Unhandled Perception

WP-Snippets is a community driven website created by Filip Stefansson, dedicated to the all WordPress developers out there. Whether you you’re a pro or just a beginner, I’m sure you’ll find something of value for your theme.

Link: http://wp-snippets.com/

Utilizing the power of the WordPress blogging system, we have created a plugin which will transform it into a question and answers site. Users can register to ask and answer questions posed by others. Its a great way to foster interaction between your site members.We also include a system that pulls questions from Yahoo Answers and auto-posts them to your site, any reply’s are also posted so your site looks busy from the start.

Link: http://wp-answers.com/

(the above was generated with this method)

It’s so simple you’re going to kick yourself for not using it.

To create a post/page in WordPress which becomes a gallery of images (thumbnails):

1. Create a new page/post
2. Upload/Attach images to the post or page using the ‘Add an Image‘ Upload/Insert feature above the content editor
3. Add the shortcode “[ gallery ]“ anywhere in the post/page (remove the quotes and spaces)
4. That’s it.  All images attached to that page/post will be displayed as a gallery

Some Options:

• columns - How many columns will be used to display the gallery of images
• size - What size should the images be presented in (“thumbnail”, “medium” and “large”)
• orderby - Order to show the gallery

This is a great way to create simple galleries, listing of screenshots or a neat order display of images attached to a post/page.

Read more: http://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode

Smashing Magazine’s very large list of Free WordPress Themes, 2010 Edition.

It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since our last WordPress theme collection, but there you have it — the time has come again. Once a year we feature the most useful and interesting WordPress-themes that we are collecting over months and present them in a nice quick overview. The collections from 2007, 2008 and last year are still useful, but some of the themes are outdated or updated now.

Veign has been getting deeper into WordPress customization.  In a week or so I will be releasing the first plugin developed by Veign.

Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/…

Steps to properly block comment spam on your WordPress blog:

1. Activate the Akismet plugin that comes with your blog (located in the Plugins section).  If you don’t have it download it here.
2. Get an Akismet API key
3. Go to the Akismet Configuration screen located in the Plugins menu group (left side bar menu in WordPress)
4. Enter your key and press Update Options

Now your popular blog will be well protected using Akismet. Don’t forget to make sure all comments are moderated or you’re asking for major problems.

Very customizable with a modern feel to it. Finally WordPress decided to update the default theme.

Rose Bay Brand Oysters is a site I did in an hour (from install to completion) inside of WordPress just to see how fast I could get something completed that looked clean and professional.

Facebook officially unveiled its new Open Graph API and tools a few weeks ago, making it possible for developers and end users to easily hook their own sites into Facebook’s broader ecosystem.

Link: http://mashable.com/2010/…

WordPress is a popular blogging platform and content management system, but it can also be used for powering e-commerce websites. Although its primary purpose is not e-commerce, there are a number of plugins and themes available that will allow you to use WordPress for your online store (some are free and some are premium).

Link: http://designm.ag/…

Finally! WordPress 3.0 was released last week. Among other exiting features, custom post types are bringing lots of new possibilities to bloggers. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a side blog listing products using the WordPress 3.0 custom post type feature.

This is such a cool thing that I wish I had a need now so I could play around with it.  Wish I had an idea for this blog.  Thinking……thinking…..nope, nothing yet.

Link: http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/…

This blog is now working off the lastest version of WordPress, WordPress 3.0. Very nice. Very impressed at how each version of WordPress it gets better and better.

Without getting into what’s better, I’ll just say that I’m glad they lightened the Admin area – was too dark before.

A better blogging platform means I can bring better content without adding overhead (in the way of time).  This is one of the reasons Blogger slowed this blog down – it’s a poor platform for anything more then an occasional blogger.

Is there anything you would like to see?  What type of posts would you like to see Veign make?

Watch the video to see what’s new and exciting about WordPress 3.0

Link: http://wordpress.org/development/2010…

Looking to create a news-type website and want to use the powerful, and popular, WordPress CMS?  Check out this excellent blog post on 31 eXcellent WordPress News Themes.

Link: http://www.wittysparks.com/…

The amount of WordPress Plugins available for download are endless, to sift through them and find one or two that you can actually use can be horrendous. Quite often you can find, like a Flickr Plugins, hundreds that do the same function. Others are far too complicated for the designer as well as the user to be useable. Some are even just pointless, and use up design space. How do you test all of them? Do you rely on word of mouth? Do you ask someone to write a plugin for your tailored needs?

Link:
http://speckyboy.com/…

The administration area of a Web application is a favorite target of hackers and thus particularly well protected. The same goes for WordPress: when creating a blog, the system creates an administrative user with a perfectly secure password and blocks public access to the settings area with a log-in page. This is the cornerstone of its protection. Let’s dig deeper!

This article focuses on defending the administration area of WordPress, meaning all those pages in the wp-admin folder (or http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin/) that are displayed after a user a verified. We bolded the phrase “after a user is verified” deliberately: it should be explicitly understood that only a simple query stands in the way of an evil hacker and the powerful admin area of your whole blog. The latter is only as strong as the passwords that are generated.

Link:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/…

bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress.

bbPress is focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, and speed. We’re focused on keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing for great add on features through our extensive plugin system.

Link:
http://bbpress.org/