WordPress.com users are limited to about a hundred styles and no way to modify them except a few simple options, a variety of widgets, and the Custom CSS upgrade. Those of you with WordPress theme design and modification experience may find the lack of being able to edit the template files to be quite limiting, but nothing could be further from the truth. If you’re a WordPress.com user seeking to produce your own unique design, look no further than this collection for some of the best Custom CSS blogs on WordPress.com. Some of the blogs in this collection used the Sandbox theme (practically a blank slate) to build their unique design using nothing but their own CSS, but some have used their Custom CSS upgrade to build extensively on top of existing fully designed themes. Do you use custom CSS on your WordPress.com blog? If so, we’d love to see […]
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Archive for November, 2010
New plugins Headline Split Tester allows you to enter an alternate headline for every post on your blog. (review) WP Original Source adds a source attribution meta tag, introduced by Google, to single posts and the page header, and adds your permalink to the source attribution meta tag if external urls are not defined. Updated plugins Posts 2 Posts allows you to create many-to-many relationships between posts of all types. Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to regenerate the thumbnails for all of your image attachments. WP Super Cache generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog.
[Continue Reading...]Ever wonder if one headline would be better than another for a particular post? If so, you’ll now be able to test two different headlines per post using the newly released Headline Split Tester plugin developed by bhalliburton and peterbessman. The plugin is incredibly simple to use. Once installed, a new meta box is added to the post creation/editing page where you can enter an alternative headline. As you can see via the screenshot, you’ll be able to view the total number of impressions the article has along with the number of clicks each headline has received. By default, the total number of impressions an article needs to have is 250 before a headline is chosen. This can be changed via the plugin options. In fact, it’s the only option this plugin has. What’s cool about this particular plugin is that it was created by these two individuals over a […]
[Continue Reading...]The WordPress.com theme team will be retiring the sorely out of date PressRow theme in favor of the new Pilcrow theme. The new Pilcrow theme is incredibly similar in style to PressRow, but supports all WordPress 3 feature, like custom menus and featured images, and boasts six layout configurations and four color schemes. Those of you who use Custom CSS along with the PressRow theme, may be interested in this very short list of CSS differences in Pilcrow. PressRow will be officially phased out next week, but Pilcrow is available in the Appearance section of your WordPress.com blog’s Dashboard if you’d like to switch to it or try it out before that happens. Pilcrow will soon be available to self-hosted WordPress users via the official theme directory. Are you a PressRow user? What do you think of the new Pilcrow theme?
[Continue Reading...]Fresh Ink Magazine gives your blog the polished look of a high-quality magazine fresh from the press. Scarf is a portfolio-style, two-column fluid layout, enabled with custom fonts, and a beautiful jQuery fullwidth slider. Techrey is a sleek clean theme with a full-fledged options panel and a white and silver color scheme.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress has officially won the 2010 Open Source Hall of Fame CMS Award. WordPress initially tied with Drupal for first place, but an extra independent judge was brought in to give the winning vote. For those of who think that WordPress can’t be anything more than just a blogging platform, stop by the CMS section of the official Showcase for some great examples of WordPress used as a CMS. Do you use WordPress for more than just a blog? If so, we’d love to see it.
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Magic Gallery is a complete gallery solution for WordPress. MembersBlog allows you to lock down your blog to members only. Video Thumbnails makes it simple to display video thumbnails from embedded videos in your templates. Updated plugins All in One SEO Pack automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines. Fast Secure Contact Form lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message and blocks all common spammer tactics. Theme-Check allows you to run checks on the current theme before uploading to WordPress. This plugin uses the same API and is kept more or less in sync with the WordPress.org uploader tool. wpStoreCart is a full featured e-commerce platform built atop of WordPress.
[Continue Reading...]Now you can try some of the latest and greatest WordPress 3.1 features without having to upgrade your own blog to the alpha release. All you need is a free blog from WordPress.com. The WordPress.com team has just merged all of WordPress.com with the 3.1 branch. Not only will WordPress.com users have access to new features like internal linking, improved Dashboard pagination, and Dashboard column sorting, but the WordPress 3.1 branch has just gained well over a million beta testers! If you can’t wait to try WordPress 3.1, get a free WordPress.com blog today and don’t be afraid to contact the Happiness Engineers if you find any bugs. Do you have a blog on WordPress.com? What do you think of the new features?
[Continue Reading...]About the Author
- James
James began using WordPress in 2004. Being new to WordPress (and blogging in general), he quickly found the WordPress Support Forums and basically never left. James currently resides in sunny Southern California, where he enjoys bringing happiness to millions of WordPress.com users.
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