What it means for the regular Wordpress users? An easier and stable way to access and modify your Wordpress powered website on the go. Your website maintenance now has mobility !

Some of the new changes in Wordpress for BlackBerry version 1.0 app are:

1. You can now record and upload videos from your phone (BlackBerry phones). The video formats supported now include both 3gp and 3g2, even on older generation BlackBerry devices.
2. The new version of the app now supports the HD video service VideoPress.
3. There has been overall enhancements to the speed and stability of the app.

Read more and download Wordpress for BlackBerry app version 1.0 from here.

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Features of WordPress for Android 1.0

1. Configure and manage multiple blogs

2. Comment moderation including the ability to reply to comments

3. Create and Edit Posts including categories, tags and photos

4. Create and Edit Pages

5. Get notified of new comments in the Android notification bar

Check out Demo Video of WordPress for Android

WordPress for Android 1.0 Screenshots

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A prerequisite of using Google Maps Navigation is that you need a constant connection with your wireless carrier.

But with Nokia Ovi Maps you do not have to worry about that anymore. Nokia’s Ovi Map client works just fine, both online and offline. It also comes packed with some advanced premium features such as traffic, weather, pedestrian walking mode, and voice-guided navigation.

You can download the Nokia Ovi Maps for free by following this link.

Prior to Nokia’s announcement yesterday of releasing a new version of Ovi Maps for its smartphones at no extra cost, these premium services were subscription services on most devices (with some devices having a lifetime license).This announcement helps Nokia towards their goal of making GPS navigation as standard on smartphones as the quality cameras they have provided on these devices for years.

Ovi Maps provide turn-by-turn navigation in 74 countries in 46 languages, traffic information in over 10 countries, and detailed maps for over 80 countries. Ten Nokia smartphones are supported at launch with this new free premium service offering, including the Nokia N97 mini, Nokia 5800 XM, Nokia E72, and Nokia X6. Support for more S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2, 5th Edition, and Maemo devices will be rolling out in the future.

Executive Vice President of Nokia, Tero Ojanperä said that creating and maintaining a dynamic mapping and navigation service is not easy. He also said that the company is continually updating its mapping content and it specifically looks at 250 different attributes to collect data using cars driving around various cities around the world to verify information is correct.

“Google offers free car navigation in one country,” he said. “We offer it in 74 countries. We are truly global where others are not.”

Another important differentiator for Nokia is the free access to the Lonely Planet Travel guides.

Ojanperä also stated that Nokia’s service is better for wireless operators because the service and application consumes far less bandwidth than competing mapping navigation services, such as Google Maps and Google Navigation.

These services provided by Nokia are already giving Google Maps a huge competition and it surely is about to show an exponential growth with the Nokia Ovi Maps going free.

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If you have been waiting for final release of WordPress 2.9.1 then your wait is over as WordPress team has announced about availability of WordPress 2.9.1 final. Check out completed list of fixes.

If you haven’t upgraded to WordPress 2.9 then checkout video demo of WordPress 2.9 features.

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WordPress 2.9 has many new features. Some of the noticeable features are image editing, theme search, theme upload right from your dashboard, oembed etc.

WordPress 2.9 Beta 1

(WordPress 2.9 – Image Editor)

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First of all we would like to thank Ajay Dsouza for allowing to use his WordPress plugin Contextual Related Posts. Entire Wp-Thumbie Plugin is based on Contextual Related Post plugin.  So what is Wp-Thumbie? Wp-Thumbie is WordPress Plugin to Display Thumbnail Related Posts on WordPress blog.

Currently there is only one WordPress plugin Linkwithin which provides such functionality. Unfortunately that plugin doesn’t allow any customization and that’s what leads us to develop Wp-Thumbie. Check out below list of Wp-Thumbie Features.

Features of Wp-Thumbie WordPress Plugin

1. Display Related Posts with thumbnail image automatically in content / feed, no need to edit template files

2. Doesn’t use any custom field to generate thumbnail images

3. You can manually add code to your template where you want the Wp-thumbie to be displayed

4. Exclude posts from categories

5. Exclude display of thumbnail related posts on Pages

6. Exclude pages in thumbnail related Posts list

7. Related posts based on content and post title

8. Set Thumbnail image size

9. Turn on/off Post excerpt

10. Set length of Post excerpt

11. Different Styling for displaying thumbnail related posts

You can use Wp-Thumbie plugin on any self-hosted WordPress blog without need of modifying your existing posts.  Wp-Thumbie automatically extracts first image from posts and on fly resizes to defined thumbnail size.

You can set number of thumbnail related posts to be displayed with horizontal (will be made available in next plugin update) and vertical list style or raw output format and set your own styling.

Wp-Thumbie

Wp-Thumbie Option Page

(Click on Image to Enlarge)

Requirements

1. WordPress version above 2.5

2. Your Webhost must support Php Gb Library

How to Install Wp-Thumbie

1. Download Wp-Thumbie

2. Extract contents of wp-thumbie.zip  in Wp-content/plugins folder

3. Activate Wp-Thumbie from WordPress Admin dashboard

4. If you uncheck “Add related posts to the post content on single posts” option on Wp-Thumbie settings page then you must add below code in your WordPress Theme Template file

<?php if(function_exists (‘ wp_thumbie ‘)) wp_thumbie(); ?>

Make sure wp-thumbie &  wp-thumbie/cache folder permissions are set to 777. Cache folder will be created automatically once you activate and start using wp-thumbie.

