Archive for January, 2009

WordPress Theme Releases for 01/10

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Golf Simple, three-column free WordPress theme with golf imagery. The background and header images of this free theme for WordPress display images related to golfing. This is a great WordPress theme for golf blogs and bloggers who are golf enthusiasts. Zeofire Brown Three column, brown WordPress theme optimized with 8 widget ready advertising spots. I Heart PC I Heart PC is a 3 column theme, that comes in blue, white and red. It’s widget and gravatar ready, with fixed width. Looks best at resolutions of minimum 1024×768. WP Themes Magazine Wp-Themes Magazine is a magazine style two column WordPress Theme designed to load fast with NO graphics contained. Very easy to customize and ready for advertisement management from the theme custom options menu. The homepage featured content also can be easily be customized from the theme’s menu. Blue Lite Two column, widget ready, WordPress 2.7 compatible with theme with nice […]

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PHPBB And WordPress

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January 10th, 2009
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Joining me this week on WordPress Weekly was Douglas Bell who operates Webmacster87.info as well as hosts the PHPBBWeekly podcast. In this episode, David and I chatted about a number of subjects including: WordPress User Interface History BBPress PHPBB3 The possibilities of the WordPress team working with PHPBB to develope a bridge between the two Security of PHPBB3 and WordPress And a whole lot more. While PHPBB and WordPress are two different pieces of open source software serving different needs, I find it interesting to discuss the differences in strategy as well as the similarities between the two. Plugin Of The Week: Maintenance Mode – Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end. When the maintenance mode is activated, a custom defined message is shown to site visitors Announcements: […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 01/09

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January 9th, 2009
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New Plugins WP-Admin Quick Links WP Admin Quicklinks is a very simple little WordPress plugin that adds an intelligent, unobtrusive little admin panel to the top-right of all your site’s pages and posts giving you shortcuts to the most commonly used WP Admin sections. Mailto-staff For multi-author blogs. Plugin generates mailto links on the dashboard referring to all user groups of the blog. Quite handy way of internal staff communication. WordPress PageRank Widget Plugin Allows you to display a PageRank badge as a widget. It is much more convenient than having modify your templates to include such a badge. It can be used either at a page/post level, or a top site level. Is Child Of This plugin implements a function called ‘is_child_of’, which can check if a page is a descendant page of another page, regardless of how many levels there are in between them. Tweet Stats Tweet Stats […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 01/08

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Clearpress The unique feature about this theme is that it divides the blog posts into three separate column. The theme also features a pull-down sidebar which is totally unobtrusive and contains three widgetized sidebars. ClearPress is Gravatar-ready, Image Gallery ready, and consists of beautifully styled comments and archive pages. Color Plus Template consists of two columns, supports widgets, comments, is static in size. In the pattern dominated by black, blue, green and red. Good design, which is suitable for any blog. Satin Rose Satin Rose is a simple two column, widget ready theme compatible with WordPress 2.7 Pellucid Dashed Two column, widget ready theme with support for Twitter Satorii Satorii is a theme for WordPress (2.7 or higher) with a minimalist, simple, elegant and clean style, a strong focus on contents and readability, with one centered column for content and three widgetized columns in the footer.

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Sunpress Plugin Competition

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January 8th, 2009
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Joost De Valk who operates Yoast.com in conjunction with the guys behind SunPress has launched a competition in which a Macbook Air is up for grabs. The competition is centered around expanding SunPress. This could be a plugin, a theme, a widget, nothing is off limits. The contest will end on February 16th. If you win but are unable to accept the Macbook Air as the prize, you’ll receive the cash equivalent. All entries must be created under the GPL License. For more information regarding the contest, please read the fine print on the contest announcement page.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 01/06

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January 6th, 2009
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New Plugins WordPress Backup Performs regular backups of your upload (images) and current theme directories. Backup files are available for download and optionally emailed to a specified email. Don’t get caught without a recent backup of your theme or images. Automatic Blog Stats This plugin makes available a number of statistics about your blog, including pagerank, Alexa rank, Technorati rank, Feedburner RSS count and more which you can use as shortcodes in your posts. Automatically updates all statistics daily. Plain Gtalk Status Sync This plugin will automatically show your GTalk status on your WordPress blog. You can set a max-shown number and the cache interval to make it works more smoothly. Add a Separator Simple Plugin to add a separator between the intro and the (more…) content. This plugin adds a separator between the intro text and the extended (more…) text of the content of a post. It simply replaces […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 01/05

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PCworld PC World two column, widget ready theme is built for technology oriented guys who wants to devote their blogs for computer technology. Blog uses a beautiful header image with great typography. WP Commerce Steel [Removed, Sponsored] Sleek and versatile WordPress theme specifically designed to work with eBay and Amazon affiliate programs, also works great for regular Blogs. Oulipo Oulipo is a clean, minimal, thee-column, widget-ready theme with great typography and a grid-based layout. Oulipo supports threaded comments and sticky posts in WordPress 2.7. Technology Blog Three column, widget ready, gravatar ready theme. Nash Magazine The Nash WP theme comes along with with a multi column red / black / white color scheme, eleven recent posts and two bars for the splash page with pagination enabled, one lead posts, followed by your twitter messages, “about blurbs” and six random posts with additional six posts underneath, the sidebar is meant to […]

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Great Explanation Of Community

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January 5th, 2009
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Just over two weeks ago, the community was abuzz about the disappearance of 200 to 300 themes being removed from the theme repository. During that blip of time, there were many posts dedicated to covering the subject of not only the theme removals, but of community, GPL and much more. Andrew Rickmann who I consider to be a ‘thought leader‘ within the WordPress community published an excellent post which has had my head churning through thoughts and ideas ever since I read it. The article goes into detail on what the point of community is. However, despite the overall article being a great read, question number five that Andrew raises is the one that continuously has me thinking. In question five, Andrew asks what is it that you value? He then gives eight different perspectives which I find to be very interesting. Here is one of them: Do you agree […]

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Plugin Review: Simple:Press Forum

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January 4th, 2009
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We’re kicking of our plugin review process with a feature rich plugin labeled Simple:Press Forum. This was also the first plugin review request that we received. So what is Simple:Press? Simple:Press is a feature rich forum plugin for WordPress. It fully integrates into your WP based site utilizing the same user records and database and displaying on a single WP page. It is fully customizable and comes with a number of skins and sets of icons to get your started. Current users have shown it to be fully scalable whether your site membership numbers the tens or the thousands. Through it’s powerful and flexible permissions system it is suitable for those who wish to run private, specialist forums with invited members but is equally able to accommodate open, public forums that allow guest posting. Also included is a Private Messaging sub-system, the ability to link blog posts with forum topics, […]

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