ExtJS WordPress Theme: This WordPress theme was put together to show off the capabilities of the ExtJS library and according to the author, is more of an experiment and still in alpha. This theme is chock full of features and looks more like an AJAX email application than a WordPress theme. Features include AJAXy stuff like and accordian sidebar, full AJAX load of posts and comments, AJAX calendar, quick search and comment preview. The theme is widget and tag aware but the author warns that some plugins and widgets might not work as expected. Now the theme does seem a little slow to load and to navigate but that might be due to the server it is running on and not the application. It is definitely fun to play with and navigate around! The theme is released under the LGPL.
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Archive for 2007
The Google Reader recently started displaying the number of feed readers per feed in their reader interface. This count is of the number of people that read your blogs’ feed through various Google systems and NOT the total count of feed readers for your blog (as might be available through the Feedburner chicklet). You can log into Google Reader and type the feeds’ name into the “Add Subscription” form which essentially does a search for the feed name and provides you with the results. There has been some coverage of bloggers who have been looking at this “new” feature with rose colored glasses while others have been extremely critical of the numbers themselves and of Google displaying these numbers and the blogosphere seems to be somewhere in the middle. I am all in favor of stats. I know it is somewhat self serving and narcissistic even. But stats keep us […]
[Continue Reading...]AnswerLinks will auto-suggest links to definitions on Answers.com for words in your blog posts. AskApache What Is This shows a semi-transparent box on the document you are viewing that tells you if its a page, single, feed, category, etc. Bot Tracker provides a way to monitor bot traffic on your blog, using graphs and charts for easy-to-reference information. CommentLuv will visit the feed of the comment author and attempt to scrape the last post they made and display it under their comment. Community Cloud displays a “tag cloud” of all the people in our community who have contributed to our blog by commenting. Feed Statistics has been updated to be more compatible with WordPress 2.3. Most Popular Posts is a widget that displays your blog’s most popular posts. Nusuni Technorati Links replaces Google Blog Search with Technorati links in your dashboard’s Incoming Links. PhotoQ makes your photoblogging life easier by […]
[Continue Reading...]Curved is a 3-column, widget-ready theme that sports a variety of features including Top Commenters, Frequent Tags, Twitter, among others. Geek with Power is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with light colors and rounded corners. Lovely Rose is a 2-column, fixed-width theme with beautiful header image and static background. Minimalia is a single-column, minimalistic theme that requires the use of a couple of plugins, which are bundled with the theme.
[Continue Reading...]Post to WordPress from Nokia Lifeblog: Phoneboy has updated his script to post to WordPress 2.3+ Blogs from Nokia Lifeblog and it now “theoretically supports posting videos” from your Nokia Lifeblog to a WordPress blog. This is a pretty cool idea and I wish there was something similar for Sprint phones.
[Continue Reading...]Vote for the Winner of the 2007 Blogging Scholarship: CollegeScholarships.org is entertaining votes for the 2007 round of its $10,000 blogging scholarships and the list of finalists is fantastic. There are some awesome blogs in there including a friend of mine, Paul Stamatiou. Now I will not be so bold as to ask you to vote for Paul, but since I am biased, I did vote for him. If you are looking for some good reading from some seriously talented and motivated young folks who blog, and help one of them win the $10,000 for school, this is the ticket.
[Continue Reading...]Answers.com and WordPress.com: If you own a WordPress.com blog, you can now embed links directly from Answers.com from within your editing interface with AnswerLink. Answers.com is an information and definition accumulation site that gets its information from places like Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, and the American Heritage Dictionary and they also provide the default definitions for Google.com in their searches. The interface and the underlying functionality was written by the inimitable Alex King and the interface is available through a small icon on the WordPress.com editing toolbar. Tony also links to a small how to on the Answers.com website. Hosted WordPress can also avail of AnswerLink with the AnswerLinks plugin that was also released by Alex.
[Continue Reading...]ElegantBlue is a 2/3-column, widget-ready theme with support for tags and separated comments and trackbacks. Integral is a 2-column with light green, blue, and white colors. Jello Walla Mello is a news/magazine style theme with sub-page design for individual entries and separated comments and trackbacks. Linear is a simple, gridded theme for WordPress. Also check out Overshadowed and Verso by the same designer. Rihanna is a 3-column theme with lightweight design and built-in Flickr support. sIMPress is a 3-column theme that is compatible with WordPress 2.3 and supports ads and SEO. Tumblelog is another tumble-style theme that hugs the left side of the screen. Widejournal is a 3-column theme built on Sandbox with support for tags. Wine Cellar is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with support for tags.
[Continue Reading...]Author Web displays the name of the author as a clickable link to the author’s website. WP-Oldpost displays an alert if the post is older than 1 year. Themes List creates a separate page that lists all the themes you’ve designed. Wassup Real-Time Visitors Tracking tracks your visitors in real time. WPhone allows you to use a custom admin interface while interacting with your WordPress install via your phone.
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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