WordPress News For The Week Of October 10th 2008

13 WordPress Plugins You Should Use - Smashing Apps.com recently published a list of 13 plugins that they believe most people don’t use but probably should. Some of the plugins on this list include: Manageable, Tweet this, AddFree Stats and WP Super Cache. A great list of plugin some of which I use. - http://www.smashingapps.com/2008/09/23/13-wordpress-plugins-you-probably-dont-use-but-should.html

Six Tips On Creating A Magazine Theme – For the ambitious ones out their, Catswhocode.com published an article describing six tips and tricks on creating a Magazine styled theme. The article describes how to use conditional comments, static page as the homepage, multiple queries in the homepage, using custom fields and more. The site even gives you code examples that you can copy and paste for learning purposes. - http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/blogging/wordpress/6-tricks-and-tip-to-create-a-magazine-wordpress-theme-838

The Perfect WordPress Themes – Joost de Valk wrote an excellent post diving into the aspects of what makes the perfect WordPress theme. The post covers topics such as hooks, template files, widget support, browser compatibility, looking for outgoing links and more. This is a great article to read as you can develop your own check list to use when browsing for a new WordPress theme. - http://yoast.com/perfect-wordpress-theme/

Plugin Of The Week – Exclude Pages – This plugin adds a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, which is checked by default. If you uncheck it, the page will not appear in any listings of pages (which includes, and is usually limited to, your page navigation menus). Pages which are children of excluded pages also do not show up in menu listings. (An alert in the editing screen, underneath the “include” checkbox allows you to track down which ancestor page is affecting child pages in this way.) - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/

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