Theme Releases Two Column Themes GreenTech GreenTech is a two column theme with pleasant colors. It makes use of a mix of brown and green colors. The background is creme in color. There are plenty of advertisement options available in this theme. Author comments on the blog are styled differently than the other comments. Overall a good looking theme. Widget Ready: Yes Compatibility: There were no issues that I saw with this theme on Firefox 2+, IE6, IE7, Flock. The header section appears broken in Opera. Validations: Invalid XHTML 1.0 Transitional with 29 errors | Invalid CSS with 1 error Demo | Release Page | Download Three Column Themes My Starcraft 2 My Starcraft 2 is a theme based on Starcraft 2. The theme uses dark and vibrant colors with a mix of black and gray. The links are orange color making it more visible on the darker background. Overall […]
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Archive for 2008
Quite often, we hear of the terms (permalinks or pretty permalinks) which can also be called SEO-friendly URLs. These URLs are not only SEO friendly, but I believe they are human friendly as well. By default, WordPress uses URLs that look like a mishmash of letters and numbers with a few question marks mixed in for good measure. These types of links are frowned upon by search engine spiders and as a human being, they are also hard to read. Fortunately, WordPress provides a way for us to change this linking structure to something understandable. WordPress calls these Permalinks. Permalink settings can be configured a number of different ways. One of the ways to quickly configure permalinks is by choosing one of the Common Options. These common options include: Default – http://www.domain.com/?p=123 Date and name based – http://www.domain.com/2008/01/15/sample-post/ Numeric – http://www.domain.com/archives/123 There is no sense in using the default option […]
[Continue Reading...]One Column Themes DePo Skinny A very simple one column theme with easy integration for your Flickr pictures at the top of the page. It is a real bare bone theme and is only 500 pixels wide. Though DePo Skinny does not have a sidebar it makes it up in the footer with a bottom sidebar to display additional information. Being a one column theme main advertisement options are within the post itself. Widget Ready: No Sidebar Options Compatibility: There were no issues that I saw with this theme on Firefox 2+, IE6, IE7, Flock and Opera browsers. Validations: Invalid XHTML 1.0 Transitional with 30 errors | Valid CSS Demo | Download Two Column Themes Twister 2.0 Twister 2.0 is made up of dark colors with a mix of gray and black with on a grayish background. The links are white in color and easy to spot with the darkish […]
[Continue Reading...]This post is not written by me but is reproduced, with permission, from a post in the Weblog Tools Collection News Forums. It was written by Weathervane. Since Frank has downloaded 530 plus plugins, and most of his thoughts are well expressed and documented, this post might trigger some good conversation. Please chime in. As a new WordPress blogger, I wanted to customize my installation, so I began a review of the available plugins. My first installation of WordPress was version 2.3.1. Because this version was a significant change, there was a list of v2.3.1-compatible plugins, of which I downloaded and tried most of them. Since then, I’ve downloaded 530± plugins (this was what’s left after deleting extensions of commercial services), and tried/tested most of them. Five-hundred± is an incredible number and rivals, I think, Photoshop actions or plugins—and there are lots of those. The WordPress plugins community is impressively […]
[Continue Reading...]CoverItlive.com is a free (for now) service that allows you to live blog events and publish items directly to any publishing platform. Now this is pretty commonplace and can easily be done with WordPress (and a few extra plugins) but CoverItLive makes it easier and quicker to embed a variety of media and interact with your readers in real time. There is also an instant replay function, which as inane as that might be, might become handy at some point. Now I barely ever liveblog anything, but I can see a lot of use for this at conferences. Have you liveblogged anything before?
[Continue Reading...]About a week ago Smashing Magazine released an article covering 100 free WordPress themes. And just yesterday they released an article covering premium WordPress themes. My questions to the reader is: what makes a WordPress theme premium? Is it the Features? What features does a theme have to have to be considered premium? What are you looking for that will immediately tell a premium theme apart from a non-premium theme? Is it the Design? Are premium themes designed any differently than their non-premium counterparts? What design elements does a premium theme have that others don’t? Is it the Support? Do premium themes offer more in terms of author support and upgrades? Or Something Else… Please weigh in on what you feel makes a WordPress theme premium.
[Continue Reading...]First off, I want to thank each and every one of you who put your thinking caps on and came up with some awesome ideas and solutions for this perplexing problem. I think its time to consolidate the ideas that we came up with, and review what the underlying problems are. Nick was first out of the gate For both of my plugins, I provided uninstall capability. Whenever the user deactivates the plugin, it is effectively uninstalled, removing all data related to the plugin. The user could then do whatever they wanted with the file containing the plugin. It was easy to do it this way because WordPress provides a hook for action upon deactivation of a plugin. The problem that I and many others have is that, deactivating a plugin should not have the same affect as uninstalling it. This is wrong. Who wants to reconfigure their plugin after […]
[Continue Reading...]NewsGator Makes Client Apps Free: NetNewsWire 3.1, FeedDemon 2.6, and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0. and NewsGator Inbox 3.0 are now free to download and use. FeedDemon is a desktop news aggregator that I helped beta test and I have used off and on and Bradbury is a tremendous developer. If you were looking for a powerful desktop aggregator that is easy to use, FeedDemon might be the ticket.
[Continue Reading...]In response to Jeff’s post regarding uninstalling plugins, Andrew Rickmann has created a tool that adds an uninstallation option on the plugins page. The uninstall option will only show up if the plugin has been deactivated and if the plugin author has created an uninstall file. Click image for larger size — Uninstall Option for Hello Dolly Andrew is unsure of the demand for a tool like this, so please let him know your thoughts on having an uninstall option on the plugins page. Update Jan 11: Andrew has released a second iteration of the uninstall tool. Click here to check it out.
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