Elegant Themes Launches New Shortcodes

Elegant Themes Launches New Shortcodes

Elegant Themes founder Nick, announced today that they are adding a new set of shortcodes to all of their themes. One of the shortcodes I’m most interested in is the Corporate Pricing Table option. This is something that is really difficult to do, some a CSS and HTML perspective. To be able to use this …

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Making Money on WordPress.com

Making Money on WordPress.com

Looking to make some money with WordPress.com? You can! WordPress.com’s TOS states that you may not have any sort of advertising on your site. But there’s another way around it. There is a support article that states you can enable Ad Control. There are a couple requirements before you can enable the Ad Control system …

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WordPress.com Adds Sharing Support via Publicize

WordPress.com Adds Sharing Support via Publicize

WordPress.com announced today that you can enable new sharing options for your posts. It is called “Publicize.” Here’s how it works. After you publish a post, you can go enable the Publicize options (Settings » Sharing). Next, you can choose which services you want to connect to your blog. Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo! Updates, and MSN …

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WordPress.com Introduces the Premium Theme Marketplace

WordPress.com Introduces the Premium Theme Marketplace

Whoa there! WordPress.com launched a premium themes marketplace? Yes, yes they did. Matt Mullenweg brought this idea to light just 4 years ago, and it’s finally a reality. To kick off the launch of the premium marketplace, the Automattic team has selected two themes. Headlines and Shelf. You can view both themes on WordPress.com as …

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Using FeedBurner with Your WordPress Feed

Using FeedBurner with Your WordPress Feed

This tutorial will walk you through adding your WordPress feed to your FeedBurner account. First though, what is FeedBurner? FeedBurner is a feed analysis tool, which was acquired back in 2007 by Google. The way it works is by redirecting your existing /feed/ to their URL, which can analyze who is consuming your feed. Let’s …

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Announcing Allure Themes by Lisa Sabin-Wilson

Announcing Allure Themes by Lisa Sabin-Wilson

Today, Allure Themes was announced by Lisa Sabin-Wilson. The new WordPress themes company is going to be a creative partnership between Cory Miller’s iThemes and Lisa Sabin-Wilson, the author of WordPress for Dummies. Here’s what Lisa has to say about Allure on their website. Smart and stylish WordPress themes designed for today’s smart and stylish …

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MassivePress, Coming Soon

MassivePress, Coming Soon

So what is MassivePress? Their website doesn’t disclose too much, but you can be assured it’s going to be, well, massive. One Massive WordPress Collaboration A coalition of like-minded WordPress entrepreneurs who think we can do more together than apart. Just enter your email address above, click “Submit” and we will keep in touch… What …

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The Upcoming WordPress 3.1

The Upcoming WordPress 3.1

WordPress 3.1 is getting really close to being released. 3.1 RC3 was released just a few days ago. So what can we expect from WordPress 3.1? Here are the highlights. New WordPress Admin Bar (here’s how to remove the admin bar) Theme Search Internal Linking Ajax’d Admin Updated WYSIWYG Editor Upgraded Password Reset functionality (#5919) …

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30 Million Downloads and Counting

30 Million Downloads and Counting

WordPress has passed the 30 million mark. As of this post, 30,396,531 downloads (and counting). WordPress had 20 million downloads last October, making it just three months to gain another 10 million downloads. WordPress.com released some stats as well, noting that WordPress.com hosts almost half of all the WordPress-powered sites in the world. Amazing work …

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Sample Data to Test WordPress Themes

Sample Data to Test WordPress Themes

So you want to install sample data into your WordPress installation? There’s an XML file that helps you do that. http://svn.automattic.com/wpcom-themes/demo/test-data.2011-01-17.xml What does this data do for me? This data will provide you all the un-ordered lists, the blockquotes, the ordered lists, the small fonts, the bigger fonts, your h1, h2, h3, h4, images, and …

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