New WordPress Themes from Frugal

Frugal Premium

frugal Premium is built from the ground up with clean code, a super clean look and an ease of use that is unmatched. What you’ll find when you login to your Wordpress Dashboard is a frugal Theme Options section that allows you to completely customize the look, feel and function of your site, with a few simple mouse clicks.

New WordPress Themes from NattyWP

Groovy

Groovy is a very flexible personal wordpress theme, developed by NattyWP. Groovy has a vivid and impressive design but also simple and powerful admin panel. You can design your own color scheme, switch on/switch off different modules on the homepage, add additional NattyWP widgets and manage your advertising.

New WordPress Themes from WP Now

Simplista WordPress Theme

New WordPress Themes from Elegant Themes

ephoto WordPress Theme

ePhoto was created for those looking to turn their blog into a photo gallery. While the theme was created with photographers in mind, it can certainly be used to display any type of digital imagery. While the main content of the theme is image based, I have also added the ability to create a separate blog page where normal blog posts can be integrated alongside your photos.

New WordPress Themes from Solostream

WordPress Theme – WP-Prolific 1.0

WP-Prolific is another advanced premium WordPress theme developed by Solostream. In it, we’ve integrated the latest and greatest functionality available in WordPress version 2.7. We’ve also implemented a rather expansive control panel that makes it easy to change and tweak the many available options.

New WordPress Themes from WooThemes

Suit and Tie

Suit & Tie is a stylish business theme by top designer, Bryan Veloso. The clean & trendy style inherit in the design will definitely keep your business up-to-date with current online trends, whilst the attractive homepage slider will be woo-ing most of your customers. Top that off with 13 diverse colour schemes and you’ve got your next business website design right here.

New WordPress Themes from ThemeForest

Visions One

A dark and brown personal blog theme for Wordpress.

Portfolious – Ultimately Extensive Wordpress CMS

Portfolious is the profesional Fulll Wordpress CMS functioning theme for, well anyone!

Exehill

Clean simple theme with 3 colorschemes, You Tube Gallery, Image Gallery, dragable Content Boxes, and some more nice features.

WPA Parade Theme

WPA Parade is a versatile wordpress CMS /blog template that would be a great look for a photographer, designer, corporate or organizational site. The theme has an attractive layered design look

Visual: The WP Theme for Passionate Bloggers

Visual is a WordPress theme that provides a different approach to blogging. Instead of the usual post listing, Visual makes use of thumbnails and post excerpts to display what I like to call a “snippet”. Displaying more of these snippets on the homepage and category page allows users to quickly scan the page and choose the article they wish to read.

Vanilla Wordpress CMS Website Template

Vanilla Wordpress CMS Website Template is best suited for corporate, Business and Personal websites along with Blog facility

DesignFolio Plus

DesignFolio Plus is a beautiful and highly customizable portfolio theme great for displaying logos, websites, print work and much more.

FolioPhoto: Wordpress Folio/Blog

Folio Photo Wordpress theme offer a great way to show images or your portfolio. It DOES NOT require any pluging to operate like you see it here. And some of the best feature are coded right in so it is easy to manage. NO custom fields required either.

Photo + Blog Premium wordpress theme 4 in 1

Photo + Blog Premium is a 2 column Wordpress theme ideal for the Photographer who wants an online gallery along with a blog.

RainFolio

RainFolio is spring amotion creative wp-theme

Royal Wordpress

Welcome to the wordpress version of Royal Joomla, unsuprising named Royal Wordpress. The wordpress is almost identical to the joomla version but offers some slight differences.

Impact — A wordpress template

Impact is a highly customizable theme for uses in different niches. Its background centric design means that it can easily be adapted for photography, product marketing, design services. etc. Its minimalistic design helps to leave a huge impression on your client. It is also loaded with great functionality.

Varnish – Highly Customizable Blog Theme for WP

Varnish is quite possibly the most customizable WordPress theme on the planet. Choose one of the 23 bundled colour schemes, or create your own – all from WP-Admin! This theme is geared towards the blogger who likes to share their life and themselves with the world.

