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Orange

Orange consists of a fluid three column outfit, with widgetized sidebars and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled and Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel.

Emphasis

Emphasis is the newest WordPress theme release from Jasonetics. It is a very simple theme, with subtle colors. The posts are bordered with a very light grey, and the links are green and hover orange. This theme is called emphasis because almost all of the focus is on the content and posts.

Helium

Three column, widget ready, gravatar ready theme with ability to post images to index page automatically

Blue Grace

Blue Grace is a simple three column WordPress theme with a rotating header image

Fancy

Two column WordPress theme which really lets your blog stand out from the crowd. Make your blog unique by changing the main blog color (pink, yellow, green), background pattern (available over 20 background variations), banner etc through an options page. In addition you have the ability to choose the color of sidebar blocks (violet, yellow, green).

Acosmin v4

Two column, white and grey, gravatar theme with ad ready stops with psd files included

Hello Red

Hello Red is a 2 column red, white, and black, widget ready WordPress theme.

Retrospective

Three column, widget ready, fast loading, search engine optimized theme

On the subject of themes, Matt has a tutorial Separating Pings from Comments in WordPress 2.7.

I have noticed a lot of requests for censored word replacement, but there does not seem to be anything out there that works properly. Instead of replacing censored words with good words or asterisks…

One of the things I’ve noticed since using WordPress is that after you install a number of plugins, it becomes clear that there is no standard for where to place the plugin configuration link. Sometimes, the configuration link for a plugin shows up in the dashboard while other times, the link appears within the Manage panel. To top things off, many of the plugins provide links to their specific settings in the Settings panel. How much time do you think you have wasted so far by always searching for a particular plugins settings page?

Over the weekend, I happened to come across a post written by Andrew Rickmann which showcased an idea to create a configure link next next to the usual Activate/Deactivate Edit links found within the Plugin Management panel.

Andrew’s point of view is that, instead of adding top level menu items to the WordPress administration panels, it would be far easier to click on a configure link that would open up a sliding panel which would present anywhere from 1-5 configurable settings. Not only does this idea make configuring plugins faster, but it makes browsing the WordPress administration panel much easier as the top level navigation system is not filled with links. On top of that, the configure link makes complete sense to be located next to the Deactivate/Edit links. In doing so, configuration options are in a predictable location.

In my opinion, here are a couple of reasons why we are not seeing something like this already being used. Number one, WordPress is open source meaning anytime you try to implement anything close to a standard, it probably won’t work. People will come up with their own solutions to the problem which is one of the beauties of Open Source but can also be a contributing problem. Secondly, this was brought up over two years ago. You can see the initial forum thread here and the post on the WP-Hackers Mailing List from Owen here. Considering we have gone two years without any move towards a solution such as the one Andrew suggested, perhaps we will always be at the mercy as to where plugin authors place their configuration links.

Plugin authors can bring up the fact that they provide directions within their readme files that indicate where to find the configuration page. While they may help in the short term, that doesn’t solve the root of the overall problem. Andrew’s idea is something that can be implemented by plugin authors right now. In terms of something like this being added to the core, according to Andrew, the process is so simple, it probably doesn’t need to be added.

Where do you stand on this issue? Would you like to see more plugin authors implement Andrew’s idea into their own plugin or is there a better alternative?

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by *vB-Italy.org* (http://www.vb-italy.org/) - Italian vBulletin Support Forum

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This product will add an account manager box under (or everywhere you…

*English:*
What Does it?:This hack will add to your FORUMHOME Popular Members.

*Install:*
+Go to admin Cp
+Plugin System -> Manage Products -> [Add/Import Product] -> Select
…

This Mod will auto add Double Navigation, do not need Template edit.

*Features:*
- Enable/Disable Hack?
- Choose the placement Navbar
- Allowed StyleID
- Show button only for Member
- Show image…

*English:*
What Does it?:This hack will add to your FORUMHOME Popular Forums.

*Install:*
+Go to admin Cp
+Plugin System -> Manage Products -> [Add/Import Product] -> Select
…

hi all,

*About this mini Mod:*
simply this hack take your code from options and show it under all header styles

*Installation:*
Import XML file (as product): AdminCP > Plugin System > Manage…

hi there,

first of all I am sorry about my english, if you can’t stand to read just click install
This hack find the advanced options to prevent copies of the topics easily (which i mean source…

*English:*
What Does it?:This hack will add to your FORUMHOME Top X Album.

*Install:*
+Go to admin Cp
+Plugin System -> Manage Products -> [Add/Import Product] -> Select
…

Episode 23 of WordPress Weekly is now ready for your consumption. In this episode, Keith and I discuss the IntenseDebate acquisition and what that means for both WordPress.com and WordPress.org while also discussing the business aspects of the deal. We also give our thoughts on the developmental version of WordPress 2.7 thus far. We highlight the fact that there has been at least two differen UI surveys available to the public highlighting the increased awareness as well as end user participation into the final product. There is a major difference between the way the UI is being handled in terms of end user feedback between WordPress 2.5 and WordPress 2.7. Last but not least, Keith and I give you our plugin picks up the week.

