So we had a really good time and wished that all of you were there. The presentations were all top notch and audience participation was very good. In his keynote Matt mentioned that attendees would get the most from this conference if they mingled and connected with each other as much as they paid attention to the people up on stage and I noticed a lot of mingling going on. It was wonderful to finally meet a whole bunch of people. I have all the pictures that I took (I should have taken the D70) on my Flickr account with the agreed upon WordCampDallas2008 tag. If you have any questions, have any media from the event that you would like to share or have any questions for any of the events/presenters, please let us know. Special thanks to Charles for organizing the event and to John for being a terrific [...]
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WordPress 2.5 has officially been released. Along with the release is a refresh of most WordPress properties, including WordPress.org. Here is a link to WordPress 2.5 and the official release announcement.
[Continue Reading...]One Column Themes Elegance A simple 1 column theme featuring light gold and plum colors. Valid XHTML and CSS. Two headers included, one with text and one blank. Demo | Release Page | Download Two Column Themes Ferrari A theme for Ferrari lovers who love to drive those machines or atleast dream about it. This is fixed width, 2 column widget ready theme. Demo | Release Page | Download Three Column Themes Simple Theme One Simple Theme One is a simple three column theme with content in the center and one sidebar on each of the sides. The theme is widget ready. Demo | Release Page | Download CorpTheme Corptheme is a minimalistic theme which comes in four flavors – CorpBlue, CorpRed, CorpGreen & CorpBlack. The theme includes drop down for pages and sub pages. Demo | Release Page / Download
[Continue Reading...]I am excited about the upcoming WordCamp Dallas. I am hoping to meet up with quite a few people and the schedule looks interesting. I am not going to make it to DFW in time for the Friday evening mixer but I will be getting together with people later on in the night. Please send me an email or Twitter me if you are interested in getting together. If you are at WordCamp Dallas over the weekend, be sure to say hi.
[Continue Reading...]Content suggestion engine for WordPress: TechCrunch has an interesting article this morning on the Alpha release of a product called Zemanta. Zemanta is a contextual content suggestion engine and works with WordPress and Firefox. With nothing to install on the blog, and a simple FF extension, Zemanta creates a little AJAX box on the side of your write panel in WordPress with suggestions on what to add to your content. This information is gathered real time from various media publication sites and blogs. I am watching the Zemanta control box as I type this post and it seems to update after regular intervals with new suggestions. It also lets you add links to various keywords on your post to other articles on the web and your blog. I just tried out some of the features including addition of pictures and related links but the soup generated is not pretty and [...]
[Continue Reading...]For most of you, WeblogToolsCollection.com has become your number one source for new WordPress theme releases. Since Keith introduced the small thumbnail previews and demo links, theme posts seem to be better liked by our audience. I appreciate Keith’s attention to detail and look forward to his regular theme and plugin posts. Smashing Magazine has published an article which highlights at least 20 free WordPress themes to choose from. Some of these themes look as if they could almost be considered premium but they are still free. My personal favorite is 5ThirtyOne while Probama comes in second. Although I’m a little bummed that the article didn’t feature Justin Tadlocks Options theme. I feel that it would have been a nice addition to the post. At any rate, make sure you read each themes license agreement as they can vary from theme to theme. This is especially true when it comes [...]
[Continue Reading...]The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs: At first I thought this was linkbait but a read through the article and the other content on the blog changed my mind. There is some analysis of each blog/blogging company with details about the company, guesses on revenues and page views, future prospects, operating margins and employees, advertising statistics and finally a comment on property valuation as multiples of revenue or multiples of operating profits. From my quick glance I would say that the revenue numbers are not perfectly on the money but since these figures are almost never publicly discussed (except on make money online blogs) I guess there is some error built into the valuation. Daniel’s excellent Daily Blog Tips($1.8M) makes it into the list at number 18. The Gawker properties tops the list at a value of $150 million and other big names include TechCrunch($36M), Mashable($10M), GigaOm($8.4M) and RWW($5M). A few [...]
[Continue Reading...]One Column Themes Rainbow Feather Rainbow Feather is widget-ready fluid one-column three-segment theme with vivid colors. The theme is available in 6 different languages. Demo | Release page | Download Two Column Themes Flower Grunge Flower Grunge is a widget ready two column theme with valid xhtml and css. The theme is made up of variants of the brown color. Demo | Release Page | Download Three Column Themes WP Wedding WP Wedding is a three column widget ready theme based on marriage. The header of the theme pictures a newly married couple. Quite useful if you want to advertise your marriage to your friends. Demo | Release Page | Download 33Module 3 Column theme with the sidebars placed to the right and left side of the content. The theme also has a large footer area. Demo | Release Page | Download
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10 Plugins To Combat Comment Spam
When I recently wrote a post which pointed to an article that described a few things you should do with your WordPress blog immediately after having it installed, I noticed Collin made a comment in that, WordPress was like the Windows OS where as, it comes bundled with Internet Explorer for a browser while WordPress comes bundled with (albeit fantastic) Akismet for a comment spam blocker. With that in mind, here are 9 plugins that you can use either as stand alone replacements or in various combinations to combat comment spam. Not all plugins work nicely with others so be sure to read the installation manual if you decide to use any of these plugins on your own blog. 1. Comments For Cookies – This plugin adds a stylesheet to your blog’s html source code. When a browser loads that stylesheet a cookie is dropped. If that user then leaves [...]
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