New WordPress Theme: Pink Touch 2

They’re excited to introduce the latest addition to our themes — Pink Touch 2, a nicely designed theme that has a stellar mix of color, texture, and typography.

Originally designed by Kcmr, Pink Touch 2 pays close attention to detail. The individual design effects are simple and subtle but together they make your blog look very attractive.

Pink Touch 2 was designed with Post Formats in mind. The theme supports nine post formats — standard, quote, aside, image, gallery, chat, audio, link, and video.

Read all about Pink Touch 2’s features on the Theme Showcase.

Source:- http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/new-theme-pink-touch-2

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Now Publicize to Facebook Pages

Since WordPress launched Publicize for Facebook, which automatically shares a link to new posts to your Facebook account, one of the top requested features has been the ability to Publicize to Facebook Pages. They’ve been listening and working hard, and are happy to announce support for this today.

If you already have Publicize active (which you should if you like traffic), you’ll now see a link to set options for Facebook, inside the Facebook block on the Sharing Settings page.

If you click on it, you’ll see a simple dialog box that lists all your available pages to pick from.

Read More :- http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/now-publicize-to-facebook-pages

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New WordPress Theme: Chapters

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If you’ve wanted to promote a book, this unique design is a perfect match. It’s called Chapters and it’s the latest in a series of terrific themes from WooThemes.

Chapters, designed by über-designer, Tim Van Damme, was originally used to to promote the book “Rockstar Business." The unique design of this great theme makes reading a blog post feel like you are reading a chapter in a book. The top chapter number gives an overview of the chapters and also a visual bookmark of the post you are currently viewing.

You are also able to customize your Chapters with a lot of features like the other premium themes available on WordPress.com.

Chapters is available for the lifetime of your blog for $45. Read more about the Chapters features or preview it live on your blog from Appearance → Themes.

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New WordPress Theme: Next Saturday

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They’re pleased to announce their newest theme — Next Saturday. That is, the theme called “Next Saturday” launches today (not next weekend). With its rich, bright colors, three-dimensional blocks, and subtle shadows, Ian Mintz’s Next Saturday brings a touch of childlike innocence to your blog.

Next Saturday was designed especially with Post Formats in mind. The theme supports seven post formats — quote, aside, image, gallery, chat, audio, and video. Many of these post formats receive special styling so that they “pop” out from the rest of your content. To read all about Next Saturday’s features, stop by the Theme Showcase.

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How to Get More Traffic - Wordpress Blog

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As soon as a blogger publishes their first post, their first question is: Where’s all my traffic? Everyone assumes they’re the only one seeking attention, when in truth nearly everyone is. It takes time to build an audience and no one gets much traffic without putting in the effort.

Here at WordPress.com we want you to get more traffic, and we build features and services to help. It’s been awhile since we’ve told you about them, so here are our top recommendations:

1. Update your About Page. One of the first things visitors to your site will want to know is something about who you are. If you don’t update your About page to include a short bio, and they find a generic page instead, they’ll be disappointed. But if you briefly explain (two paragraphs is plenty) what the blog is about, and who you are, they’ll be more likely to come back.
2. Turn on Publicize. You can easily set up your WordPress.com blog to automatically share new posts out to your Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo or LinkedIn accounts. This increases your reach every time you publish a post.
3. Turn on Sharing. With a few clicks, you can make it so any visitor can share a link to your post out to their social networks, their blog, or through email.
4. Let readers subscribe by email. Email is often forgotten as a source of traffic. If you turn on the Subscriptions widget, people can choose to get notified of new posts on your blog, automatically, via email. It’s a great way to keep them connected to your blog without any extra work for you, or for them.

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How to Build the Realtime WordPress Sitemap

A sitemap plugin to make it easier for your site to show all your pages, posts, archives, categories and tags in an easy to read format.

Description :-A sitemap plugin to make it easier for your site to show all your pages, posts, archives, categories and tags in an easy to read format without any need for template modification or html/php knowledge.

