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Automattic has just released the WordPress Publisher Blog, a new blog “aimed at helping publishers get the most out of WordPress.” Various members of the Automattic team will be covering “features that are often overlooked”, “highlight plugins that extend WordPress functionality”, and “showcase interesting sites being built with WordPress.”

Well, what’s Automattic? Automattic is “a startup from a handful of people passionate about making the web a better place.” They’re a bunch of cool peeps who’ve worked on projects such as WordPress, bbPress, Askimet, Gravatar, and some sweet plugins.

There’s not much going on over at the blog yet, but if there are any interesting articles published over there, I’ll make sure to let you all know!

Depending on where you live, it’s probably pretty cold during this time of year. Thanks to WordPress, you can now proudly walk the streets with a hip WordPress hoodie. They’re made by American Apparel, so you can ensure good quality, softness, comfort and most importantly, warmness.

WordPress hoodies are now available for purchase over at the WordPress shop for $32. But why buy one when you can win one right here on WPCandy?

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According to WordPress.org, to protect their trademark they ask that if you are going to create a WordPress related site not to use “WordPress” in the domain you choose.

What’s the meaning behind this? Are sites that use WordPress in their name at risk? Is WPCandy at risk?

Although they are not lawyers, WordPress still insists that they must make it clear, “so that we protect our trademark.”

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The Crunchies 2007, TechCrunch’s “first annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year”, is currently on part 2 of 3. In part 2, readers are invited to vote for the nomination finalists, which were selected in part 1. Among the 20 categories, over 95,000 votes have already been cast. Anyways, guess who’s been nominated for “Most Likely To Succeed”? Yupp, our boys and girls over at WordPress! Let’s support WordPress and show them how much we love them.

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Social Bookmarking is now well and truly integrated into Blogging/Web 2.0 culture. We rely on it now more than we need it. How many of us use Digg, del.icio.us or any of the other hundreds of Social Bookmarking sites? The benefits for bloggers are enormous, generating extra traffic through free advertising, and for the everyday user, a quick access to interesting and useful content. In a fairly recent post, WPCandy discussed what Social Networking and Bookmarking was, as well as mentioned some of the popular Social Bookmarking plugins for WordPress.

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Some self-hosted WordPress sites tend to run slow, especially when you receive tons of heavy traffic every day. This may be a result of the amount of large files your site needs to load or inefficient coding. But there’s nothing worst than a slow site, so here are some quick tips on how to speed up your self-hosted WordPress site. These tips mostly apply to self-hosted WordPress site because if you’re site is hosted on WordPress.com, you’re already being taken care of.

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About a month ago, WPCandy released The WordPress Help Sheet, a PDF packed with PHP snippets, the basic template files, and other extra stuff for WordPress. It became pretty popular around the Blogosphere within a couple of days and was translated into quite a few languages. The WordPress Help Sheet was a great success and allowed WPCandy to become known to the rest of the world.

The WordPress Help Sheet was a good WordPress resource, but it was pretty limited and only had the basics of WordPress. I kept thinking to my self, “What about more advanced WordPress developers? They need something too!”. I felt they were being left out of all the fun. So here’s something for all you WordPress gurus…

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Coda, a Panic product, is a one-window Web development application for Macs. Coda is packed with all kinds of built-in goodies like ‘Sites’ (an organizer for all your sites), Transmit 3 (an amazingly fast FTP program) a terminal, and virtual books. Despite its price tag of $79 ($69 if you already have Transmit 3), Coda is a one-hell-of an app. I used use Adobe Dreamweaver, but when I came across Coda, I couldn’t begin to compare the two. Coda was just the app I was looking for.

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