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We are happy to announce that WordPress for BlackBerry version 1.1 is now available. 

Thank you to the tens of thousands of  users who have provided invaluable feedback and feature enhancement ideas these past few months.

So what’s new in version 1.1:

Comment Notifications
Geotagging of Posts
Improved UI interaction on Touch devices
introduction of Touch Gestures:
Sliding a finger to the left or right quickly on the Comment screen displays the next or
previous comment.
Photo Resizing improvements with user defined dimensions
New File Browser with thumbnails support
Overall enhancements to the speed and stability of the app

We’ve also added new…

One of the biggest strengths of WordPress as a publishing platform is the depth of our community of consultants, developers, designers, and hosting providers. It can be tricky to figure out where to find pointers to awesome WordPress partners, so we’ve pulled together this mini-guide for publishers looking for help.

CodePoet
CodePoet is a directory of WordPress consultants brought to you by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. As the world’s largest operator of WordPress blogs (over 10.6 million and counting), we receive a steady stream of requests from people looking for WordPress savvy web design and software development firms. In response we’ve…

New Plugins

Custom Image Sizes

Causes WordPress to create custom sizes for your images when you call wp_get_attachment_image() and related functions

Hello in all Languages

Hello in all Languages displays a “hello” word translated to the official language of the country the visitor’s IP belongs to.

Chibipaint for WordPress

This plugin integrates the java applet “Chibipaint” with Wordpress. This allows the user to draw and save their drawings directly to the server. Features included are editing and mass deletion, editable preset and user-defined templates and canvas sizes.

NdB_UserHidden

Ndb_UserHidden hides parts of wordpress posts for unidentified end users. By surrounding private text with [hide] and [/hide] tags…

This weekend, thousands of WordPress users and developers are among the people attending the South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive conference in Austin, TX. To celebrate this, we’re throwing a WordPress BBQ at SxSW tomorrow so that there’s a place for us all to get together.

If you’re a WordPress fan attending SxSW (or you just happen to be in Austin), please join us for lunch after 12pm* tomorrow, Sunday March 14. We’re getting the BBQ from Rudy’s and the red velvet cake from Central Market. Yum! Come, eat, talk about the cool things you’re doing with WordPress, let us know what…

Sky Light

A combination blue dark and black color, with sky image as a background

Magazine theme

The theme has widgetized header, front page, sidebars, and single posts. For better SEO results, the theme uses custom fields to pull images to the front page.

Simple Things

Fixed width, 2 column theme with a minimalistic style and a touch of typography

Chirp

Chirp is a Twitter inspired Wordpress Photoblog/Videoblog Theme. You provide your Twitter information and the theme will be styled the same as your Twitter account.

5 Photo Blog WordPress Themes

5 photography WordPress themes. Each one is widget-ready, gravatar-enabled, and ready for your…

The latest version of BuddyPress includes a number of important bug fixes and is a highly recommended upgrade.

To view a list of all the fixes included since the initial release of BuddyPress 1.2, please head on over to the BuddyPress release history page.

Plugin News

We’re starting to see the number of BuddyPress plugins growing rapidly, there are now more than 125 available for you to try out. Some of most popular BuddyPress plugins currently available are:

BuddyPress Tweetstream – allow your users to sync and post to their twitter stream.
BuddyPress Like – add a “like” button to site activity.
BuddyPress…

What WordPress is to Blogging, Firefox is to browsing, so what happens when we can get both of them to get together? WordPress personas for Firefox

WordPress has released a new set of Personas for Firefox themed around, well WordPress, which you can install and use on the browser. The personas were designed by Chad Pugh and are based on Vintage Press and Inkwell.

Interested? You will find the two personas for Firefox at this link. However, you will need to install the Personas add-on before you will be able to use these as your themes.

Personas are similar to skins, which…

We recommend open source software whenever we can, and the Firefox browser from Mozilla is one of our favorites. Firefox 3.6 recently came out with persona support, allowing users to skin their browsers with favorite designs and brands. WordPress users everywhere seem to love the W symbol (at WordCamps it shows up on everything from t-shirts to iPhone skins), so it was only natural that WordPress personas would come along.

To kick it off, designer Chad Pugh created two WordPress personas based on the WordPress brand: “Vintage Press” and “Inkwell.” These two designs are a great way to show the WordPress love,…

New Plugins

WP-ZoomImage With CopyProtect

You can pop up an image or thumbnail by just clicking on it and it will disappear when you click it again

Titled Comments

Hikari Titled Comments enables each comment to have a title, so that commentators can give a subject meaning to their comments.

Scroll to Top Plugin

Integrate a jQuerry scroll to top control in WordPress manually

Tweet my Script

This plugin watches your Twitter RSS Feed for user-defined “launch codes” to trigger user-defined script URLs.

Dojo Skew Gallery plugin for Wordpress

This is a plugin to create a skew photo gallery utilising Dojo Toolkit Ajax.

Updated Plugins

AVH Extended Categories

The AVH Extended…

In celebration of my arrival in Bangkok the opposition party is apparently planning a million person “red shirt” rally. Exciting! On the bright side, “The UDD [United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship] can only afford to keep its protest going for three to five days. If the government has not fallen by that time, it will have to withdraw and draw up a new strategy.” I always pick the best times to travel. (Mom, don’t worry. I’ll stay safe!)

This weeks guest was Andy Peatling of the BuddyPress.org Project. BuddyPress is a social networking plugin for WordPress which ads many of the features found on sites like Facebook to WordPress blogs in as few as 10 minutes. We discussed how BuddyPress came about, some of the ways its used, some tips on getting started, customizing it and most importantly the features it provides. In news, there were a few nice plugin releases/updates and as always quick update on the WordCamp schedule.

PuSHPress: A PubSubHubbub Plugin For WordPress
MySQL Profiler Plugin for WordPress
WordCamp Schedule

The interview I did with Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp UK in Cardiff last year has finally made it on to WordPress.tv

In it,  Gurbir Singh of astrotalkuk interviews Matt and I.  We discuss the history of WordPress,  the open source philosophy behind it,  a little about our backgrounds, fame, and… astronomy.

Go watch the interview, it’s pretty cool.