• http://www.wpquestions.com/

WordPress has finally released an Android version of its mobile blogging app for Android for the Android Market after the iPhone and BlackBerry version. WordPress for Android is an Open Source app that empowers you to write new posts, edit content, and manage comments with built-in notifications.

WordPress for Android Features:

• Configure and manage multiple blogs;
• Comment moderation including the ability to reply to comments;
• Create and Edit Posts including categories, tags and photos;
• Create and Edit Pages;
• Get notified of new comments in the Android notification bar.

Now you can manage your blog posts and write posts in no time and on the go with WordPress for Android. Download the Android version of WordPress in the Android Market today.

• http://android.wordpress.org/

Page.ly is a new startup that allows you to set up a functioning WordPress powered blog with custom theme, web hosting and email in minutes. Page.ly is a premium WordPress hosting service that set up your self hosted WordPress blogs by automating the entire process. Your website is pre-configured with important plugins and custom themes so you can start adding new content immediately. Therefor, there is not necessary like a typical WordPress installation to create a MySQL database, upload WordPress files via FTP, modify a php file to include the database information and then connect WordPress to the database. You can install any theme or plugin that you want, important plugins for SEO and traffic analytics are pre-included for you as well. Page.ly also offer theme packs which include many major premium themes such as WooThemes and StudioPress. It’s definitely a great service for the new WordPress bloggers or someone who have no any coding experience. Without any hassle, you can create a WordPress blog with ease while retaining much more control than WordPress.com offers. Page.ly lets you create your own site quickly and has automatic nightly backups and software upgrades keep your WordPress websites safe and secure.

• http://page.ly/

• http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-beta-2/

• http://woorkup.com/2009/11/01/wordpress-visual-cheat-sheet/

WordPress 2 for iPhone New Features:

• A new user interface that makes it faster to switch between comments, posts, and pages;
• Various user interface refinements and bug fixes;
• New Comments interface with Gravatars and the author URL shown in the comment list;
• Passwords are now stored in the keychain;
• Posts are now automatically saved and restored if network connection is lost during publishing;
• Added an interface for manually entering the XMLRPC endpoint for non-standard setups.

To enable the new feature, head over to your Dashboard My Blogs admin page. In the Publicize column, check off the Twitter column for each of the blogs you’d like to enable to auto-tweet. You will be asked to authenticate each blog via OAuth, after which you’ll see a “Publicize” section at the bottom of the Publish box each time you write a new post.

To override any of the settings for an individual post, just click the Edit link in the Publicize section. You can edit the text of the tweet or turn it off altogether for that post. Note also that the connection settings are per blog and per user, so if you run a multi-author blog each individual writer will have to authenticate to their own Twitter account.

• http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/publicize-twitter/

RSSCloud was designed and developed by Dave Winer, a new RSS (Really Simple Syndication) technology that can make your blogging has become real-time like Twitter. It allows your blog RSS subscribers get the updates once you publish new contents. It changes the traditional sources of information periodically crawl into a real-time tracking, real-time display the contents. Right now RSSCloud has been first used in WordPress.com hosting platform for 7.5 million blogs. It is reported that next week WordPress team will also take this technology into the WordPress.org open-source system. Anyway you can download and install the official RSSCloud plugin first.

• http://rsscloud.org/

E-Commerce WordPress Themes

1. SimpleCart(js) is a new simple, attractive and flexible WordPress theme for E-commerce. The design bases on the WordPress theme framework Thematic and was designed and developed by Chris Wallace. Features include AJAX cart functionality, a grid layout for products, and a flexible color scheme, easy to swap out images and completely customize the theme to your needs. Nevertheless, there is no product page for the SimpleCart free version, and the featured version will be included.

2. Crafty Cart is a retro shop theme designed for the WP e-Commerce plugin for shopping cart functionality. The design features custom made “Add to Cart” buttons and a beautiful shopping cart. And the theme is full widget support, Gravatars and separate pingbacks as standard in modern themes.

3. Vanilla Cart is a clean, minimal, highly customizable and vanilla layout WordPress shopping cart theme. It fully integrate with WP e-Commerce plugin and you can easily customize logo, banner and disable/enable description at theme options.

E-Commerce WordPress Plugins

1. WP e-Commerce is the most industrial strength and feature rich WordPress e-Commerce solution. With this powerful shopping cart WordPress plugin, integrates seamlessly with the WordPress update system for search engine friendly, social networking “Share This” plugin included to easily share the products and services, accept various payment options such as Paypal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net and other trusted payment processors and provides “One Page Checkout” for quick and simple shopping experience.

2. eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features like utilises WordPress pages or posts to create products, downloadable sales data, automatic emails on successful purchase and various discount options.

3. Quick Shop adds a sidebar widget that shows what the users currently have in the cart and allows them to remove the items, TinyMCE button to easily allow you to add products, inventory listing tied in to TinyMCE, ability to create different product options in a drop-down and form method automatically included.

4. YAK Shopping Cart for WordPress is an open source shopping cart plugin for WordPress. It associates products with weblog entries, so the post ID also becomes the product code. It supports both pages and posts as products, handles different types of product through categories, and provides custom purchase options.

