WPscoop - Submitted news - Wordpress News

WordPress Social Network Software → BuddyPress 1.2 Beta

Stuart — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:10:51 +0000

Now alive and ready for testing is the beta version of BuddyPress 1.2. This version will work with both WordPress 2.9.1 and WordPress MU 2.9.1 or higher. We especially need standard WordPress installation testers to put BuddyPress through its paces. Installation instructions can be found in the readme.txt file.read more

WordPress Foundation Official Website

storm — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:01:55 +0000

The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software. The point of the foundation is to ensure free access, in perpetuity, to the software projects we support.read more

Group Interview of WordPress Theme Sellers

Stuart — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:23:44 +0000

Over the past few years there has been a drastic increase in the number of premium or commercial themes available to WordPress users, and more theme sellers have continued to enter the market. Some are well-known individuals or companies who have developed a reputation in the WordPress community, and others have just recently started selling themes.

WordPress 2.9.1 Released For Download

jayzee — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:38:43 +0000

After over a million downloads of WordPress 2.9 and lots of feedback from all of you, we’re releasing WordPress 2.9.1. This release addresses a handful of minor issues as well as a rather annoying problem where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts. If any of these issues affect you, give 2.9.1 a try. Download 2.9.1 or upgrade automaread more

R. Bhavesh, Founder of Templatic Interviewed

Stuart — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:51:04 +0000

Today Bhavesh Radadiya from Templatic joins us and explains why they rebranded from PremiumThemes to Templatic, as well as shares his ideas on the future of Wordpress. Templatic also gives some licenses for their recently launched, excellent WordPress ecommerce theme ‘Store’ for our readers.

New in WordPress 2.9: Post Thumbnail Images

Stuart — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:43:37 +0000

Many WordPress themes, especially those with “magazine-like” layouts, use an image to represent each post. It might just be on the front page. It might be alone, or alongside an excerpt. Until now, there was no standardized way to do this. Many themes would require you to tediously enter a Custom Field with the value being the URL you wanted to use. Often you had to do cropping yourself.read more

Useful Wordpress 2.9 Guides Not The Usual Features Post

DFalcon — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:14:01 +0000

Wordpress 2.9 – Carmen, named after Carmen McRae, the famous American Jazz singer, was released 4 days back on 18th December, 2009. Taking another step further to remain the most popular blogging platform turned CMS, this release included some exceptionally nice features that could make life really easy, other than of course, the regular bug fixes and security patches.read more

Most Important Enhancements and New Features In Wordpress 2.9

Stuart — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:49:14 +0000

A few days ago Wordpress 2.9 was made available for download. If you have been using your Wordpress administration area you may have noticed the notice at the top: “WordPress 2.9 is available! Please update now“.read more

20 ways to use wordpress other than for blogging

Stuart — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:30:48 +0000

For those of you who think that Wordpress is only a blogging platform, well, think again. To prove our point we’ve come up with a list of the most creative Wordpress themes available in term of usage. We tried to list as many examples as we could but there are a lot more out there. So if you know some themes that you think diverse to be in the list, please let us know in the comments.

WPTavern Canonical, Core, Something Plugins

Stuart — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:06:01 +0000

For the past year or so, we’ve all been hearing this term ‘canonical plugin‘ at numerous WordCamps and in interviews Matt has conducted.read more

WordPress 2.9 Officially Released

storm — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:36:51 +0000

If you’ve visited your WordPress site’s dashboard in the past 24 hours you probably noticed that WordPress 2.9 is now available to download. I know many people like to wait to upgrade to give theme and plugin authors a chance to create updates, but the new changes in WordPress 2.9 seem to be playing nice with everything based upon all the reports I’ve read. I’ve also upgraded most of my websitread more

Using Wordpress to Build Large Scale Websites with Derek Herman

Stuart — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:25:17 +0000

Ask the Expert is a weekly series here on Design Informer. Building large scale websites with Wordpress is the theme for this week. Derek Herman of Envato is this week’s expert. Derek Herman is a 28 year old web developer residing in Portland, Oregon.read more

10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9

Stuart — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:37:18 +0000

Gentlemen, start your engines! WordPress 2.9 is just around the corner.read more

Geeky bits in WordPress 2.9

Stuart — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:33:18 +0000

Thanks to Peter Westwoord's WordPress Beta Tester plugin, this blog is on the 2.9 development track again, after having been off trunk for a couple of months. That plugin makes it really easy to switch any WordPress install to the development branch, either for the next "point" release (eg. 2.8.6), or the next major version, in this case, 2.9.

WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release

SunSeth — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:33:13 +0000

2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.

WordPress › Blog » Upcoming WordCamps

Stuart — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:35:58 +0000

There are six WordCamps coming up before the end of the year, and since I like to make sure people know about it when there’s a WordCamp near them, here’s the list, with some personal commentary thrown in. If you just want the list without my asides, check out the full schedule at WordCamp.org.

Got Wordpress? Time to get it hardened - and scan for exploits

Stuart — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:16:48 +0000

With the free blogging program being used more and more, there's also better ways to protect yourself against hackers - because they're out there

SEC Launches Investor.gov on WordPress.com VIP

Stuart — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:46:43 +0000

The SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) announced the launch today of Investor.gov – a site focused on helping and educating investors: The site is built on a modified version of WooThemes Vibrant CMS Theme.

Designing For WooThemes Oppertunity

Stuart — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:28:57 +0000

By now you’d know that WooThemes has worked with the best-of-the-best designers within our industry in creating some amazing themes. But our collaborations haven’t been exclusive to only the well-known designers; instead we’ve often collaborated with designers that were relatively unheard of before.

New feature in WordPress 2.9 – the_post_image()

fluxpattern — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:01:08 +0000

In WordPress 2.9, there will be the ability to add an image to a post, as it's been known of magazine themes. The image need not be insert into the post. With the new feature the_post_image() you can use the new feature and thus control where to display.