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Over 100 WordPress Video TutorialsNovember 20

Speckyboy did the amazing work of collecting over 100 links to WordPress video tutorials, ranging from simple tasks (like installing themes) to more advanced stuffs (say, creating plugins). [Link]

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WordPress Coolest Blog - Vote For Us!November 19

WPCandy has been nominated as one of the top 20 WordPress blogs, so send us some love! [Link]

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Seeing Stars: Five Post Rating PluginsNovember 19

With WordPress being used in all kinds of ways nowadays, there are plenty of sites that call for some sort of post rating system, whether it be for products, resources, or sites in a gallery. What better way to rate these posts than the classic 5-star rating system? Here are five post rating plugins that do an excellent job at storing, displaying, and sorting rated posts.

WP-PostRatings

Features

  • Easy rating form display via a function
  • Comes with a variety of rating image styles and colors
  • Customizable display text
  • Filter ratings by various groups (popular by author, year, month, category, all-time, etc.)

Download the WP-PostRatings plugin

Post Star Rating

Features

  • Easy installation
  • Show most highly-rated posts this month
  • List most popular posts at the moment and see if they’ve moved up or down in the list

Download the Post Star Rating plugin

Star Rating For Reviews

Features

  • Customize number of stars used for ratings
  • Custom star images
  • Output lists sor
WordPress 2.7 - Project Icon ResultNovember 17

The icons to be used on WordPress 2.7 have been decided. [Link]

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WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 ReleasedNovember 15

Well, with Beta 3 just being released, it looks like WordPress is making their way very nicely with 2.7. If you have Beta 1 or 2, make sure to update via Tools -> Update menu, because there’s over 160 changes. Here are a few:

  • Numerous style improvements and refinements.
  • All admin notices now go under the page title.
  • PHP Notice fixes.
  • Dashboard widget options now properly save.
  • Menu fixes.
  • New design for Quick Edit.
  • Canonical feed URL fixes.
  • Walker fixes.
  • An update for Hello Dolly.
  • Plugin installer updates.
  • Numerous font updates.
  • Updated login logo.
  • Switch position of “Save Draft” and “Preview” buttons in publish module.
  • File upload support for MS Office 2007+ file formats.
  • Media upload buttons won’t show if the user doesn’t have the upload capability.
  • Canonical redirects only do yes-www or no-www redirection for domains.
  • Shift-click checkbox range selection improvement.
  • Add New User page now separate.
  • Tag suggest only suggests tags (not other taxonomy terms).
  • QuickPress shows “Submit for Review” if user cannot publish.
  • Private posts/pages, and password-protected posts/pages are rolled into new “Visibility” section of publish module.

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