PortfolioPress premium wordpress theme

Standard WordPress theme

Standard theme is a feature packed wordpress theme with easy to edit theme options so anyone can make changes without any knowledge of html/php. Wordpress 2.7/2.8 compatible.

Playground WordPress Theme

North Hunters WordPress Magazine

North Hunters WordPress Magazine is a dark magazine-like theme for WordPress, with additional features like social media stream (with custom widget) and advanced images resize functionality. It works with WordPress 2.7 and 2.8 as well.

Business Inc. wordpress as a CMS Template + Blog

This theme is best suited for business, corporate and personal websites

Unique Portfolio + Business + Gallery Wordpress

This theme is best suitable for the freelancers, personal blogs, gallery showcase, business portfolios and suitable for many more other categories.

Folio!dea

Smart Portfolio – Wordpress Edition

A Classy Theme

UniSphere Web 2.0

UniSphere Web 2.0 is a Wordpress theme designed with corporate businesses in mind. It has a custom CMS integrated into the Wordpress administration area that allows you to build a fully functional professional website in minutes.

Wave: A Video Centric Theme for WordPress

Wave is a beautiful and flexible theme catered to those that want to build a video focused site

Egg Wordpress Theme

2 column, Traditional widget ready theme, Special styled head post and custom widgets to fit the blog design.

BusinessIdea Portfolio + Business Wordpress 5 Colors

This theme is a fixed layout built with 960 grid System and best suitable for all types of business and a corporate business sites, Company Portfolio, Freelancer Portfolio or blog sites who want to have it in web 2.0 Style it will set and this template will target the best solutions for your better sales on your business.

Free WordPress Theme – MinaFlow

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WordPress News

• Wordpress and Twitter
  Unless you have been hiding under a rock you will have already or will have plans to enter the twitterverse. If you are using Wordpress then there is good news as there are plenty of tools to help you promote your twitter profile, manage your tweets and generally promote your tweetdom in a bid to gain more followers.
  - By WebDesign Lessons
• Plugins And The Lack Of Change Logs
  The other day, I noticed I had about 9 plugins that needed to be upgraded. So I browsed to the plugin management page in WordPress 2.8 and noticed the link to view the details regarding the new plugin version as I figure that will tell me why I should upgrade. Once I click on this link, I get a lightbox popup showing me the same view I would see if I were looking at this plugin on the WordPress.org plugin repository. Tabs to see the description, installation, screenshots, Faq and other notes. No Change Log link.
  - By WP Tavern
• WPWeekly Episode 58 – WordPress Deep Dish Style
  In this episode of WordPress Weekly, David and I are joined by Jacob Santos, Brad Williams, Lisa Sabin Wilson and Kim Parsell to talk about WordCamp Chicago. Afterwords, David and I dived into the news of the week including the release of WordPress 2.8, iThemes going GPL, and the merger between the self-hosted WordPress software and WordPress MU.
  - By WP Tavern
• Digging Into WordPress
  Got a little news for ya’ll. Remember when I announced me and Jeff Starr were looking for a publisher for a book about WordPress? Well, that worked, and we talked a number of different publishers. They were all very nice, but after weighing everything out we decided that when we are done we’ll be self-publishing it as a PDF for now.
  - By CSS Tricks
• Killing The WordPress Bugs and Helping Out With User Problems [WordPress Community]
  The best thing about an open source platform is that there are users who contribute to make it much more bigger and better, WordPress is no different and it has a huge user community that not only contributes to the core, but, also help in answering user questions and solve their problems.
  - By Weblog Tools Collection

