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**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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