Stories Discussed On The Show:

Automattic acquires IntenseDebate

Wordpress 2.7 - Tentatively Scheduled For Release On November 10th

WordPress Usability Surveys: / Navigation Options / Where To Put That Search Box 

WordPress 2.7 Comment Enhancements

Didn’t get the chance to mention this on the show but I wanted to pass along a happy birthday to WPCandy.com as they have turned 1 year old.

Plugins Of The Week:

Jeff - Insights by Vladimir Prelovac

Keith - Progressive License v1.0 (Alex King / Crowd Favorite)

Announcements:

Hallsofmontezuma otherwise known as Michael Torbert will be appearing on the first half hour of WordPress Weekly episode 24 Friday October 10th, 2008 at 8 P.M. EST. During this interview, we’ll be covering what it takes to write plugins for WordPress, what it’s like to maintain a plugin used by plenty of WordPress users and much more. If you have questions for this plugin author, be sure to show up during the live stream and ask them in the chatroom or, you can ask them here in the comments.

Also, pay attention to the podcast feed as later this week, you’ll receive a dose of extra content that is not directly related to the podcast.

Thanks to Ryan Mccue, we now have an IRC room setup for the show for those who are technically savvy and who don’t enjoy the Talkshoe interface. Once I receive the IRC information, I’ll pass it along.

WPWeekly Meta:

Next Episode: Friday October 10th, 2008 8P.M. EST

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Length Of Episode: 1 Hour 3 Minutes

Download The Show: WordPressWeeklyEpisode23.mp3

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vBadvanced Dynamics v1.0.3 has been released and is now available in the Members’ Area here for current license holders, or through our Software Products (http://www.vbadvanced.com/products.php) link for new customers. Though this new release is mostly a maintenance release to fix all currently…

We are pleased to announce IP.Board 2.3.6 is now available

This update includes all previously released updates and introduces enhanced spam prevention measures.

• The included CAPTCHA system in IP.Board has been enhanced in an effort combat spam-bot (automated script) registrations.
• Introduces support for reCAPTCHA

What is reCAPTCHA?

The reCAPTCHA service is a widely-used system to minimize the impact of spam-bot registrations and form submissions all over the Internet. While no system is perfect, we believe that by implementing a system like reCAPTCHA which is constantly being updated will help to mitigate spam registrations. The reCAPTCHA service is updated remotely so updates can usually be “pushed” to your community without any intervention from you. This means that as spammers get more creative: so does your forum’s ability to combat them.

The upcoming IP.Board 3.0 release already includes support for reCAPTCHA by default.

How to use reCAPTCHA

The code needed to implement reCAPTCHA support is included in IP.Board 2.3.6 automatically. Simply check that it is enabled in your IP.Board AdminCP under the Security and Privacy section of Tools and Settings or try to register a new account to verify. All new installations of IP.Board 2.3.6 will have this setting already enabled.

IP.Board 2.3.6 has a special global key for reCAPTCHA shipped with it which enables reCAPTCHA without you having to configure IP.Board at all. You can also go to http://www.recaptcha.net and get your own keys for your own use if you do not want to use our included keys.

Note: reCAPTCHA is optional and the standard IP.Board CAPTCHA system still exists in 2.3.6 (and has been enhanced) if you prefer this system over the reCAPTCH service. You can change those options in the AdminCP under Security and Privacy in Tools and Settings.

Downloading IP.Board 2.3.6

You can download IP.Board 2.3.6 in the IPS client area. You can also download a package which contains changed files only from 2.3.5 to 2.3.6 for easier upgrading.

Please contact our technical support staff if you need assistance. As always with new releases, responses from technical support may take slightly longer than usual as we work through the requests.

Component Updates

We have updated our components to use the new CAPTCHA system as well. These updates are only needed if you use the guest-posting CAPTCHA functions in these components. If you do not use that capability (i.e. you do not allow guest posting) then these updates may not be required.

• IP.Blog 1.4.2
• IP.Gallery 2.2.4
• IP.Downloads 1.2.2

Again, the updates for the components are only for compatibility with the new CAPTCHA system which is only used in components with guest posting enabled. No other features or enhancements are included in these updates. It is only necessary to upgrade if you use the guest-posting CAPTCHA in the components.

Our thanks to reCAPTCHA and Ben on their support team for assisting us in releasing this update quickly with a global key. Thousands of IP.Board users thank you for your service that helps to mitigate spam headaches.

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*[left]*Description:*
This MOD Make A New Postbit Attachment.

*Features:
*- On/Off Hack?
-Content of Noted in Attachment.

*How to install?