Blogging is becoming really important as time goes on and almost everybody has a blog now. Some people are blogging to keep in touch with their friends from other parts of the world, some people are blogging as a hobby and others are blogging to make money online. There are over 100 million blogs in the blogosphere today and like with every other popular thing these myths are bound to be circulated…

The jQuery Slick Menu plugin creates sticky, sliding menus from any custom WordPress menu available with WordPress 3.0. Using this plugin you can add links/menus for items that you want to highlight and always be available for your users.
The plugin can handle multiple slick menus on each page and the location of each widget menu can be easily configured using a combination of the “location” and “offset” options available in each slick menu’s widget control panel…

Curious about the more than 75 new features included in the upcoming release of BackupBuddy 2.0?Dustin Bolton, BackupBuddy Developer, will unveil new features in a free webinar – Wednesday, March 30th at 11am central time.Some of the features Dustin will share may include:new remote storage methodshigher security backup optionshow to configure remote backup destination & notifications per schedule (developers: use this to set up scheduled backups of your clients’ sites to your servers & get notified, even if the customer adds their own schedules!)how to instantly backup when creating or editing a new page or post – so you’ll never forget a backup againplus tons more…as much as we have time forDustin may even unveil some of the Top Secret features and updates he has added…

In the past, we have shown you how to display related WordPress posts by categories or tags without a plugin. We have also shown you how to display related posts with a WordPress plugin YARPP which has its own formula of determining which posts is related or not. Some of our users asked us if it was possible to display related posts by same author which we think is a pretty handy feature for multi-author blogs…

We have had several comments regarding problems using Cufon text with the jQuery Vertical Acccordion Menu plugin. This latest update to the plugin now allows you to use Cufon fonts with the accordion menu, starting with version 2.3.
Update the accordion plugin via your plugin admin panel or click to download version 2…

Ronald Huereca wrote an awesome review of Professional WordPress Plugin Development. It’s nice to see a great review of the book from an experienced developer.

Ways to enhance your WordPress blogMemeburnEnter the SEO plugins. WordPress has a slew of popular SEO plugins that offer various different optimization options for your content. Word of warning: choose only one. Having five SEO plugins won’t optimise your website any better. …Create a website or blog from scratch using Packt’s new WordPress bookOnline PR News (press release)Blogging for Business – Things to Know When Starting a BlogAllBusiness (blog)all 3 news articles »

The latest version of Delete Duplicate Posts has just been commited to the WordPress repository a few minutes ago and should appear in the update plugin list on your blog very soon.My recent update of the Delete Duplicate Posts plugin got great general feedback, but a few users noticed I forgot to include the option to remove the footer link…

Today we released Pretty Link version 1.4.56. It fixes numerous bugs including:Pretty Link (Lite and Pro) is now 100% compatible with WordPress 3.1 and Multi-Site. Pretty Link has been running well with WordPress 3.1 but these Pretty Link fixes have been put in place so that future updates will work properly (especially when a Pretty Link release updates the database)…

Gravity Forms MailChimp Add-On v1.3.2 has been released via automatic upgrade. This is an important update to the MailChimp Add-On that provides compatibility for an update in the MailChimp API.

ADD-ONS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE TO GRAVITY FORMS DEVELOPER LICENSE HOLDERS.
Don’t own a Gravity Forms Developer License? Purchase one now!
Please Note: Automatic Upgrade will only work if you have entered a valid Developer License Key in the Settings page of Gravity Forms in your WordPress Administration Panel…

The comment live preview feature helps the comment writer to see what they are writing in the comment form as they write. This feature works well to help prevent errors in spelling and grammar by giving the user a chance to see what they are writing before they post their comment.
Seeing a preview of your comment gives the user a second chance to change his or her mind…

New plugins
Category Listings outputs a list of posts enclosed in a set of DIV tags – the class for this DIV can be configured in the admin options.
IE6 Countdown shows the IE6 countdown banner from Microsoft to visitors using IE6.
Updated plugins
AddThis allows any visitor to bookmark and share your site easily with many popular services…