My primary responsibility out here at Weblog Tools Collection is to keep a close eye on WordPress plugin and theme releases. One of the places I check regularly for theme releases is the WordPress Theme Viewer. I also keep track of updates via Google Alerts and more importantly our News section. I’ve lost track of the number of themes that I have downloaded, read about and previewed. While doing this, I have observed several different methods of promotion and distribution of themes by their authors; some highly effective and some so bad that I have had no option but to ignore the release. This WordPress Codex page has an indepth explanation on starting off with themes for public release to promoting them and is a recommended read. In this post I hope to address a few points that every theme author should consider when releasing a public theme. The Theme […]
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Archive for February, 2007
Evanescence is a neat looking theme with two column fluid width layout and a widget ready right hand sidebar. Black-N-White is two column, widget ready theme. cgreen are two column, widget ready themes Headsetoptions and MandarinMusing. Wood is a two column, widget ready theme with a wood background. RockinBiz is a clean and sleek theme designed for business blogs and websites.
[Continue Reading...]Top Level Categories allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category pages. Cardioblog it is a simple plugin for wordpress who shows in a graph of bars the whole of post writings in the month in course. import_wordpress allows you to import posts and linked files from a WordPress site to another WordPress site. babel allows you to write your blog in multilanguage, and switch between these with a simple click on a flag. HeadSpace2 allows you to add meta-data to your posts, pages, search results, archives, and categories. Meta data is added via a GUI, or can be automatically extracted from post content. Also allows modification to page titles, blog name, and per-post themes. Cimy User Extra Fields lets administrators add extra user fields for additional user details. MTW Word Count Counts words in a post, making it possible to display that word count on […]
[Continue Reading...]Build more WordPress blogs. I tend to shy away from “me too” posts but I have to agree with this one. The more you Dive Into WordPress, the better you get at it. Inspired by Zeo who was in turn inspired by Warpspire.
[Continue Reading...]Internet-Sharing is a two column theme with widget support, custom classes and admin configuration based on a template by Solucija. Themey has released Apples and Reflection. RockinBlueGreen is a simple, 2-column (right sidebar) theme with rounded corners and a nice blue and green color scheme. TechmaniaWP is a two column widget ready theme based on a template by StyleShout. Four Blank WordPress Themes is a set of four templates which contain the CSS needed to position the header, footer, sidebar and main content area. Ideal of those starting off with a new theme design. WP-Multiflex-3 is a WordPress theme based on the Multiflex-3 design by Wolfgang featuring widgetised sidebars, a widgetised header and is fully prepared for localisation by editing just 1 file. Garden is a four column Zen style with fluid width, custom header, background and icons and widget support. Coincidence is a two column fixed width, widget ready […]
[Continue Reading...]WP Plugin Uploader lets you upload plugins to your blog. WP-ExternalFeed displays links from del.icio.us, Technorati and Reddit that is relevant to the current category of your blog. WordPress Shop creates a fully featured shopping cart that currently allows paypal as a payment provider. Link Harvest is a WordPress plugin that uses the content in your posts and pages to build a links list for you, based on the sites you actually link to. SocialList is a WordPress plugin that adds a page to your admin area allowing you to view details on submissions of your pages to social bookmarking sites.
[Continue Reading...]Hide on Homepage allows you to hide posts on the homepage of your blog. IM Status powered via onlinestatus.org and supporting most IM services including AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Skype, ICQ and IRC.
[Continue Reading...]Surfer is a two column widget ready theme. Quicklime is a three columned, widget ready theme with a lime green feel to it. The Space Theme is a 2 column theme for WordPress, using dark colours and transparency effects to achieve an effective mysterious space look. Credit Cards is a two column, widget ready WordPress theme with a right-hand sidebar. Grab A Theme has released Fleur and Mawar.
[Continue Reading...]OpenID According to Simon Willison, OpenID is a simple piece of infrastructure on which smart applications can be built and the buzz around OpenID is growing. This idea has been batted around for some time but the consolidation of ideas and a working version of the system really gives it some legitimacy. I still wonder what the uptake rate will be. If you are still wondering what OpenID is and what it can do for you, think of it as a decentralized authentication system much like Microsoft Passport but much less monolithic. I can still think of various problems (Tim outlines some of those in his post). However, a good use could be in the WordPress comment moderation system. Since WordPress allows comments from previously authorized commenters, OpenID could be a way to positively identify a “valid” commenter on your blog forever. Of course, if any centralized whitelist type service […]
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