Atmosphere 2010 is a simple but pleasant two column narrow theme, based on the atmosphere theme published back in 2007. Liquorice is a simple and clean vintage looking theme build on Google’s font API Lobster font. tweaker2 is a theme especially built for those who love tweaking their own themes.
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Archive for 2010
Previous Post The Groupon Story Started With WordPress
Previous Post The WP Swag Store has Launched
Andrew Warner who produces the video show Mixergy has published his interview with Andrew Mason, founder of Groupon. While Groupon has recently been given a 5 billion dollar acquisition bid by Google, it wasn’t easy getting started. In fact, Andrew cobbled together scripts and blog posts on a WordPress powered website to get things off the ground. All we did was we took a WordPress Blog and we skimmed it to say Groupon and then every day we would do a new post with the points embedded. It was totally ghetto. We would sell t-shirts on the first version of Groupon. We’d say in the right up, ‘This t-shirt will come in the color red, size large. If you want a different color or size, email that to us.’ We didn’t have a form to add that stuff. We were just, it was so cobbled together. It was enough to […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post One Tool Inadvertently Helps Cure Others’ Ills
Automattic has launched the official WP Swag Store! Now, you too can own a piece of WordPress memorabilia. Proceeds from the sales go to benefit the donation of swag to WordCamps around the world. Of course, one can’t help but notice that the store has launched just in time for the holiday season, and what would make a better stocking stuffer than a 3GB WordPress USB drive? Even if you don’t celebrate any of the traditional gift-giving holidays, there are plenty of WordPress-themed warm clothing options for the cold winter months, and even a mug for your warm drinks. Are you collector of WordPress swag? If so, we’d love to see your collection!
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post Open-Source Motivations – What’s Yours?
So we have not made it a secret on this blog that we are big fans of VaultPress as a product (Disclosure: They are advertisers on this blog). I have been using it on this blog (amongst others) for our protection and have happily paid for our privilege and peace of mind. It has been a little rocky to get started and we have offered and received help and feedback for the issues we ran into during the initial sync with VaultPress. The peace of mind is satisfying, the support is very reasonable, the product is a “set it and forget it” and as such, it runs on its own. I check the security area once in a while and marvel at the number of comments and other statistics that are mildly interesting but not all that helpful. Then I noticed something last morning that made me think. I know that does not […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/2
Alex King who’s been a fantastic member of the WordPress community since the creation of the project has published what I consider a fascinating post on his blog regarding his open-source motivations. The post contains his answers to questions provided by David Hobson who is currently performing research into the business/financial models as well as the motivations for open-source projects. There are a number of things that come up during the article that are worthy of discussion. I used to get about $100-200/month in the way of donations through my website. Unfortunately due to changes in the way plugins are presented on WordPress.org that has dried up to about $5/month. While that quote may look like Alex King is looking to rake in some money via donations, the truth is, the Plugin pages have been redesigned and the donation link is now housed within the FYI box with a tiny […]
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New plugins CleanCodeNZ Geo Posts creates custom post types with geo locations for back end data entering. Google Maps Api v3 is used to display geo posts on a map with a clickable marker overlay. Gallery2 Importer allows you to import albums, images, and comments from a Gallery2 installation into your WordPress site. Albums will be saved as pages containing the [gallery] shortcode, and images will be saved as attachments. Updated plugins Easy ReTweet lets you add retweet or Tweet This buttons for your WordPress posts, together with the retweet count. Exploit Scanner searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames. Fast Secure Contact Form lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message and blocks all common spammer tactics. Plugin Test Drive lets you test any plugin before […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress 3.0.2 Released, Mandatory Upgrade
It has only been two months since Microsoft announced their intention to shut down their popular Windows Live Spaces blogging platform and offered an easy migration route to WordPress.com. Since then, WordPress.com has seen a marked increase in signups, and not all of them are coming from Windows Live Spaces. Before the Windows Live Spaces migration was announced, WordPress.com held steady at about 400,000 signups per month. This number has now more than doubled to about 900,000 per month. With such a steep increase in signups and several new features, WordPress.com is on track to end the year with a bang. Upgrading from Windows Live Spaces is a simple four-step process. Of course, this is a rather large-scale migration, and there have been plenty of questions along the way. Some of the more frequently asked questions have been answered in this support document, and a few were covered in more […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post Contributing To The Theme Review Team
Just moments ago, WordPress 3.0.2 was released to the public. This version is a mandatory security upgrade. According to the release notes: This maintenance release fixes a moderate security issue that could allow a malicious Author-level user to gain further access to the site, addresses a handful of bugs, and provides some additional security enhancements. It’s been awhile since we’ve seen one of these types of releases. However, thanks to automatic upgrades built in, upgrading is a pretty easy thing to do.
[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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