With this special you are not only receiving a theme conversion at a hugely discounted rate, but you can also get the new theme for free! Yesterday Matt Mullenweg offered to buy the theme for anyone looking to switch off of Thesis, so the theme license is waived.

When we are done your site will look exactly the same, but you will be running on a GPL-friendly theme that is in full compliance with the WordPress software license.

If you are interested in taking advantage of this promo or would like more information contact us and be sure to mention the Thesis to Genesis promo!

* This offer and discounted rate is only good for exact conversion. Any additional alterations to your website will be billed at our regular development rate. Prices may vary depending on complexity of site design. This offer is good for a limited time and ends Thursday, July 22nd at midnight, Eastern time.

Have you updated your website to 3.0?  We have already updated all of our annual support clients to the newest version of WordPress at no additional charge.

If you are interested in upgrading your website to the newest version of WordPress or would like more information on one of our Support Packages contact us today!

Ronald is an extremely knowledgeable developer and we are excited to work with him and add his expertise and insight to are already great development team. Welcome Ronald!

• * Add and view comments for tasks (with email notifications!)
• * Edit any existing tasks
• * Added single task detail page
• * Added uninstall script
• * fixed various bugs

New task comments in CollabPress

Please download and help us test this new version. If you experience any issues please report them in our support forum.

So what about pages? I found a great plugin called .html on Pages which will add a .html extension to all of your pages. This plugin will also automatically remove the .html extension from any pages that are nested  as a parent page. Soooo: yourwebsite.com/mypage.html will turn into yourwebsite.com/mypage/mysubpage.html.

We ran into a problem, well not so much a problem because the plugin does what it is supposed to do, but we want to not add .html to the end of the blog page. We want /blog.html to be just /blog so we had to make a few modifications to the plugin. If you are comfortable with php the mod is small and here it is:

Add the following code where ever you want inside of the plugin. This code filters any instance of /blog.html and returns /blog.

function blog_permalinks_page_link($permalink, $page) {
$pos = strpos($permalink, “/blog.html”);
if ($pos !== false) {
$permalink = str_replace(“/blog.html”,”/blog”,$permalink);
}
return $permalink;
}
add_filter( ‘page_link’, ‘blog_permalinks_page_link’, 10, 2 );

Next you will need to alter the html_page_permalink() function and add the following code to the top of it:

$string=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$pos = strpos($string, “/blog.html”);
if ($pos !== false) {
switch_to_blog(1);//We are using WPMU if you are not you won’t need this line.
wp_redirect( get_option(‘home’).str_replace(“/blog.html”,”/blog”,$string), 301 );
exit();
}else{
$pos = strpos($string, “/blog”);
if ($pos !== false) {
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] =str_replace(“/blog”,”/blog.html”,$string);
global $wp;
$wp->parse_request();
}
}

The above code makes the redirect of any hits on /blog.html to /blog (which shouldn’t happen because of the link filter) and hard-codes the request-URL so WordPress thinks it’s pulling from the page /blog.html when it’s now on /blog. That’s it, pretty simple… If you are not good with php you can download the modified plugin here: http://webdevstudios.com/downloads/html-on-pages.zip

I’m sure this plugin could easily be modified to work with other extentions like .htm or .php, which could cut down on the amount of 301 redirects you would have to make when migrating to WordPress which by the way everybody running a blog or basic CMS should be doing!

Last week I gave a WordPress Security presentation at the NYC WordPress Meetup. We covered some very important security topics, including my list of top WordPress security tips. One of my tips was to stay current on your WordPress version.

Many out of date WordPress installations were hacked by an internet worm a few weeks ago. This hack affected any WordPress websites running versions prior to 2.8.3. The latest version of WordPress is 2.8.4 so basically any site older than two versions was vulnerable to the security exploit.

WebDevStudios offers WordPress Support Packages to keep you safe from such an attack. All current support package clients were safe from the attack and had no reason to worry. This is the peace of mind every website owner should have. Why worry about security? Let WebDevStudios do it for you!

Be sure to check out my WordPress Security presentation for essential tips below:

WPClassroom.com features online training classes for WordPress. Easily learn how to manage and maintain a WordPress powered website using the most powerful online training software powered by Cisco WebEx. Learn from a live instructor who will show examples, demos, use-case scenarios, and tips and tricks for managing WordPress.

Our first class, WordPress for Beginners, is scheduled for Wednesday, September 9th from 6pm-9pm EDT. Each class holds a max of 25 students so there is no overcrowding to worry about. WordPress for Beginners will feature a 2 hour training class on WordPress, followed by a 1 hour Q&A session. That’s a total of 3 hours of WordPress training!

We will begin to offer more advanced classes on plugin and theme development at a later date. We are looking forward to sharing our knowledge and experiences with anyone looking to gain a better understanding of how WordPress works!

Click on the image to see ShadowBox in effect!

Have you ever wanted to display a one time popup announcement message to any new visitor on your WordPress blog or website? Well our WP-Announcements plugin would be perfect for you! Your one time popup per visitor announcement could be a featured post, an important message, a community notice, an advertisement, a survey form, an email subscription form, an emergency alert or anything you can publish in a WordPress post. Popup announcements will appear using the popular ShadowBox JS or ThickBox WordPress plugins.

Perhaps you would like to periodically display a scrolling marquee accross the top of your WordPress blog or website with certain news alerts or messages. Well WP-Announcements does that too. Active marquees will scroll the title of any post you specifiy and link directly to that post.

All announcements can be set from the post page and every announcement created is added to a list on the “WP-Annoucements” settings page so they can easily be managed.

This plugin has been tested and works on WordPress 2.8.2 and WordPress MU (WPMU) 2.8.2.

Visit our WP-Announcements plugin page.

You can download the plugin at the Plugin Directory here: WP-Announcements on WordPress.org

If you experience any bugs please visit our Support Forum.

Hovering over a plot will display the title of the post, address, and also a thumbnail from the post if any images exist. Easily add and delete a single or multiple addresses to each post.

Viewing a single post displays only addresses attached to that post/page, viewing any other page will show the most recent plots across your entire site. You can also set a custom title and description for each address saved. If no title or description is entered the post title and excerpt will be used.

Installation

1. Upload the post-google-map folder to the plugins directory in your WordPress or WPMU installation
2. Activate the plugin
3. Click on “Post Google Map” under Settings. You MUST obtain a Google Maps API key for this plugin to work. http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html
4. Add the “Post Google Map” widget to your sidebar
5. Add an address to any post/page

This plugin has been tested and works on WordPress 2.8.1 and WordPress MU (WPMU) 2.8.1.

Visit our Official Post Google Map plugin support page.

You can download the plugin at the Plugin Directory here: Post Google Map on WordPress.org

If you experience any bugs please visit our Support Forum.

Add an address to any post or page.

Aaron Brazell, Jimmy Gardner, and Alex Hillman organized an amazing event, which converged in the great central location of Baltimore.

Brad Williams gave his presentation, Advanced Thesis Techniques and Tricks, to a packed room full of WordPress Enthusiasts. After flying through his presentation he had a Thesis Q&A for about 30 minutes.

We met a lot of great people and made connections that will last for a long time to come. If you’ve never attended a WordCamp we highly recommend it!

Next up: WordCamp Chicago!