Hey Everyone,

Here’s what I found to be interesting in the world of WordPress this week:

Planet WordPress Canada
To showcase Canada’s variety of knowledgeable and enthusiastic WordPress bloggers and developers, Peter Keung has launched Planet WordPress Canada, which is an aggregation of posts from various blogs (this one included) on the topic of WP and all things related.

Draft Posts Widget
How cool is this? Website developers and bloggers are always looking for ways to keep their audiences anticipating for more. With the Draft Posts Widget, you can do just that. It will show a list of your draft posts so that people can see what’s coming up on your blog and they can anticipate your upcoming writings. I really like this idea and will start using it on a few sites I own.

WordPress Security Issues
According to TechCrunch, WordPress has a tonne of vulnerabilities and has been the object of attack by numerous hackers, especially in the last few weeks. Some people have responded in the comments that the current (2.5+) version is not affected, but still something to be checked out for those rocking the old versions.

BuddyPress Theme Previews
BuddyPress is the upcoming social network platform based on WordPress Mu. Developer Andy Peatling has provided a preview of how it will look on his website. I’m really excited about this product because it will integrate WordPress blogs, BuddyPress discussion forum, and social networking.

WordPress Essential Training
For those of you who are new to WordPress and would like to start a blog on WordPress.com, you can take advantage of new WordPress.com blog tutorials on Lynda.com. There are a few preview tutorials, but in order to view the whole collection you have to be a member.

ComicPress - WordPress theme for Artists, Cartoonists, etc.
A great new theme has been released by Tyler Martin called Comic Press, which, combined with the ComicPress Manager plugin, allows you to maintain a WordPress blog that exclusively showcases your comics, artwork, or any other type of images. It is a very nice tool for people who want to have a blog along with a daily illustration or comic.

God FTW!
Apparently, God (the Christian version at least) has a blog, and S/he’s using WordPress.

That’s all for now - have a great weekend :D

-k.s.

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