WordPress for BlackBerry app version 1.0 has been released. It allows you to write posts, upload photos and videos, edit pages, and manage comments. Both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.7 or higher) web sites are supported by this application. You can download the application and start blogging on the go! This application works with most recent BlackBerry devices starting with the 8700, Curve, Pearl, Bold, Storm, Storm2  and Tour.

New features in this version:

• Ability to record and upload videos from your phone. We now support both 3gp and 3g2 formats on older generation BlackBerry devices.
• Introducing support for the HD video service VideoPress.
• Streamlined UI and functionality relating to comment moderation.
• Overall enhancements to the speed and stability of the application.

You might want to check out a quick video overview of the app with all the latest features. This version of WordPress is also available for download on the BlackBerry App World.

Download WordPress for BlackBerry

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We are pleased to inform you that Panda Themes has given us the opportunity to giveaway the following three premium WordPress themes to three lucky winners.

A brief introduction about Panda Themes

Panda Themes specializes in creating WordPress themes for web developers, designers, and other freelancers who would like to have a professional design without having to pay thousands of dollars for an elegant custom web design. All WordPress themes available at Panda Themes for purchase individually in standard service, advanced service and in developer packages.

The three premium themes we are giving away are,

Portfolius v.7

Portfolio v.7 is an elegant, light and compact WordPress theme with a powerful theme panel and options to customize the style as per your needs.

This theme provides you with many other  options to style the theme according to your preferences. It’s powerful and easy-to-use theme panel allows you to,

• Setup texture and image for background
• Change color of background, buttons of menu and sub-menu, titles, links and footer.
• You can also specify the size of thickbox window that fits your needs and create additional full width pages.

For setting thumbnails, you need not resize the images. The images will be automatically resized according to the specified dimensions. You can also setup a custom thumbnail if need be. To know more about this theme, you might want to check out some screencasts.

Live Demo: Portfolius v.7

Portfolius v.4

Portfolius v.4 is a 3-column WordPress theme feasible for developers and designers who would like to have a portfolio along with a blog.

The additional homepage template allows you to use this theme as a portfolio for the design studio. Switchable layout blocks will enhance the tuning ability of the theme.

This theme sports 10 color schemes and two homepage templates: ‘Blog’ and ‘Business’. It provides you with options to switch layout’s blocks (e.g. Footer) and widgets. Thumbnails for the homepage are created automatically with a built-in script. Other features include, advertisement blocks to display ads with ease, a widget-ready sidebar and built-in lightbox effect to overlay images on the current page.

Live Demo: Portfolius v.4

Businessus v.2

This theme is built specifically for designers and artists (individuals or agencies). Businessus v.2 is a stylish WordPress theme which can be installed with ease to showcase your artworks, photographs and designs with content.

This theme has a script that allows you to showcase your recent works on your home page. The theme is bundled with a built-in options page to control many features of the theme and is available in 3 color schemes.

Live Demo: Businessus v.2

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Anyone can participate in the contest and each of the three lucky winners will be rewarded with one of the three premium WordPress themes listed above.

Entries will be accepted till February 10th, 2010.

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WordPress, one of the popular open source blog software has announced the release of its new version 2.9 (’Carmen’). You can quickly upgrade to this new version right from your Dashboard by going to Tools > Upgrade.

Following are some of the interesting stuff released from a user’s end in this new version of WordPress,

• Global undo/”trash” feature: This feature would be useful when you accidentally delete a post or comment and would like to restore it. It also eliminates the annoying ‘are you sure’ pop-up messages when deleting post(s).

• Built-in image editor: This new version of WordPress sports an image editor which allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images.

• Batch plugin update and compatibility checking: This feature enables you to update multiple plugins at once. This gives you the comfort of hassle free plugin updation.

• Easier video embeds: With the new video embed feature, you can just paste a URL on its own line and turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv.

You might want to read more about the other updates in this release here.

Source: WordPress blog

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Automattic, the team behind WordPress has just announced that WordPress for iPhone 2.1 is available now for download on the App Store.

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Automattic, the team behind WordPress has just announced that WordPress 2 is now available on the App Store.

What’s new in version 2?

