Weekly Wordpress Roundup 2

Posted on 23. Jul, 2009 by admin in Blogging

The time is here for another wordpress roundup – each week I will be collecting the most popular links from Twitter. You can view last week’s here.

1. Wordpress 2.8.2 – Another week and another version of Wordpress is released, upgrade now to fix a couple of vulnerabilities.

2. 23 Extremely Helpful Wordpress Help Sheets And Resources – Handy collection of cheat sheets and other resources

3. 15+ Plugins to Unleash the Invincible Power of jQuery and Wordpress – Add some jQuery interaction to your blog

4. The Autopsy Of WordPress As CMS With 25 Great WP Plugins & Designs – Overview of using Wordpress as a CMS

5. 12 Great Tutorials on Creating a New Wordpress Theme – Some good articles for theming beginners

6. 14 Truly Artistic Wordpress Header Designs – Some excellent designs are listed in this roundup

7. Starkers: The completely naked theme for WordPress – “Starkers is a bare-bones WordPress theme created to act as a starting point for the theme designer.”

8. 17 Popular Universities That Are Using Wordpress – Interesting to see educational institutions turning to Wordpress as a CMS

9. Wordpress Theme Frameworks explained – “A theme framework is a theme that is designed to be a flexible foundation that can serve as a parent theme for building child themes.”

10. 5 Facts That Make WordPress a Flawless Affiliate Marketing CMS – Nothing much we didn’t know here, worth mentioning though.

11. WordPress Switches to Hourly Pinging, Tells No One – “Blogger Christian Bolstad found a new feature in WordPress 2.8, undocumented and not among the release notes in the Codex. Basically, it changes the notification behavior of WordPress, from notifying ping services like Pingomatic and others you might use automatically when publishing a post or editing a previously published post, to doing a once an hour notification using the built-in pseudo cron.”

12. Display Thumbnails For Related Posts in Wordpress – “In this tutorial you’ll learn how to increase pageviews by adding thumbnails to related posts using the popular YARPP plugin and Wordpress custom fields.”

13. Three Innovative Ways To Show Off The Social Buzz In Your Wordpress Comments – Wordpress comment app plugins

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