There are a myriad of reasons why people create websites and put them online. Some do it for fame and profit; others do it for passion and service. No matter the reason you put your work and effort into an online endeavor there can come a time in the life of some websites that the comment system becomes inconvenient for discussions. Now WordPress has done a lot to make it easier to follow along with discussions on a site based on that system. The threaded comments option allows replies to be underneath the original comment that prompted the reply. Even before it became an option in WordPress plugin developers were making it happen. So when you want to take those discussions to their own piece of your website and create a forum what should you do? Well there are quite a few options out there for forums and discussion boards. […]
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Archive for 2010
DocOut will create a great search engine friendly document outline for the Twenty Ten WordPress Theme. The Graphene theme is a stylish, neat, and tight WordPress theme built for WordPress 3.0. It supports many (if not all) of the new features introduced in WordPress 3.0 as well as a host of other features introduced in earlier versions of WordPress. Imbalance is a very user-friendly, modern-minimalist, jQuery powered theme which looks really well under any browser and OS. iPhonsta is an exclusive free premium WordPress theme made for iPhone but it also looks great under other mobile phones and gadgets. Paragrams is free premium WordPress theme made using grid design techniques. It is very lightweight and almost no images are used.
[Continue Reading...]The WordPress.com theme team has quickly phased out Cutline across all blogs, replacing it with the visually similar Coraline. According to the theme team, Coraline is “an improved version of [Cutline]. It has a similar visual design, and adds many new features.” The forced change has not been taken well by many WordPress.com users, particularly those who purchased the custom CSS upgrade specifically to modify Cutline. Numerous users have cited that although Coraline is functionally superior and visually similar to Cutline, it is simply not Cutline, a theme they deliberately chose for their blogs. Some have even referred to Coraline as visually inferior to Cutline. One thing is for sure, Cutline won’t be coming back. According to a recent post by Matt Mullenweg, PressRow will be the next theme on the chopping block.
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Extended Text provides a text widget which can be hidden by adding page ids to the widget. MyPress allows you to customize your WordPress admin area and login screen with your logos and your color scheme. MyPress also gives you the opportunity of making your own unique administration area without touching code and without having previous knowledge in CSS or HTML. ShushThatNoise allows you to hide unwanted comments without deleting them. Edit the comment and wrap the offending text in [shush][/shush]. Readers can choose to read the hidden comment by clicking on the “Show” link. Simple Music allows you to easily play any MP3 as a sidebar widget on your blog. WP Socializer is an advanced and powerful plugin for adding social bookmarking links, retweet buttons, Google buzz buttons, Digg buttons, Addthis buttons, Facebook buttons with inbuilt setup. Updated plugins All in One Webmaster has options to add […]
[Continue Reading...]Are you gripping the edge of your seat in anticipation of the upcoming WordPress mobile app releases? Do you have an insatiable desire to follow the development teams’ every move? Well, you’re in luck! The WordPress mobile app teams will be sharing the latest news, status updates, beta team instructions, and random quips in 140 characters or less via Twitter. Follow the Android team, the BlackBerry team, the iOS team, all three, or maybe just two. Even if you don’t have a Twitter account, you can use Twitter’s new Fast Follow feature to have the latest news from the mobile app teams sent straight to your phone (standard text messaging rates apply).
[Continue Reading...]Candid is a minimalist theme with a dash of pink. patra mesigar is a clean and minimalist design, with ornamental header, 2 columns (fixed), right sidebar, lightweight, monochromatic, 125px ads ready, and a dropdown menu. proClouds is a light and cloudy theme that is fast-loading and great looking. Features custom header, widgets and threaded comments. Wallow is a multistyle theme. Use one of the four default styles or mix them to get your personal one.
[Continue Reading...]The development teams behind the WordPress apps for Android, BlackBerry, and iOS are seeking feedback for their upcoming releases. The blog posts linked to above include instructions on how to contribute to each mobile app. All three mobile app teams are looking for feedback on the current release and beta testers for future releases. As a user of the WordPress app on my iPhone, I can attest that the app has grown tremendously in its usefulness since it premiered, mostly due to comments from users like us. Let’s do whatever we can to help the mobile app teams make these upcoming releases the best yet!
[Continue Reading...]New plugins 123 Flash Chat WordPress Plugin can be used to create your own chat room in WordPress. It allows you to insert a chat room to your sidebar. LinkXL enables you to monetize your blog, automatically. Once you install the plugin, we handle the rest! LinkXL has relationships with digital agencies, large corporations and other link building companies who are looking for high-quality and relevant ads for their clients’ goods and services. My Foursquare makes it easy to show off your Foursquare badges and mayorships on your WordPress blog. It shows up as a widget in your WordPress sidebar. You can customize the widget to display your badges, mayorships, last checkin venue, and a map of your last checkin. Updated plugins DukaPress is an open source and free to use e-commerce platform. With DukaPress you can quickly and easily set up a fully featured online shop which can be […]
[Continue Reading...]Automattic’s “Master of Suggestion,” Jane Wells, had a chance to speak at WordCamp Boulder 2010. Her session, What’s Next for WordPress, covers the new features in WordPress 3.0, the future of WordPress, and a few additional topics thanks to questions from audience members. The entire session makes for a very educational weekend view. I’m sure that you’ve read a lot about WordPress 3.0 and the future of WordPress by now, but there’s just something about this particular format that I’ve always found to be more informative. Enjoy!
[Continue Reading...]About the Author
- Richard Hay
I have served for 26 plus years in the Navy and am a Master Chief Petty Officer. My work background in the Navy is telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well in what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena. My first website - AnotherWin95.com - came online in 1996. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and have all the GeoCities “stuff” to show for it! I have progressed from a single page, link-filled, static html page to using PHP, databases and coding to make my pages.
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