WordPress 2.8 News

• WP Q&A: When Should I Update WordPress?
  Hello again everyone. This is Chris Jean, iThemes’ very own Code Monkey. Today, I’m going to do my best to help you prepare for and plan WordPress upgrades.
  - By iThemes
• Wordpress 2.8 Features and Themes Compatibility
  The good news is now finally out! Wordpress 2.8, with code name “Baker,” is now available. Once you log on to your Wordpress you will be receiving a notice on the availability for download of this latest Wordpress version.
  - By Templatelite
• Caution When Updating To WordPress 2.8
  Users reporting me, that they are missing files, after they automatically updated to WordPress version 2.8 and there were a problem while updating. I checked out the WordPress Trac and found a brand new record, which confirms this
  - By WP Engineer
• New User Features in WordPress 2.8
  With WordPress 2.8 out, many people are loving the new drag and drop widget page, plus the faster-loading-by-compression backend
  - By WP Tavern
• Wordpress 2.8 And 10 Things That You Should Know Before/After You Upgrade
  Wordpress 2.8 had been released at 10th June 2009. There are a lot of add on features and improvements in this version. It is good for Wordpress users to upgrade to the latest version. Today, we are going to summarize some of the important features and also something that you should read/consider before you upgrade to the latest version.
  - By WebDesignBooth
• How WordPress 2.8 upgrade will improve your blogging experience – My video review
  I just upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.8 today. Not as major upgrade as WordPress 2.7 but WordPress 2.8 has couple of huge changes in Appereance menu. These changes will make it much easier for bloggers to find, install and change themes on their blogs without having to use FTP and without uploading files onto the server.
  - By How To Make My Blog
• 5 Things of Interest to Developers in the New WordPress 2.8
  With each major WordPress release, public changes like the new widgets administrative interface usually get all the glory. Here are some new features in WordPress 2.8 that most users won’t even know exist but you will probably care about, if you’re a WordPress developer.
  - By Pressed Words
• 2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets
  I’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker.
  - By WordPress Blog

WordPress Tutorials, Tips & Hacks

• 10 Ways to Install Accordion Menus in Your Wordpress Theme
  Today you will learn 10 ways to install accordion menus in your Worpress theme!
  - By Pro Blog Design
• How to detect the visitor browser within WordPress
  To ensure maximum cross-browser compatibility on your blog theme, you have to be able to detect the browser used by the visitor. Sure, you can use conditionnal comments, but WordPress itself can detect client browser. Let’s see how to do.
  - By WP Recipes
• Define Your Own WordPress Action Hooks
  WordPress is based on the so-called Hook-System. This serves WordPress, and all extensions to involve functions in a certain place. The Hooks are not only to hook, but can also be used in custom extensions and thus create a better overview and offer additional interfaces for more possibilities to develop. Especially the second option is interesting when you create a theme, which aims to offer a variety of interfaces, or create a Plugin which can be expand by other authors or serve as a framework.
  - By WP Engineer
• Creating user-defined RSS feeds in WordPress
  RSS feeds are very useful, and indeed, very popular. WordPress creates RSS feeds by default, which is good in 99% of times. But how to create your own, custom RSS Feed? Just read this post to find out!
  - By WP Recipes
• Escaping API updates for WordPress 2.8
  The WordPress escaping API functions have been updated. Escaping is a way of using untrusted text that “neuters” anything that could do damage. Escaping is used in WordPress to avoid SQL injection and cross-site scripting/script injection (XSS), among other things.
  - By Mark on WordPress
• How to create a sales letter landing page with WordPress Thesis Theme
  If you want to sell your own product, you need a sales letter landing page to send potential buyers to either from your own blog, via affiliates or via PPC search engine marketing. Landing page template can help you improve conversions and drive sales.
  - By How To Make My Blog
• 22 Mixed Quality Wordpress Hacks
  WordPress needs no introduction among designers and writers. It’s usually known as a synonym for blogging. Now days every other WordPress blogs look more or less similar, to stand uniquely out from the rest, you need to tweak it a little bit by using quality hacks.
  - By instantShift
• A Guide to the Actions API
  WordPress theme frameworks have been all the rave nowadays, and rightly so. Everybody’s either using one or rolling their own flavor. Theme frameworks introduce several new concepts to theme authoring that till now, only plugin developers have been taking advantage of. In this article, I’m going to introduce you to the actions API, and break it down so you can understand how it all works.
  - By WP Candy
• Hosting your JS at Google
  While in a previous post I talked about WordPress database optimization, with this post I intend to show you how to improve your sites performance a bit more by hosting your javascripts with Google.
  - By Yoast
• Quick Tip – Separate Page Templates in Wordpress
  Making unique page templates is surprisingly simple to do in Wordpress, and is often an overlooked feature. There’s no need for bloating a single file with series of PHP loops to determine the file name and content. This is built in simplicity, and we’ll start with a brief explanation of how it works.
  - By Build Internet
• 10 Things You can Do with WordPress Besides Blogging
  Today you’re going to learn 10 things you can do with WordPress besides blogging, and whether you’re a WordPress newbie or longtime veteran – I guarantee that you will learn something after reading this post!
  - By WP Candy
• WordPress 2.8 Tips and Tricks Collection
  Now that WordPress 2.8 has been released, it really would be more useful and helpful to get a big list of tips and tricks that addresses several new things in WordPress 2.8 and helps to learn or tweak the new features, these tips come from several users who have been using WordPress 2.8 for sometime and have contributed with several posts that may help you make the best out of the latest version in WordPress.
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• Get Posts With Same Custom Field VALUE As Current Post
  So, you’ve read all the tutorials on how to get custom field values and how to get posts that have a certain key/value, but what about if the post your are viewing has a custom field, and you want all the other posts with that custom field value; a value that you won’t know in advance…?
  - By Epic Alex

