WordPress Top New Web Sites

WordPress Top Web Site

I was out on the web last night looking for new WordPress sites for inspiration.  Here is what I found.

AppGallery | iPhone Apps, iPhone 3G Apps, and iPod touch Applications Gallery

AppGallery is an iPhone applications list of the hottest and latest iPhone 3G apps, iPhone apps, iPod touch 2G apps, and iPod touch apps. Browse, review, and rate your favorite apps - all of which can be downloaded in the iTunes App Store!

LawnCare.net
Dedicated to lawn care info, tips, and resources.

Atlanta GA Today
City guide for Atlanta, all the features you could wish for and more!

About Kaña | Kaña Cuban Coffee Roasters Strategy Center

Kaña Cuban Coffee Roasters is based in Orlando, Florida, but our roots and roasting style can be traced back to Havana, Cuba. Although our family has been roasting coffee for generations, we are a new kind of ‘cafetero’ [coffee roaster] that roasts coffee to achieve flavor profiles familiar to all Hispanic cultures, and appeal to all coffee lovers no matter their ethnicity. We specialize in coffees grown in Latin American countries, however we import beans from all over the globe to create some of the worlds finest coffees. Our coffee is slow roasted to achieve a deep dark roast with big bold tastes and smooth finishes. Our commitment to, and ‘amor’ [love] for our coffee can be experienced with every sip.

I really like the use of the Facebook API and Twitter link for each post.  Very nice use of social media tools!

What other sites should be added to this list?

Time to Get Social-BuddyPress Beta Released

I can’t wait to update my sites with the new code. This is a great project everyone should try out. It allows you to turn WordPress Mu into a social networking site. I have a couple of installs going for clients and they love it.

What do you think about it? Have you had a chance to install it yet? Post your thoughts.

BuddyPress 1.0 Beta 2 Released
January 29, 2009 – 5:00 pm

1.0b2 versions of all components and themes are now available for download.

This release fixes hundreds of bugs found since beta 1, the vast majority found and reported by you, the community. Thank you for all the feedback, bug reports and patches so far.

Using WordPress as Forum Software

WordPress as a Forum
I was looking around the web and noticed most forum software does not index well with the search engines.  Then I started thinking that WordPress does SEO (search engine optimization) great and will ping many different services.  This makes WordPress great for spiders.

So I started searching the web for people who had built WordPress into a forum.  And sure enough I came across this posting.  The Dead One has do all the work and shared his results.  Thanks Dead One!

Check out the demo or the forums to see it in action!

It was exactly what I was looking for.  WordPress hacked into a forum with a custom theme.

I’m installing it today on a couple of sites to test out and modify.  Has anyone else built something like this?  Post us your thoughts.

TDO Forum Wordpress Theme (v3) [thedeadone.net]

Downloads: TDO Forum Wordpress Theme (v3)

This theme turns your Wordpress blog into a Forum!

Download it now!

This graphically simple theme turns your Wordpress Blog into a Forum. Categories are treated as individual Forums and a Post (with it’s comments) is treated as a Topic (aka thread). It has a number of powerful features built in such as listing posts on the front page, not by latest date, but by last commented on date. See the full list of features after the cut (or just below).

Version 3 is tested for compatibility with Wordpress 2.5 and the display of individual topics is tweaked to be more forum like

Check out the demo or the forums to see it in action!
Features

* Simple layout easy to modify and customize
* Lists posts by date of last comment (instead of published date) (included as a page template)
* Unread topics are highlighted and can be used to filter posts list (included as a page template)
* A hierarchical Forum list (included as a page template)
* AJAX Comment Preview (can be turned off)
* Comment QuickTags (can be turned off)
* Gravatars for posters and commenter’s (can be turned off)
* Forum-looking Layout
* Pages and Categories can be used as Tabs (configurable)
* RSS 2.0 Feed of forum posts (can optionally be included in the theme or replace the main post RSS feed link)
* Posts can be made “sticky”
* Can set different URLs to create posts for different categories
* Hide categories from the forum list
* Theme Options page within Wordpress Admin UI
* Custom Posting Template
* And all for free!

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