WPLover

Mike Rundle previewing his speak on Charlotte Wordcamp next Saturday. Sounds really interesting, can’t wait for the presentation to be published.

Unlike WordPress, Habari supports various different theme engines, so I’m curious how this is going to be done.

Props for not using the words “top” or “best” on the title. Contains some of the newest themes around, so check them out.

I just found this site, and I’m glad to see that it’s an actual online magazine (not to be confused with common blog sporting magazine-style theme). It’s on Issue 3 as of this writing. Go check it out.

Jeff Atwood:

it is *scary* how crappily coded WordPress is. Lesson: coding skill irrelevant and ultimately unnecessary. Only design and community matter.

Thoughts?

I wonder if anyone’s still using Typo3? This could be useful if you’re planning to migrate to WP. You can get a MU-specific plugin there, too, which may / may not work on plain vanilla WP, but at least the code should be worth a check.

WPHacks reviews Yet Another Related Posts Plugin, an interesting plugin with the additional capability of displaying related posts on your RSS feed, among other things. You can also go straight to the plugin’s page.

The words out there is that there’s a fake WP site distributing fake, modified version of WordPress (it says 2.6.4 which hasn’t been out yet) that can do various bad things to you when installed. WBTL has a list of good practices to protect yourself from these kind of things.

Quick preview at Download Squad.

Might be a good source of knowledge:

This is a place to share ideas, training materials, and whatever else you can think of that might be helpful to other people running library sites on WordPress.

A quick, helpful list.

wp-​Hyphenate adds tremen­dous abil­ity to cus­tomize the appli­ca­tion of hyphen­ation and adds fea­tures aid browsers to prop­erly wrap long urls and keep widows com­pany (a widow is the last word of a block of text that stands alone on the last line).

It’s still in beta, and if you want to test things out there’s a web form to do that.

Dougal Campbell lists some great themes for developers to use, tweak, and learn what happened under the hood.

If you’ve ever wanted to move your WP installation from a directory to another, but too afraid to do so, here’s an article to guide you.

From the dev page:

The Firefox extension WordPress Helper helps you working with WordPress by providing useful help and tools. The extension eases the fast and simple access to develop-relevant pages of the WordPress Codex.

Sounds useful. Also check the addon’s page on Mozilla. (via Blogsdna).

Custom Theme Design on building a basic theme options page. It’s short, but the sample code is clearly written and commented enough to help us learn. Worth a read.

Read it. Top to the bottom. Very informational.

Not your usual plugins list. Take a look.

It’s not every day you get to see a theme like this. This is a free theme specifically made to be used with the WordPress e-Commerce plugin. I can’t find what the license is, but if it’s GPL I’d love to see it done for a more general blogging purpose.

Hongkiat with a good collection of WordPress-related tips, tricks, and hacks.