Archive for November, 2010

WordPress Theme Releases for 11/18

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Big Square is a clean, tidy, and elegant photoblog theme. Cleanfrog is a simple, clean and sharp theme. It’s eye-catching design is vibrant yet light on images so page loads should be nice and fast. Jenny is a premium-quality, free theme handcrafted to perfection with focus on even minute details. This two-column, multiple-colour, fixed-width minimal theme puts great emphasis on typography.

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Celebrating One Year of Nacin

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November 17th, 2010
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Yesterday, Andrew Nacin celebrated his first full year of WordPress contributions. To quote Nacin, “It’s been one hell of a ride, and I don’t intend to slow down.” Nacin’s WordPress career began on November 16th of 2009 with an almost insignificant twelve-character patch. Just three months and about a hundred patches later, Nacin was asked to become a WordPress core developer. Fast-forward to today, Nacin is one of the most recognized core developers with about seven hundred contributions and six WordCamp presentations under his name. When not contributing to WordPress, Nacin can often be found blogging about WordPress, tweeting about WordPress, publicly speaking about WordPress, supporting WordPress, editing a book on WordPress plugin development, working on the WordPress Core Contributor Handbook, and dodging a humorous onslaught of #blamenacin tweets. So, how did Nacin learn to contribute to WordPress? I learn first by reading, and second by doing. If you want […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/16

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November 16th, 2010
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New plugins Custom Post Widget allows you to display the content of a custom post type called Content Block in a sidebar widget. Gecka Submenu allows you to put menus or potions of menus anywhere in your site: sidebar, templates or page contents. Shuffle modifies and improves your Media Library in a number of ways. Updated plugins All in One Webmaster has options to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahoo’s Webmaster and Analytics code (meta tags). AVH Extended Categories gives you two widgets for displaying categories. One is a replacement of the default category widget to allow for greater customization. The second is a Top Categories widget. SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without having to escape the code or anything. As seen on WordPress.com. WP Social Blogroll provides a sidebar widget and a template tag that adds an enhanced blogroll to your […]

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What are Your Favorite Themes?

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November 15th, 2010
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Not too long ago, we asked about your top 5 plugins and got some interesting results. Well, I’m sure you could have guessed that this was coming next, so without further ado, we’d love to know what your favorite WordPress themes are and why they rank #1 out of the thousands available.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 11/14

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Hamid Bakeri is a blue and gray theme with a simply layout. Plain Fields is a very simple, clean, and readable theme. Serenity is a silver blue theme with featured posts, twitter updates, 125×125 ads, Gravatar support, threaded comments, menu, and widget support. Somero is a white and simple design, with featured posts in a slideshow.

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Post Formats Explained

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November 13th, 2010
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Premiering with WordPress 3.1 some time next month, Post Formats is one of the most talked about and often confusing of the new features. The documentation is beginning to take shape, and a list of Post Formats is being finalized, so what is a Post Format? Think of Post Formats like categories, but more from a design standpoint than an organizational one. Basically, Post Formats offer a microblogging-style way to assign a specific style to your post based on content. So far, Post Formats are available for asides, audio, chat transcripts, galleries, links, quotes, single images, status updates, and videos. What that means is, if your theme takes advantage of these Post Formats, you will have any easy way to display each format with a unique style. As Otto illustrates, Matt Mullenweg has done this for some time. Many themes have brought similar functionality tied to specific categories, but what happens […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/12

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November 12th, 2010
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New plugins Embed Facebook lets you embed various Facebook objects (album, event, group, note, photo, or video) in a post or page. mySimpleAds WordPress Ad Manager allows you to easily place your mySimpleAds Ads inside your WordPress posts, pages, or even right in your templates. Plugin Test Drive lets you test any plugin before actually using it. 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. Wickett Twitter Widget allows you to display tweets from one or more Twitter accounts as a WordPress widget. As seen on WordPress.com. Updated plugins Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. Facebook Like for Tags allows you to automatically share into Facebook when posting new articles with the same […]

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WordPress.org Theme Uploader Gets Smarter

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November 11th, 2010
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The uploader of the official WordPress theme directory has received a rather helpful upgrade courtesy of Otto. The previous version of the WordPress theme uploader checked the themes against the theme review guidelines, but only reported the first error that it encountered, sometimes trapping theme developers in a frustrating cycle of trial and error.  The new version performs an even more intensive scan of the theme and returns a list of all results, providing theme developers with a handy to-do list to get their themes up to spec for the directory. Have you submitted a theme with the new uploader yet?  Does it help to streamline the process?  If you haven’t uploaded your themes to the official directory, does the new uploader inspire you to give it a try?

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WordPress Theme Releases for 11/10

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Daily is a free, premium like, WordPress theme that comes with a beautiful design, many great features, and is perfect for daily bloggers. Desk is a very clean and functional theme based of a piece of paper lying on a desk.

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