HelloBlogger A simple two column blue and white WordPress theme Typography A fixed two column outfit and some modern typographic styles. The front page shows the latest post in excerpts with an article image pulled via the custom fields, while the sidebar features a custom built news slider. Bullit Bullit WordPress theme with a fixed two column outfit and some stylish black layout. The front page shows the latest post in excerpts with an article image pulled via the custom fields, while the sidebar features a special news slider. The Enhancing Spring The Enhancing Spring (TES) is a 2-column theme in green style. It’s autofit to your screen width and looks very clean, which makes your posts easy to read. The XHTML and CSS are well separated so it’s very easy to customize for your own needs. Una Una is a clean, minimalistic, steady and excellent theme. It has 2 […]
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Archive for July, 2008
I have been asked this question quite a few times and I never have a perfect answer. It is obviously an important question to ask but it can be answered in many different ways based on preferences, need for plugins, optimization techniques used and a variety of other factors. Weblog Tools Collection uses a lot of plugins and is very query heavy but the in spite of that, the front page uses 59 queries to generate itself. I think the default (on a vanilla WordPress install on the default theme) is 27 or something of that nature. The larger the number of queries, the slower the page is going to load and the more load you are going to put on your MySql server. All of the above is true if you do not use inline or regenerative caching mechanisms. The caveat on this blog is that its plugins and […]
[Continue Reading...]AVH Extended Categories A replacement of the category widget to allow for greater customization of the category widget. AVH Amazon The avh-amazon plugin gives you the ability to add a widget which will display a random item from your Amazon wish list, baby registry and/or wedding registry. dilw It lets you see displayed the Daily Dilbert. It uses the DilbertDailyStrip RSS feed. Enhanced Recent Posts Enhanced Recent Posts is a widget that comes as a replacement to the built-in widget. As the first enhancement, you can choose if you want to show posts from all categories, from some categories in particular or from all categories but some (exclude categories).
[Continue Reading...]WordPress for iPhone: Big news from the Automattic team yesterday. They released a first look at their iPhone App that works on both WordPress.com and WordPress.org blogs. The application is Open Source, available from the iPhone App store and will be available for free. The screen real estate problem with the large on screen keyboard looks to be largely solved with this app and it adds the ability to modify previous posts and view your blog on the web. The official iPhone app for WordPress blog is linked above. The application received rave reviews from a variety of sources such as TechCrunch and Webware and ma.tt talked about it yesterday. Check out the screencast when you get a chance. It definitely has a wow factor.
[Continue Reading...]Today is the last day to submit entries to the WordPress Plugin Competition. We will accept entries till 11:59 PM EST tonight. A little leeway will be allowed because of time differences across the world. However we will not accept any entries that come in tomorrow. Please make sure that all entrants are registered on the Plugin Competition Blog and have written at least one post about their plugin entry If you find a bug, please resend your entry. A plugin that crashes and burns in a fatal error on install is quite a downer to your chances at winning the competition. Please send in your entries before the deadline to wpplugincomp [at] wltc [dot] net with the subject line as “WP Plugin Competition: Plugin Name“ There are over $3800 in prizes to be won in this competition Over 40 plugins have been announced so far. We have received a […]
[Continue Reading...]One Column Themes Black Green It’s simple, elegant and ultra-minimal. The theme uses an Ajax Accordion script to toggle display of posts and the archives/sidebar page. Two Column Themes Simplifi Simplifi is a very simple theme, for people who publish a lot of content and don’t want a heavy design to waste space. BasicBlue Quick Loading Theme, Widget ready, Minimalist Design, 2 Columns, Banner Ads Ready. RS10 This free WordPress theme has a homepage template, posts of which can be configured through a config file. Widget-ready sidebar and Gravatar support. Three Column Themes Personal Mag 3 Columns. Widget Ready. Minimalist Design. Awesome Menu Hover! Up Front Up Front is a two/three column widget, Gravatar and Adsense ready WordPress theme.
[Continue Reading...]Role Scoper Role Scoper is a comprehensive drop-in replacement for capability enforcement and administration in WordPress. Assign reading, editing or administration roles to users or groups on a page-specific, category-specific or other content-specific basis. wpSEO [EDIT] Link removed since it is a paid plugin. The wpSEO plugin helps you optimize your blog for SEO purposes by eliminating issues with duplicate content and specifying meta tags and page titles for the different pages of your blog. Page is in German. English and German files are included in the download Related Posts by Categories für WordPress The Plugin looks for related posts from the same categories as the current article. With numerous customization of the call to function. Page in German
[Continue Reading...]Google Docs RSVP Guestlist Plugin for WordPress This plugin allows you to add RSVP and guestlist functionality to your WordPress site. Exec-PHP The Exec-PHP plugin allows tags inside the content or excerpt of your posts and pages aswell as in text widgets to be executed just as in usual PHP files. Tippy Tippy is a friendly little WordPress plugin that gives you a way to include highly configurable tooltips in your WordPress site. ESV Plugin This plugin will retrieve Bible passages from the ESV Web Service and display them on your page as a tooltip, a block quote, a link, or just the reference. Feed reading Blogroll This plugin provides a sidebar-widget and a template-tag that add an enhanced blogroll to your sidebar. It checks on all your linked sites for which you saved a separate feed-url, when the most recent update has occurred. Email Commenters An easy way to […]
[Continue Reading...]Vladimir Prelovac has come up with yet another cool plugin, this time called Live Blogroll. Live Blogroll replaces the default blogroll in that when a user hovers their mouse over a link, the rss feed from that site is aggregated in an Ajax created box showcasing the most recent (configured number) of posts. The Live Blogroll uses internal caching for feed discovery and WordPress caching for RSS feeds to keep everything from slowing down to a crawl. Vladimir is on a roll in terms of creating cool WordPress plugins. This one is yet another shining example.
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