If you select a template that is ready to go, you’ll get Free Header Customization, all of the source files, your choice of colors, fast delivery AND support via email and 5 video tutorials on how to properly use the templates! Now is that cool or what?

So if you have a new site in mind, or just looking to freshen up an older design, do check out Adult Templates Evolution for your next project’s design needs!

You’ve probably already seen the notice in your dashboards, so I’ll keep this one short and sweet:

http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/

WordPress 3.0 is faster, stabler, and more secure, so you can focus on what matters (your audience) and let the rest fade to the background.

Custom post types, MU merge, menu editor, Twenty Ten theme, over 1,200 bug fixes… there’s so much to enjoy in this new release, we’re really proud of it. It’s the best WordPress yet, and available for a limited time for only free ninety nine.

Tell your friends, help them upgrade, write new themes that use the new features, spread the good word.

Love,
Matt Mullenweg
http://ma.tt | http://wordpress.org

According to the Codex WordPress article: “WordPress has five pre-defined Roles: Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor and Subscriber. Each Role is allowed to perform a set of tasks called Capabilities. There are many Capabilities including publish_posts, moderate_comments, and edit_users. The default Capabilities are pre-assigned to each Role.”

The article then proceeds to describe each of the five pre-defined Roles and lists exactly what each role allows the user to do on your blog. Scrolling on down to the Subscriber Role capabilities offers one word: Read.  OK, so they are capable of reading the blog if they sign up as a subscriber, but so can anyone who doesn’t register (providing you don’t have a registration requirement for blog access that is).  Originally I thought it might notify them of new posts, but subscribing doesn’t send them any emails, as it’s not an opt-in newsletter type of registration. It also has nothing to do with adding the RSS feed to their reader.

Working my way down the article and I’m eventually rewarded with a description of Read Capability.  Short version explanation: they are allowed access to the administration panel/user profile/ page only. They can setup their profile page and that’s the extent of what registering permits them to do as a subscriber to your blog.  So what’s the purpose of that?  Well,  if you so choose, registering can be a requirement before a reader is allowed to add a comment.  Legit readers will find it faster and easier to add comments if they have registered. But, depending on your discussion page settings, it could allow a spammer to sneak in under your spam controls.

I’d personally be careful about allowing comments from anyone with a previously approved comment to bypass your personal inspection before appearing live on your blog.  I prefer to either disallow subscriber abilities altogether if it really isn’t a blog needing or wanting reader contribution, or at the very minimum, that no comment appears without my approval.

Another excellent article you might want to reference is Gary Cao’s Ultimate Guide to Roles and Capabilities that he posted to his  WPHardcore blog in April, 2010.  Lots of additional information there about capability plugins and adding custom abilities to the various role levels.

Choose the template that best fits the style and design you prefer, and load it up with adult paysites with your affiliate coded link to generate additional income! Add a link to “read the review” when doing content posts on your other blogs!

Features:

Head over to ReviewsPress and check out the demos of each template. Prices start at an unbelievably low $19.95, and the package comes with a 30 day guarantee!

Ninja Affiliate is a WordPress plugin developed to imbue powerful marketing powers into your WordPress blog and could instantly double or triple your affiliate marketing commissions with almost no effort on your part. Using Ninja Affiliate, you can automatically convert any keyword in your blog to an affiliate link instantly. You can also cloak your affiliate links, track them and manage them right from your WordPress text editor.

But you’ll need to hurry! This 30 dollar discount ends at midnight, Friday, Feb. 05, 2010! Grab your copy of the Ninja Affiliate Plugin now!

Looking for a nice FREE magazine theme that works with the latest versions of WordPress?  Then check out this theme from Custom Blog Designer entitled Red Tweet.

