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FreeWPTube.com has released version 4 of their FREE tubesite theme, and the list of features is impressive to say the least! Designed to work with WordPress 3.0+ this new release is a piece of cake to customize without having to edit any code or even ftp a new logo! It’s all handled in the admin panel.

Features Include:

• completely settable menus (WordPress 3.0+ style). Add or remove items from top menu with ease. Create drop down menus and more. Super simple, using Menus option in admin panel
• hide or show search bar
• set the text displaying above the videos yourself (such as Latest Videos or Best Videos or whatever you want)
• choose how to sort the posts on home page (random, most discussed, most viewed, top rated)
• choose if you want sidebar left or right!
• connect the site to your social network profiles with a single click
• set favicon directly in your admin menu
• upload your site logo using admin menu, no need to ftp and change code anymore!
• if you don’t have a logo, write your site name and it will be displayed instead of logo, but still looking great
• hide or show header ad
• upload header ad in theme admin menu, no need to code
• hide or show top right menu and choose pages you want to show there
• upload footer ad using theme admin menu
• show or hide footer widget area
• set footer text (such as copyright info) in theme admin menu
• enter Google Analytics code in theme admin menu directly
• use widgets to set all your sidebars and footer spaces

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For full documentation on how to setup this theme, head on over to FreeWPTube.

The long-awaited fourteenth release of WordPress is now available. WordPress 3.1 “Reinhardt” is named in honor of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Version 3.1 is available for download, or you can update from within your dashboard.

This release features a lightning fast redesigned linking workflow which makes it easy to link to your existing posts and pages, an admin bar so you’re never more than a click away from your most-used dashboard pages, a streamlined writing interface that hides many of the seldom-used panels by default to create a simpler and less intimidating writing experience for new bloggers (visit Screen Options in the top right to get old panels back), and a refreshed blue admin scheme available for selection under your personal options.

There’s a bucket of candy for developers as well, including our new Post Formats support which makes it easy for themes to create portable tumblelogs with different styling for different types of posts, new CMS capabilities like archive pages for custom content types, a new Network Admin, an overhaul of the import and export system, and the ability to perform advanced taxonomy and custom fields queries.

With the 3.1 release, WordPress is more of a CMS than ever before. The only limit to what you can build is your imagination.

When I get pulled into discussions for ideas about how to deal with some blog issue I usually end up doing more research, and inevitably, find new products or sites that may provide a better solution to a problem. Such is the case with the multiple WordPress blog management options that are being discussed in a thread on GayWideWebmasters.

Blogs Organizer was, and still is, a great way to manage a large blog empire. It can handle new blogs built within the program as well as “remote blogs” ie:… your wordpress blogs.

But for many of us, the price tag is a tad out of reach, the program is too complex, or, like ponyboy, you just want to hang out with the WordPress dashboard because it’s familiar. You’d think that by now, someone would have put together a plugin that lets us manage a large volume of blogs from one admin panel. Plugins have been, and continue to be, one of the best things to come from the whole WordPress Open Source phenomenon. Well the wait is over! The folks at Kish Press actually heard all of those voices clamoring for a multiple blog management solution, and have developed a plugin called Kish Multi Pro.

Simply install the Kish Multi Pro Plugin on to any ONE of your WordPress blogs and then configure it to manage all of your blogs by entering the blog urls and the admin login details and you are in full control of all your blogs. Yes, you read that right … You can now manage multiple blogs that use WordPress or WordPress MU from one administration panel! The advantage of this plugin is that you can switch between your blogs with just one click on a single page without a page reload. It does not matter if your blogs are hosted on different servers or on different domains.

You can write new posts, edit existing posts, upload images for all posts, moderate comments and use feed and search features for reading and/or blogging with in realtime. Kish Multi Pro lets you concentrate on your post creations by allowing you to be more efficient and focused. Check out the video and all of the other features this plugin offers on the KishMultiPro website. For $49.95 it sure looks like it’ll make your multiple blog management a LOT easier.

Now you can easily cloak, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Unlike other link shrinking services like tinyurl, budurl, and bit.ly, this plugin allows you to create shortlinks coming from your own domain! Pretty Link Pro tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, operating system and host. Pretty Link Pro is a dynamite plugin, created by Blair Williams, for people who want to cloak their affiliate links, track clicks from emails, increase the reach of their website by spreading their links via Twitter, on forums or with comments on other blogs.

This is just a few of the features of Pretty Link Pro:

Great things you can do with Pretty Link
•Clean up / mask affiliate links or merchant shopping cart links
•Track the effectiveness of email campaigns by embedding Pretty Links in your emails
•See how many times an email is opened by creating a “Tracking Pixel” Pretty Link and embedding it in the email
•Kickstart and Fuel the SEO on your site by posting Pretty Links from your site on Digg, Twitter, Facebook, other blogs and everywhere else on the Internet.
•Create Pretty Links for private special offers (to your email list) using a randomized slug to prevent the URL from being “guessed”
•Write custom scripts in PHP, Ruby on Rails, ASP or anything else that accept parameters and use Pretty Link to make their URLs “pretty” and forward on the parameters
•Setup pretty links for your zip, pdf & binary files and track how many times they are downloaded
•Use to track results of your PPC campaigns by setting your ads to go to Pretty Links
•Track Everything!

