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The developers at WordPress have been working tirelessly as usual and this release we are seeing some very practical user friendly features. This highlights the power of an open source project that encourages open discussion and sharing.

A summary of the new features are:

1. Global trash/undo feature that allows you to rescue files and posts that are deleted. WordPress empties the trash after 30 days in the same way your computer does.
2. The Built-in image editor lets you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images. Very cool!
3. Go to the Tools >> Upgrade menu to update all the plugins with one click.
4. Easy video embed support that converts a video URL into the correct embed code. Support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv with more to come. Read the rest of this entry »

With a few clicks, your whole WordPress site can look totally different. The content remains but is displayed differently thanks to some awesome coding wizardry. Fortunately for us, getting some new layouts for your site is pretty easy.

This will show you how to upload and install a new WP theme that you have downloaded. It also covers how to browse the WordPress.org themes site as well. Read the rest of this entry »

Making use of the huge range of great plugins (essentially add-on code for your website) became wonderfully easy from WordPress 2.7 and onwards.

Here we show you how to quickly and easily find and add plugins to your self-hosted WordPress website. Read the rest of this entry »

This WordPress tutorial will show you how to setup Firefox so that getting to your dashboard or posting an article is quick and easy. (Screencast Video Training included)

Take the time and follow this guide step-by-step and WordPress will be only 2 clicks away! Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve been looking for a smooth, cleanly implemented, well supported e-commerce solution for WordPress then read on…

Shopp

What It Does: Allows you to sell both shipped and digital products or services from your WordPress website. It offers a variety of different payment gateways to suit many nationalities and requirements. All major gateways such as PayPal are supported.

Who Needs It: Anyone that wants a serious e-commerce business. Read the rest of this entry »

WordPress 2.7 users: You can use the inbuilt plugin and auto install feature to install the WP-Easy Uploader plugin. This bypasses having to use Cpanel in the below example. (Go to Plugins >> Add New. In the search type “uploader” and a little way down you will see WP-Easy Uploader – Choose Install Now and foloow the prompts to have this plugin installed.)

This short video Screencast will show you how to upload plugins (or anything for that matter) using Cpanel.

Cpanel is a very common admin backend system that comes with most hosting packages.

In this case we want to upload and install the WP-Easy Uploader plugin. This one plugin gives us the ability to upload anythign to our WordPress blog. Plugins, Themes and anything in fact.

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Being open source, features in WordPress come in the form of plugins. Made by developers.

Geeks basically, that make really cool new features available by creating little applications that run within the structure of WordPress.

Hot Tip: Find new plugins and themes fast! Try our new Google WordPress search engine page.

Want to add video from YouTube and Quicktime movies to your site? Try the Vipers Video quicktags Plugin. Maybe you want to make sure the email addresses you display on your page can’t be harvested by spam bots. Go for the DBD EMail encoder.

This 5 minute screencast will show you the most elegant expedient way to try out new plugins on your site.

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