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Two of my favorite web designers with super helpful blogs, Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks and Jeff Starr of Perishable Press, have just released their new collaboration! The book, "Digging Into WordPress," is now available as a PDF download, and if you buy the PDF book now, you will be eligible for a "sweet discount" on the hard copy of the book when it comes out, plus receive updates free.\n\nThey've done a great job on this book, which covers setting up WordPress, anatomy of a WordPress theme, theme design and development, extending functionality including using WordPress as a CMS, working with RSS feeds, SEO, dealing with comments, and keeping your site "healthy." I already followed both of these designers before they began their collaboration, and have found countless useful tutorials, code snippets, design ideas, and much more on both of their sites - I've relied on Perishable Press as a source for great unobtrusive javascript code, and on CSS-Tricks for all kinds of other useful tools for making valid, functional, and beautiful sites.\n\nThis book is bound to be a valuable reference to anyone who works with WordPress.

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Built-in WordPress features to keep your site free of pesky comment spammers

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The headline changes in this release are:

A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.

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Great tool for testing new themes without disrupting your site!

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Great debugging tool!

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This is interesting - I am not sure why you'd do this instead of just inserting an image directly into the post - maybe if you wanted to display an author's avatar on multiple author blogs?

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Third part of building a website screencast - taking html and css and converting it to a WordPress theme.

" In part 3 of this series, we take the HTML and CSS that we have already created for this design, and convert it into a WordPress theme. We start with a completely “blank” WordPress theme, then take different parts of the HTML and put them where they need to be in the theme. We are careful to keep as much dynamic WordPress stuff in there as possible, for example, dynamically creating the menu, loading jQuery the smart way, and more."

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Useful list

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GREAT resource for starting points in developing your own WordPress theme using frameworks - including blank/startup themes, and theme frameworks with full support for child themes, among others.

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Nice, clear tutorial on converting a static xhtml/css site design into a WordPress theme.

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A list of all of Lorelle's tutorials on the WordPress Codex - very useful!

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I want to have an events page, where clients can post events, and a news page... I'm realizing the way to do this is through categories, and there are some plugins and techniques discussed in this forum that sound helpful.

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