WordPress Plugins

• Security And Anti-spam Plugins For WordPress
  I did a post for a Antivirus plugin for WordPress, several users commenting about different plugins that improve the security of WordPress, so I decided to sum up some of the plugins that provide security and comment spam protection for WordPress blogs.
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• Antivirus Plugin For WordPress
  WordPress in itself is very safe and secure platform, however there are chances that your blog may get affected because of loopholes in your themes.
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/13
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• Should you use a Mobile WordPress Plugin?
  Twitterized answer? Abso-freakin-lutely! Take a look at the following graph. It shows the pageviews and unique visitors on this blog from mobile browsers since we started tracking last year. Notice the numbers and the trends? How many of your visitors, do you think, come back to your blog after your page takes five minutes to load on their iPhone, and needs the twenty flick, carpal thumb scroll to read browse through the huge header? If you care about your reader and want to keep up with this growing populations’ reading habits, a mobile plugin on your blog is a necessity. Now what you use is up to you.
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• Plugin: Automatically Link Keywords & Phrases in Posts
  SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more. SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.
  - By Blog Perfume
• WP-Click-Track WordPress Plugin
  Did you ever want to be able to track the clicks on the links that you use inside posts and pages? If so, you should check the WP-Click-Track plugin. It comes with two different features
  - By Daily Blog Tips
• Top 20 Wordpress Plugins – June 2009
  Back once again with the Enterprise Master… er …mind. Neglect. Thats all I can call it and I have to hold my hands up and admit that I have neglected this blog completely in the last few months. So in a small gesture of recompense my Top 10 Wordpress Plugin roundup for June is a Top 20.
  - By Enterprise Mastermind
• Wordpress Status Bar Plugins
  Display status in your blog became very useful when you write often and want to update your readers what you do and where you are.
  - By WP Feed

WordPress Themes

• 16 Popular WordPress Clone Themes
  Just for fun one day, I was looking around for how many really cool WordPress clone themes there were out there. I found some and here the ones that I found really impressive.
  - By PimpMyWordPress
• Hybrid 0.6: Leaner, more powerful, and ready for WP 2.8
  When I originally created the Hybrid theme, I had done so with the thought that I’d only use it for my personal projects. It was not meant to be a publicly-released theme. A couple of months later, that changed. I released it into the wild.
  - By Theme Hybrid
• WordPress Theme Releases for 06/15
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• WordPress Theme Releases for 06/10
  - By Weblog Tools Collection

