Introducing WordPress Jetpack.

What features does it have?

Version 1.1 of Jetpack includes:

• Gravatar Hovercards: Find out who’s commenting on your posts with enhanced information for Gravatars (includes full name, bio, other web profiles).
• WordPress.com Stats: Keep on top of your traffic with powerful and simple to understand statistics for your site.
• Twitter Widget: Keep your readers more up to date by syncing your tweets to your site via a simple widget.
• Shortcodes: Quickly add movies, images, and more to your posts and pages with a single line of code.
• Shortlinks: Automatically creates an easy to copy/paste mini-url for any post on your site.
• : Use the famous markup language to quickly create beautiful mathematical expressions and equations.
• Sharedaddy: Your readers can easily share your posts via email or their favorite social networks.
• After the Deadline: Your writing will improve thanks to this artificial intelligence based spell, style, and grammar checker.

Some of these features use the powerful WordPress.com cloud, others are popular features provided for the convenience of not having to install and manage several separate plugin installations.

It’s easy to see that this one plugin, might just replace quite a few plugins that people use everyday.

Which feature interests you the most?

Highlighted features:

• Internal Linking
• Admin Bar
• Streamlined Writing Interface
• Post Formats
• Network Admin
• List-type Admin Screens
• Exporter/Importer Overhaul
• Custom Content Type Improvements
• Advanced Queries
• Refreshed Blue Admin Color Scheme

New features like the admin bar and internal linking tool will be useful for clients that want to update their own website. WordPress developers and theme creators will find the new Post Formats to be a very welcome addition.

Internal Linking

When you create a link in WordPress you now have the option to choose from existing content on your website. This is a nice feature that speeds up finding internal links within your website when you want to create a link. In the past, you either had to know the URL, or find it on your website and copy and paste it in the old link editing window.



Admin Bar

The admin bar is nothing new to people who use wordpress.com to host their blog, but for a self hosted Word Press website.. this is new. The admin bar appears at the top of your website when you are logged in. It adds tools for you to quickly add and edit posts and pages, and also provides quite a few other tools. The bar is context sensitive, so the tools available to you change depending on what type of content you are looking at.

While the admin bar can be helpful, if you find that you don’t like the new admin bar, you can disable it by going to your personal user settings in your WordPress admin area.

Post Formats

Just like tumblr, the new Post Formats enable theme developers to customize the way different Post Formats appear on the website. Supported Post Formats include: aside, gallery, link, image, quote, status, video, audio, and chat.

tumblr post format

Summary

All in all, the new features in WordPress 3.1 look to improve upon an already great platform. You can download WordPress 3.1 here or update from your WordPress dashboard.

Don’t forget to leave a comment and let us know what you think of the new WordPress.. do you like the changes? or not?

Shopp

The Shopp plugin has been around for a little while and continues to be our plugin of choice when integrating an e-commerce solution for Word Press. They offer extra modules for common gateways and shipping providers, and with the ability to modify the page templates as child templates, you can style it almost any way you want.

Shopp is an e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog. Get your store up and running in minutes. Then, take it to the next level with the flexibility of Shopp’s customization tools that allow production studios and power users to tailor every aspect of the shopping experience.

Simply Exclude

There may come a time when you need to exclude categories and pages from your feed or navigation menu. Simply Exclude by Paul Menard, makes this easy.

Provides an interface to selectively exclude/include categories, tags, authors and pages from the 4 actions used by WordPress. is_front – When the user views the Front page. is_archive – When the user views an category or tags Archive. is_search – When the user views a search result page. is_feed – When a Feed is viewed/requested.

Secondary HTML Content

Here is a handy plugin that can help you manage multi-column content. Say you want to add some content to a sidebar, but only have that specific content show up on a certain page.. this plugin makes it easy.

Add up to 5 blocks of HTML content to WordPress pages andposts. A perfect solution for layouts with distinct content “blocks”, such as a sidebar or multi-column view. When editing content, the secondary WYSIWYG content editors will appear beneath the standard content editor.

Syntax Highlighter Evolved

Ever need to post some code for a tutorial? or maybe as an example? The Syntax Highlighter Evolved plugin helps make this process simple while also adding nice formatting, and of course syntax highlighting.

[html]
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<pre><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>PHP Code Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>PHP Code Example</h1>

<p><?php echo ‘Hello World!’; ?></p>

<p>This line is highlighted.</p>

<div>
This is an
example of smart
tabs.
</div>

<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a></p>
</body>
</html></pre>
[/html]

SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without loosing it’s formatting or making any manual changes.