1. Order the output anyway you want in the plugin settings page.
2. Order the output of the WP Nav Menu, Pages, Posts, Custom Post Types, Archives, Categories and Tags.
3. Show/hide WP Nav Menu, Pages, Posts, Custom Post Types, Archives, Categories and Tags.
4. Optionally show categories and/or tags as a bullet list, or as a tag cloud.
5. Exclude Pages, Posts, Custom Post Types, Categories and Tags IDs.
6. Limit the amount of posts, custom post types, archives, categories and tags displayed.
7. Change the archive type from the WordPress default.
8. Show/hide Categories and Tags which have no posts associated to them.
9. Show/hide how many posts are in each Archive, Category or Tag.
10. Optionally name the sections different from the default of Pages, Posts, Archives, Categories and Tags.
11. Hierarchical list of pages and categories.
12. Supports I18n for translation.
13. Supports use of the wordpress shortcode for including the sitemap in pages and posts.
14. Supports menus created with the inbuilt WordPress Menu Editor.
15. Works on WordPress Multisite (WPMU) blogs.
16. Comes with an uninstaller, if you dont want it anymore just deactivate the plugin and delete it from within wordpress and it will delete all of its settings itself.

I cant think of anything else that I personally would need this plugin to do for my own use, if anyone feels it doesn't meet what they need, or has any suggestions as to how to make it better then do please get in touch with me and I will see what I can do to accomodate your requests.

WP Realtime Sitemap is available in:-

English.

Brazilian Portuguese by Gervasio Antonio.

Czech by Libor Cerny.

Russian by ssvictors.

Spanish by Francois-Xavier Gonzalez.

Dutch by Martien van de Griendt.

Instructions for installing via download from wordpress.org

1. Download and extract the Plugin zip file.
2. Upload the files to /wp-content/plugins/wp-realtime-sitemap directory.
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Instruction for installing from within your own blog

1. Go to the Plugins => Add New page.
2. Enter 'WP Realtime Sitemap' (without quotes) in the textbox and click the 'Search Plugins' button.
3. In the list of relevant plugins click the 'Install' link for 'WP Realtime Sitemap' on the right hand side of the page.
4. Click the 'Install Now' button on the popup page.
5. Click 'Activate Plugin' to finish installation.

Once plugin has been activated please follow one of the install options below to show the sitemap on your blog

1. Click Pages in the left hand menu navigation.
2. Click on the link in the left hand menu navigation that says Add New or the button that says Add New next to Pages in the main content area.
3. Give your page a title I suggest Sitemap, and put the short code mentioned on the examples into the wysiwyg box.

Note: If you already have a page for your sitemap then put the shortcode in this pages wysiwyg box instead of creating a new page.

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How To: Open a WordPress Menu Link In New Window or Tab?

How To: Open a WordPress Menu Link In New Window or Tab? Tips & Tricks

I have come across multiple WordPress users who aren’t aware that WordPress has a bunch of functions hidden in the “Screen Options” section of multiple Administration Pages. Today I am giving you tip that how to open links in custom menus in a new window or tab (i.e. add a target=”_blank” to link or menu items). Just follow the steps below to unearth the hidden WordPress feature.

Step 1:

Click on Appearance >> Menu in the WordPress dashboard.ture.

Step 2:

Look for the Screen Options drop down menu in the top right corner of your browser window.

Step 3:

Under Show advanced menu properties tick the Link Target checkbox.

Step 4:

Add a new link to your custom menu and click on drop down arrow to edit menu items. Voila! You can now decide if your menu item opens in same window or new window.

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WordPress.com oEmbed Provider API Now Available

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Last week, they introduced support for OAuth2 and launched develop.wordpress.com, as they’re eager to empower the developer community to extend WordPress.com in new and meaningful ways.

Today, they’re excited to announce the availability of our new oEmbed Provider API, yet another way to make it easy for third-party services and their respective audiences to share and consume content.

oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third-party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.

The API supports any WordPress.com URL, any WordPress.com-hosted domain or subdomain (EG:http://techcrunch.com/, http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/) as well as WP.me shortlinks pointing to WordPress.com-hosted sites.

Hop over to develop.wordpress.com and see the oEmbed Provider API documentation for more information. Keep impressing the world with innovative ways to use the wonderful breadth of content created by our millions of talented bloggers!

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Wordpress New Theme: Manifest

( Cross Posted On Wordpress Blog )

When they think about the very basic fundamentals of blogging and expressing ideas we find the clear practice of writing. Today they are launching a new theme which tries to reflect precisely on that. Manifest is a wonderful theme for writers.

This is a theme that presents your creations in an elegant and powerfully clean way, offering your readers an intimate and direct experience with your thoughts.

With content being the clear focus in Manifest, you can create different types of posts by choosing appropriate post formats. You can create image posts, link posts, asides, and Manifest will present them in the same neat, clutter free way it shows your regular text posts. You can even add a subtle header image to bring a personal touch to the design.