Pro Blogging & SEO

• 12 Excellent Free Tools for Monitoring Your Site’s Uptime
  A website or web application’s high availability is very crucial; users who constantly encounter problems accessing the content of a site will not likely come back. For web applications – poor uptimes means users won’t be confident about your product: if they constantly experience issues with your apps’s availability, they will likely look for another solution that isn’t as problematic.
  - By Six Revisions
• Use Webslug To See How Fast Your Site Loads
  I have a great new tool to add to my repository! I do a lot of web troubleshooting and I am constantly helping people make their websites load faster.
  - By MakeUseOf
• How To Create a Landing Page With Viral Potential
  If you’re going to consider yourself a PROblogger, it won’t take long for you to realize that sometimes the blog isn’t the best place to make an offer. Inevitably, you’re going to find yourself using a landing page.
  - By David Risley
• 30+ Advanced SEO Tactics, Techniques and Resources (55+ Links)
  There is no single definition of advanced SEO. There are a few of attempts to describe what it might mean or consist of and what not but there is no entity or authority that could define such a broad term like advanced SEO.
  - By SEOptimise
• How To Submit Your Website To Bing & Google For More Traffic
  With all the hub bub about Microsoft’s new search engine Bing, I decided to check out what the process is to submit your blog or website to Bing and compare it to the Google process.
  - By MakeUseOf
• Moving Your WebSite to New Domain Notify Google for Change of Address
  Today Google Webmaster team has roll out new Webmaster Tool Interface for all. From today onwards when you login to Google Webmasters you will see a new Webmaster Interface. Along with new Google Webmaster Interface new feature in Google Webmaster Tools named as Change of Address.
  - By BlogsDNA
• How blogging ideas spread – 6-step plan for creating something big
  We all have dreams, we all have a passion for something. But not many of us do anything towards achieving those dreams.
  - By How To Make My Blog

Eminence – Wordpress Portfolio/Corporate Theme

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Image River – Gallery-Showcase WordPress Theme

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IdealCorp – Business WordPress Theme

Sidebar consists of sleek modern sidebar widgets that let you display the information very effectively. Sidebar widgets can also display any kind of advertisments (the main width goes beyond 300px). All fonts are safe for web, no need to worry – the site will be displayed the same way on any computer.

The theme comes with 7 colors: sky blue, grass green, curry yellow, emerald green, rose pink, cherry red, star lilac. I included screenshots – so you can take a look.

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WordPress

• Google’s Matt Cutts on WordPress
  Matt Cutts is the head of the webspam team at Google where he specializes in search engine optimization (SEO) issues. He is known in the webmaster and SEO community for applying Google’s Quality Guidelines. Before working in the Search Quality group at Google, Matt worked at the ads engineering group and on Google’s SafeSearch. The point is, unlike many “SEO Professionals” who only claim to know what they’re doing, Matt Cutts is well respected because he really does!
  - By WordPress Informer
• WordCamp Chicago Photos
  The photos below were all taken by either Ashley at WordCamp Chicago last weekend or taken from the official Flickr Group. Feel free to use any of our photos, but do ask those responsible (marked in the photo comments) before using theirs.
  - By Theme Playground
• State of the Word from WordCamp – Part 2
  “WordPress should be invisible” was something I loved to hear Matt Mullenweg say during his “State of the Word” address at WordCamp San Francisco. What did he mean by that?
  - By WordPress Informer

WordPress Tutorials, Tips & Hacks

• How To Create Double Posts Columns On The Homepage
  From time to time you need to change some things from the Wordpress default. One of the easiest hacks to do is creating double posts columns.
  - By WP Feed
• An Introduction to WordPress Action Hooks
  If you’re going to be doing any level of WordPress development, themes or plugins, you will invariably run into the need to take advantage of the WordPress Action Hook system. But the more I am able to talk to people in the community, the more I realize that people simply don’t understand the concept very well, or at all.
  - By Nathan Rice
• 10 Useful WordPress Loop Hacks
  The loop is a very important aspect of WordPress blogs. In fact, the loop is what allows you to get posts from your WordPress database and print them on the screen. A set of useful and user-friendly functions, the loop is incredibly powerful. With it, you can get a single post, a list of posts ordered by date, title or category, a list of posts written by a specific author and much more.
  - By Smashing Magazine
• WordPress: How to get custom fields outside the loop
  Custom fields are definitely very useful and are used on many WordPress-powered blogs. In this recipe, I’m going to show you how to easily get custom fields values outside the loop.
  - By WP Recipes
• 10 Ways to Get That Elusive ‘Magazine’ Look in WordPress
  WordPress ‘Magazine’ themes haven’t been around for long, but they’ve exploded in popularity. In this post we’ll look at ten ways to get that elusive ‘magazine’ look into your own WordPress theme.
  - By Nometech

