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WordPress Theme Release For 3/10

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March 9th, 2008
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Two Column Themes In The Blue   In the blue is a simplistic theme with a real life photograph in the header. The theme is simple and in the blue. Demo | Release Page | Download YG Mag A two column theme with a eye catching header and a suitable sidebar with tabbed content. Content area is good enough to post wide width images. Demo | Release Page | Download Three Column Themes Magadine This theme comes with a four column home page with its inner pages consisting of three columns. The theme home page is based on magazine style. Demo | Release Page | Download Hot Pink   Ever wondered how pink could be hot, well this theme uses variants of pink that makes it look hot pink. Demo| Download

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Managing Trackbacks and Pingbacks in Your WordPress Theme

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March 8th, 2008
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With all of the recent discussion regarding trackbacks and pingbacks on Weblog Tools Collection, I thought I’d mention several ways one can deal with trackbacks and pingbacks in the context of a WordPress theme. The topics I will be covering in this article are on separating trackbacks/pingbacks from regular comments, and also how to remove trackbacks and pingbacks from a WordPress theme completely. Separating Trackbacks/Pingbacks From Comments I know what you’re thinking: numerous posts have already been written on how to separate trackbacks from comments. But what I present here is an actual separation using the “functions.php” feature for WordPress themes along with the regular “comments.php“. Both should be located in your theme directory. Figure 1: Theme Directory Setup Modifying the functions.php File The “functions.php” file is a lifesaver for any theme developer or tinkerer wishing to add custom code or functions to themes. The code in the “functions.php” file […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 3/6

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March 6th, 2008
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Stats Helper Functions And Widgets It helps you retrieve data from wordpress.com stats and puts it on your blog. Release Page | Download SEO Image This plugin will optimize images in all your posts for SEO which will positively affect your image search results resulting in more traffic to your blog. Release Page | Download LocalCurrency Shows currency values to readers in their local currency (in brackets after the original value). For example: If the site’s currency is Chinese yuan and the post contains 10 yuan, a user from Australia will see 10 yuan (AUD$1.53), while a user from US will see 10 yuan (USD$1.39). Release Page | Download Organize Series Plugin 2.0 OrgSeries 2.0 takes the “organize” in Organize Series to a whole new level. Release Page | Download Devowelizer The Devowelizer plugin for WordPress replaces the vowels in most “bad language” within your own content and within comments […]

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Who Comments on Blogs, and Why?

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March 6th, 2008
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Who Comments on Blogs, and Why?: I realize there is a selection problem here: anyone who responds to my question about why commenters comment is, alas, a commenter. Which means that regular commenters will be overrepresented in the comments — unless, of course, a whole bunch of you who never comment decide to go ahead and log in and, in the comments section, tell us why you never comment. Or why other people do. I love the topic of this post on Freakonomics at the New York Times Blog. There is a lot of food for thought. There are many reasons to leave a comment on a blog and the ability of readers to leave comments on a blog and the instant interaction and conversation that develops, is what attracted me to b2 and consequently WordPress. I tend to not comment on blogs where the comment form is hard to […]

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WordPress Theme Forecast

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March 5th, 2008
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ThemeShaper has published an article titled, The Future Of WordPress themes which highlights comments from a number of movers and shakers that exist within the WordPress theming community. A number of individuals contributed to the article such as myself, Brian Gardner, Justin Tadlock, Cal Coleman and more. The basis of the article was to try and get a glimpse as to what the future of WordPress themes might be. What better way to find out than to ask those that set the tone for WordPress themes in their current state. I enjoyed reading a number of the responses and it was interesting to see the differences amongst the crew as to where we see themes in general heading. I hope that ThemeShaper does the same article a year from now to see if any of us actually gave a correct prediction. Now the question is asked of you. What and […]

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Add WP Search Engines To FF

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March 4th, 2008
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Jeremy Clarke mentioned to me about a way to search the Codex, WordPress support area and the plugin repository all from within FireFox. If you support users as I do in the WordPress IRC chat room, there are a lot of times where I do a search on the Codex to look up the page for a certain function that someone is inquiring about. Thanks to Jeremy’s tip, I no longer have to visit the actual page to perform a search. If you visit the MyCroft page on Mozdev.org you’ll notice a number of links that you can click on. Each one of these links are a search engine plugin that was coded for FireFox. What this means is that, you can add WordPress specific search engines to the search engine tool bar within FireFox which is usually occupied by Google by default. In order to install a SE plugin, […]

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Gravatars and WordPress 2.5

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March 3rd, 2008
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Several commenters mentioned on yesterday’s post regarding Gravatars without a plugin that WordPress 2.5 would be having built-in Gravatar support. And indeed WordPress 2.5 will come with Gravatar (aka, Avatar) support. Within this post I will demonstrate how Gravatars will be used with WordPress 2.5. As a side note, 2.5 has yet to be released as of this writing. Gravatars in the WordPress Admin Panel WordPress 2.5 marries theme authors and casual WordPress users together with support for Gravatars in the WordPress admin panel. WordPress users can access the Gravatars settings in the Settings->Discussion panel. If a theme author has decided to use the WordPress 2.5 function, then WordPress users can easily control their Gravatar usage in the admin panel. In the admin panel, WordPress users can change: Whether Avatars (aka, Gravatars) are displayed or not. Which rating of Avatars are shown. Avatars in the WP Admin Panel Please keep […]

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Two side-by-side columns in WordPress

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March 2nd, 2008
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How to organize posts into two side-by-side columns in WordPress: A quick tutorial on setting up the front page of a WordPress blog to display two side by side columns with posts alternating between the two columns. The tutorial does require some simple PHP code that is not included (but should be, pseudo code is provided) but the concept is interesting, especially for theme developers looking for the next new thing. In my experience, side by side posts are more applicable for blogs that are heavy in embedded media and light on text.

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Gravatars Without a Plugin

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March 2nd, 2008
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Connor Wilson has published a tutorial on how to setup Gravatars on your WordPress blog without the use of a plugin. If you are comfortable editing theme files and don’t want the overhead of a plugin, then this technique should work for you. I’ve added in my input in the comment’s section on how to use his technique in the sidebar of a post as well, which should be useful for blogs with multiple authors.

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