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[highlight]Remember to change your user alias – so you aren’t giving away likely usernames:[/highlight]   go to users and change your nickname. save.   done.

If you have recently installed or upgraded your version of WordPress to 3.5 or above, it is possible that you find yourself with no link manager. Well you are not going mad – as I thought I was, it just seems that WordPress had decided to remove the link manager from the core process – unless, as in the case of an upgrade,  you had links in place already. If, like me and most of my clients, you rely on

WordPress 3.3 Codename “Sonny” has been launched today with lots of new features: drag and drop media importer, new flyout menus, toolbar, ipad touchscreen friendlyness, new contextual help, new-feature pointers and tumblr importer. Test install any minute now, so fingers crossed…. Yes, we are now running on 3.3! Obviously I backed up everything first, and did my plugins housekeeping. First impression is that the menu flyout feature is going to reduce frustrations A LOT. Download WordPress 3.3 from WordPress.org

Templatic, one of the major producers of WordPress themes. Ideal for low cost and fast web productions, the themes can be used as starting points for development and individualisation.    

Pagelines has launched a pretty exciting new WordPress theme platform that allows functionality not previously accessible before without coding. The key to this new level of theme sophistication seems to be advanced drag and drop as well as a Pagelines marketplace to buy extensions and addons. The aim seems to be to allow greater versatility from a WordPress theme platform. More to follow but check out the website for full features. Click here for more info