WordPress News For The Week Of October 3rd 2008
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Brian Gardner Goes Open Source – Brian Gardner who is known for producing the most successful premium WordPress theme series Revolution has announced on his blog that he will be going all open source. Here is what his announcement entails in a nutshell. The revolution themes site will be shut down on October 31st to respect those who purchased a premium theme. November 1st, a brand new revolution site will launch along with new packages that people can purchase which will contain support, tutorials, customizations for particular themes etc. Brian also announced that he will be working with Jason Schuller of WP Elements on this new project. - http://www.briangardner.com/blog/revolution-going-open-source.htm
WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2 – Jane Wells of Automattic published a second survey, this time asking users to decide on where to put the search box, where to put the add new post button/favorites menu and how to label the future publish/edit timestamp function. The survey was open to the first 5,000 respondents. The results of the survey will not dictate the final product but will be weighed heavily on the outcome. - http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-2-7-survey-no2/
More WordPress.com VIP Members – If you don’t think WordPress is a serious platform, think again. The UK Royal Navy has chosen to be part of the WordPress.com VIP program along with the NFL. Thats right, the National Football League is now using WordPress.com. Other big names that have recently joined the VIP network include Martha Stewart, Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, and Hackaday.
Plugin Of The Week - Insights – Insights was written by Vladimir Prelovac and is one awesome plugin. Insights brings a powerful new way to write your blog posts. It increases productivity and at the same time the appeal of your posts.
With Insights you can very quickly (in couple of seconds) do the following:
* Search your blog for posts, edit them or insert links to them into the current post
* Insert Flickr Images
* Insert Youtube videos
* Search and link to Wikipedia
* Search Google
* Insert a Google Map
Insights allows you to do all this using dynamic AJAX interface which loads the relevant information to your post in just a few seconds..- http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/insights
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