• Features of RedTweet Magazine Theme
  Page Management – Choose which pages appear in top nav bar from “RedTweet Options” in wp-admin
  Featured Posts – Feature important posts using FeatureMe plugin
  Twitter Support – Show latest tweet on your blog
  Social Icons – Link to your StumbleUpon, FaceBook, Digg, Flickr profiles from your blog
  125×125 Ads – Manage ads from options page
  Magazine style recent posts – 2 columned recent posts area
  Ajax box with Top Rated/Most Viewed/Most Comments
  Adsense – Enter your Adsense ID in options page
  Related Posts – Show related posts below the blog post
  Share This – Give an option to your visitors to share your blog post on StumbleUpon/Twitter/Digg
  Contact Form – Support for WPGBCF contact plugin

I looked through the RedTweet theme’s files, and didn’t find anything like that base64 code, so it looks to be a nice clean template. Be sure to grab both the theme zip and the plugin zip when you download!

Says Max:

I wanted to let you know that 2.9 is available for download, in fact hopefully you already saw a notice about it in your dashboard and clicked the update button. If not you can download it here: Download WordPress 2.9

It’s had over half a million downloads already, and counting!

What are people so excited about?  Some of the headline features are global undo/trash, built-in image editor, batch upgrades, plugin compatibility checker, and easier embeds.  You can read all about it and watch a handy intro video here: WordPress 2.9 intro video

Have some eggnog for me,

Matt Mullenweg
http://ma.tt | http://wordpress.org

P.S. Version 3.0 will have a new default theme, better upgrades, dynamic image resizing, and more. See you next year!

Thanks Max, and Happy Holidays to you as well!

MaxBlogPress has just launched their Special Christmas Deal and it’s the best offer ever on some of their most popular blogger products! ==>

Here’s the full scoop:

For the next 8 days ONLY they give you the opportunity to literally snatch 4 of their best selling products [worth $328.00] at 75% OFF.

This discount offer will expire on Midnight 15th December and this package will never be sold at this price again – that’s their promise!

Here’s the most exciting part – if you had to buy these products individually you’d expect to pay a minimum $328.00 – but today you can grab all four products and get instant access for less than $90, one-time investment. That means,you’re saving $241 !

Here’s what I’m talking about:

- Product #1 -
MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate [retails for $97]

MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate The best feature I like which is the core basis of this WordPress plugin is actually the option to automatically convert your blog keywords into links to the affiliate product of your choice; the best part is that even your old keywords can turn into money-making affiliate links.

Why would you want to convert old keywords into affiliate links? Just think about this for a moment – let’s say you’ve found a brand new affiliate program and you can’t wait to promote it to your blog. You don’t have to wait until you write your next post, just use Ninja Affiliate plugin and it’ll convert the keywords of your choice into affiliate links on auto-pilot. You work once, and all the keywords you input will be turned into links that make money, without you having to edit any post whatsoever.

And how does this help you? By saving you a lot of time, effort and energy. And the Ninja Affiliate Plugin also helps you fight commission theft and cloaks your links; a must-have for serious affiliates!

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Wordpress Wizard 2.0 [retails for $97]

WordPress Wizard 2.0 The ultimate wordpress and blogging coaching program in which you’ll find a series of more than 50 videos showing you everything you need to start a blog, get traffic and earn from it.

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$365K Blog Traffic Formula [retails for $37]

The $365K Blog Traffic Formula Attract 365,000 Red-Hot Visitors to Your Blog Like Bees to Honey – Without AdWords! It’s a compilation of 8 “exclusive” interviews… 8 pro bloggers reveal to you how they get their traffic, most of it at no-cost whatsoever!

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Daily Traffic Blueprint [sells for $97 as OTO]
This is a step-by-step “to-do task” action eGuide for bloggers who are sick & tired of hunting for traffic and want traffic to come to their blogs instead.

P.S. remember, if you had to buy these products individually you’d expect to pay a minimum $328.00 – but today you can grab all four products and get instant access for $87 only, one-time investment [yes, you’re saving $233!]…

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Max Blog Press has launched a new project called “MaxBlogPress Revived” where he’ll be fixing the plugin for you at no cost. Just let him know what plugin you are having a problem with and he’ll tackle fixing it so you can use it again for your blog, with NO cost on your part.

To learn more about this project and to submit the plugin problem you are having go to http://www.maxblogpress.com/blog/219/maxblogpress-revived/