The Open WordPress Community is a group of WordPress enthusiasts providing free themes and plugins for WordPress. WordPress is more than just a blogging platform, it is a powerful Content Management System (CMS) that can be adapated to power nearly any type of website.
The main goal of The Open WordPress Community is to provide one central place where WordPress enthusiasts can meet to share their free WordPress themes and plugins, and to discuss all things WordPress related.
As Google recently informed us, we may now add a new type of information into our robots.txt file - information about our sitemap’s location.
Allow you have to do is add the following line to your robots.txt file:
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
Remember - this is not sensitive to disalow, so it doesn’t matter if you put it at the beginning or the end of the file.
Since I`m using quite a few WP plugins, I had some problems keeping them all up to date. But recently I found a plugin that does this work for me.
All you have to do is install update manager. It makes a new tab in the site admin: Plugins » Update manager and you can see which of your plugins need to be updated.
Now go and check your plugins 
If you log in to the WordPress admin, you will see that there are now options on the Dashboard for “Submit a Theme” and “Submit a Plugin”. We’re very pleased to have this functionality in place, and are excited for people to start submitting their work to the community.
Once the themes and plugins start coming in, you will see some new links on this main page with previews for the themes and short descriptions of the plugins.
Now, get to work and start submitting!
It’s really easy to make permalinks look better when you’re using WordPress. You have to only log in to administration and go to options: permalinks. Normally for this method to work, you have to use mod_rewrite. If you cannot use mod_rewrite on your server, but you still want to set better permalinks - it is possible!
First, don’t bother creating a .htaccess file, because you cannot use it. Log in to administration and go to options: permalinks. Now you can set permalinks using a format such as the following:
/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/.
As you may notice, there is only one difference: you have to leave index.php in your permalink scheme if you cannot use mod_rewrite.
The theme and plugin upload functions are almost ready for prime time. But tomorrow I’m leaving for a week long vacation, so I don’t see much sense in enabling these features if I won’t be around to approve what has been submitted.
Instead, my plan is to get everything ready before I leave, and then turn those features on when I get back. So stay tuned - you will soon be able to upload your themes and plugins to share with the Open WordPress community.
