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WordPress has launched a new service called Jobs at WordPress, which is a job board for all things WordPress. According to their FAQs, the service is currently in beta and it will be free while in beta. Jobs are categorised into:

• General positions
• WordPress blogger positions
• WordPress design positions and
• WordPress programmer positions

There are already a few job openings so check out the site if you are looking for a professional help in WordPress or if you are seeking for a freelance/full-time work in WordPress.

Source: WordPress Jobs

Technorati Tags: wordpress, blogging, jobs, freelance, career, employment, web development

WordPress has just released WordPress 2.2 (Getz) today. I will be downloading and installing it for my blogs in the next few days.

According to the official announcement, WordPress 2.2 has many new features such as:

1. WordPress Widgets
2. Full Atom support
3. A new Blogger importer
4. Infinite comment stream
5. Smart plugin detection
6. Speed optimizations
7. WYSIWYG support in a future version of Safari

I just want to say well done to the dedicated WordPress team. Fantastic stuff, and thanks for all your hard work.

Technorati Tags: wordpress, wordpress 2.2, getz, blogging, software

I am using WordPress as a CMS for one of my websites. For that website, instead of having a default category page, I wanted to have a customised category page which lists titles of all posts under that category. And I also wanted to display a category image if it exists in /wp-content/uploads/images folder. And because there was no plugin which satisfies my requirements, I created a custom category.php file in my theme folder. Here’s a snippet of my customised category.php.


<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<h2><?php single_cat_title(); ?></h2>
<?php
$current_category = single_cat_title("", false);
$image = ‘/wp-content/uploads/images/’ . strtolower(str_replace(’ ‘, ‘-’, $current_category)) . ‘.jpg’;
if (file_exists(ABSPATH . $image)) {
echo ‘<img src="’ . get_bloginfo(’url’) . $image . ‘" alt="’ . $current_category . ‘" />’;
}
?>
<ol>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ol>
<?php endif; ?>


What does the above code do?

1. Print out the title of current category
2. Assign the title of the category to a variable called current_category
3. Specify a relative file name for category specific image where image name is the title of the category in lower case with spaces being replaced by hyphens (-)
4. Check whether the specified image above exists on server
5. If it does, print out the image
6. In the post loop, print out titles of all posts under the current category in an ordered list with a link to the individual post page

Technorati Tags: wordpress, plugin, category.php, custom template

iTheme is a WordPress Theme for Mac lovers - a work of art by N.Design Studio. I love the colors and how sleek it looks!

View a demo or download iTheme here.

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I have just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.1.3. Although there is no major changes on the look and feel and functionalities, it is highly recommended to upgrade because the latest version includes fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems.

I can’t wait till WordPress 2.2 is released. It looks very promising with some attractive features as below:

• Tagging
• Permalink redirection
• Improved comment editing
• Atom 1.0 support for feeds
• Multiple format comment feeds, including Atom
• Switched to jQuery for core JS, which is lighter and faster
• Atom API support
• Additional XML-RPC APIs for pages and such
• phpmailer - integrated for performance and maintainability

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