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. [...]

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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 [...]

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IntenseDebate Acquired By Automattic – The third party commenting service IntenseDebate has been acquired by Automattic, the company who brings you WordPress.com for an undisclosed amount. IntenseDebate allows users to have threaded comments, OpenID support, comment rating, reply by email and much more. Self hosted WordPress users will most likely see a full featured plugin [...]

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WordPress 2.7 Development Progress – A Ton of inline documentation has been added thanks to the work of Jacob Santos. - http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/heaps-more-inline-documentation-from-jac/

Comments look like they will have paging support in 2.7. Work has begun on adding this support to the wp_list_comments function in WordPress. - http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/hailin-got-a-start-on-adding-paging-to-t/

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*WordPress 2.6.2 Released* – WordPress 2.6.2 was released earlier this week to fix a security problem dealing with the mt_rand php function. You really need to upgrade your blog if you allow open registration. The problem is not tied strictly [...]

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Possible UI Changes – Ryan Boren recently announced on the developers prologue that they have received some feedback which may or may not make it into the final version of WordPress 2.7. The feedback is as follows:
Move Taxonomy stuff out [...]

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Who To Blame – I recently published an article which discussed who to blame when you upgrade WordPress and discover that your favorite plugin breaks. The thesis of the post describes release cycles, the testing of plugins, and how users [...]

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*Theme Repository Interview* – Joseph Scott and Matt Mullenweg were both interview by Ian Stewart of ThemeShaper.com in regards to the WordPress theme directory. What was interesting to note during this interview was that when Matt was asked which features were his favorite, his response was, there are a ton of features coming soon that [...]

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*WordPress 2.6.1 Beta 1 Released* – Ryan Boren has announced that the 2.6.1 beta 1 has released into the wild. 2.6.1 contains a number of bug fixes which were introduced in 2.6. According to Ryan, if you are happy with 2.6 then there is no reason to go with 2.6.1. - http://boren.nu/archives/2008/08/07/wordpress-261-beta-1/
*WordPress.com Support Goes 24/7 [...]

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*WordPress As A CMS* – Devlounge published a post this week which covers a variety of different situations you should think of before committing your clients to using WordPress. Although WordPress is by far the easiest publishing platform to use, it’s not the answer for everything. - http://www.devlounge.net/publishing/things-to-consider-when-using-wordpress-as-a-cms
*Jobpress * – WPCandy.com published an interesting review [...]

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