**WordPress News For The Week Of May 23rd 2008**

*24 Ways to contribute to WordPress* – I wrote a piece on WeblogToolsCollection which covered 24 different ways to contribute to the WordPress project. Some of those ways include, Participating in the WordPress forum, Create and share a WordPress Plugin, Share and Create a WordPress Theme, and Contribute to the WP Codex. Visit http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/19/24-ways-to-contribute-to-wordpress/ to get the full list.

*Scrapur.com offers steps to perform before changing permalinks* – The folks over at Scrapur.com has put together a list of steps along with a list of plugins to use before you change your permalink structure within WordPress. If you don’t take the proper precautions before changing your permalinks, you could end up with a ton of broken links. Check out the article here http://scrapur.com/index/wordpress/steps-before-changing-permalink-in-wordpress/

*Lester Chan’s Gamerz Plugin Updates* – Lester Chan, the creator of some of the most popular plugins used with WordPress announced that he has released his first wave of updates for his plugins. Lester also announced that all of the plugins within this list will be compatible for WordPress 2.5 and above. Lester’s plugins are awesome and I highly recommend them to anyone who is looking for plugins that solve the problems that lester’s does. Check out the list of plugins that were updated here http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/15/gamerz-wordpress-plugins-update/

*Plugin of the week* – This weeks featured plugin is called BT Active Discussions http://www.blogthority.com/bt-active-discussions/ This is a recent comments plugin that displays customizable number of blog posts with recently updated comments. The output of the plugin looks very similar to phpBB’s View Active Topics and vBulletin’s Today’s Posts functions.

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Wetpaint Injected: Want a wiki on your site? Well with Wetpaint Injected you can! – With Wetpaint Injected, your visitors will be able to contribute an ongoing stream of search engine optimized new content to your site. This user-generated content will increase your search engine presence. [more...]

Twitter: Troy launched the twitter account http://www.twitter.com/Troy_Wetpaint he will post about recent Wetpaint News, Wetpaint Blog posts, plus more Wetpaint stuff…

Quick TalkShoe News: Release has been post-poned – The release information that I talked about last week will be in effect on Tuesday, May 27, 2008.

Wetpaint Nation: For more Wetpaint Tips, tricks, and Wetpaint News catch the latest episode of Wetpaint Nation on our Wiki, the blog or on our TalkShoe page.

Questions, Comments and Feedback welcomed – If you have any questions about Wetpaint, Wetpaint Nation or using the TalkShoe Service for Wetpaint Nation, Drop me a line at podcast@buddes.net and I will get back to you. I love seeing questions, comments and feedback, so let me know what you think.

Budde Podcasting Center: v2 of the Budde Podcasting Center at live.buddes.net has been release and was released yesterday. Check it out today.

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Josh Budde has requested this special topic as he wants to know more about how to merchandise his podcasts. So, in preparation for this episode, I dug back into my archives and pulled out an online affiliate store that does just that! You can view this store at http://graiteshirts.shirtcity.com and you can setup your own store and begin selling your own branded merchandise!

Just announced tonight, the new Podcaster Training Raffle has began. I will hold a new raffle each week, with some pretty big prizes. This weeks raffle prizes are more than 200 eBooks and software with Master Resell Rights and your own Turnkey eBookStore with another 200 eBooks and software pre-loaded into a ready made shopping cart, ready to put online and use now! The winner for this week’s raffle will be drawn and announced on next week’s show.

Jeff Chandler, Josh Budde and Patti Serrano gave their insights on their respective segments and their show notes will be posted in their categories after the show, as always.

Rob McNealy from Contrived Media was our Special Guest and talked about Internet Marketing and Promotion techniques.

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Missing your car payments can create all sorts of problems in many different areas. As most of us rely on a car to get us to work it is essential to make sure you have enough money set aside to make the payments and if your budget shows that this is placing too much of a strain on your finances then you might need to downgrade to something more affordable.

Finance companies are legally entitled to repossess your car without getting a court order if you miss your payments and they can do so without warning. When this happens the repossession will be noted on your credit records and will remain there for the next seven and a half years so this is one area of your spending where you will need to make the appropriate decisions in advance of anything happening.

Once your car has been repossessed the finance company will generally advertise it for auction to help recover the outstanding amount of the loan.

Unfortunately for you the problem of debt doesn’t stop there. If the vehicle is sold for less than the amount still owing on it, plus the costs involved in repossession and selling the vehicle, then you will be liable to repay that deficit to the finance company.

So you will have lost the use of your car which will impact on your ability to get to work and earn a living and you are still lumbered with the debt that will need to be repaid to the finance company.

If you are struggling to make the payments it is better to contact the finance company in advance of any action to see whether you can refinance the vehicle over a longer period where the repayments will be a little less and more manageable. They might also give you the opportunity to pay off any outstanding debt by coming to a suitable arrangement. This could give you enough time to sell the vehicle paying off the loan and finding something that is more suitable for your current financial position.

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