5. Paypal Shortcodes is a simple plugin that inserts Paypal buttons in your posts or pages with just using a shortcode.

6. ArtPal allows you create a simple and easy to use online shop solution WordPress plugin easily. It mainly supports easy Paypal integration, real-time sales updates and the professionally commercial support.

I’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker.

For the new highlights and features, please go to:
WordPress 2.8 Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8

More than 790 bugs, it’s a whole list.
Changelog 2.8: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/log/trunk?action=stop_on_copy&mode=stop_on_copy&rev=11549&stop_rev=10183&limit=100

Switch to direct download link, or you can upgrade easily via the WordPress admin dashboard panel.
Download link: http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

The upcoming highlights including:

• New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
• Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
• Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
• Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
• Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
• Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
• Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
• Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation

1. Primary WordPress Code Snippets

Display Recent Posts

[php]<?php query_posts(‘showposts=5′); ?>
<ul>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile;?>
</ul>[/php]

Display Recently Updated Posts/Pages

[php]<?php
$today = current_time(‘mysql’, 1);
$howMany = 5; //Number of posts you want to display
if ( $recentposts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID, post_title FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ AND post_modified_gmt < ‘$today’ ORDER BY post_modified_gmt DESC LIMIT $howMany")):
?>
<h2><?php _e("Recent Updates"); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php
foreach ($recentposts as $post) {
if ($post->post_title == ”) $post->post_title = sprintf(__(‘Post #%s’), $post->ID);
echo "<li><a href=’".get_permalink($post->ID)."’>";
the_title();
echo ‘</a></li>’;
}
?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>
[/php]

Display Recent Comments

[php]<?php
global $wpdb;
$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT ID, post_title, post_password, comment_ID,
comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_date_gmt, comment_approved,
comment_type,comment_author_url,
SUBSTRING(comment_content,1,30) AS com_excerpt
FROM $wpdb->comments
LEFT OUTER JOIN $wpdb->posts ON ($wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID =
$wpdb->posts.ID)
WHERE comment_approved = ’1′ AND comment_type = ” AND
post_password = ”
ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC
LIMIT 10";
$comments = $wpdb->get_results($sql);
$output = $pre_HTML;
$output .= "\n<ul>";
foreach ($comments as $comment) {
$output .= "\n<li>".strip_tags($comment->comment_author)
.":" . "<a href=\"" . get_permalink($comment->ID) .
"#comment-" . $comment->comment_ID . "\" title=\"on " .
$comment->post_title . "\">" . strip_tags($comment->com_excerpt)
."</a></li>";
}
$output .= "\n</ul>";
$output .= $post_HTML;
echo $output;?>
[/php]

Display Top Comments

[php]<?php $result = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT comment_count,ID,post_title FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 10");
foreach ($result as $topten) {
$postid = $topten->ID;
$title = $topten->post_title;
$commentcount = $topten->comment_count;
if ($commentcount != 0) { ?>
<li><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($postid); ?>" title="<?php echo $title ?>"><?php echo $title ?></a></li>
<?php } } ?>[/php]

Display Categories in Drop-Down Box

[php]<form action="<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/" method="get">
<?php
$select = wp_dropdown_categories(‘show_option_none=Select category&show_count=1&orderby=name&echo=0′);
$select = preg_replace("#<select([^>]*)>#”, “<select$1 onchange=’return this.form.submit()’>”, $select); echo $select; ?>
<noscript><input type=”submit” value=”View” /></noscript>
</form>[/php]

Display Archives in a Drop-Down Box

[php]<select name=\"archive-dropdown\" onChange=’document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;’>
<option value=\”\”><?php echo attribute_escape(__(’Select Month’)); ?></option>
<?php wp_get_archives(’type=monthly&format=option&show_post_count=1′); ?> </select>[/php]

Display Gravatars (WordPress 2.5+ Only)

[php]<?php if(function_exists(’get_avatar’)){ echo get_avatar($comment, ‘50?);} ?>[/php]

Display Meta Section

[php]<ul>
<?php wp_register(); ?>
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wordpress.org/">WordPress</a></li>
<?php wp_meta(); ?>
<li><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">XHTML</a></li>
</ul>[/php]

Display A Pages Sub-Menu In Sidebar

[php]<?php$children = wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&child_of=’.$post->ID.’&echo=0′);if ($children) { ?><ul> <?php echo $children; ?>
</ul>
<?php } ?>[/php]

Display Tags Cloud

[php]<?php wp_tag_cloud(‘smallest=8&largest=36&’); ?>[/php]

Dynamic Title Tags

[php]<title><?phpif (is_home()) { echo bloginfo(‘name’);
} elseif (is_404()) {
echo ’404 Not Found’;
} elseif (is_category()) {
echo ‘Category:’; wp_title(”);
} elseif (is_search()) {
echo ‘Search Results’;
} elseif ( is_day() || is_month() || is_year() ) {
echo ‘Archives:’; wp_title(”);
} else {
echo wp_title(”);
}
?></title>[/php]

Adding Smilies To WordPress Plugins
Add the following lines to your code right before you are outputting the string that you want to contain smiles.

