Stumbled across this great top 10 list the other day, and in case you missed it you should most definitely take a look. This goes for all of you running WordPress, those planning to try it out and all of you looking for the perfect CMS.

With these 10 plugins you can have your blog turn into a complete Content Management System (CMS) and even use it for smaller e-commerce websites.

Here’s the list as presented on Blueprint Design Studio’s blog on Thursday.

Happy coding!

Ryan announced Monday that the forthcoming update for WordPress (v2.5) will be available as of March 10th. All new features have been implemented and the following month will consists of bug fixing and “polishing”.

If you are eager to check out the new  admin area go to http://wp.chrisjohnston.org/wp-admin

• user: admin
• pass: demo

I for one am really looking forward to give the latest branch a spin, and hopefully have a painless upgrade in respect to current plugins and design…

PicLens is a browser plugin that enables full-screen slideshows within Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer. The plugin is supported by numerous websites including:

It also comes as a WordPress plugin that allows the user to set up slideshows from the controlpanel. I’ve just tried it on Flickr and I must say it looks impressive.

You can download the browser plugin from www.piclens.com or download and try the Wordpress plugin if you are running a WordPress blog/site yourself.

As some of you might have noticed I’ve been a bit slower than usual and not kept my daily post routine. Main reason for this being work on a new client website,  a new theme for WordPress and possibly a few new WordPress plugins.

The client site is done (single info page) and will be featured on my development site as soon as I get the clients approval. The new theme is currently available for preview on the same location.

Please consider it an early alpha release as I need to work heavily with the styling (CSS). However I’m quite pleased with the jQuery Accordion implementation found in the sidebar when browsing by date or category. Also the simple toggle effect when clicking the Archive link in the top menu seams useful (for now).

I would be happy to get some feedback on what you all think, and will release the code if anyone shows interest for the sidebar add-ons.

According to yesterdays announcement on Weblog Tools Collection there will be no more (major) updates from the WordPress development team until March.

The announcement can be read below:

As discussed in the developer mailing list, the next release of WordPress will be in March instead of January because of the holidays and the amount of changes that will take place in the codebase as well as the admin section. The decision was made to consider 2.4 a skipped December release and move straight on to 2.5. The reasons for the change in the schedule include some good things cooking in the oven and the developers do not want this to become a rushed release.

So to sum things up. There will be no 2.4. Instead, we will see 2.5 which is scheduled for release in March. Various official docs and roadmaps will be updated in due course.

I’m not 100% sure if this is a good thing or not, but at least it gives me some time to prepare my next WordPress Theme…

Anyone out there know of any major database changes, please let me know!