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If you have an occasional Microsoft Word document or RTF formatted document you want to convert to clean HTML–and I mean HTML that has no more than standard formatting applied such as bold and italics but no font or color declarations–and you have to get those documents on the internet, then it’s hard to find [...]

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Very handy WordPress Theme Generator (via WTC)

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Matt and Lorelle announce a delay of WordPress 2.2.

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NASA Ames Research Center
(HT: Matt)

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I think this is a very good move. Small Potato–who is no small potato when it comes to WordPress themes–it looks like he has well over 30 well designed themes–has just committed to switching all his themes from Creative Commons licensing to GPL.
What he’s done is very good for the WordPress community. It has been [...]

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WordPress 2.1 offers “vsual” editor and “code” editor tabs when you’re writing posts if you have the “Use the visual editor when writing” option enabled in your personal profile. What you don’t see is a few advanced options under the visual editor tab that are only visible if you press a key combination.
In Firefox [...]

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Great news for those of us who often need to move a Microsoft Word document to the web and wish to retain much of the formatting–and great news for those who wish to move Word documents to a WordPress powered website.
blog.dot is a Word document template with an associated DLL for Windows that makes [...]

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I’m get questions about what themes I’d recommend for WordPress. Here’s a list of themes that I find most suitable for tweaking for most website needs.
Cutline
Pressrow
K2
Kubrick - WordPress Default 1.5
MistyLook 2.3
Tarski 1.2
Fauna
blog.txt 1.2
Simplr 1.4.1
k2redux-warhol white
Most of the themes at wpthemes.info are quite good
WordPress.org also lists a few good themes
And of course Heminway [...]

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Had to point you to First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman which has a beautiful new website that is a great example of what you can do with WordPress as a content management system (CMS). Have we mentioned lately how much we love WordPress?

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WordPress.com opens up a new service - “VIP hosting“.

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I finally found a solution to getting Microsoft Word rich text into a WordPress post without losing all the text formating. Gets rid of Word’s web page ruining code and leaves the text formating like bold and italics in tact. Nice!
WordPress Plain Text Paste Plugin
source: The WordPress Podcast

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Hemingway for Wordpress is a top notch theme by Kyle Neath that’s got a lot of promise. I’m very happy to see that Matt–as he commented here–has made it available to users of Wordpress.com. Looking forward to where this theme is headed.

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Check out the Photoblog theme for WordPress, it’s called Click! (update: there’s a few more there now - nicely done). (from)

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Wow–a very nice WordPress theme viewer has been released. Check it out, choose a theme. (from)

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Check out the myStatus plugin for WordPress. (from)
This plugin allows you to create a number of fields specifying your current status and easily insert them into your templates. It was inspired by Merlin Mann�s post about personal status pages.

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Just started using Chitika’s eMiniMalls on this site and found a WordPress plugin to insert the Chitika code right into a post. Slick.

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Matt is Leaving CNET today. Could this be good news for WordPress and all of us who are WordPress junkies? I think so. Congrats to Matt.

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This should be the new default administration panel design for WordPress. Very nice!

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This appears to be a promising introduction to personalizing the design of your WordPress powered site.

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From the WordPress Codex site:
WordPress Lessons, tutorials, tips, techniques, and step-by-step guides for WordPress users. Whether you are new to WordPress, or a veteran, the following Lessons will help you learn more about how to use WordPress.
Our goal is to help you learn more about how to use WordPress, and how to take advantage of [...]

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Matt responds.
UPDATE: It’s been pointed out that Matt doesn’t drink coffee—I believe this is the last straw.

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There’s now a pile of themes for WordPress 1.5 available as a part of the theme competition at alexking.com. Now there’s a cool theme browser to help you find the one that’s right for your blog.

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Here’s the plugin I didn’t know I was looking for. The Obfuscate E-mail plugin for WordPress makes using email addresses on your WordPress powered site much easier and a bit more secure from spammers. If you use an email address in your post this plugin substitutes the text in the address with random ASCII and [...]

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WP-Junkies - one more place to get your fill of WordPress goodness.

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Weblog Tools Collection points to a decent looking tutorial for setting up and using their One Click Backup Plugin for Wordpress 1.5. The tutorial is a good step-by-step with lots of screen shots. There are now no excuses for not keeping your WordPress install backed up.

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There seems to be a growing list of themes for WordPress 1.5.

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I’ve finally switched this site to the latest Wordpress 1.5 nightly build and I’ve switched to a modified version of the theme The Simple Life. If anything doesn’t seem right a comment would be much appreciated.

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We’re sure getting a pile of decent WordPress themes going. Here’s another: XT2 V1.0 for WP 1.5

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Here’s a new theme called Way Too Clean 1.0. This works with WordPress 1.5 beta and it’s new templating system. This would make a good plug-n-play method for using WordPress as a CMS for your small business or church website.

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With all the WordPress installs I’ve done and maintain backups are critical. You should backup your data oten. You never know when you’re going to wish you had. With that in mind this link may be helpful.
WordPress FAQ - How do I backup and restore my WordPress database using phpMyadmin?
I previously linked to Tamba2�s WordPress [...]

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