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Twitter is awesome. It’s a great tool for quick communication and an even more awesome tool for social networking. If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you know I’m quite active and love to tweet (update my status) with funny and random things, but still talk about news on WordPress.

Anyways, Twitter is only fun when you’re following certain people. If you follow boring people who tweet about boring stuff, your timeline gets backed up with boring crap. That’s boring, obviously.

Here’s a list of the Twitter users, that I follow, that tweet most about WordPress news.

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Win An All-Inclusive Premium News Theme Developer’s Package

Adii is running a special until Sunday, May 25th, where you can purchase 2 Premium News Themes, for the price of one. In spirit of this new special, Adii has also been kind enough to sponsor a mini contest over here at WPCandy. All you gotta do is purchase one of the Premium News Themes, leave a comment on this post and on Adii’s post saying you’ve purchased a theme, and you’ll automatically be entered into the contest. A random winner will be chosen from the participants and will receive An All-Inclusive Premium News Theme Developer’s Package, worth $499.95, for free. Participants also have until Sunday to enter.

Adobe Prefers WordPress Over Movable Type

It looks like Adobe prefers WordPress over Movable Type. Enough to display it publicly in the sidebar of their Penguin.SWF blog. The question is, why is Adobe using Movable Type if WordPress is clearly the better of the two?

Installing WordPress On A USB Stick

Love to tweak your site’s theme while on the go, but don’t want to mess with the live copy? Learn how to install a local copy of WordPress on a USB drive. You geek.

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By Sumesh from Blog Creativity, a blog about blogging tips, usability in design, SEO and WordPress (theme/plugin reviews, hacks and WordPress optimization).

WordPress is often praised for its inherent SEO capabilities. The option to use post slugs, clean and valid xHTML (mostly) etc. are some of the reasons for the praise.

However, anyone who inspects a WordPress theme closely will notice that there are several dozen weak points in WordPress themes (in the default theme, freely available themes and even paid themes). Some of these are caused by WordPress core functions (which were developed 5 years ago, since when SEO has evolved), while others are due to designers not willing to brave the choppy waters of SEO experimentation.

Modifying the core functions require extensive hacking (which can be done with proper tutorials), but the changes will be erased during WordPress upgrades. So, the subject of this post shall be mostly about those mistakes caused by faulty theme coding.

In this series of posts, you can read on what the SEO mistakes are, and how to solve them.

Note: The technical aspects of the solution (like code required for various modifications) is beyond the scope of this post. Michael tells me that WPCandy readers are mostly capable of doing such tweaks by themselves, but I will be glad to troubleshoot your problems (if you run into any) at the support forum at my blog.

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A few months ago I wrote an article on how to use Coda with WordPress via Clips. Well the creators of Massive Blue and Nonimage have created a site called Coda Clips, featuring a ton of clips for CSS, Expression Engine, HTML, JS, PHP, Textpattern, WordPress, and other coding languages.

While browsing through some of the clips, I noticed some tags I have never even seen before! Here’s a few that are worth mentioning:

Anyways, if you use Coda, make sure to check out this sweet resource. Oh and if you have a few of your own snippets, make sure to submit them!

I have been using WordPress pretty frequently for about a year now. I’ve written two plugins and counting for the blogging CMS, ran a site dedicated to customizing themes for a while, and have been working hard with the rest of the WPCandy team to create the third version of the site, which I’m sure will be a huge hit among the WordPress community. I haven’t been using WordPress nearly as long as other people, but I have a good feel for the system, both front-end and back-end, and I have compiled a list of 30 things I think should be changed, added, or built in to WordPress. Read more…

This is a guest post by Brady Valentino of BVPhotography.ca.

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of interviewing Ryan McCue, of CubeGames.net. Ryan isn’t the most well known guy in the WordPress community, but is an avid user, fanboy, and general WordPress lover, so Mike decided to have me interview him. So, let’s get right into this interview.

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When Small Potato gave up his baby (wpdesigner.com) to a man who goes by the name of Pawel Ciszewski, it was a sad day. I, like many others, decided to give Pawel some needed time to get things squared away and then, jump right in and take over where SP left off. Unfortunately, that doesn’t appear to be happening. It’s been quite awhile now since Pawel’s introductory post with nothing new posted since then. The post has over 200 comments and some of those comments are now appearing as spam.

Near the bottom of the post, someone ended up posting a comment showcasing how one could impersonate Pawel. Since that post, there have been people making it look as though Pawel has announced the closure of the site, theme club prices rising and various other things. I realize this is a bad situation for many of you, especially those who spent $5.00 to get into the club, but from the outside looking in, some of the comments left by the imposter’s were a little humorous. Note that the following comments were made by imposters and not by Pawel himself.

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The other day, I came across a post written by Patrick Algrim of HellYeahDude.com entitled, What Not To Put Into WordPress Themes. Patrick dove into some well known, freely available WordPress themes to see if he could uncover anything out of the orindary. Unfortunately, he discovered some things inside of themes that I find appalling. Things such as blog ranking code to theme author RSS feeds that when clicked on, the end user would end up subscribing to a feed other than your own.

For a few weeks now, there have been a number of people that have preached about how the safest way to download themes is directly from the author’s website. If what Patrick discovered is true, (it sure as hell looks that way) then this leaves the door wide open as to how to go about downloading and using WordPress themes that are not filled with this stuff.

The WordPress Theme respository is not off line but it does contain a number of outdated themes that most likely do not work with WordPress 2.5. So the question is, why are theme authors including this crap into their themes and secondly, do we really need to go through each and every theme and look for this stuff before sites such as WPCandy give themes any sort of press?

Lastly, how do you feel about this situation?