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I have a role to write articles, someone else has a role to look over it and edit and deem as feasible for reading, but what does the role I have mean?

Meta: Words or phrases marked in italic will be explained in future posts.

You have a role of doing something wherever you are at or at whichever position you are, those roles are pre-defined and involve certain things that you can do and cannot do, some times we do break rules, however with software we usually cannot.

Likewise with WordPress there are some roles that are pre-defined and have certain capabilities that you…

Otto42 of OttoDestruct, a key WordPress developer and supporter, reports that there is an “attack” on older versions of WordPress right now. The number of sites hit by this is growing every hour. Protect your WordPress blog now: UPDATE NOW!!!

Update your WordPress blog before you continue reading this post. That’s how critical this issue is.

Things You Need to Know Now

Here is what you need to know right now, constantly updated with news as we get it.

UPDATE NOW! Reports are that this attack impacts ALL versions of WordPress up to 2.8.3 and 2.8.4, the most recent release.
Report from WordPress…

We are in need of beta testers for the upcoming WordPress iPhone application release version 1.4!  If you’d like to be part of the fun and excitement and test the latest release on your device, please go and fill out a brief survey! (See update below.)

Please note that this release only supports OS 3.0 and higher, and we have limited spots as Apple restricts these beta tests to a max of 100 people. We’ll be picking the beta testers at random — and if chosen, you’ll receive an email with instructions.

Why do a beta test ? We would like to…

How to Write with a Knife: I have been a big fan of CopyBlogger for some time and I try to read their articles as often as I can, though not as often as I would like to. The above article, followed by another one in the series called “Do Long Blog Posts Scare Away Readers?“, have some really good advice for bloggers. I have implicitly tried to follow some of them because my past training and weakness for the English language, but having them spelled out succinctly is really helpful (I already caught myself making one of the mistakes…

Sam Guzik over on CoPress.org details the successful relaunch of Student Life, the “independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis”, on the WordPress MU platform:

In their evaluation of various platform choices they concluded:

“Although Drupal is also extremely powerful, we found that WordPress’s interface was better suited to a workflow that would begin to allow non-technical reporters and editors to work within our CMS.”

You can read more details about this project on CoPress.org.

[ Visit Student Life ]

We’ve decided to standardize the WordPress For iPhone application on the new OS 3.0 going forward.  We’ve seen a large percentage of users upgrading to 3.0, as have other apps, and there are new features we want to focus on which are OS 3.0 specific.  Overall, it seems like a good time to make the switch.

For those of you who wish to stay on an earlier version of the OS, be sure to grab a copy of the current version in the app store (1.3) and you’ll be able to continue using that version on early OS versions for you…

Pure Magazine

Pure Magazine Wordpress theme is, as its name suggests, theme with pure, minimalistic and usable layout, structured to focus readers attention on content and ads, rather than designer graphics. It is built for large news sites that want to highlight important content and retain readers after their first visit.

Pesta Blogger

Two column, widgetized theme with ability to resize images on the fly, designed with the 960.gs CSS framework.

Simple Magazine

A simple and lightweight magazine styled theme. Supporting two sidebars, widgets and nested comments. There is a two column version available as well.

Featuring

Two column theme, with Jquery navigation…

I love WordPress’ sidebar widgets. I also despise coding them.

I love how they let me offload menial management tasks directly to clients, avoiding all the “Change this word to another word!” e-mails. But every time I code them, it seems to involve 15 minutes of Googling, copy-pasting from a previous widget, and looking at documentation.

So I created this TextMate “snippet” to make it easier:

class ${1:PREFIX_Name}_Widget extends WP_Widget {
function $1_Widget() {
\$widget_ops = array( ‘classname’ => ‘${2:CSS class name}’, ‘description’ => ‘${3:Description}’ );
\$this->WP_Widget( ‘$2′, ‘${4:Title}’, \$widget_ops );
}

function widget( \$args, \$instance ) {
extract( \$args, EXTR_SKIP );
echo…

Stats – Stats – Stats.  They can drive everything for your WordPress site.  They can help you understand how visitors move around your site; how they got there in the first place; what are the most popular posts they are visiting; what browser and OS they are using. The list can go on and on.

I have spent a lot of time over the last few months looking for just the right plug-in to track stats on my WindowsObserver.com website and I think I may have hit the mother lode with my most recent discovery.

CyStats is written by Michael Weingaertner and…

Eximius

Eximius is a three column WordPress theme with left and right Sidebars. This free theme is widget-ready and SEO optimized. With simple yet elegant looks, Eximius is a very lightweight theme and loads quite fast in any browser. The two Sidebars can accommodate Wide Skyscraper Ads (160×600). Eximius has a textured navigation menu bar with integrated search box.

Persephone

Persephone is a WordPress theme, two-column, dark background, with a right sidebar, compatible with WordPress version 2.7 upwards, and all ready for paged and threaded comments. 3 styles to choose from – good old blue, red, green…

F2

F2 is a fast…

What is it ?
It’s a "Content System" (NOT a CMPS or CMS). Create a "Table of Content". This page will contain all links to the contents itself. Users can add comments (if the content allowed it).

A "Table of Content" has always 3 columns. You can align each column in an other way:top
middle
bottom
Assign contents to a category (there is no limit for ……..

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WordPress in itself gives you enough to make the community bigger and bigger, but then we all contribute to it bit by bit.

Here is a short poll, tell us whether you are a Rockstar user who uses WordPress  for blogging or whether you are a serious Rockstar WordPress user who develops plugins or themes that help other users.

And yes please leave your comments saying why you have the WordPress power, why it makes you a Rockstar, it would really be great to listen and learn from you.

<br /> <a href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1932746/” mce_href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1932746/”>Are you a WordPress Rockstar?</a><span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”>(<a href=”http://www.polldaddy.com” mce_href=”http://www.polldaddy.com”>polls</a>)</span><br />…

New Plugins

WP Paging

Unlike many other page navigation plugins, this one is based on a core page number function called paginate_links. Wordpress use this function for the page numbers in wp-admin. If it’s good enough to use in Wordpress core, it’s good enough right?

Gravatar Box

Gravatars are great. But many people don’t have them. Wouldn’t it be nice if, when a user was filling in the comments form, the page could automatically detect and show a users gravatar, if they have one? Or even better, show a sign up link if they don’t have one?

Fast and Secure Contact Form

Fast and Secure…