Headspace2 SEO

Headspace2 SEO is a powerful plugin that helps you manage page titles, descriptions, meta tags, and a whole lot more. This is one plugin you don’t want to miss!

HeadSpace2 is an all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site.

So how do you exclude categories from your feed when using FeedBurner?

The solution is easier than you might think…

Exclude Word Press Categories

We stumbled onto this little trick from jaypeeonline.net and decided to share it here.

First determine the post category you want to exclude by going to your admin panel and click on Posts > Categories, and then click the “edit” link. In the edit window, look at the URL in your browser URL bar to see the category ID. It should look something like this:

http://[yourdomain.com]/wp-admin/categories.php?action=edit&cat_ID=5
The ending number is the post category ID.

Now that you know the post ID, you can modify your feed URL to exclude it.

Original Feed URL:

http://[yourdomain.com]/feed/

Edit Feed URL to:

http://[yourdomain.com]/feed?cat=-5

Adding another category:

http://[yourdomain.com]/feed?cat=-5&cat=-6
Or try…
http://[yourdomain.com]/feed?cat=-5,-6

Sounds great, but what if we want to include a single category or certain categories in the feed and exclude the rest? Try the solution below.

Include Word Press Categories

Original Feed URL:

http://[yourdomain.com]/feed/

Edit Feed URL to:

http://[yourdomain.com]/feed?cat=5

Adding another category:

http://[yourdomain.com]/feed?cat=5&cat=6
Or try…
http://[yourdomain.com]/feed?cat=5,6

Just remove the “-” and your ready to go!

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Advertising

Noahs Classifieds

Noah’s Classifieds V8 is a Great PHP, MySQL based highly customizable classified ad application that allows users to post advertisements to unlimited categories and subcategories. This new and Hot Web 2.0 Look , Feel and Performance Features: easy install, image upload for categories and advertisements, custom fields for advertisements, customizable email notifications, category locking, pending ads, ad expiration, template and stylesheet based, most popular ads, and more. Noah’s Classifieds has been a top download for those who are serious about their Classifieds Website since 2003. Try the All New Noah’s Classifieds V8 (Just Released May 2008). Nice URL feature, new template system, HTML notifications, multiple picture upload per ad, automatic updates and much more

OpenX

The free, open source ad server trusted by more than 30,000 web publishers in over 100 countries around the world. OpenX is a powerful ad serving solution that puts control over online advertising back in the hands of publishers.

Blogs

BlogEngine.NET

BlogEngine.NET is an open source .NET blogging project that was born out of desire for a better blog platform. A blog platform with less complexity, easy customization, and one that takes advantage of the latest .NET features.

dasBlog

dasBlog is an ASP.NET 2.0 blogging application. It runs on ASP.NET 2.0, (all versions 1.9x and prior run on ASP.NET 1.1 & ASP.NET 2.0) and is developed in C#. dasBlog is an evolution of the BlogX weblog engine initially written by Chris Anderson and contributors.

Geeklog

Geeklog is a PHP/MySQL blogging tool that enables you to set up and manage a fully functional dynamic Web site.

Lifetype

LifeType is an open-source blogging platform with support for multiple blogs and users in a single installation. Writing articles is comfortable with the included state of the art WYSIWYG editor. Adding pictures and sound files (for Podcasting) is just a matter of browse and click. The Dashboard provides you with all the information you need every time you log in. Recent articles, comments and trackback as well as brief statistics get you updated about your blog immediately.

reBlog

reBlog is an open source web-based RSS aggregator which allows you to filter and republish content within one application.

Serendipity

Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage. While the default package is designed for the casual blogger, Serendipity offers a flexible, expandable and easy-to-use framework with the power for professional applications.

WordPress

WordPress is a semantic personal publishing platform (i.e., blog) with a focus on aesthetics, Web standards, and usability. It supports multiple users, categories, comments, bookmarklets, RSS syndication, several APIs, and weblogs.com ping, among other features.

Content Management

anyInventory

anyInventory is the Web’s most flexible inventory system. Features include categories and subcategories, user-defined fields, file uploads, and advanced search functionality.

DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke is an open-source Web Application Framework ideal for creating and deploying projects such as commercial websites, corporate intranets and extranets, online publishing portals, and custom vertical applications.

Drupal

Drupal is software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to set up scores of different kinds of web sites.

Joomla

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Mambo

Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.

MODx

MODx is an open source PHP Application Framework that helps you take control of your online content. It empowers developers and advanced users to give as much control as desired to whomever they desire for day-to-day website content maintenance chores.

