Working on a new theme for the next Digging into WordPress book update, I found myself really getting into the whole “widgetizing” thing. Widgets enable non-technical users to customize your theme according to their specific layout needs, and with so many different widgets available, the possibilities are endless. You may have thought about widgets as something you do in the sidebar, but there is no reason to stop there. You can widgetize just about every part of your theme. In this post, we’ll show you how to do widgetize your theme in two easy steps. Once we get the basics down, we’ll dig into some sweet tips and tricks.

Great information, next I like to know how to create widgets in Wordpress plugins

If you take a little time and effort securing your WordPress blog now, you could save yourself a hell of a lot of time, money and worry later. Securing your blog takes minutes, but fixing a hacked WordPress blog will take you ages. Simply follow the 5 quick steps below, and you could have a hack-proof secure WordPress blog, in no time at all.

1. Use the latest WordPress version

Make sure your WordPress blog is updated to the latest version – WordPress 2.8.4.

The last weeks people posted articles about the recent wordpress worm. This article is a great guide to keep you wordpress blog secure. Most of the tips are very common, but mostly ignored. For example do you remove all unused plugins and themes? Just imagine what "unsafe" code could be used inside some themes functions.php file...

One of the great benefits of designing and developing for WordPress is the amount of quality resources that are available from others in the WordPress community. Many times these resources can wind up saving you time in your own development. The only problem is that there are so many resources available that it is difficult to know about them all and sometimes to find what you are looking for.

Funny I'm a wordpress user now for several years but never heard about wordpress theme framworks before. Just checked thematic a little and it looks good. Just like basic templates for websites. Next time I will try one of them, if start with a new wordpress theme