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WordPress 2.6 Beta 1 is Available for Download

Ryan Boren, lead developer of WordPress, announced today on his blog that the first beta of WordPress 2.6 is available for download.

20 Free Corporate WordPress Themes

Your business’ blog doesn’t have to look boring or childish. If you’re going to use your blog as a tool to promote your business, you need it to have a clean, professional, corporate look. Here’s a round up of 20 of the best free corporate WordPress themes available. Preview them and if you find one of your taste, go ahead and download it.

Blog SEO Tips - Free SEO Book for WordPress 2.5

Here comes another SEO Sunday, but this time, instead of writing another Blog SEO Tips post, I’m going to review and recommend you a free eBook on SEO for WordPress 2.5 Blogs by SEO and PR consultant Mihaela Lica.

I’ve just finished reading her book and believe me, those 44 PDF pages where really worth it, and the best part is that you don’t have to do anything to get the book.

Happy Fifth WordPress!

Today is WordPress’ birthday. Today, WordPress turns five.
Five years of being there for us, bloggers.
Five years of delivering a free, high quality way to allow us to express ourselves online.
Five years of being a tool based on which many people across the world have gone from zero to hero.
This is your fifth anniversary WordPress!

Thank you and Happy Birthday!

Free WordPress Themes Watch: Unstandard

Good, professional, free WordPress themes are hard to find, and when a high-quality theme that could easily pass as premium is released, it should receive all our attention. This is the case with Derek Punsalan’s theme: Unstandard.

WordPress 2.5.1 Security Upgrade

WordPress 2.5.1 is available for download. This release focuses on several bug fixes and enhancements and one highly important security fix.

Free WordPress Themes Watch: Corporate Sandbox

Based on “The Sandbox” by plaintxt.org, Corporate Sandbox is a minimal, clean, widget-ready, valid theme suitable for corporate blogs.

Free WordPress Themes Watch: Colourise

“WordPress Themes Watch” is yet another series on Blogsessive. While constantly scanning the web in search for the best free WordPress themes, I come across a few releases that must be shared with Blogsessive’s readers. Today recommendation is Colourise.

WordPress Template Tags: wp_get_archives()

Welcome to our new series’ first post! The “WordPress Template Tags” series is intended to bring into spotlight some of WordPress’ less common, but very useful template tags. While the contents can’t be considered a revelation to advanced WP users and developers, it can be of big help to those who take their first steps […]

Keep your blog ordered with WordPress Plugins

Even with the latest WordPress release - 2.5 - we still need to make use of plugins to order our pages, categories and links, without having to go through each one and set an order number manually. If we still have to do this, let’s do it right.