[php]# global $wp_smiliessearch, $wp_smiliesreplace;
# $content = preg_replace($wp_smiliessearch, $wp_smiliesreplace, $content); [/php]

Display An External RSS Feed

[php]<?php include_once(ABSPATH.WPINC.’/rss.php’);
wp_rss(‘http://wpforums.com/external.php?type=RSS2′, 5); ?>[/php]

Display PHP On A Single Page
Allows you to display plugins and such on a single page (replace home with the page you want it to only appear on).

[php]<?php if ( is_home() ) { include (‘file.php’); } ?>[/php]

Dynamic Copyright Year

[php]Copyright &copy; 2005-<?php echo date(‘Y’); ?> site.com[/php]

Add An Edit Link

[php]<?php
edit_post_link(’Edit this post’, ”, ”);
?>[/php]

List Scheduled Posts

[php]<?php
$my_query = new WP_Query(‘post_status=future&order=DESC&showposts=5′);
if ($my_query->have_posts()) {
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php endwhile;
}
?>[/php]

Display Random Posts From Specific Tag
This snippet will create 5 random posts from the tag “news” only.

[php]<ul>
<?php query_posts(‘tag=news&showposts=5&offset=0&random=true’); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?>
</a>
</li>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
</ul>[/php]

Display All Posts In Descending Order For Specific Category

[php]<ul>
<?php global $post;
$myposts = get_posts(‘numberposts=-1&offset=0&category=1&order=DESC’);
foreach($myposts as $post) :
?>
<li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?>
</a>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>[/php]

Display the Total Number of Posts on Your Blog

[php]<?php $numposts = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT count(*) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ AND post_type = ‘post’");
if (0 < $numposts)
$numposts = number_format($numposts);
echo $numposts.’ posts.’;
?>[/php]

Display An Alphabetical Tag Cloud

[php]<?php wp_tag_cloud(‘smallest=3&largest=12′); ?>[/php]

Display External Feed via WordPress built-in Magpie Feed Parser

[php]<?php
include_once(ABSPATH.WPINC.’/rss.php’);
define("MAGPIE_OUTPUT_ENCODING", "UTF-8");

$feed = fetch_rss("http://domain.tld/feed/");
$limit = 10; // set the number of feed items
$items = array_slice($feed->items, 0, $limit);

if(!empty($items)) {
echo ‘<dl>’;

foreach ($items as $item) {

echo ‘<dt><a href="’;

$item['link'] = str_replace("&", "&amp;", $item['link']);
$item['link'] = str_replace("&amp;&amp;", "&amp;", $item['link']);

echo $item['link'].’" title="’.$item['title'].’" rel="nofollow">’.$item['title'].’</a></dt>’;

if (isset($item['description'])) {
echo ‘<dd>’.$item['description'].’</dd>’;
}
}
echo ‘</dl>’;
}
?>[/php]

2. WordPress Check Sheet

WPCandy has create a cool WordPress Help Sheet for newbies and a Advanced WordPress Help Sheet for more in deep snippets for theme designers and developers. The sheets include from the basic like basic template file, PHP snippets to styling different categories or creating dynamic page titles. Both is PDF format that you can download and print a handy paper at desktop.

1. Graphic Rating also created a WordPress Cheat Sheet that save your WordPress theme design and develop workload.

2. DBS Website created a quick reference guide and relative encyclopedia to expedite your WordPress theme development.

3. WordPress Optimization/Cheat Sheet

4. WP Toy WordPress Theme Development Check List, another excellent check list includes WordPress general codes, stylesheets, browser compatibility, pages, standard CSS classes, validate and snippet codes. You can straightly forward to download the PDF version here.

3. Related Resources

1. The blog from In The Woods has posted a very resourceful post 9 Useful Snippets for Your WordPress Functions to deeper review of the function.php code and reveal 9 php snippets to enhance your theme.

2. WPSeek a new handy tool to search for WordPress functions, function sources, template Tags, user notes and more. It’s a pretty handy tool to handle all kinds of search requests. It’s a AJAXified WordPress code snippets search engine that you cannot miss out.

3. Display Posts by Tag Frequency by DevLounge.

4. 3 Codes for a Far Better WordPress Search Page by Pro Blog Design, the snippet enhances the search default function for example show the number of results found, highlight the search terms in results and exclude certain categories from being searched.

5. 15 Useful WordPress Tricks to Make Your Theme Even Better shared 15 great snippets that make your much better.

6. Smashing Magazine resourceful posts for WordPress designers and developers.

• 10 Killer WordPress Hacks
• 8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks
• 10 Useful RSS Hacks For WordPress
• Mastering WordPress Shortcodes

7. Unraveling the Secrets of WordPress’ Comments.php File by Nettuts.

4. Further Reading

1. WordPress For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

2. Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read

3. WordPress Theme Design: A complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes

4. WordPress 2 (Visual QuickStart Guide)

1. to hit something or someone, esp. over the head with the power of WordPress.
2. the best WordPress stuff.
3. a blog that hits you over the head with the good links to all the best WordPress stuff.

• http://wpazo.com/

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8