WordPress Plugins

• Set Meta Links For WordPress Plugins
  In the past I explained in the article „How To Improve WordPress Plugins“ , how you can expand Plugins with useful functions and therefore optimize their usage. One of the suggestions was a simple link to the options page of your Plugin.
  - By WP Engineer
• Shadowbox JS WordPress Plugin v3.0.0.0 Released
  The Shadowbox JS WordPress plugin has been updated to version 3.0.0.0. This is a large update to the plugin. The majority of the plugin has been rewritten to load only the minimal amount of code needed for either the admin or frontend. New to this release is Shadowbox 3.0b1, programmatic loading of Shadowbox only when needed, selection of which Shadowbox players to load.
  - By Sivel

WordPress Themes

• 45 Best Free WordPress Themes of All Time
  WordPress is very powerful and easy to use. We have been searching for some of the best free WordPress themes available on the internet, and compiled them into 45 Best Free WordPress Themes of All Time. All of them are nicely designed and look really professional. You should be able to find the suitable one for your WordPress blog.
  - By Blog Perfume

Pro Blogging & SEO

• CMS Showcase Galleries – Submit your site
  In today’s article from the “Webdesign Gallery Week” series, we will look at the different Content Management System galleries
  - By Mogdesign
• Six Rules of Blogging (That Also Apply to Twitter)
  I’ve been blogging for around 4 years now and despite all the changes we see in technology and software, the ‘rules’ to a successful blog tend to have remained the same. Yet, while the rules haven’t changed much, a lot of our traffic generation methods have. Gone are the days where 50 votes would guarantee a Digg homepage or you could place some technorati tags in your post and get thousands of visitors.
  - By Daily Blog Tips

WebDeveloping

• 13 Must-Have Add-ons To Strengthen Firebug
  Firebug is probably one of the most helpful tools used when developing websites.
  - By WebResources Depot

iProduct Premium WordPress Theme

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Real Estate WordPress Theme deCasa

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WordPress Theme – WP-Prolific 1.0

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WordPress

• WPWeekly Episode 57 – Live From Chicago
  This special episode of WordPress Weekly features four special guest interviews live from the WordCamp Chicago event. One of the interviews is with Matt Mullenweg. I apologize for the background noise in most of the interviews but I’ll be conducting better quality interviews in the future, especially once I get some decent equipment.
  - By WP Tavern
• Exciting new features for developers in WordPress 2.8
  WordPress 2.8 is tentatively scheduled to be released on June 10. Even though there are no major new features, there are certain features that will be exciting for WordPress developers like me
  - By Sudar Muthu
• WordPress 2.8 Release Candidate 1
  With Release Candidate 1, we think WordPress 2.8 is ready and complete. Download it, test it, and tell us what you think. If you don’t uncover any bad bugs, 2.8 will be released on Wednesday the 10th.
  - By WordPress Blog
• 10 Sites That Produce Quality WordPress Content
  - By Nathan Rice
• News About WordPress 2.9
  There was a meeting in IRC for WordPress developers yesterday. A release date for WordPress 2.8 was chosen, and they made some great decisions regarding WordPress 2.9 as well. Here’s a quick summary of the things I found important.
  - By WordPress Informer
• WordPress 2.8 May Be Released On June 10th
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• WordPress 2.8 Beta Hands On Review
  Over a period of time WordPress has evolved a lot integrating a host of interesting features in it, WordPress 2.8 is another exciting release which adds a host of new and interesting features.
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• Is WordPress Information Too Fragmented?
  Ryan Imel who runs the WordPress blog ThemePlayground.com got in touch with me the other night and we had a very interesting discussion about a topic I’ve thought about since the days before I launched WPTavern.com and that is the possibility that there are too many people writing about WordPress in too many places.
  - By WP Tavern

