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Recently one of our customers that uses bbPress to drive his forums approached us with a unique request: He wanted to let people upload images with their posts. But, as you might know, there is no such feature in bbPress nor is there any plugin that will allow that to occur. So we created a set of plugins that introduces that functionality.

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TinyURL.com and its competitors are useful sites. They let people convert long URLs into short encoded URLs, and that makes them easier to read in Web posts and in email. But, as nifty as short encoded URLs might, they are also highly dangerous.

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As you know, Wordpress lets you upload media files, but other than that there’s no built-in way to handle other files that might be part of your site. So nearly everyone has to use FTP at some point. We recently found an old plugin designed for Wordpress 1.5 that adds file management capabilities. However, being as old as it was, it needed some considerable work.

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Subscribing to blogs via email is handy, especially for those of us who prefer to use an email client instead of an RSS reader. It’s also using to help us all become aware that a site has new content.

Recently one of our clients told us that they needed a plugin that can send their blog posts out in email. There are a couple of plugins that can provide that functionality, but each one can only send out email when a new post is published, which might overload readers if you post new content frequently. None of the existing plugins provide a way to send out weekly digests. So we solved that problem with our Content Notification plugin.

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Just about everybody wants to get their site linked on other sites. After all, having incoming links to your site helps boost your page rank in search engines. We created a plugin for Wordpress that lets people submit their own links to a Wordpress blog.

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Some time back a customer asked us for a plugin to use in the Pligg system that could import RSS feeds as new posts. We located a plugin but we found that its management interface was poorly organized and that there were also certain features lacking. So we extended the plugin by reworking the administration interface and adding new features.

We’ve been repeatedly asked for a copy of this plugin and so we’ve decided to put it here on our site as a zip file that you can download.

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Recently we had a client ask us to find a quiz plugin for Wordpress. Our client wanted to be able to put a set of questions on the company’s Web site, but as it turns out we could not find a plugin that lets people create quizes. So we created one.

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The current version of Wordpress is 2.3.2. You might be expecting Wordpress 2.4 soon but as it turns out version 2.4 will be skipped. The next release will be Wordpress 2.5 and it’s due out in March. The reason for skipping version 2.4 is that Wordpress 2.5 was planned for release in March, and since the development cycle for 2.4 has slipped, the developers decided to skip 2.4 and aim for 2.5.

Wordpress 2.5 will have a redesigned administration interface. That’s good news to a lot of people and bad news for others. For example, the new design could break a lot of plugins that insert custom fields in the post and page writing interface. We’ve had a look at the new interface, and frankly, we think the color combination is ugly! But hopefully there will be a way to create our own themes for the administration interface. You can see the new rust and baby blue color scheme for yourself over at Hyper SVN. Keep in mind that the demo over at Hyper SVN isn’t feature complete and the code is still very much under development. But at least you can get a peek at it.

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DesignVitality is hosting a Wordpress theme design competition. The Grand Prize Winner will receive $1,000 in cold hard cash via Paypal. The First Runner Up will receive a brand new 4GB Apple iPhone or a Nintendo Wii, and the Second Runner Up will receive 2 years of Free Web Hosting with unlimited domains and 250GB of monthly transfer. Pretty nice prizes.

We submitted four themes. These themes, part of our 1Two Theme Series, all have some very special features that you won’t find in other themes. Here’s a summary:

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