ClassRoom Blog is a free WordPress theme for Teachers and Educators to use for a class blog. Speed is a magazine style theme for a BuddyPress community powered site, based on a three column fluid layout enabled with custom fonts with a beautiful jQuery powered full width slider. Toolbox is an ultra-minimal set of super-clean, HTML5, starter templates for your own WordPress theme development. zBench is a simple WordPress theme with few images, support for various plugins, custom menus, widgets, and threaded comments.
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Archive for 2010
Previous Post The Top 10 of Your Top 5 Plugins
Previous Post WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/03
A few days ago, Mark asked to hear about your “top 5 plugins that you WordPress geniuses use in every one of your WordPress installs.” With almost fifty responses, it’s great to see that so many people consider the same or similar plugins as their top five. Without further delay, here are the top ten of your top five plugins. Akismet: This plugin should be the front line of your blog’s anti-spam defenses. According to its directory listing, it’s been downloaded individually over 4,060,000 times, but it’s also bundled with WordPress. Just to give you an idea, the current version of WordPress has been downloaded over 15,800,000 times. Considering those numbers, it’s no wonder that this is the most popular WordPress plugin and the top of almost every commentator’s top five list. [directory listing] Google XML Sitemaps: This plugin was the first XML sitemap generator for WordPress. Though the concept […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post Blog Action Day 2010 Topic: Water
New plugins Admin Menu Tree Page View allows you to get a tree view of all your pages directly in the admin menu. Blue Screen of the Dead is a replacement for your WordPress 404 error page. Facebook Members is a WordPress social plugin that enables Facebook page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website. Ultimate Taxonomy Manager is an easy to use taxonomy manager to customize taxonomies and custom fields with a great user interface. WP Pic Tagger allows you to tag people and objects in your images by selecting a region of the image and adding names, URLs and descriptions. Updated plugins AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. Facebook Like for Tags allows you to connect with […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Theme Releases for 10/01
Voting has concluded for this year’s Blog Action Day topic, and the winner is water! Register your blog now and join the thousands (if not millions) of bloggers worldwide who will be posting about the world’s water problems on October 15th. If you need some inspiration for your post, the Blog Action Day crew has provided a few suggestions. Last year, over 31,000 posts were published across the globe on the topic of climate change. Will you be participating in this year’s Blog Action Day?
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress.com Stats Updated
BreakingNewz is a powerful news/magazine style WordPress theme. Locket is a simple 2-column WordPress template with a paper-like background Portfolium is a clean and flexible WordPress grid-based portfolio theme designed in a modern and minimalist style. Purple Shadow is a clean, light, and mostly white WordPress theme.
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress for iOS Mobile App Updated
If you’re a WordPress.com user, you may have noticed that your stats received a significant facelift today. The Flash-powered line chart has been replaced by an interactive Javascript-powered bar chart and the module layout is now fully customizable. The new design was a team effort, though some credit should definitely go to Nick Momrik for handling the new chart and a good majority of the extra work, Joen Asmussen for the overall design, and Matt Thomas for keeping everyone on track. Currently, the new stats interface is only for WordPress.com users, but the WordPress.com Stats Plugin for self-installed WordPress blogs will be updated once they have all the kinks worked out. Unfortunately, my WordPress.com blog is private, so I really don’t have enough stats to truly test the new interface. What do you think of the new WordPress.com Stats interface?
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/29
The WordPress for iOS mobile app has received a significant update with a slew of bug fixes and the following new features: Video: “record video within the app and then upload it directly to a blog.” Local Drafts: “save posts locally before they’re published or saved online.” Autosaves: “If something happens and you need to revert to an older version of a post, you can just select a previous version and restore it without issue.” Setup Process: “allowing WordPress.com users a quick way to add their blogs, and giving WordPress.org users a faster, more streamlined experience when adding their sites.” Media Library: “a new Media Library more along the lines of what you’re used to with WordPress.” This release would not have been possible without your feedback and beta testing skills, so keep doing whatever you can to make each release better than the last! Despite all the bug fixes, […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Admin Themes Drought
New plugins Better Delete Revision allows you to remove old post revisions and related meta content and optimize the database. GTS Translation provides high quality human translation of your blog content using community translation (crowdsourcing). IE9 Pinned Site adds support for Internet Explorer 9’s pinned site features to your WordPress blog. Updated plugins AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. All in One Webmaster has options to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahoo’s Webmaster and Analytics code (meta tags). FourSquare Integration allows you to display your last checkins as a list or on Google Map on pages and posts. Simple Twitter Connect is a series of plugins that lets you add any sort of Twitter functionality you like to a WordPress blog. […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post Deleting WordPress Revisions
The most requested search item on this blog is “WordPress admin themes”. With variations of the various search terms, I would guess that we receive many hundreds of hits a day on just this blog from WordPress enthusiasts looking for themes to adorn their admin panel with. A simple search on Google reveals an old post from this blog listing 9 admin themes (I don’t link to it because most of the themes listed are dead or deprecated). Here is a list of nice admin themes that I can find, which are still being produced and regularly updated. Fluency Admin by Dean J. Robinson. A nice looking, well documented, well translated admin theme that is often updated. Wait for it ….. thats it!! (that I could find, please let us know if you know of others that are of high quality and updated regularly) There are various useful and popular […]
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- 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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