WordPress Tutorials, Tips & Hacks

• WordPress Maintenance Mode Without a Plugin
  - By Sivel
• Underused Plugin Function
  There is often a lot of talk about where WordPress plugin settings pages should be placed in the admin panels, and once the plugin author has decided where to put it, the user then has to work out where to find it. Well in WordPress 2.7, a new filters was added to solve the problem.
  - By Epic Alex
• The WordPress MU Manual
  Welcome to the most comprehensive an easy to use manual to installing your WordPress MU (WPMU) site on the web!
  - By WPMU DEV Premium
• How To Use Thumbnails Generated By WordPress In Your Theme
  Many WordPress Themes display post excerpts on blog homepage with a little thumbnail image of one of the images used within a post, but most of the WordPress themes I have seen, use some kind of external image resizing script like phpThumb or tinyThumb or they use some custom field in the post to show thumbnail image.
  - By Web Developer Plus
• Joomla to Wordpress – Content Converter!
  More and more people using WordPress as CMS nowadays and replacing systems like Joomla on their website. Marco from solariz.de provides a handy script to convert your Joomla content to your WordPress installation.
  - By WP Engineer
• How To Redirect a Page Using Custom Fields in WordPress
  Today, I wanted to share a very quick tip that will allow you to insert an internal or external URL in a custom field for a page, and when a user visits that page, they will be redirected to the URL you put in the custom field.
  - By Nathan Rice
• WordPress page template to redirect to first child page
  Many WordPress users uses parent pages and subpages to order the informations displayed on their blogs. A heavily requested recipe is how to be able to redirect to the first child page if the current page have children pages? here is the answer.
  - By WP Recipes
• How To Share A Blog Post Without A Plugin
  If you don’t want to use any sharing or bookmark plugins to help you share your latest blog post, I have come up with a list of the most popular sharing website links that you can drop at the bottom of your post. The examples are simple text links but of course you can add your own social bookmark icons.
  - By PimpMyWordPress
• WordPress hack: Display your tags in a dropdown menu
  I never liked tag clouds, for the simple reason that most of the time, they’re aren’t readable properly. Here is the solution to this problem: Displaying tags in a dropdown menu.
  - By WP Recipes
• Create An Awesome WordPress Theme Options Page (part 3)
  So. Here we are. Part three. After creating and implementing our options page in parts one and two, we’re now going to add some options to posts. Or that was the plan; trouble is, it’s a little too complicated to cram into a single post and I don’t have the time to write another five posts explaining how to do it. The good news though is that I found a tutorial explaining how to do it, which you can find on WeFunction.com. Handy that!
  - By Nometech
• How to Display Recent Posts From a Specific Category Using Widgets
  One of the things I like most about WordPress is the ability to pretty much do anything you want with it. With the help of a plugin, or custom PHP code, you can accomplish most things.
  - By StudioPress
• 10 Ways to Speed up Your WordPress Blog
  In this post we’ll explore ten ways to speed up your site, with tricks ranging from easy to even easier; none of the stuff in this post is difficult, so there’s no excuse for a slow-loading blog after reading this!
  - By Pro Blog Design
• 5 Useful WordPress Functions You Didn’t Know Existed
  Deep within the source code of WordPress lies an endless list of useful functions just waiting for you to use them in your theme or plugin. The problem is, most people don’t know they exist, probably because the Codex is ridiculously underdeveloped, and most people hate looking through source code. Luckily for you, reading the WordPress source code is a hobby of mine.
  - By Nathan Rice
• How to: hide portions of text to Google on your WordPress blog
  I already shown you how to easily prevent Search Engine indexing on a certain post or page. But how to only hide a portion of text to Google, your navigation menu for example? Just read on to get started.
  - By WP Recipes

WordPress Themes

• The TOP 6 Premium WordPress Themes For FREE
  Today is the opportunity for Noupe readers to get WordPress Premium themes for Free! Six Leaders in the Premium Theme Industry are offering to give away free copies of their recently-released themes just for you guys.
  - By Noupe
• WordPress Theme Releases by 06/06
  - By Weblog Tools Collection

WordPress Plugins

• Simply Show IDs
  Simply shows the ID of Posts, Pages, Media, Links, Categories, Tags and Users in the admin tables for easy access. Very lightweight.(updated for WP 2.8)
  - By Sivel
• WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/08
  - By Weblog Tools Collection
• Make your front page a river of posts
  So, now we’re done with the revamp… we can get on with the really important stuff, delivering you darn great plugins and this is a particularly nice one I reckon.
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• WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/02
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