Moodle

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) – a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. It can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University.

Nucleus

Nucleus is a content management tool that enables you to set up and maintain multiple blogs. It supports multiple languages and includes a commenting system and search feature.

SilverStripe

SilverStripe is an intuitive content management system atop a powerful programming framework.

Tandem Server

Tandem Server CMS is a website management solution for small businesses and personal websites. Our intuitive online publishing tool makes updating your website a snap for anyone. Tandem Server is free to use and requires only a basic window’s hosting plan to run so give it a try.

Xoops

XOOPS is a content management system (CMS) that allows administrators to easily create dynamic websites. It is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more. It can be installed on an Internet host with a PHP-capable web server (e.g. Apache) and a database (e.g. MySQL).

eCommerce Solutions

nopCommerce

nopCommerce is an open source e-commerce solution that contains both a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend. nopCommerce is a fully customizable shopping cart. It’s stable and highly usable. From downloads to documentation, nopCommerce.com offers a comprehensive base of information, resources, and support to the nopCommerce community.

nopCommerce is new but very popular open source e-commerce solution. nopCommerce is available for free. A solution with comprehensive features that is easy to use for new online businesses, yet powerful enough for the most demanding e-commerce expert. It’s a secure, scalable and extendable e-commerce platform.

Create and manage a professional online store with nopCommerce. Built-in shopping cart, catalog management, credit card processing, shipping calculation, template customization and other powerful tools come standard.

osCommerce

osCommerce is the leading Open Source online shop e-commerce solution. It offers shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores.

Zen Cart

Zen Cart™ truly is the art of e-commerce; a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system. The software is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce could be and should be done differently.

Galleries

4Images

4images is an image gallery management tool. Visitors can register and post comments about pictures in your gallery.

Coppermine

Coppermine is a photo gallery tool that enables you to arrange pictures in categories and albums, create thumbnails of images, search for pictures, and view slideshows.

Gallery

Gallery is the next generation of open source photo sharing Web applications. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own Web site whether you’re running a small personal site or a large community site. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Gallery to create personalized photo albums on their Web sites.

Message Boards/Forums

phpBB

phpBB™ (“PHP Bulletin Board”) is the world’s leading Open Source forum software. Distributed under the GNU General Public License, phpBB is free software, developed by volunteers from around the world. phpBB is used on over 2.4 million commercial, non-profit, social networking and community websites in over sixty languages.

Simple Machines Forum

SMF is an advanced community software package that enables you to set up and manage online community forums.

Vanilla Forum

Vanilla is a free lightweight and extensible open source forum software using PHP scripting language and MySQL database management system.

YetAnotherForum

YetAnotherForum.NET (YAF) is a Open Source discussion forum or bulletin board system for web sites running ASP.NET. The latest version is ASP.NET v2.0 with a Microsoft SQL Server backend. The full C# source code is available licensed as GPL.

Other

OpenDB

OpenDB (Open Media Lending Database) is a PHP/MySQL inventory application that allows you to easily catalog different media types such as DVDs, VCDs, CDs, VHS tape, games, books, and laser disks.

OrangeHRM

OrangeHRM aims to be the world’s leading open source HRM solution for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) by providing a flexible and easy to use HRM system affordable for any company worldwide.

phpFreeChat

phpFreeChat is a free, simple to install, fast, customizable and multi languages chat that uses a simple filesystem for message and nickname storage. It uses AJAX to smoothly refresh (no flicker) and display the chat zone and the nickname zone. It supports multi-rooms (/join), private messages, moderation (/kick, /ban), customized themes based on CSS and plugins systems that allows you to write your own storage routines (ex: Mysql, IRC backends …), and your own chat commands!

Project Management

Brim

Brim is a personal information manager which provides online management of your bookmarks/favorites, your calendar, tasks, notes, recipes, passwords and much more!

dotProject

dotProject is a web-based project management application, designed to provide project layout and control functions. dotProject aims to provide the project manager with a tool to manage tasks, schedules, communication and sharing.

Mantis

Mantis is a free popular web-based bugtracking system.

phpCollab

phpCollab is a collaboration and project management system that enables you to set up and manage a projects and share files.

PHProjekt

PHProjekt is a modular application for the coordination of group activities and to share informations and documents via the web.

Social Networking

elgg

Elgg is an open, flexible social networking engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application. Building on Elgg is easy, and because the engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea. Elgg is open source. That means, when you use Elgg, you have the benefit of being part of a large developer community, with the security and stability that hundreds of eyes can provide. It’s also headed and used by Curverider and its partners, so you can be assured that it’s in commercial use and will cope with the demands of a popular application.