The Manifest Theme was designed by Jim Barraud. Go and learn more about it on the theme showcase, or activate it right away at Appearance → Themes. And once you are done, just start blogging.

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Wordpress New Theme: Lifestyle

Got lots of magazine-style content and need a stylish frame? Today Wordpress team are introducing Lifestyle, a new colorful magazine theme that comes with ten content-friendly, soft color schemes.

As a premium theme, customization is at the core of Lifestyle. Choose from multiple layouts and menus, breadcrumbs, header image, or custom background. This theme is a great fit if you publish magazine or news style content. You can showcase multiple categories on the homepage and use featured images to make your site look stunning.

Developed by StudioPress, Lifestyle is available for the lifetime of your blog for $75. Read more about the theme features or preview it live on your blog from Appearance → Themes.

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Wordpress New Theme: Matala

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Today they’re excited to launch Matala, their newest theme. You might recognize this one — it was once the primary theme for ma.tt, Matt Mullenweg’s blog. Last year, Matala was released to the WordPress.org Themes Directory, and now they’re thrilled to bring it to WordPress.com.

Originally designed by Nicolò Volpato, Matala’s bright colors and dynamic shapes are suggestive of designs seen in Talavera, a pottery tradition common in Puebla, Mexico. Grungy textures, hand-scribbled icons, and whimsically titling text in the main navigation menu join the colors and shapes to give your blog a bright, playful look.

You can use Matala’s fun design as is, or create a look of your own with a custom background image and custom header image.
Matala comes with three widget-ready areas: the right-hand sidebar and two columns at the bottom of your post content column. In addition, there is a full-width page for single-image pages, an option to display a small “Random Photos” gallery on single-image pages, and support for six post formats — aside, status, quote, video, image and gallery.

Learn more about Matala’s features on the Theme Showcase.

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WordPress for webOS: A New Way to Blog

It’s a new way to blog, on a new type of platform. Today they’re excited to share a glimpse of the future for all the WordPress mobile apps. Drumroll please! I give you WordPress for webOS, available as a download for the HP TouchPad with support for more webOS 3.0 devices coming in the future.

Here’s the run-down: It’s the first official WordPress app to have a full featured WYSIWYG (what’s this?) post editor. The app has been translated to all languages available on the TouchPad. It uses a “Sliding Panels” interface, which takes full advantage of the larger screen of the TouchPad and makes for fast and easy blog management on the go. Check out the video below to learn more!

Of course the app also features everything else you’ve come to expect from a WordPress app. You can manage posts and pages, as well as add new ones. Moderation is built right in, and you can even reply directly to comments. If a comment comes in and you’re working on something else with your TouchPad at the time, you’ll get notified about it. Peruse the Stats panel for in-depth information on what your visitors like the most about your site.

Another neat thing about this app is its use of “Cards”. This is a webOS invention that lets you stack screens belonging to the WordPress app in a single pile, making it very easy to, for instance, write a post while keeping the main window open. In fact, if you tap an email address in a comment, a compose email card will be stacked together with those of the app.

Learn more about WordPress for webOS at webos.wordpress.org and follow @WPwebOS on Twitter for the latest news!

Are you rocking a TouchPad? You can download WordPress for webOS directly on your device using the HP App Catalog. Just search for “WordPress”. Visiting on a device? Follow this link to download.

Get involved! Just like all the other official WordPress apps, WordPress for webOS is an Open Source project that craves your mad programming skills. Head on over to the development section to learn more.

Huge thanks to Beau Collins for some major webOS pwnage. They’d also like to thank our partners at HP for making all of this possible.

So, what’s your favorite invention in WordPress for webOS?

Article Src:- Official Wordpress Blog

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New Theme: Delicious Magazine For Wordpress Users

If you’ve wanted a magazine theme for your blog but haven’t found just the right one new theme might just do it for you. It’s called Delicious Magazine and it’s the latest in a series of terrific magazine themes from WooThemes.

If you love using images to draw your visitors into your writing, you’ll love Delicious Magazine. Right away you can see how it uses Featured Images to build an elegant area for highlighting groups of select posts on your home page. And just like the other premium magazine themes available on WordPress.com it’s packed with features that let anyone easily customize the design.

Delicious Magazine is available for the lifetime of your blog for $45. Read more about the Delicious Magazine features or preview it live on your blog from Appearance → Themes. It might be the magazine theme you’ve been waiting for!

