New Plugins

LinkCurl

LinkCurl grabs related links from Google Blog Search based on post titles, tags, or categories and appends them to your entry.

Push Up

When people visit your website using an outdated browser, a subtle upgrade link is shown at the top right hand corner of the screen. They can click this link to visit the upgrade website for that browser, or choose to be reminded after a time you specify.

DRegister

DRegister (which stands for Dr. Register) is a clean and easy plugin that allows you to force your user to provide First and Last name upon registration and create custom fields and specify if they have to be alphanumeric or numeric only , plus if they are required to complete registration.

Simple AdSense Insert

Simple AdSense Insert is a WordPress plugin that provides a basic ability to display AdSense adverts on your blog.

WP-FlashTime Widget

With WP_FlashTime Widget you can add a flash clock to your wordpress.This plugin include 25 different flash clocks.

Floatbox Plus

Floatbox Plus is a plugin that implements Floatbox (a JavaScript similar to Lightview) and is based on the WP-Plugin Lightview Plus by Thorsten Puzich

Easy Picasa

A picasa plugin, insert flash album, single/multiple picture(s) by clicks.

Greg’s Threaded Comment Numbering

Numbers comments sequentially and hierarchically; handles comments which are threaded, paged and/or reversed.

Mind3doM RyeBread Widgets

Allows to extend your blog with class-based skinnable widgets, optionally arranged in page areas (sidebars).

Search Engine query in Wordpress

If the visitor comes from a known search engine, the widget grabs the used search query and shows internal blog posts that match that query.

Updated Plugins

Author Avatars

This plugin provides a widget and a shortcode which allow you to show lists of avatars of blog users.

WordPress Fortune

Fortunate is a random quote generator for your blog. It differs from other random quotation plugins in that it is designed to be hassle free - you don’t need to install or configure a ‘fortune’ database or maintain your own list of random quotes. You’ll have instant access to a selection of over 100,000 random quotes in several languages (English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, and Russian).

WP Super Cache

WP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.

Developer Formatter

Developer Formatter system to WordPress. Powered by GeSHi server-side highlight system.

Global Translator

Automatically translates your blog in 34 different languages!

Add To Facebook

This plugin adds a footer link to add the current post or page to a Facebook Mini-Feed.

Custom Field Images

Easily manage and display images in post excerpts, feeds etc. using custom fields.

Recent Commentators

Display recent commentators with gravator icon. This widget will not display you and your sites publishers.

This month there were three WordCamps around the world: WordCamp Las Vegas, WordCamp Indonesia, and WordCamp Whistler. Here’s what’s coming up in the next two months. Asterisks indicate WordCamps I’ll be attending:

• WordCamp Higher Ed NorthEast - February 2, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
• WordCamp Paris * - February 7, Paris, France
• WordCamp Germany * - February 14, Jena, Germany
• WordCamp Education Vancouver - February 19, Vancouver, Canada
• WordCamp India * - February 21-22, New Delhi, India
• WordCamp Miami - February 22, Miami, Florida, USA
• WordCamp Denver * - February 28, Denver, Colorado, USA
• WordCamp NOLA - March 18-19, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

WordPress by itself is very simple — what makes it compelling for most of its users is the wide array of plugins (and themes) available for WP. The average WordPress blog has about 5 plugins installed! Today we just passed 4,000 plugins available in our plugin directory. (Which is also embedded into everyone’s WordPress 2.7 [...]

After a lengthy delay, WordPress MU 2.7 is now available. WordPress MU is the software that runs on WordPress.com and many other sites.

This is a sync of the code from WordPress 2.7 released last December. It’s taken a while but I think it’s worth the wait as there are many bugs fixed. Besides the merge with WordPress 2.7 there are also a few new features, including Viper007bond’s admin bar which is the most user visible addition.
Check the timeline for further info.

Upgrading from WordPress MU 2.6.5 should be as easy as copying over your existing install but please backup everything. Blog databases must be upgraded but that will occur in the background as usual.

I would really like to thank everyone who helped me bring this release out and offered me encouragement along the way. I’d name names but I’m bound to miss someone! It’s great hearing what everyone is doing with WordPress MU. There’s quite a community out there!

Related Posts

• WordPress MU 2.6.1
• WordPress MU 2.6.2
• What’s this WordPress.com thing anyway?

WordPress.org plugin directory just reached its 4,000^th plugin! I declare January 28^th our official “Thank a Plugin Developer” day. To celebrate take a look at the plugins you use and love, visit the author’s site, find their contact form, and drop them a note. (Or Paypal!)

On the evening of Tuesday, January 27th, I had the pleasure to converse with Michael Pick, an employee of Automattic and also the guy behind the newly launched WordPress.TV. WordPress.TV is a new website which aggregates all sorts of WordPress content in video form. The site has already made a name for itself by showcasing many of the videos from recent WordCamps. Here is just a sampling of what we discussed during the show.

Here are some of the questions we covered on the show:

1. What is the purpose of WordPress.TV?
2. How did WordPress.TV reach fruition?
3. Will WordPress.TV feature content created by people other than Automattic?
4. What do you plan on doing with videos that seemingly disappear?
5. Can someone suggest a video that is produced with a language other than English?
6. If there were any plans to let the videos be downloadable or even a podcast?
7. Are WordPress.tv videos released under the GPL? Would love to use this stuff for company training videos

Near the end of the show, I let my curiosity get the best of me.

Plug For A Podcast: Plugins Podcast is a podcast which aims to cover one WordPress plugin a week with occasional interviews of plugin developers as well as heavy plugin users. Episodes range between 10-15 minutes and are in mp3 format. Angelo already has a podcast available on the pluginspodcast.com website where he discusses the CForms2 Custom Forms plugin. So if you’re a plugin junkie, this sounds like the show for you.

Announcements: This Friday will be Keith Murray’s last episode as co-host of the show. Please stop by for the going away party as we send Keith off to greener pastures.

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Length Of Episode:47 Minutes

Download The Show: WordPressWeeklyEpisode39.mp3

Listen To Episode #39:

Not that we do not hear enough of Ma.tt and his history with WordPress, but USA Today had a nice article on Matt, WordPress and his fans.  Mom says her son is so focused on WordPress, “Sometimes he forgets to eat and sleep. He’s a young man in a hurry. He never stops. I keep telling him to slow down.”

Also of interest, via a review on Mashable, is of a service called Errorlytics. It is a 404 redirect service that lets a website owner track 404 page hits, transparently redirect 404 pages to other content within a blog and/or website and possibly increases pageviews and SEO. They have a custom WordPress plugin for the purpose and the service is free for one domain and 5 rules. Now is it worth it? I will never use it because I do not want to depend on another remotely hosted service for my uptime. There are many WordPress plugins that acheive the same purpose and do it for free. There are many ways to handle 404 pages efficiently and with good results. This service might be useful to those who either do not have the experience to put other solutions in place or are looking to make use of the other features associated with the service. If you have Errorlytics installed, what did you think of the service?

WordPress creator Mullenweg is many bloggers’ best friend - USATODAY.com. We got some nice press in USA Today in an article by Jefferson Graham, pick up a dead tree copy today if you can to check out the article.