the fly, Extra Ordinary Recent Post and Recent Comment, Widgets, Magazine style
A WordPress theme, with admin options page for customization, or as simple HTML/CSS page (No PHP/MySQL needed). Includes 6 themes and notes on customization.
Three column theme with a widgetized left sidebar and a widgetized footer that you can customize to your hearts content. With gravatars on the front page, and all of the features you love. It’s very minimal too, everything is packed into a small little package for you to enjoy.
There is no shortage of WordPress consultants to choose from when it comes time to pay for custom development work. If you are aiming towards becoming a WordPress consultant, I encourage you to check out these advanced power tips for template developers written by Jacob Goldman on SmashingMagazine.com Jacob does a nice job explaining all sorts of ways consultants can make tailored versions of WordPress. Everything from branding the back-end to modifying the contextual HELP drop-down menu so that it contains information specific to that theme. One of my favorite tips presented in the list is the first one, Customizing the Dashboard Widgets. This enables developers to add a dashboard widget that can contain support, contact and other information. If a custom solution were developed for me, a dashboard widget like this is what I would consider to be a nice touch.
Also on the topic of WordPress and consultants, I had the chance to interview Jacob Goldman in episode 81 of WordPress Weekly. We talked about what it’s like to do consultancy work around WordPress, some of the new features in WordPress 2.9, and his role in WordCamp Boston slated for January 23rd.
If you are a consultant, I’m interested in reading any tips you may have in addition to the ones listed in the article I linked to in order to go above and beyond for your clients.
Make Styled Note box, Alert box, Help box, Tip Box, Important Box in your posts using classes for Thesis Users.
Style commentators last blog post as displayed by the CommentLuv plugin. This plugin is also compatible with Thesis.
If you’re using WordPress as a CMS, you may have set up static pages for both a front page (e.g. “Home”) and a page to list your latest blog posts (e.g. “Blog”). The plugin allows you to add categories as links in a submenu.
The Taxonomy List Shortcode plugin adds a shortcode to your WordPress installation which enables you to display multiple unordered lists containing every term of a given taxonomy. The list can be displayed in one to 5 columns – custom styles are provided.
With Revisionary in place, the meaning of the “edit_others” capability shifts to grant revision submission rights if the owner lacks the corresponding “edit_published” / “edit_private” capability.
Web Worth Blog Value Calculator
Web Worth Blog Value Calculator is a plug-in that gives you a nice tidy widget to display your blog’s current estimated value in dollars. This information is displayed to you and your visitors to demonstrate just how much hard work you have put into your blog
Website owners can add a bit of HTML to their head that says where their oEmbed provider is located. This allows consumers such as WordPress to embed things from their website without WordPress specifically knowing about their website before hand.
This is a plugin toolkit that helps developers write plugins faster. It consists of several classes which handle common tasks:
Tabbed interfaces are the most common on newspaper type website where they can save a lot of vertical space and make it look less cluttered.
Provides an interface with Online Leaf, which helps to reduce the amount of energy required to browse the internet, by making websites greener.
Add geocoding and Google maps to your WordPress blog
The plugin has option to add Google, Bing, Yahoo’s Webmaster and Analytics code. Single click sitemap submission to Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.
The Google Maps Store Locator Plugin for WordPress empowers web developers & web site owners to easily manage and display any set of important stores, products, or other locations on their website in an easily searchable manner. Uses Google Maps.
Twitter style Twitter Goodies Profile Widget + Twitter Goodies Search Widget + Twitter Integration (wp to twitter) plugin. All in One plugin for Twitter Goodies.
A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg posed a question on the WordPress Hackers Mailing list regarding a new developer portal.
If there were to be a developer portal for WordPress, someplace where if you’re first getting started with hacking on WP, building plugins, creating themes, you could go and it’d have all the best resources in one place, what resources do you think would be important to have there?
I encourage you to read the thread through the mailing list archive and voice your thoughts, ideas or suggestions. Alternatively, you can leave a comment on this post since I know Matt routinely checks out the feedback.
It’s a question I’m sure everyone reading this post can answer and I’m willing to bet most of the answers are different. WPShout.com has compiled a list of answers from 21 notable people throughout the WordPress community to figure out why they choose to use WordPress. Here is my answer to the question:
The reason I chose WordPress is the same reason I continue to publish content through the software and that is through ease of use.
The publishing process in WordPress was simple when compared to Joomla or Drupal. The process is in a logical order and doesn’t provide 100 different things I should do before I actually hit the publish button. This process has been refined in the two years I’ve been using WordPress so it’s even better today!
Later on in the comments, there is one by Ozh that I whole heartily agree with.
