WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click, and blah blah blah just watch the video.
Q: I want to be able to upload images (for ads, banners, etc.) without having to FTP in. I’ve been doing it by adding them to a dummy post and then copying the link and adding where I need it-is there a better solution? A: There’s a built in solution for WordPress to do just [...]
Q: I am after a YouTube plugin for a widget. What I want to do is have a YouTube video that randomly rotates between three/four videos in the side bar. Is there one? A: While it was created for serving ads, Datafeedr Random Ads, should do the trick for you. We’ve used it for images [...]
Q: How Do I Add A Contact Form On WordPress.com? A: On the standard version of WordPress.com your only built in option is to use the “[contact-form]” short code. To do this, place “[contact-form]” (without the quotes) in your page where you’d like it to appear and save it. Once saved you’ll see a form [...]
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WordPress 2.9.2 was released on February 15th, 2010 as is a security release. Thomas Mackenzie alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade to 2.9.2. As [...]
See current OIOPublisher Coupon Code. Now through February 28th, 2010 you can purchase OIOpublisher* for just $37 (normally $47) by using coupon code “SAXON-WSHED ” (no quotes). If you’re unfamiliar with OIOpublisher, it is a PHP based ad platform with a focus on performance, control and ease of use. It allows you to easily serve [...]
We hope everyone’s Twenty Ten is going great! To kick off the new year we’re offering $20 off WordPress 2.9.1 Upgrades* for the month of January. *Details Valid for upgrades from WordPress 2.6.x, 2.7.x or 2.8.x Valid only for the core WordPress upgrade (physical backup discs, plugin, theme upgrades & all other services are at [...]