Looks like there will be a WordPress meetup in the New York City area on Saturday, February 16th 2008 at 4:00 PM. The date and where the event is taking place is subject to change so be sure to keep an eye on the official event page for more information.
Other WordPress related conferences/meetups are as [...]
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Simply Basic Releases WP Plugin
Blogging buddy John Kolbert has released his very first WordPress plugin called Admin Favicon. Not long ago, John published an article on his blog that explained how to give your WordPress admin area it’s own favicon so that you could easily discern the WP Admin tab in your browser from all of the other tabs. [...]
January 18th, 2008 | Jeffro | 7 comments | ContinuedProposed WP Plugin Standards
Wow. Someone has come through and put together a list of proposed standards that plugin authors should abide by. This person goes by the name of Weathervane and considering this fella has downloaded 530 plus plugins, I tend to think he knows what he’s talking about. A little warning, the list of proposed standards is [...]
January 15th, 2008 | Jeffro | 3 comments | ContinuedTurning Categories Into Feeds
Out of the box, WordPress generates a number of RSS feeds for you automatically. These include feeds for comments, posts, and believe it or not, categories. I had previously thought that a plugin was required in order to turn categories into RSS feeds but that is not the case. Check this out.
WordPress supports a number [...]
WordPress Premium Theme - Reviewed
I don’t think I’ve ever done a review of a WordPress theme before, so this ought to be interesting. However, ever since I laid eyes on the WordPress theme called WordPress Premium, I’ve been wanting to review it.
WordPress Premium was designed by R. Bhavesh and comes with 3 different color styles. Black, Soft-Red and Brown. [...]
January 7th, 2008 | Jeffro | 0 comments | ContinuedMake Post Titles Less Spammy Looking
Stephan Spencer has written a brief article highlighted by an interview he conducted with the infamous Matt Cutts. The article discusses why it’s a bad idea to have a ton of keywords as part of your URL permalink. In WordPress, depending upon how your permalink options are setup, whatever words are placed into the post [...]
January 6th, 2008 | Jeffro | 4 comments | ContinuedWordPress Releases V 2.3.2
With just under a month to go before the expected release of WordPress version 2.3, Automattic has released WordPress version 2.3.2 which contains what else, security fixes. This release fixes a bug that would allow your draft posts to be exposed to the public. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that would occur that could [...]
December 30th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | ContinuedGoogle Takes Feeds Out Of Search Results
Not sure how long this has been going on, but a post on the Google Webmaster Blog talks about the removal of feeds showing up in search results with the exception of podcast XML feeds. I for one am really happy that Google took this measure because it was becoming increasingly annoying, to browse search [...]
December 27th, 2007 | Jeffro | 2 comments | ContinuedJeffro2pt0 Invading Your WordPress Dashboard
For those wondering, if you were wondering at all, I am the same Jeffro2pt0 that wrote the post, “Technorati Lacks Authority” which is published on the WeblogToolsCollection Website. This website is one of the premiere WordPress material related blogs that show up in a WordPress user’s administration panel. We are talking about a big audience [...]
December 19th, 2007 | Jeffro | 4 comments | ContinuedPerformancing Opens Up Nominations
Performancing.com has opened up nominations for a number of categories to see who has the best blogs in the business. Each category will have one winner with two runners up and possibly a few that could be honorable mentions. The categories that are opened for nominations include:
The Best Overall Blog
The Most Influential Blogger
The Best Blog [...]