WPThemerKit.com is a new way to create WordPress themes. The system works similarly to the way cssZenGarden works in that, you have an HTML file and a CSS file. Once you are finished with the design, you copy the CSS file along with the images folder to the corresponding WordPress blank theme and all of a sudden, you have a full blown WordPress Theme. I managed to get a hold of the creator behind WPThemerKit and asked him a few questions regarding his project. Jeff – First off Cal, please tell us a little bit about yourself. Cal – I am a web developer and entrepreneur. I don’t really specialize in any one area, but would consider CSS one of my stronger areas. I’ve been developing websites since around 2003 and really enjoy using content management systems like WordPress. Most of my time is spent playing with PHP scripts or […]
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Archive for February, 2008
Sort By Comments Allows you to change the order of the posts and display the most recently commented posts on the home page. Release Page | Download WordPress Tweaks Just like any other software WordPress Tweaks allows you to tweak settings for the core WordPress, the tweaks include renaming blogroll, removing nofollow from comment links and more. Release Page | Download WP Spam Blocker Makes use of Time Based Tokens and AJAX to block out automated comments without having to make use of captchas. Release Page | Download MyFTP Allows WordPress administrators to browse, edit and upload files just like a FTP client from within the Administration panel. Release Page | Download Shantz WP Quote of the Day Allows you to add quotes to posts and also provides users with a custom template tag to add the quotes wherever they want. Release Page | Download
[Continue Reading...]Webware has opened up voting on the 2008, Webware 100. This is Webwares annual awards program where users from all across the globe get to vote on their favorite Web 2.0 apps. Last year, WordPress took the honors of winning the Publishing category. This year, WordPress is in the running for the Publishing & Photography category, along with a few other big names. Voting will run until March 31. Winners will be announced on April 21, the day before the big Web 2.0 Expo opens. To vote, click on this link and scroll down to the bottom of the website until you see WordPress. Click on the VOTE button on the right hand side. Webware allows you to vote up to 3 times within this category so if you feel as if any other nominee deserves a vote (why would you) click on the other company names and click on […]
[Continue Reading...]Joost de Valk has taken notice that there may be a large amount of plugins who’s setting pages in the newly redesigned WordPress back end will look awful. Joost is currently working on redoing all of his own plugins so they look good in the admin panel and has published a post which explains what he found in his research. The post goes over details such as the Wrapper, Headings, Individual Settings, and Submit Buttons. For all of you plugin authors out there, be sure to check out the WordPress 2.5 Plugin Settings Pages Style Guide. If you are looking to migrate your theme or plugin to WordPress 2.5, check out this article on the WordPress Codex.
[Continue Reading...]This past weekend, I finally had the chance to unveil the new blog design for Jeffro2pt0.com. Because of the new design, I figured it would be a good time to reformat my WordPress installation similar to how you would reformat a PC to place a new installation of Windows on it. This gave me the opportunity to use the built in WordPress Export/Import migration tools. WordPress eXtended RSS: Because I didn’t want the trash in my current WordPress database to be inserted into the new database, I chose to export my content via WordPress into an WXR File. WXR stands for WordPress eXtended RSS. This WXR file will contain your posts, pages, comments, custom fields and categories. Even though it’s not officially listed as exporting your tags into the WXR file, the tags ARE included. In my case, I was exporting my content from a WordPress install that was at […]
[Continue Reading...]One Column Themes WhitePaper WhitePaper is a one column theme which makes use of the black and white colors. The theme has a extended sidebar in the footer made up of two columns. Demo | Release Page | Download Two Column Themes Options This is certainly one of the best themes I have seen since quite some time, the theme definitely provides website owners with lot of options with a magazine style home page customizable tabs. This theme definitely packs in quite a punch with quite a lot of features. Demo | Release Page | Download [EDIT] Temporarily removed for copyright violation complaints. [EDIT] Resolved. Thanks to Brian and Justin. StudioPress This is a two column AdSense ready theme which comes built in with ad units in the posts and the sidebar. The theme provides you with comment styling and is optimized for search engines. Demo | Release Page | […]
[Continue Reading...]Small Potato of wpdesigner.com fame has come up with a new twist for Premium Themes. Now I try very hard to stay away from promoting premium themes because of their economic nature, especially if there is no direct advantage to my readers. But SP offered a large number of freebies for my readers and I had to pass them on to you. Small Potato is starting a “WordPress Premium Themes Club” where he plans to offer twelve themes during a period of one year for a price of $5 per year in membership costs. There are four themes in the club and all new members will get the four themes and twelve more over the next 12 months. Now from a users’ perspective, if you like his work, the nominal charge is a good deal for 16 new themes and considering his promotion methods and the quality of his work, […]
[Continue Reading...]One of the most annoying issues I have with the Codex is the lack of a printer friendly link. There are plenty of times where I and many others would like to print out an article to keep handy for use later on, or to keep right in front of you as you are performing the steps to a particular set of directions. I was going to work on adding this printer friendly link to the Codex via CSS but thanks to Jeremy Clarke who appeared on episode 6 of the WordPress Weekly podcast, I now know of a way to enable this functionality. As it turns out, you can register an account with the Codex website. For whatever reason, I’ve never noticed this until it was pointed out to me. Once I registered an account, I saw a wealth of options that I hadn’t seen before. After clicking on […]
[Continue Reading...]Custom Function Widgets This plugin allows you create widgets for plugins which only provide you with hooks, useful if you have loads of plugins which require you to manually alter your theme files for inclusion. Release Page | Download CodeShield This plugin escapes text inside code tags such that all code gets converted to html characters. For example this plugin will convert > to > if it exists within the code tag. Release Page / Download Random Top Ads This plugin allows you to randomize and display ads to your visitor allowing you to create unlimited number of ads. It also allows the visitors to browse all the ads using a link. Release Page | Download GoCodes Redirection This plugin allows you to shorten your post URLs and distribute it to others. Useful if you want to create tiny URLs that belong to your domain and is easy to remember. […]
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