Give a try to Delicious Magazine...!!

Articles Src:- Wordpress Blog

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Personalize Your Blog with the New Custom Design Upgrade

They’re excited to bring you Custom Design, a powerful new tool that combines easy to use, code-free font selection from Typekit and a beautiful CSS editing interface with world-class support from our famous WordPress.com Happiness Engineers.

You’ll find both new features—Fonts and CSS—under Appearance → Custom Design in your dashboard. Custom Design costs just $30 a year, and both features include a free preview so you can try them out first.

Fonts Made Super Easy

The Font Editor provides a visual preview of your blog with over 50 gorgeous premium Typekit fonts—from foundries like Mark Simonson, exljbris, FontFont, and the League of Moveable Type—and allows you to easily modify the size and style of your fonts. It works with all themes, no coding skills required!

We worked closely with Typekit on this new tool—incorporating their long experience with delivering beautiful fonts on the web—to create the best experience possible. With the Custom Design upgrade comes the ability to manage all your Typekit fonts settings from within your dashboard; you no longer need to make a roundtrip to Typekit and back to update the fonts on your blog.

If you are already using Typekit fonts on your blog, you are grandfathered in—meaning your fonts will continue to display as they do now but you’ll have limited editing and functionality. To take advantage of all the new features, we encourage you to upgrade to Custom Design.

CSS Backed by Expertise

Our popular CSS editing tool received a visual refresh with its merge into the Custom Design upgrade. If you know your way around a cascading style sheet, you can use the CSS Editor to really put a personal touch on your blog and create an entirely new design.

If your site already has custom CSS enabled, it will continue to work as it does now, and visitors will see no changes to your design. Furthermore, you’ve been upgraded to the new Custom Design package for free, so you now have full access to all the new features, including the Font Editor.

Along with the CSS Editor updates we’re making the WordPress.com CSS forum officially supported by the WP.com Happiness team. Bring your CSS customization questions to the forum and you can get expert help.

From your feedback—and by seeing your cool customizations in use all over WordPress.com—they know that design tools on WordPress.com are put to good use, so they hope you love this new upgrade. Fonts are now incredibly easy. They’re now helping you craft your CSS. Let’s make something beautiful.

Articles Src:-Wordpress Official Blog

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WordPress Plugins Releases for 5/31 (2011)

New plugins

Cleanup HTML adds a button to your visual editor, which when clicked, strips your post HTML of any div or span tags you might have, usually (but not always) junk tags to have in a post.

Easy Modal allows you to easily add a Modal window with just about any content.

Revert is a one-click button to revert a post to its previous revision.

Updated plugins

Admin Menu Tree Page View is a WordPress plugin that adds a page tree in the admin menu, so all your pages will always be available within just one click, no matter where you are in the admin area.

Awesome Flickr Gallery Plugin is a simple, fast and light plugin to create a gallery of your Flickr photos on your WordPress enabled website.

Exploit Scanner searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.

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Addthis Updates to WordPress, Chrome and More!

Here in AddThis Land, April showers bring May updates! From browser extensions to WordPress plugins, They’re making sure you get the latest and greatest version of AddThis.

AddThis for Wordpress: AddThis for WordPress is better than ever. They added the ability to personalize the tweets shared from your site, given you more fine grained control in choosing which pages AddThis appears on, updated analytics dashboard and also included more filters! 

AddThis for Chrome: AddThis for Chrome now supports the right-click context menu form of sharing. So if you are on a page you want to share, just right-click and AddThis appears in the menu! They also made some modifications to the settings page.

AddThis for Joomla: AddThis for Joomla is now updated to support the Joomla 1.6 plugin. They’ve also integrated options for the AddThis share counter.

AddThis Status Page: Want to check out the status of any of the above features? Check out the AddThis status page at status.addthis.com. This page is meant to keep track of all AddThis issues or outages, so you are never in the dark about anything that may be affecting your sharing or analytics.

Want to Work on AddThis?

They’re hiring! AddThis is a part of Clearspring Technologies. They are a rapidly growing company with offices in the DC Metro area, NYC, Chicago, Detroit and LA. They’re looking for people who can make things happen and have fun doing it. Please check out their careers page for a list of openings, some of which include:

Javascript/UI Developer

Account Executive - Sales

Sr. Java Software Engineer

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WordPress Plugin Recently Updated for SEO

ByREV Gallery Pagination for WordPress

... file. Compatible with Simple Lightbox , Lightbox Gallery , FancyBox for WordPress , Slim Box and many others. Gallery title SEO / No Duplicate Title! (custom database query may not be compatible) - For best compatibility use : wp_title, the_title, ..!!