Interesting to see how many different paths lead to the same WP
I have one question for those who have used WordPress for over a year. Is the initial reason you choose to go with WordPress the same reason you continue to use it today or has that reason changed? After you read their responses, feel free to come back and keep the conversation going in the comments.
Two column theme based on the default WordPress theme. Also available are four other themes on the page.
A clean and versatile theme featuring two gorgeous fonts, hand crafted social icons, and a theme options page.
Patagonia is a clean and seo optimized wordpress theme with Theme Options. Patagonia Theme supports Tag clouds, categories, dynamic widgets, gravatars.
Tandil is a very good looking WordPress theme with theme options.
ScrapBook is a WordPress Theme with two Sidebars, 120 and 200 pixel wide, ideal for Adsense. There is also an Option Page to populate the Footer. Page in German
This plugin prevents commenters to repetitively post comments into a post. Once a comment shows up (must be approved), the commenter will not be able to post another comment below it – he/she will have to wait until someone else posts another comment.
Create a Styled Note box, Alert box, Help box, Tip Box, Important Box in your posts using classes.
A fully customizable robots.txt virtual file generator. IRSEO creates a highly optimized and secure robots.txt file straight out of the box. Users may choose to enable or disable specific user agents, directories or files using intuitive options, all of which include detailed instructions.
Generates simple Archives/Sitemap based on your blogs posts and pages. This is not another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a nice post sitemap or page sitemap generator. Now user can show total comments count after posts.
This plugin will show your twitter tweets under Sidebar Area (Widget), Post and/or Pages. Please add <!–wp_twitter_goodies–> to any page/post under HTML section to see awesome Twitter Goodies.
Allows you to display Most Popular eBay items and auctions in real-time, directly on your blog. You can also display eBay items from any particular seller
An elegant and easy way to present your posts on a single page.
Google Maps Store Locator Plugin for WordPress empowers web developers & web site owners to easily manage and display any set of important stores, products, or other locations on their website in an easily searchable manner.
Grooveshark for Wordpress v1.2.0 is now available for download. The latest version includes optimizations for existing plugin features as well as new features you can use to turn your wordpress blog into a fully integrated online jukebox.
Back at the end of October, What Is The Immediate Future Of bbPress was the question being asked around the bbPress community. Matt had published a thread asking this very question and was also soliciting help to move the project along.
On December 9th, Matt published the chat log to the first bbPress meetup that occurred in the bbPress IRC channel. The attendees were made up of folks who volunteered to keep the project going. Here are some of the tidbits I learned while reading the archive.
There was a great debate amongst those in attendance on whether to continue bbPress as a standalone product, a dedicated plugin, or both. As far as I can tell, a concrete decision has not been made but quite a few leaned towards making an awesome bbPress plugin.
bbPress will become a registered trademark under the WordPress Foundation.
One of the biggest weaknesses of bbPress right now is documentation. Therefor, a documentation team has been put together comprised of Tom39Away, pmall, justintadlock, and Nightgunner5. For the first time, access to the bbPress.org website will be given to outsiders such as the documentation team.
Hajii who has been a long time moderator on the bbPress.org forums will be putting together a state of the forums where he will be stating where the forum needs help the most. If you’ve been looking at being more active on this particular forum, keep an eye out for the announcement for more moderators.
I was wondering when the name _ck_ would be mentioned which it was 37 minutes into the meeting. For those that don’t know, _ck_ was a very active bbPress contributor by being a forum moderator, producing a number of bbPress plugins and was recently brought on by Sam Bauers to help out with the project. But, after Sam left, _ck_ also left. There is some controversy as to why she left the project but Matt himself said he was surprised to find out she left the project.
I was very surprised when _ck_ left, I hadn’t heard anything from her like an email or anything — anyone know the story there?
Everyone took a stab at guessing why she left but the only one who really knows is _ck_. She had a loyal following and many in the bbPress community enjoyed her contributions.
The next big topic was plugins. There are many plugins for bbPress that only work up to 0.9. It looks like there will be a survey published on the bbPress.org blog in the coming days asking users what type of functionality they would like to see in the software which would not only generate core functionality ideas, but plugin ideas as well.
It’s also worth mentioning this information as well.
hajii: yes and to clarify just like wordpress.org, bbPress is not owned or operated by Automattic, it’s separate. Just because I saw a lot of people conflating them in the forums.
I own bbPress.org just like WordPress.org — separate from Automattic — and the plan is to run it in the same fashion. We’ll register the bbPress trademark under the pending foundation
Last but not least, the survey I mentioned previously has since gone online. The poll focuses on ideas and features that you think should be in 1.1.
So in the end, Matt is spearheading the project once again as he did when he created the software over a weekend back in 2004. In fact, this Christmas, bbPress will turn five years old. If you are interested in being a part of this renaissance, now would be a good time to head on over to the bbPress.org forums and make your presence known.
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