CSS Info

Main CSS ID “wp-thumbie”

List CSS ID “wp_thumbie_li”

Thumbnail Image CSS ID “wp_thumbie_thumb”

Title URL CSS ID “wp_thumbie_title”

Post Excerpt CSS ID “description”

We would like to thank Davinder of Tothepc for helping us in developing CSS for displaying thumbnail related posts and providing us default image for Wp-Thumbie.

Download Wp-Thumbie

Download Wp-Thumbie Thumbnail Related Post Plugin for WordPress.

Upcoming Features

1. Horizontal Style listing

2. Support for Custom field & Attachements

3. Ability to set open links in new windows

FAQ

Thumbnails are not displayed ?

Ans. If thumbnails are not appearing then checkout permission of wp-thumbie & wp-thumbie/cache folder permissions it should be 755.

if you see message “Php GD library is not supported” message then contact your hosting provider and ask for Php GD library.

You can see Wp-Thumbie in action on this blog

If you have any question, suggestions for new features or issues then please comment here.

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Online Bookmarking websites like Delicious and Google bookmarks are quite popular now. Most of the users prefer to bookmark online since you can access your bookmarks from anywhere. If you save a lot of bookmarks and you continuously publish bookmark postings in your blog then Bookmarks2LiveWriter is for you.

Bookmarks2LiveWriter is plugin for Windows Live Writer generates blog entry with your Delicious bookmarks automatically. You can set date filter for your bookmarks and using result preview you can format your links before inserting them to your blog.

Features of Bookmarks2LiveWriter for Windows Live Writer

1. Download bookmarks from Delicious.

2. Filter by Date range

3. Add- Remove Bookmarks before Publishing

4. Group bookmarks by first tag or publishing date, Show bookmark descriptions in list.

5. Show bookmarks as unformatted linked list, bullet list, numbered List

6. HTML output

Bookmarks2LiveWriter Plugin For Windows Live Writer

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Last week we had informed you 10^th June as probable release date of WordPress 2.8 if no bugs are uncovered in WordPress 2.8 Release Candidate 1. As Expected WordPress 2.8 final release is here today. WordPress 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed.

You might be surprised to know WordPress 2.8 has total 750 bug fixes and has been named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker.

WordPress 2.8 Overview Video

Quick list of WordPress 2.8 New Features

1. Improved widget management

2. Browse the entire theme directory and install a theme with one click from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard

3. New CodePress editor with syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor.

4. Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module

5. Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation

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You may download WordPress 2.8 Beta 2 for testing purpose and should not be deployed on your live blog. WordPress 2.8 has not major changes in Dashboard design as well as no new features apart from updates to Widget API and new theme installer.

Screenshot of WordPress 2.8 Beta 2 Dashboard

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However WordPress 2.8  Beta 1 is suggest for testing purpose only and should not be deployed on your live blogs. Due to time constraint many features was left out of WordPress 2.7 and it was decided to get them in WordPress 2.8. Hence we may expect big changes as well as several new features in WordPress 2.8.

List of Big Changes in WordPress 2.8

1. New Theme Installer (You can now search Themes from your Admin Dashboard)

2. Introduction of New Widget API

3. Ability to install Plugins in .zip format

4. Js Script Loader Improvements

5. TinyMCE 3.2.3

6. Several Bug Fixes

Check out rest of WordPres 2.8 Features

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Normally on every blog and website there is certain area like above fold, near left side, top area, where users mostly clicks or just hover their mouse referred as website heatmap. This heatmap helps you to find places where your blog & Website receives maximum clicks and user attention.

Now by using this heatmap you can optimize your blog to show Adsense ads, banners or place navigation links in those areas and increase likelihood of conversion and earnings. Here is free wordpress plugin, Heatmap plugin to generate heatmap for your wordpress.

WordPress Heatmap Plugin Generates png image showing hot and cold click zones to represent user clicks.

Screenshot of WordPress Heatmap Plugin

In order to use WordPress Heatmap plugin you need to have graphic library GD2 (PNG support needed) on your server and it can only track clicks from user browser’s with JavaScript.

Download WordPress Heatmap Plugin and Find high Click Thru Area of your blog.

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You might be surprised to know even after wordpress 2.7.1 is out fixing many bugs, security issues and several enhancements, we were using WordPress 2.5.1 until last week and some obvious reasons like hack attempts and malicious link injection has forced us to upgrade wordpress version to latest release along with upgrading all outdated plugins.

After upgrading WordPress from version 2.5.1 to 2.7.1, the one feature which I didn’t like is post revisions which was introduced in WordPress 2.6. Basically Post Revision is wiki like edit tracking system for pages and posts useful feature for multi authored wordpress blog.

You can instantly compare different versions of post and revert back to old versions. WordPress stores each versions of post revision in WordPress Database wp-posts over time, the database may grows bigger and becomes bloated.

Fortunately its very easy to disable and turn off Post Revision feature from WordPress 2.6 and above

Disable and Turn off Post Revision from WordPress

1. Open wp-config.php file from your root directory of WordPress

2. Now add following line in wp-config.php file immediately after <?php tag

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false);

3. Now save wp-config.php file in your wordpress root directory

That’s it, WordPress Post Revision feature is disabled now.

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