Last Tuesday, May 28, I released an update to the Sandbox theme, version 0.9. Since releasing the Sandbox back in August of 2006 Andy and I have received lots of good feedback. I called it “the theme for themers” and it has had a really positive influence on theme design within the WordPress community. There have been more than a few themes/designs built on the Sandbox and released—and for good reason. Its highly semantic, dynamic structure make it immensely easy to design for, not to mention all the features built into its markup, like Microformats. So I thought it was a good time for a new theme competition—or rather a “designs” competition. It has been around two years since the last successful WordPress theme competition (participants of the competitions in 2006 will roll their eyes and would include me). We’ve seen the launch of an official theme viewer, two major […]
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Archive for May, 2007
Big news this evening is the launch of Google Gears which is an “Open Source Toolkit for offline web apps”. Pretty neat idea with lots of possibilities. TechCrunch has a nice writeup and so does Scoble. After some initial apprehension, I decided to download Google Gears and try the posterchild Google Reader app. After following a few steps of relatively simple instructions, I had downloaded all of the new items from Google Reader to my computer for offline viewing. This will be an awesome tool for travelling or to catch up on some extra reading during lunch at the local greasy spoon. I can see a lot of possibilities for Gears. A blog posting app that caches posts offline and then submits them when a connection is made is the first one that comes to mind. The new mashup editor has lots of possibilities as well. While we are on […]
[Continue Reading...]If you or someone you know is using the Vistered Little theme from Windy Road, a vulnerability has been found and you need to upgrade your theme to version 1.7.3 as soon as possible (or revert back to the another theme for the time being and delete the vistered little theme folder). The latest version that fixes the bug/vulnerability is 1.7.3 while versions 1.6a through 1.7.2 are all vulnerable.
[Continue Reading...]How Scoble reads 622 RSS feeds every morning: Vlog of how Scoble organizes his feeds using Google Feedreader and filter and sifts through them to find the relevant information he wants to track or read about. The number of feeds he follows is staggering to me. I read approximately 200 feeds and rotate them freuqently. In spite of the smaller number, I have a hard time keeping up with the rush of information from feeds and other sources. Although in my defense, my 24″ vertically rotated monitor really helps with the reading (I run two monitors, 1 x 20″, 1 x 24″ rotated, Ultramon) and blogging is not my day job. Also of interest, is the Better Google Reader Firefox extension that I find quite useful. I started using Google Reader a few months ago and have yet to switch back. The linked video was choppy for me but Scoble’s […]
[Continue Reading...]Impact is a fixed-width, 2 column theme with right sidebar, compatible with WP 2.2 Dream in Infrared is a fluid width, light on dark theme with lots of CMS features. “Soho” is a widget-ready WordPress theme designed with a three column fluid layout. Demo. Two mini loops are retrieving their posts from different categories at the frontpage. One loop in the main post showing latest post, one loop beneath the main area showing one post. “300” is a widget-ready WordPress theme with three columnd fluid layout and an edgy footer from 300. Two mini loops are retrieving their posts from different categories at the frontpage. One loop in the main post showing latest post, one loop beneath the main area showing one post. Deziner Folio is a two column, fixed width theme with support for several plugins. Rocking is a very light colored 3 column theme. (Contains Sponsored Links)
[Continue Reading...]FeatureMe is an easy way to manage and show a featured entries list. DJ-Email-Publish will send the post to your other blogs (such as msn spaces) via email. babel allows you to write your blog in multilanguage, and switch between these with a simple click on a flag. MBLA is an acronym for ÂgMyBlogLog AvatarsÂh and is a plugin for WordPress. It can add avatars from MyBlogLog to posts and comments. The Copyright Plugin automatically keeps your WordPress page copyright notices up to date. 1 Bit Audio Player is a very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion. It’s main purpose is to act as a quick in-page preview for audio files you link to from your blog. Add Script Hook finds all hooks in your themes and allows to add some javascript IMM Meta Tags allows you to edit and manage your meta tags. Comment […]
[Continue Reading...]Spiritual Journal is a two Column, widget ready, sharp and clean theme with a notebook feel, designed to be a personal journal for pastors, ministers and other believers. Soveryn is a three column, fixed width, widget ready theme. Greed is a 3 to 5 columns hybrid theme with 10 widget-ready sidebars, fixed-fluid width, rotatable columns, switchable banner and colors (via theme options page). It’s compatible with WordPress 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 and is also compatible with over two dozen plugins. Velle Elle is a 2 column theme with pink and white colour and talk bubble sidebar. LoveTime is a pink layout, 2 column with right sidebar, header and footer theme. (Contains Sponsored Links) Darkstripe is a three column, fluid theme. (Contains Sponsored Links) One Night in Paris is a single column, fixed width theme. (Contains Sponsored Links) Ygo Sea is a 3 column wordpress theme with cool see type look […]
[Continue Reading...]Show your support : The Webware 100: Show your support for WordPress in the Webware 100 poll. Thanks to Maria for reminding me to spread the word and to Matt for the original post. [EDIT] WordPress is the winner! Thanks to everyone for voting.
[Continue Reading...]Writing Secure WordPress Plugins: This is an important topic and with the upcoming plugin competition, I would really like to highlight the importance of securing your WordPress plugins. This article explains the security features built into WordPress and its plugin framework and discusses the most commonly used items including attribute_escape and wp_nonce and how to use them in your plugins. This is an essential read for plugin developers if you are not building security into your plugins.
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