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Wow, have you heard? WordPress has announced that the newest version, 2.8 which was thought to be held off till September has actually been a secret project. They have announced that WP 2.8 has already been worked on and will be available today!

Just in case..

Did you realize this was a April fools joke? Hopefully you weren’t to fooled, mine wasn’t as cruel as a few other out there in the web.

Well, I hope many of you have been using the WordPress plugin directory. It’s a grand location where you can find endless plugin for your WordPress blog.

But sometimes you don’t exactly get what you search for, but according to mdawaffe on WordPress, they have implemented a new open source MySQL text search engine. Well go on, test it out. Click here to continue reading

I talked about the Twittar plugin in a previous post. But learned that the read me text file was only useful for installing the necessary php code into WordPress themes that don’t have comment threading enabled.

Since most new themes past version 2.7, pull the comments section from functions.php file, that is where you have to edit the avatars in order to show the twittar settings.

First open you functions.php, and look for a line of code that says:

This is where your new comments are pulled from when you have the threaded comments enabled.

Now just find <?php echo

Well, it has taken along time, but it’s official. WordPress.org has released a maintenance release of the very popular WordPress 2.7 to 2.7.1 Click here to continue reading

Sunday Feb 8th, 09 :11am!

Hey! Any WordPress users in the Los Angeles area? Well Jason Cosper of the LA WordPress user group announced a meet up at Philippe’s French Dip located in Downtown LA. For more info head over to the Yahoo Upcoming page.

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Most all WordPress theme’s use a a simple search form to search your site. But what it you wanted to search your whole site and not just your posts.

Search Unleashed comes into the picture. Search Unleashed performs searches across all data, including that added by plugins.

Some features of this plugin are:

• Full text search with wildcards and logical operations
• Search posts, pages, comments, titles, URLs, tags, and meta-data (all configurable)
• Search data after it has been processed by plugins, not before
• Search highlighting of all searches, including titles and comments
• Search highlighting of incoming searches from

Ever wanted to display the title of a post somewhere but limit the amount of characters that are shown? For instance, this post has a very long title, and if I were to use <?php echo the_title() ?> it would show as follows: Limit the characters that display on the_title.

That may not fit well on one line in lets say a widget or small width div. So here is a neat trick you can use:

Pretty simple huh, just note the bold numbers, in this case 11 character would output like this: Limit

For your information. The WordPress fonts are as follows: the old WP logo was Dante, the new one is Mrs. Eaves. You can also find the correct logo’s on WordPress.org. Click here to continue reading

Hey, in case you are unaware, WordPress has launched a new site called WordPress.tv. Check out the full post at the WordPress.org blog. Or visit WordPress.tv

…WordPress.tv is also now the place to find all that awesome WordCamp footage that was floating around the web without a home. See the presentations you missed and get a peek at behind-the-scenes action. We call it WordCampTV.

You’ll also find slideshows of presentations made by Automattic employees and other WordPress gurus, plus interviews I’ve done with the media and

In the last post “Creating a custom widget” I showed you how to create a custom widget. Well in this post I will show you how I used my custom widget to display all post with a certain custom field from outside the WordPress loop.

In the last post I used this tag:

Now I will show you what the file showcase.php has:

Ricardo Sousa, who writes for Smashing Magazine created a great plugin called Twittar.

This plugin will use someones Twitter Gravatar if their email address is not connected with a Gravatar.

For more info check out the full post at Twitter Avatars in Comments: A WordPress plugin

Image credit: Ricardo Sousa Click here to continue reading

The time is near, only 6 hours and some change to to get your tickets to WordCamp in Las Vegas! I have my tickets, and so do 125 other at the moment.

If you have not purchased tickets and are going to be in the LV area, or planning on heading that way, well then head over to Eventvibe to get your tickets. Have I mentioned tickets yet?

See you in Sunny, but cold Vegas! Click here to continue reading

So I want to hear some feedback! Please let me know what you think so far. The theme is based on Matt Brett’s THiCK theme which you can find over at WooThemes.com.

I modified the theme to fit my needs, and looks like I have to debug some issues now that the site is live. I noticed that the site won’t parse my jQarousel without a width/height error message.

So we will see what we can do. Click here to continue reading