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The Knot, The Bump, The Nest, & The Blush, all on WordPress

Sara Rosso — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:30:07 +0000

The Knot, The Bump, The Nest, & The Blush, popular lifestyle sites from XO Group, all have blogs with a home on WordPress and WordPress.com VIP Hosting!

Welcome to the WordPress family! Give them a visit below:

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Call WP! Blondie on WordPress

Sara Rosso — Tue, 29 May 2012 15:30:14 +0000

Blondie’s official website is built on WordPress!

Blondie joins a bunch of other musicians who are building their digital hubs on WordPress. Welcome to the WordPress family!

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Weight Watchers’ Man Meets Scale is on WordPress

Sara Rosso — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:54:56 +0000

Man Meets Scale, site of Weight Watchers International’s CEO, David Kirchhoff, has launched on WordPress.com VIP. Kirchhoff recently launched a book, Weight Loss Boss, about his experience losing weight.

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Welcome to the brand spanking new Fabulous website!

Mo Jangda — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:41:25 +0000

Reblogged from FabulousMag - Keeping you Fabulous, 24 hours a day:

You might notice we’ve been busy making a few changes to the Fabulousmag.co.uk website – to make it even easier for you to read up on all things Fabulous, every day of the week.

We’ll be bringing you MORE celeb news and photos, MORE beauty trends, MORE fashion as well as daily competitions, videos and an insight into the weird and wonderful world of…

WordPress 3.4 preview: Theme Customizer

Sara Rosso — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:00:36 +0000

There’s a lot of interest in the upcoming “Theme Customizer” which will be released in WordPress 3.4 (currently in beta 4). The Theme Customizer will make it easy for users to customize their theme and see the results real-time without opening or refreshing a new browser window to see them.

Otto walks us through a preview of what the feature may look like (final version subject to change) with a screencast of it running locally:

So, WordPress 3.4 has this nifty new feature you can find on the main Theme selection page. It’s a link next to each theme labeled “Customize”. This is the new Theme Customizer, and it’s way cool.

Otto also goes into depth how theme developers will be able to take advantage of the Theme Customizer in their theme development in a very detailed post with code samples for the settings and controls developers will be able to use.

Check out “How to leverage the Theme Customizer in your own themes” on Ottopress.

New Plugin: Rewrite Rules Inspector

Daniel Bachhuber — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:48:30 +0000

Rewrite Rules Inspector is a simple development tool for viewing all of the rewrite rules registered with your site. It’s been available for VIPs hosted on WordPress.com for a while — today it’s available for download from the WordPress.org repository.

Specifically, the Rewrite Rules Inspector helps you:

View a listing of all your rewrite rules.
See which rewrite rules match a given URL (and the priorites they match in).
Filter by different sources of rewrite rules.
Know when rewrite rules are missing in the database by showing an error message.

Feel free to fork the plugin in Github — pull requests are always welcome. Hit us with feedback, questions, bug reports, and feature requests in the forums.

Official Canadian Olympic Team site is on WordPress

Sara Rosso — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:00:52 +0000

Canada has just launched Olympic.ca, the official site for the Canadian Olympic team, on WordPress. As the London 2012 games approach, they’ll be updating with their official athletes’ profiles and other news.

Visit Olympic.ca.

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Van Heusen launches on WordPress

Sara Rosso — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:00:32 +0000

Van Heusen has launched on WordPress, hosted right here at WordPress.com VIP, with a site as stylish as their clothing. Welcome to the WordPress family!

Visit Van Heusen.com.

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Ad Code Manager v0.2: UI Redesign, Support for Custom Ad Networks, and a New Widget

Daniel Bachhuber — Mon, 07 May 2012 23:19:51 +0000

Ad Code Manager is a plugin designed to help you deal with ad codes, those short snippets of Javascript used to display advertisements on your website. This week, Rinat Khaziev of Doejo, Jeremy Felt of 10up, and I are excited to bring you version 0.2.

It’s chock full of these new features:

Completely reworked user interface, one that now looks and feels like much of the rest of the WordPress admin.
Abstracted ad network logic, so you can integrate additional ad networks. Currently, Ad Code Manager fully supports Double Click for Publishers. Pull requests with support for other ad networks are always welcome.
In-plugin contextual help to get you properly configured.
Priorities for ad codes, which allow you to work around conflicts.
An [acm-tag] shortcode for placing ad codes within posts.
A widget for placing ad codes in widget areas. Thanks to Justin Sternburg at WebDevStudios for the contribution.

We’ve also fixed these bugs:

Enabled using ad codes with empty conditionals.
Setting the logical operator from OR to AND now results in the expected behavior.

Ad Code Manager v0.2 is already installed on WordPress.com VIP, and available to download for WordPress.org installs. Please report any bugs, feature requests, or questions in the WordPress.org forums. Or fork the plugin on Github and follow our development blog to help with future improvements.

Dawn.com, Pakistan’s English news site, is on WordPress VIP

Sara Rosso — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:00:54 +0000

Dawn, Pakistan’s oldest and most widely read English-language newspaper, is now running on WordPress VIP Hosting.

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