Website Add-Ons

PHCDownload

A file content management and manipulation system unlike any other available on the market today, with unique innovations, tools, and design, customizing and producing your database is made easy.

phpMyFAQ

phpMyFaq is a multilingual, database-driven FAQ management system that you can use to create and manage a FAQ on your Web site.

phpmyvisites

phpMyVisites is a free and powerful open source (GNU/GPL) software for websites statistics and audience measurements. phpMyVisites gives a lot of information on websites visitors, visited pages, software/hardware utilization, etc… The GUI Interface is fun and practical. Statistics are very complete and use many clear graphics to present data. The web analytics software is translated in more than 30 languages!

WebCalendar

WebCalendar is a PHP-based calendar application that can be configured as a single-user calendar, a multi-user calendar for groups of users, or as an event calendar viewable by visitors.

WWW Paint Board

WWW Paint Board (Wpb) is a tool where users can draw dynamically on the web with VML (Vector Markup Language) technology.

YOURLS

YOURLS is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL shortening service. You can make it private or public, you can pick custom keyword URLs, it comes with its own API. You will love it.

There’s a WordPress^® plugin available for YOURLS, making integration with your blog a snap: create short URLs and tweet them automagically as you publish blog posts.

Wikis

MediaWiki

MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis.

PmWiki

PmWiki is a system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. Pages created with pmWiki look and act like normal web pages, except they have a link that makes it easy to modify existing pages and add new pages into the website.

TWiki

TWiki is a flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management system. It is a Structured Wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser. Users without programming skills can create web applications. Developers can extend the functionality of TWiki with Plugins.

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Features:

• Image Search
• Advanced Image Search
• Drag and Drop images right into your edit window.
• Easy to install and use.

Licensing:

The images provided by this plugin use the Creative Commons License with a few conditions:

• Attribution – Each image has a small watermark and a caption with a link.
• No Derivative Works – You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.

From our testing, the plugin appears to work as expected, but does seem to conflict with a few other plugins that enhance the edit window in WordPress.

Give it a try, you just might like it!

• Twitter Tools – This plugin that creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. It allows you to pull your tweets into your blog (as posts and digests) and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.
• Twitter for WordPress – Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.
• Tweetable – Tweetable is a WordPress Plugin intended to help integrate Twitter into your blog. It can tweet your blog posts as they are published, shortening the URLs with either Tr.im or Is.gd and optionally including Google Analytics campaign tags. You can display your latest tweet(s) in your blog sidebar with a customizable widget, which can even display your follower count.
• Official Twitter Widget – Widgets let you display Twitter updates on your website or social network page.
• Twitpress – Twitpress is a really simple WordPress plugin that does one thing: Every time you publish a post on your blog, it tweets an update to your twitter account.
• Bird Feeder – Bird Feeder is a WordPress plug-in that simply tweets when you publish a post. It doesn’t do anything else, nor will it ever.
• Twitterfeed – Posts your blog updates to your twitter account. Login to twitterfeed using your OpenID, provide the URL for your blog RSS feed, and how often to post to Twitter.

Follow Me Plugin Website

WP FollowMe is a wordpress plugin that allow you to add a twitter “Follow me” badge on your wordpress blog.

With FollowMe you can:

• change the color of the badge
• change the follow me label (Follow me /  Follow us)
• change the position of the badge (left side or right side and the distance from top)

What you need to use this plugin :

• a wordpress powered website (blog)
• a twitter.com account (obviously)

Testing 123 .. cross your fingers.

Here is the link to the plugin : Twit-update

Most Quick Blogcast owners want to moderate blog comments, approving them before they are made public. But when a trusted visitor leaves frequent comments, it gets tedious approving that commenter again and again.

For those trusted individuals, you can moderate their comment once and then add them to the un-moderated commenter’s list. Any future comments will display immediately. And if that person ever turns on you, it’s easy to take away the privilege.

To add a commenter to the un-moderated commenter’s list, select Comments from the Manage Entries menu. Click the checkbox in front of that person’s comment and select Approve Comment and Add Commenter from the Select action drop-down list. Then click Apply.

But that’s not all…

If you’ve ever wanted to add navigation buttons to other blogs or to your WebSite Tonight® site, it’s easy with the new Navigation Editor.

With paid Quick Blogcast accounts, you can edit your navigation by selecting Navigation from the Design Blog menu. The editor then lets you add new navigation and subnavigation items (subnavigation is only supported if you have Deluxe or Premium Quick Blogcast).

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