So after much deliberation by our judges, tallying of the votes from readers, after coming up with an algorithm for all of this to come together, we finally have the results for the Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Competition. The competition was very close with year with, and as one of the judges put it, quite a few gems were found in the rough. There are two runner ups in the competition this year with the exact same scores and a final Grand Prize winner who eked past their competition by a single point. The runner ups will win a cash prize of $500 each and the Grand Prize Winner will receive a cash prize of $2000! To break from tradition, we will release the runner ups today, followed by the release of the Grand Prize Winner on Monday. The following runner ups are in no particular order since they had […]
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404 errors suggest that a user has landed on a page that does not exist. Most of the times it occurs due to a bad permalink, either while linking on your own site or by someone else linking to a non-existent link on your site. This may also occur when you make changes to the post slugs or permalinks on your site.
[Continue Reading...]Elegante Two column, widget ready theme with sIFR support and highlighting of search keywords CopyBlogger Upgraded This is an updated version of the redundant, but very popular Copyblogger theme that was once originally used by Brian Clark of Copyblogger dot com. It now supports Threaded comments and other WordPress 2.8 features. The default look can be changed to a more modern layout with a few clicks of the mouse in the Custom CSS file where most of the customizations are done. Still as SEO friendly as the original. Channel Three/four column, widget ready, gravatar ready theme with automatic thumbnail creation, Flickr and feedburner support and a theme control panel Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get listed in these release posts.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress tips are available everywhere but we can’t get enough of it yet. One of my favorite tech writers and ardent programmer, Gina Trapani, has written a really comprehensive post of tips to get the best out of your WordPress blog.
[Continue Reading...]Simple Organization A simple and elegant theme suitable for organizations. Supporting widgets and nested comments. Daily Minefield Multi-column fixed-width theme in brown, black and a touch of green includes 4 widgetized footer sections. Featuring an Author Info page and gravatars along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and Full-Width No Sidebars page templates. There is an options page for setting the text in the Info Text Box. Parchment Draft A very basic 2 column fixed-width theme in reminiscent of old parchment paper. Featuring an Author Info page and gravatars along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and Full-Width No Sidebars page templates. Wavefront WaveFront provides calm yet stylish layouts customized for basic CMS functionality with several custom page templates including a no-sidebar front page (Front Page template) with three bottom boxes. The theme also has a list of hidden features and extra content that can be turned on and off by editing the template […]
[Continue Reading...]As in last year, following our own Plugin Competition (results are on the way), WPMU.org is holding their own plugin competition. But this time they are adding BuddyPress plugins into the mix as well. You can visit the WPMU Plugin Competition Homepage for more information. The rules for the competition remain the same as last year. Competitors need to post as announcement for their plugin(s) by registering at WPMU.org and submitting a post. The plugins must relate to WordPress MU or BuddyPress and be available freely for download. The plugins must also be released under a GPL compatible license. The prize pool is at $1000 and the organizers are looking for more donations to bolster the purse. So if you are a novice plugin author looking to wade in the WordPress MU pool or a seasoned veteran looking to flex your muscles, head over to the competition and post an […]
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Members The Members plugin is a user, role, and content management plugin. Its purpose is to make WordPress a more powerful CMS by giving you fine-grain control over the users of your site. WordPress Dashboard Pages Adds a dashboard widget listing all of the pages allowing for easy editing, deleting and management of content pages. WP Email Capture Creates a 2 field form (Name & Email) for capturing emails. Email is double opt in, and allows you to forward opt in to services such as ebooks or software. When you are ready to begin your email marketing campaign, simply export the list into your chosen email marketing software or service. GD Taxonomies Tools GD Taxonomies Tools is a plugin that can be used to expand custom taxonomies support. Plugin adds many tools including custom taxonomies management and widget for taxonomies terms cloud. Updated plugins Ajax Edit Comments Allow […]
[Continue Reading...]Bruce WPmu buddypress The Bruce WPmu BuddyPress theme, fully loaded WPmu theme design for a WPmu powered site with the Bruce theme, featuring a multi column fluid layout, enabled with theme option panel, pagenavi support, frontpage slider, related posts, recent comments with gravatars are built into the theme. Victoriana This is a two-column wordpress theme, a highly customized theme. It has theme options to let you customize the font, sidebar position (left or right), post background color, sidebar background color and the link colors Celestial Aura Celestial Aura V2.0 is an SEO-friendly free three column WordPress theme with left and right sidebars. They can accommodate blocks of Wide Skyscraper width (160×600). It has a beautiful cosmic header with a slick menu bar elegantly blended in a sky blue background. The article area is suitable for a adsense banner ad of 468×60 pixels. Palmixio WP theme with 2 column layout, custom […]
[Continue Reading...]When it comes to Search Engine Optimization, there are a slew of options out there. Some good and some not so good. But today I want to talk about the best options out there for WordPress. There are many. But I’m going to try to sift through the cruft to find the truly great tools that are available. Here we go… All In One SEO Pack I suppose the most obvious plugin is the All In One SEO Pack. According to statistics it is the most popular plugin in the whole WordPress Extend repository. It has a robust feature set. Of all the SEO-related WordPress plugins I have tried it is, in my opinion, the best there currently is. The plugin allows you to optimize various things in WordPress for search engines including your site title, your keywords, page titles, and much more. One of the features I like the […]
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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