Download Manager

... Multiple image previews Multilevel category Custom category url Custom Package url Widget for categories, top downloads, new packages SEO title and description Payment gateway for selling packages (add-on) Order management system (add-on) ...

AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Buttons

Help people share, bookmark, and email your posts & pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Digg and many more. The WordPress plugin to help people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as ...

Taxonomic SEO Permalink

... %postname% in your permalink structure. Taxonomic SEO Permalinks is a simple plugin that allows ... Course and Semester. What we want is SEO url with the help of custom ... Download the latest copy of Taxonomic SEO Permalink in .zip format Extract the ...

WP-Members

... off completely (for admins that want to control registrations in some other way) Show excerpt on pages/posts for better SEO Optional CAPTCHA for registration By default, WordPress allows all content to be "open" and viewable by anyone and allows ...

WP SEO Tags

... and get it working. Upload wp-seo-tags.php to the /wp- ... : require_once(/.../wp-content/themes/.../wp-seo-tags-template.php) [function.require ... . 2.2.5.3 Fixed language support problem. 2.2.5.2 WP SEO TAGS is proud to announce ...

WP Symposium

... search engines? A. Check out the Mobile/SEO/Accessibility plugin at http://www.wpsymposium.com ... 52 New plugin: Support for Mobile/SEO/Accessibility plugin (BETA) Profile: Logged ... /emoticons Added: Option to use SEO friendly links Changed: Font settings ...

SEO Ultimate

... Monitor log with "Screen Options" dropdown visible seo-ultimate screenshot 3 The Canonicalizer module helps ... seo-ultimate screenshot 4 The Competition Researcher module seo-ultimate screenshot 5 The Deeplink Juggernaut module ...

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How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installation

How To Remove Hacked By From Wordpress Blog

Getting hacked sucks, plain and simple. It can affect your rankings, cause your readership to be exposed to virus and trojan attacks, make you an unwilling promoter to subject material you may not actually endorse, and in many cases cause the loss of valuable content. However, once it happens it is usually best to not procrastinate on the clean up process, since a speedy restore will most times minimize the damage that was caused.

While almost all sources will recommend that you upgrade your WordPress to the latest version, what the majority neglect to tell you is that in most cases simply doing so will not prevent the attackers from getting back in, even if there are no known exploits with the latest version. The hackers may have left a back door file hidden in a directory where it wouldn't get overwritten with an upgrade, or inserted code into your theme, or simply created an account that they then granted admin privileges to. Any one of those would allow them back in, even after you patched what was wrong the first time. Therefore I am providing this step by step process on how to completely clean out and restore a WordPress installation that has been hacked.

If your wordpress blog has been Hacked,Then don't worry.I will tell you how to remove that script from your blog files.First of all i suggest to all always use strong password for your ftp,always use trusted plugins for your wordpress blog.Use secure ftp for files uploading,

Now come to point,if you got hacked by (anyname) virus in your wordpress blog,then first of all change your ftp passwords.Open files folder.Then just remove index.html & index.php,Now upload fresh index file.Your blog will work again.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 5/19

New plugins

Google Maps All In One allows you to easily embed and customize Google maps on your WordPress site – in posts, pages or as an easy to use widget.

WPMU DEV SEO is a solution for optimizing your WordPress site to achieve the highest search engine rankings possible.

YouTube White Label Shortcode allows you to white label YouTube videos and comes with a shortcode generator in a metabox on the post screen.

Updated plugins

Floating Menu creates a widget, which adds a floating, sticky, drop down menu from any standard WordPress custom menu using jQuery.

Store Locator empowers you to efficiently display and manage your important stores, locations, or other points of interest on your website in a manner that’s easily searchable by visitors.

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WordPress for iOS 2.8 Major Update

WordPress for iOS 2.8 has been released and is a rather significant update.

• A new Quick Photo feature, soon to be the favorite of mobile photo bloggers everywhere, allows you to go from camera to post in one easy step.
• WordPress.com and Jetpack stats have finally be added to the app.
• The app has now been fully translated into ten languages.
• Over 75% of reported crashes have been fixed.

If you have struggled with the iOS app lately, it’s definitely time to update. What do you think of the new release? give your comments..!!!

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