The AppleZoom WordPress 3.0 Theme comes with 8 Widget Areas and a Mac look. Four of the sidebars are adsense optimized, the big horizontal bar in the footer can hold up to four widgets, and you can put HTML or a banner at the very bottom of the theme. Cloistered works either as a stand-alone or a framework and is heavily based on the new WordPress default theme Twenty Ten by the WordPress Team. This theme is two-columns fixed-width, with support for a custom-header, custom-background, threaded-comments, sticky-post, and microformats. Featuring a Full-Width No Sidebars page template. There is an options page for setting the background color and header image. Freshblog is a free, clean, elegant, and flexible blog/magazine WordPress theme. TemPuteh is an elegant free WordPress theme, perfect for your personal blog. The theme package comes with 2 different color schemes, 1 custom flickr widget, tabbed sidebar for popular posts, […]
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New plugins HTML5 Player Plugin for WordPress allows bloggers to embed video and audio using the respective HTML 5 tags with Flowplayer as fallback, for example if a web browser doesn’t render HTML 5 video or audio, it will use Flowplayer (Flash) for that web browser. IFRAME Embed For YouTube enables you to insert iframe code for a particular YouTube video on your WordPress blog. YouTube has recently released the IFRAME embed code for videos but still that code is not available on YouTube, forcing people to still use the OBJECT embed code for the flash player. Simple Portfolio allows you to manage your portfolio projects easily and use them everywhere you like. This plugin is very simple to use, though it’s very powerful. Updated plugins After the Deadline uses artificial intelligence to check spelling, style, and grammar in WordPress. eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed […]
[Continue Reading...]Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plug-In: Joost de Valk’s list of seven lessons learned from writing and maintaining a WordPress plugin. I was nodding my head all the while I was reading through them. Some of these are applicable to the general WordPress plugin developer while others are more particular to the individual project that Joost was working on but almost all of them are good advice. All in all, I think this is a good read for both seasoned as well as newbie WordPress plugin developers.
[Continue Reading...]Use 2010 Weaver to tweak almost everything with this Twenty Ten child theme, or pick one of many included predefined example themes. With minimal effort, you can easily customize: colors, fonts, the header, the footer, sidebars, background colors, or add your own custom CSS or javascript definitions. RedBel is a simple and stylish fixed width WordPress theme. Voidy is the perfect theme for great authors. It is clean, clear and beautiful. It is minimalistic two-columns theme with the widgets all arranged in the right sidebar. Voidy was designed to make your content stand out and make everything else get out of the way. Outline is a child theme of Hybrid framework that was designed exclusively to take advantage of the new WordPress 3.0 features such as nav menus and custom backgrounds.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress 3.0.1 has been officially released. This release fixes 55 minor issues, including a frequently reported export error and an incompatibility with PHP 5.0.5. The upgrade should be available for most of you from your Dashboard. If you don’t see the announcement, go to Dashboard/Updates. If you encounter any trouble with the automated updater, try deactivating your plugins before reinitiating the update. As is accustomed with Murphy and his fabled law, a manual upgrade many be required, but it shouldn’t take too long. If you need help, please submit your request to the WordPress Support Forums.
[Continue Reading...]New plugins FourSquare Integration for WordPress allows you to view your last checkins either as a list or on Google Maps on Pages and Posts. DynamicWP Featured Post is a free WordPress jQuery plugin that will list your featured post based on the post tag and displayed as a widget. The post will cycled automatically. DukaPress can be used to build online shops quickly and easily. It is built to be both simple and elegant yet powerful and scalable. Add image_src Meta Tag ensures your content has a relevant thumbnail when shared on social sites, by adding an image_src meta tag to your header which contains your post thumbnail image. Updated plugins The 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. The AddToAny: Subscribe […]
[Continue Reading...]There are two ways to install plugins in WordPress 3.0. You can either search for and install plugins via Plugins/Add New in your admin panel, or search for and download plugins from the plugin directory, then upload them to /wp-content/plugins/. Now, thanks to Mark Jaquith, there’s a new way to install plugins. The new plugin installer tool allows users to easily install plugins via a web-based interface outside of WordPress, with no FTP knowledge or tedious admin panel searching required. The new tool will be officially rolled into the plugin directory during WordPress’ impending site-wide redesign. For now, plugin developers can create a link directing users to the plugin installer tool and their plugin, and the rest of us can use the bookmarklet to install plugins from the directory.
[Continue Reading...]The ClearCut WordPress Theme is a highly configurable WP theme for artful or portfolio sites with an unusual and unique layout, featuring a two column fluid theme layout, enabled with custom cufon fonts, options panel, css3, page navigation, and related posts. Cold Water is a cool and clean looking blog theme that has a large content slider on the front page. The theme has 3 columns for your widgets and it also supports the WordPress 3.0 menu management feature. Sketchpad is a WordPress 3.0 theme that will help fuel your socially oriented site with built in media subscription icons, a themesheep “related articles” feature, and a “latest tweet” area in the header. The Bibs Yellow Dream WordPress 3.0 Theme is based on the new WordPress 3.0 default Theme with a few modifications, frames, and little shadow effects. The right Sidebar is optimized for Adsense 300px. The Theme comes with 9 […]
[Continue Reading...]Thesis has officially adopted a split GPL license, putting an end to the explosive debate between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and Thesis developer Chris Pearson which launched a community-wide discussion on the GPL and WordPress themes. To clarify the split GPL license, Chris Pearson adds, “the PHP is GPLv2 and the CSS, JS, and images are proprietary.” Specifically, this means that Thesis no longer violates the GPL of WordPress and the several plugins that Thesis was based on. Matt Mullenweg was thrilled to hear the news, replying with, “Now, back to work. This has taken a lot of my time over the past few days and was going to consume more if it went forward.” It is unknown if this will have any affect on Mr. Pearson’s business. While the split GPL license now allows the core of Thesis be redistributed by a third-party either free or for a fee, the […]
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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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