Archive for May, 2009

WordPress Theme Releases for 05/19

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DarkoOo It has a dark header and background (from which comes the name DarkoOo). The theme comes with 125×125 advertising space, a small “About me” space, and a place in the header to put your rss, twitter etc… links (easy configurable or removable). It has one Widgetized Sidebar. Vanilla Cart Clean, minimal, vanilla-style WordPress Shopping Cart Theme, made specifically for the free WP e-Commerce plugin. Quietly Simple 2-column simple “back to basics” fixed-width theme in calming khaki and brown colors. Featuring an author info page, related posts and gravatars along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates. Wall Magazine [removed, encrypted footer] Two column, widget and gravatar ready, advertisement ready theme with support for Feedburner, auto-resizing images with thumbnails. Arras Arras Theme is a WordPress theme designed for news or review sites with lots of customizable features. It comes with 5 different news layouts to customise […]

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Five Comment Related Plugins for WordPress

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May 18th, 2009
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Next up on the “Five” series is a sampling of 5 comment related plugins from the WordPress Plugin Directory.  There are 395 plugins as of today that are tagged with the term comment to choose from. Comments are the lifeblood of any website.  That is where the true interaction happens not only between the creator of the website and visitors but also between the visitors themselves of a website. So I dug through the WordPress plugin directory and came up with what I believe are five plugins to help increase the interaction on your website: SI CAPTCHA for WordPress: This plugin gives you an anti-spam measure on your comment form to help reduce the number of SPAM comments your website receives.  Now don’t get me wrong – ASKIMET does a terrific job of stopping SPAM comments (according to their website 82% of all comments are SPAM).  Well this plugin requires […]

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What Are Your Theme Standards?

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On a thread within the WPTavern forum, there is an interesting discussion taking place among some prominent theme authors on creating a theme standards system. The initial idea is to create a standards system which would give theme authors a goal to shoot for. However, as the discussion has progressed, it’s easy to see that this entire idea of rating themes or putting together a set of standards is a complex problem. So after reading through that thread, I thought it would be a good idea to tap into the WordPress community to figure out what is most important to you when it comes to using a theme? Is it price, license, design, usability, functionality, or something else?

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WordPress News for 5/18/09

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May 18th, 2009
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WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 has been released. For all those of you that are adventurous, this is your cue. Codex lists all the changes in 2.8 that have been implemented before the feature freeze. A “Get ready for WordCamp San Francisco 2009” post from Lloyd. I almost completely forgot about the WordPress’ Sixth Anniversary celebrations. 572 attendees as of this post! WordCamp Columbus was great with some spirited feedback! Looking forward to WordCamp Chicago.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/17

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May 17th, 2009
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New Plugins Adshare Adshare allows you to rotate Google Adsense ads based on the author of the current post. It works by replaceing a default adsense publisher id with that of the author of the current post. Tab Override Tab Override makes the post/page HTML editor (not visual) handle tabs similar to how a desktop text-editor would. After activating this plugin, pressing the tab key will insert a tab character rather than move focus to the next field. Tweetable Tweetable is a WordPress Plugin intended to help integrate Twitter into your blog. Show Template Prints an html comment in the footer of every page letting you know which template file of your theme was used for the display. WordPress Logger Display log messages from PHP in the browser console in Safari and Firefox (with firebug). Essential debugging tool for plugin and theme developers. You no longer have to use ‘print_r’ […]

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At WordCamp Columbus

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May 16th, 2009
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I am going to be at WordCamp Columbus today. If you are going to be attending the event, be sure to say hi. The list of speakers is quite attractive. Jeff and I were discussing WordCamp Columbus, planning out the event and scoping out presentations that we would listen to and as usual, it was quite overwhelming. I am looking forward to meeting up with old friends and making some new ones while I am there. I like to make my own mini conference in the halls, so if you see a big Indian guy huddled over with a bunch of others people discussing WordPress, you will know that you have run into me. 🙂 I am looking for a few others folks to hang out with and have dinner at the end of the event. So if you are interested, please let me know. See you there!

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Weblog Tools Collection on the Kindle

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May 15th, 2009
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Weblog Tools Collection is now available for subscription on the Kindle. There is a 14 day free trial if you would like to just try it out. So if you are a Kindle owner and a WLTC fan, please subscribe and let us know what you think. While I wish we could offer it for free, the charge is $1.99 (we get 30% of this amount). If you want to publish your blog on Kindle, you can do it too! Be sure to let us know what you think of the experience if you choose to publish your blog on the Kindle. The Kindle forums are a little sparse at this time and the whole publishing page/venue is in beta so you might have some trouble. It was a breeze for us. Thanks to BloggingPro for the idea.

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WP PluginsUsed: A Plugin Review

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May 14th, 2009
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Funny how things can get connected quite quickly on the web.  Check this out. I wrote a blog entry for WLTC just two days ago about Five Nifty Sidebar Widgets for your WordPress Site.  Babs then commented on that post and said: Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many plugins it takes to break a WordPress site? *laughs* This comment then prompted Mark from here at WLTC to write a blog entry asking visitors to Guess how many Plugins we have active on the website and comment on how many active and inactive plugins they have on their own websites.  This is a small contest that will earn the correct guesser a one year Flickr Pro membership. It is a very active thread right now (78 replies as of this posting). So as I am watching the guesses stream in over the last 24 hours or so it reminded […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 05/14

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Berita Business Three column, widgetized theme with seven custom widgets  and spots and a featured slider on the homepage. Dark Cherry It’s a well managed color palette color integrated into a most used blog structure with two columns. Here you have a lot of space to fit any ads, plugins or whatever you need. WPElegance WPElegance2Col is SEO-optimized, ad-ready, WordPress 2.7 compatible, two column theme with widgetized sidebars and footer. TweetMeBlue Two column, easy to use theme with support for featured posts, Twitter, Adsense and more…

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