Interesting new features are options for custom post types (i.e. to cater for different types of content like podcasts) and improved custom taxonomies (i.e. methods to classify things). There’s also a bit of bulk update action thrown in. Finally, everything looks a little less cluttered in the dashboard too which is pleasing.
Warning: the guy talking you through the new features on this video is quite annoying.
For more details check out the WordPress blog, or just grab the update and have a play.
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Jun 10
2
When to follow or nofollow links
And how to do it in WordPress
Why the need to nofollow links? Well it has been said affiliate links can jeapordise your website’s organic ranking, and it has even be said search engines can see them as paid links of all things. Here are some of Google’s now rather vague link guidelines. Not sure what I mean by nofollow? Check out this Wikipedia page, then come back 
When to follow links
If visitors to your site make a comment on your post(s), why not reward them with a following link – they are after all adding content and interactivity with your post, which are positives right? If they write shit, just spam them. Those that have their own site/blog deserve a link back from your post comments right? Surely this is in the spirit of the web and linking the right way.
This is the plugin that switches follow on in your post comments (which by default will be nofollow boooo).
When to nofollow links
Well if you’ve got affiliate links, stick the nofollow attribute on them. Another reason to use nofollow is for paid-for links. If you’re nervous about Google ranking penalties, then you better add nofollow on these links. This can be done very easily if these links are in your blogroll or links list with this simple plugin.
If the links are in your post, you can manually add via ‘html view’ in the post editor rel=”nofollow” individually. Just make sure you never make the mistake of adding nofollow to the whole website, that would be very bad for you 
and rather silly!
How to see follow and nofollow on the web
If you don’t want to get into the page source, just add this search plugin for Firefox.
Once installed, right click on the @ symbol in your status bar and click ‘Highlight nofollow’ (example result below) and pow! your affiliate and paid links should no longer be following, so you’re all safe from Google slapping the life out of your natural ranking.
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Apr 10
10
The Best WordPress Theme Designs
Enjoy our pick of what we think are among the best WordPress theme designs around. Drop a comment if you think you’ve seen a brilliant design that is worthy. Most importantly, take some inspiration away with you!
SobControllers
http://www.sobcontrollers.com/
Hydro 74
Paper Jet Wednesday
The Pixel
Fran Fernandez
Made In England
http://www.made-in-england.org/
Black Moon Design
Not convinced by the chap waving at all, but the rest of the design is quite stylish.
West Coast Poppin
Westwoooooood….
Well that’s your lot for now! We’ll post again when we find enough worthy blogs. If you need more, more, more right now, check out this great site which has compiled a big ol’ list of design-strong websites, called blog design heroes.
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Vaultpress is a pretty straight forward plugin that once activated will backup your blog(s) so you never have to fear any catastrophe with your precious site, its content, and settings.
It is possibly going to cost $25 monthly to use, so it’s perhaps more suited to business use, or those who have a little cash to splash.
Vaultpress is a plugin to backup or restore WordPress
The latest version is now available for beta testing, here is the sign up page.
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