I know I’ll be adding this to one of my affiliate blogs and testing it out asap!

Note from the developer, Blair Williams: If you have the free version of Pretty Link, please be aware that it can no longer cloak and track links, as WordPress has decided to disallow link cloaking in any plugin offered free via wordpress.org. I had to create a Pretty Link Lite that doesn’t include cloaking and a few other options. You can, however, regain all of the features outlined (in this post) with Pretty Link Pro.

It’s funny how I’ll be surfing around the web and read about a new webmaster tool and within a day or so I see someone posting about some problem and I realize the new tool I found would be perfect to solve the problem!

Such is the case when I came across ChadKnowsLaw’s post on Just Us Webmasters about displaying 2257 information and protecting your email address from the web crawlers by making an image file and putting it online instead of typing out actual text to display the addy.

2257 statements are actually pretty simple — you need a name of a real person, a real address (not a PO box or MailBoxes Etc address) and that is about it. I suggest including an email address that routes to your real address.

HOWEVER, if you are John Smith, write J. Smith or John S or even John Smythe. The spelling does not need to be correct so long as we can figure out who the hell we are looking for.

Next, when making the box with this info, make it an image file, not a text file. A text file can be picked up by the spiders, so someone looking for John Smith will find him as a Custodian of Records if he is listed in a text file, but his name is invisible as an image file.

So, the end result should look something like this:

John S
246 Balderdash Lane
Cornholing, Hampshire h1n1

as an image file.

Now that’s excellent advice Chad! And it is all well and good if you happen to have a graphics program and can make a quick .jpg to toss onto your website, but …what if you don’t? For bloggers I came across this incredible new plugin that actually converts text to an image for you! And it’s appropriately named: Image Text

According to the developer of Image Text:  ”text can be pasted as a picture in an article or page to protect mail addresses or post addresse against automated crawlers.”

Download IMAGE TEXT plugin from the WordPress site.

If, like me, you’re wondering just what allowing someone to register on your blog means exactly, read on. It took me awhile to finally phrase my search question in such a way that I was able to obtain the correct answer I was seeking. Search Engine returns for “What, exactly, are the benefits of registering on a blog site?” didn’t prove at all useful, but that’s the basic answer I was wanting to obtain. Eventually I figured out I needed to be asking about the “subscriber role” which resulted in my getting a link on WordPress.org that discusses all of the user roles and their respective capabilities. This is one of those times that knowing the proper keywords to use was absolutely necessary to obtain useful links!

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.

Got a nice email from Max Mullenweg over at WordPress.org letting me know about what to expect in this newest WordPress 2.9 release, plus some hints at what they’re working on for WordPress 3.o. 

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!

Free for Bloggers and Webmasters! Oh how I love free stuff. But beware! Some free stuff can cost you big time! I’m all for people getting and retaining credit for their hard work, especially for themes that are freely shared amongst the masses … BUT I also want to know just what is being served up off of my server. Themes and shareware that comes with a disclaimer stating I can only use the them so long as I  “don’t touch this encrypted code” giving so-and-so credit that is loaded into the footer.php file of my possible new theme is going to be de-coded before it ever graces one of my sites. I’m not going to be happy to find out I’m throwing around ads to casinos, launching popups, relaying hacking / tracking information, or installing malware viruses just because I want to use the pretty free theme.  And it should concern you as well.

Not sure yet what I’m talking about? Read on.

After you download a batch of free template themes, or even some shareware files are doing this too, go into them one by one, and open the footer.php with something like Wordpad, Notepad or Dreamweaver.  If you see encoded files or rather scripts where you can’t see or modify the source then you’ll want to get that decoded. These encrypted files can be identified by the starting line which is like: eval(gzinflate(str_rot13(base64_decode. Then it goes on with a mass of random numbers, letters and characters like ‘FZi3ksTWEVJ/hZnITwDvV’ and so on.

You can use the method outlined here on Proxyutza.com to create a little script in three steps that will let you decode and actually see what has been included in that free theme or shareware file before you upload it to your site.

I haven’t always checked what’s in some of the themes I’ve mentioned in the past, but I will be diligent about doing so from here on out. Be especially cautious about downloads on sites that aren’t the “original” site for the theme. It is easy enough to setup a “free template” site and host a bunch of themes that the guy has added his nasty encoded scripts into.  Just one theme tonight we looked at using contained a multiple scenario of malicious malware installs, casino popups, and other timed ads. What a load of rubbish! So protect yourself, your clients and your server … find out what’s in those encoded footers before installing them!