Scott Wallick, the author of the popular and well known Sandbox theme has announced on his personal blog that he is selling the Sandbox domain along with Plaintxt.org. The sale does not include the actual themes since they have been developed and released under the GPL license. Scott does provide a reason for why he is selling the domains: I have withdrawn from the WordPress community. Active development of my themes and plugins has stopped simply because I am unable to continue the necessary development. In a way, they have a life of their own. If you would like the opportunity to chat with Scott Wallick about his involvement with the WordPress community, be sure to tune in to this weeks episode of WordPress Weekly as he will be my special guest.
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Archive for February, 2009
New Plugins Simply Show IDs Simply shows the ID of Posts, Pages, Media and Links in the admin tables for easy access. Google Website Optimizer for WordPress This simple plugin lets you optimize your landing pages (as posts or pages) using the Google Website Optimizer without needing to edit the HTML code of the theme. Page not in English. Mass Format Conversion Applies all content filters to posts and comments and saves them back to the database. This is useful if you have been using Textile or Markdown (for example) and you want to switch to plain HTML. WP Background Tile The WP Background Tile Plugin for WordPress applies a tiled background image to your blog. It is as simple as this: TNG WordPress Integration Integrates TNG (The Next Generation) genealogy software into WordPress. Contextual revenue plugin by Advtise Insert Advtise.com Partner revenue code in to your posts on the […]
[Continue Reading...]New way to get on Techmeme: send tips to Techmeme via Twitter: Techmeme is now accepting tips via Twitter. They are using Twitter’s search API to look for incoming tips. Techmeme is my first read every morning and now that the site is partially human edited, there is the desire and the ability for readers to suggest news. Of particular interest is the Techmeme suggest button to add to your site or blog. Anyone know of a WordPress plugin that does this automagically yet? Read more of the discussion at Techmeme and story thanks to Blog Herald.
[Continue Reading...]Entropy Two column, Grunge based red and grey theme with a different front page and posts pages. Quantum Two column, fixed width, widget ready, gravatar ready theme with threaded comments support and with 125×125 ads inbuilt. Brown Two column, widget ready, SEO titled theme clearcut The clearcut WP theme includes a typography based grid layout, four recent posts (with pagination enabled ) and an options panel for footer area, page menu as well as cat menu shows subpages (two rows), the image script checks your posts auto for images attached and displays them auto. Fresh Fruits 3 Columns, Health niche related, Adsense ready, Widget ready theme And finally, Smashing Magazine has released two new themes. Read about Vintage and Blue Themes for WordPress. Are you a theme author looking to have your theme in our release posts? Check out how you can submit them to us.
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Plugin Review: Autoclose
The man, the myth, the legend, Ajay D’Souza not only brings you news of the latest WordPress plugins and themes to hit the community but he also has a few plugins under his belt. Today, I’ll be reviewing one of those plugins called Autoclose Autoclose enables a granular approach to managing pingbacks/comments/trackbacks on both posts and pages. Some of the highlights that the plugin features: Close Comments on posts/pages older than (number of days). Close Pingbacks/Trackbacks on posts? Close Pingbacks/Trackbacks on pages? Close Pingbacks/Trackbacks on posts/pages older than (number of days). The ability to configure when the plugin runs its configuration to detect if a comment/trackback/pingback need to be closed off. Last but not least, Autoclose also provides a checkbox to delete post revisions. So why would you want to use a plugin like this? For starters, based on my experience with blogging, the conversation on any particular blog post […]
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