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Weekly Wordpress Roundup 1

Posted on 15. Jul, 2009 by admin in Blogging

Each week I will be collecting some of the more popular Wordpress related links from Twitter and posting them for your perusal.

1. Wordpress 2.8.1 update available – go and upgrade if you haven’t allready.

2. 21 Popular brands that are using Wordpress – To prove how excellent wordpress is, take a look at the big-name brands using it in this roundup.

3. Free Wordpress theme, Paper Wall – Another nice release from the guys at Smashing Magazine.

4. 25 Incredibly Useful WordPress Cheat Sheets & Checklists – Usefull link collection from De Web Times.

5. 40 Free premium-quality Wordpress themes – Some nice free themes here, listed with the features of each.

6. Is WordPress A Thankless Community? – Do you say thankyou to plugin authors or make a donation to them ?

7. Optimizing WordPress Settings – Some handy tips if you’re just starting out with Wordpress

8. 10 Psychotically Awesome And Free Wordpress Plugins – A handy collection of plugins

9. Multiple WordPress Loops Explained – “You might want to do something with one group of posts and then do something different to another group of posts, yet still display them both on the same page.”

10. The Best WordPress Plugins for SEO and Marketing – Yet more handy plugins.

11. 25+ Excellent Portfolio WordPress Themes to showcase your Creative Work – Good themes for designers, artists and anyone who needs to show off their work.

12. Create A Wordpress Theme: setting the working environment – part of a series teaching you how to create your own Wordpress theme.

13. A quick look at the BlackBerry WordPress app – Review of the Wordpress app for Blackberry.

14. How to Secure Your WordPress Blog from Hackers (and Google!) – A few extra security precautions

15. 20 great Wordpress Footer Designs for Inspiration – Making good use of your footer is a good tip, this post looks at some examples

16. Five Handy WordPress Plugins for Social Bookmarking – Collection of plugins to enable your visitors to share your content

17. Using Blog Tags to Benefit Your Readers and Your SEO – Beginners guide to tags

18. 10 Wordpress Themes For Your New Lifestream Blog – Themes to create a lifestream style blog

19. Showing Code on WordPress Posts with Snipplr – Share code from Snipplr with your readers

20. How to Create a Wordpress Theme from Scratch – Excellent tutorial on creating your own theme from scratch.

As always, please leave comments to any good links you have found on your travels!

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