• A new, more efficient 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 persistence, so the app re-opens in the blog you last used
• Added an interface for manually entering the XMLRPC endpoint for non-standard setups
• Fixed rotation-related visual glitches
• Fixed errors where malformed XML prevented access to XMLRPC endpoint
• Fixed edge case where local drafts were sometimes not saved
• Fixed the order of photos so that they’re displayed in the order they’re uploaded

WordPress 2 will install as an entirely new application on your phone, and won’t overwrite any previous version of the app you have installed. When you launch the new app, you’ll immediately see “Version 2.0? at the bottom of the screen. Once you’re no longer using the previous version of the app, you can safely remove it from your device, and version 2.0 will be unaffected.

Source: WordPress for iPhone

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Over the past two months, the WordPress team has been working on the new features for the yet to be released WordPress 2.9. The major focus of the development is to make WordPress as secure as possible.

In this new release of WordPress version 2.8.5, some security changes have been made to make all your sites as secure as possible.

The key changes in this release are:

• A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
• Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
• Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
• Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.

WordPress recommends that all sites are upgraded to this new version of WordPress to ensure that you have the best available protection.

Download WordPress 2.8.5

Source: WordPress Blog

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If you are worried about downloading a WordPress theme that contains malicious scripts or unwanted code, then you might want to to check out a new tool Theme Authenticity Checker (TAC). It scans all of your WordPress theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code.

So, what does TAC do?

TAC searches the source files of every installed theme for signs of malicious code. If such code is found, TAC displays the path to the theme file, the line number, and a small snippet of the suspect code. It also searches for and displays static links.

If TAC finds something is malicious or simply unwanted, it tells you what file to edit. It even enables you to just click on the file path to be taken straight to the WordPress Theme Editor. TAC also lists static links. All listed static links might not be necessarily bad, it just lists them so you can quickly see where your theme is linking to.

Installation

After downloading and extracting the latest version of TAC,

1. Upload tac.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Go to Design -> TAC in the Wordpress Administration
4. The results of the scan will be displayed for each theme with the file name and line number of any threats.

Theme Authenticity checker is free to use and is compatible with WordPress 2.8.

Download Theme Authenticity Checker.

Source BuiltBackwards (Via Weblog Tools Collection)

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Picapp enables publishers to gain access to a plethora of premium images updated every minute. These images can be used in your blog posts at no cost!. PicApp holds over 20 million premium images covering a wide array of categories. It’s content aprtners include Getty Images, Corbis, Splash News, Pacific Coast News, Newscom, Image Source and more.

And, it supports popular blog platforms like WordPress, Blogger, TypePad and more. PicApp provides publishers with an amazing collection of images for free.

Following are a couple its intriguing features,

• SEO Booster: A built in mechanism which guarantees that each picapp image is indexed by search engines. It not only provides you with free access to premium images but also aids your blog with additional traffic.
• A WordPress plug-in to add images straight from your WP editor.

PicApp has recently partnered with WordPress.com, which marks a key milestone and makes it an ultimate source for premium images. As an outcome of this partnership, the WordPress community users can enjoy the following features,

• Images that cover any category you can think of- breaking news, sports, entertainment, travel, food, fashion, family and more.
• Premium images from the most prestigious content partners.
• Images that are licensed and legal to use.
• Images that offer opportunities for blog readers to further interact and engage with blog content.
• Images that come fully tagged to improve blog SEO.

You might want to check out a demo of the plug-in or Download it. Don’t forget to check out the video demos on the site.

PicApp Blog

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Matt Mullenweg of Automattic, the makers of one of the most popular blog software, WordPress, answers questions from the WordPress community, including making money from open source products, migrating from WordPress.com to WordPress.org, the history of WordPress, the roles system in WordPress, core vs. plugins, blog comments, WordPress security, and more.

Source: WordPress TV

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WordPress theme generator is an online theme generator that enables you to create custom unique WordPress themes for free. It does not require any knowledge of web programming languages like HTML, PHP, or JavaScript. It provides you with options to change the colors, settings, layout based on your needs. You can customize the tag cloud, archives and search and menu layout.

It enables you to preview the theme live, save and download your WordPress theme as a zip file. It lets you design a complete WordPress theme with widget support in an easy and fast way, without any knowledge of programming languages.

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