The SimpleReach Slide is a great plugin that will show your readers a releated post while they scroll your articles. The widget is to show your readers related content while also increasing your pageviews and social media sharing.

The SimpleReach Slide is free and available to download from the WordPress site right now.

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Tumblr has only been around for 4 years and considering that WordPress.com has been running for 8 years its a remarkable feet for the blogging platform.

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1. The Google +1 plugin: This plugin lets your visitors quickly and easily add their Google+1 vote to your posts or site.

Features;

• Allows readers to vote using the cool Google +1 button
• Includes a Google +1 widget
• Provides ability to choose which posts and pages are included
• Includes 4 different button sizes
• Show/hide Google +1 counts
• Customize position of the button
• Shortcodes and styling for further customization

2. Google +1 Button: This is another simple plugin which will add the +1 button to your articles which enables readers to recommend posts.

If you want to manually add the +1 button, you can visit the Google +1 page to customize it.

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Check out and download the theme here for free.

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WordPress.com is closing in on 20 million hosted blogs on the platform. WordPress.com is the blogging service from Automattic’s brilliant WordPress software.

However, it seems as though Tumblr is quickly catching up with WordPress.com in terms of blogs hosted. Tumblr is only just short of 20 million blogs also, so look for them to overtake WordPress very soon.

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Smart 404 is the best wordpress plugin for 404 pages. We have just installed smart 404 on Crenk it has really helped our readers that were find 404 pages.

Instead of just giving out a 404 page when content cant be found, smart 404 make an effort to guess what they were after in the first place and finds appropriate information. The plugin helps improve search results, pages, posts, tags and more.

These changes really help to improve SEO as Google and other search engines dont like pages that 404.

Download the plugin here.

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Check out the full tutorial here.

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Within the plugin O’Nolan will be running a lot of different experiments to see if the WordPress community like the UI changes.

“If everything always fitted the current UI then nothing would ever change. If they fit exactly into the current WordPress UI then this would just be a patch on a core ticket and not a plugin.”

So far there is only one experiment running on the plugin, but I’m sure that will be increased over the next few months. So do you want to be a WordPress guinea pig?

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It seems like the next version of WordPress is all about adopting new technologies and killing off old ones. The new version of WordPress will now require PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5 at a minimum. Additionally, support for IE6 will be removed and users will be asked to update to a new version.

It seems as though most of the changes will be performance based, but there are some great interface changes like full screen post writing that will also be improved.

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WordPress has started bringing WordPress.com features to WordPress.org sites. Jetpack is a new plugin for WordPress.org sites that provides some amazing features. We have decided to start testing out Jetpack on Crenk and it has been great so far. Jetpack is completely and will always be free.

The Jetpack plugin includes:

• Stats
• Twitter widgets
• Hovercards
• Shortlinks
• Shortcode

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Other noteworthy features are:

• Upgrade of the linking options
• Admin bar
• post formats, meta information used by themes
• network admin, moves the Super Admin menu out of the regular admin interface
• list-type admin screens, now sortable by column, better pagination
• exporter / importer, was overhauled.
• advanced queries, again something for developers
• custom content type improvements, again developer related
• refreshed blue admin color scheme

Interested users can visit the WordPress Codec for an in depth overview of all the features that have been added, improved or changed in the recent release.

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The theme is completely free and can be downloaded now at WPcrunchy.

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Click here for the full video tutorial.

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Its completely WordPress 3.0 compatible and free to download.

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The summary lists the following changes:

• Fix XSS bug: Properly encode title used in Quick/Bulk Edit, and offer additional sanitization to various fields. Affects users of the Author or Contributor role.
• Fix XSS bug: Preserve tag escaping in the tags meta box. Affects users of the Author or Contributor role.
• Fix potential information disclosure of posts through the media uploader. Affects users of the Author role.
• Enhancement: Force HTML filtering on comment text in the admin
• Enhancement: Harden check_admin_referer() when called without arguments, which plugins should avoid.
• Update the license to GPLv2 (or later) and update copyright information for the KSES library

WordPress 3.0.5 is available for download at the official WordPress site as well for users who want to install the update manually on their server.

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Click here for the full tutorial.

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Vandelay designs has put together an amazing list of the top Real Estate wordpress themes. All of these wordpress themes are very high quality and would be perfect for anyone looking to setup their own Real Estate site.

To check out the full list click here.

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The WP Mobile Detector plugin also includes an installer that will configure everything automatically. All you have to do is install and activate the plugin.

Included in this plugin is the Jester Mobile, Anakin Mobile, Casper Mobile, Colbalt Mobile, Mojo Mobile, Viper Mobile, and Bluesteel Mobile advanced mobile themes, all featuring the jQuery framework.

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This blog is in charge of analyzing the #FollowFriday (or #FF) recommendations to create this type of reports, in this case combining their Twitter users database (with over 11 million users) with FilterTweeps, a powerful web app for searching users in Twitter.

The results of the URL in Twitter profiles show a preference by users to insert their Facebook home pages, taking the 28% of the total users. The other sites in the list are: Blogspot, 20%; Myspace, 13%; Tumblr, 8.3%; Orkut, 8%; Twitter (why?!), 6%. You can find the entire list here.

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One of the coolest features of this web app is the simplicity to use it. In the top we can find all the common search options to find our theme:

• Color.
• Free or paid theme.
• Number of columns.

Soon as we click the option we would like, the themes will be highlighted. Just by clicking on any of them, we’ll be redirected to the theme creator site where we can download it.

This is a great option to find in a simple way the theme we are looking for, unfortunately this finder contains a large majority of paid themes.

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Here are some of the facts:

• WordPress holds up to 8.5% of the entire CMS population.
• Akismet spam service caught over 17 billion of spam messages (with 18 million averages per month).
• Over 1200 free themes available in WordPress.com
• “All in one SEO pack” is the most popular plugin with nearly 6 million downloads.
• New York Times, Pepsi, TechCrunch, BlackBerry, National Geographic are some of the top sites which are using WordPress.
• WordPress 3 has nearly 14 million downloads and still counting.

Take a look to the infographic here (full size image):

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The categories we can find are: gallery and portfolio themes, themes for bloggers, e-Commerce WordPress themes, clean themes, magazine-style themes, minimal themes, mobile themes; pre-launch themes; and finally “Themes That Take WordPress Beyond.”

Take a look to the complete list here. More samples:

We’ve also announces earlier a different set of 100 Premium Themes available, published by Graphic Alerts.

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We’ve discussed earlier about the big impact generated by WordPress 3.0 and the positive feedback around it; 54 bugs were found on the 3.0 version with only two critical. We can track the errors and tickets generated in WordPress with WordPress Trac.

Since version 2.7, WordPress includes the “Automatic Update” option, which works smoothly. But if you need a manual update you can always follow this guide.

In case you were wondering about the WordPress counter, the number is over 11 million downloads now.

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Today’s counter says over 6 million downloads, and increasing really fast.

But that’s not all; WordPress.org also announced a few days ago that the plugin directory already has over 100 million downloads. Can you top that?

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