The Mill is a simple, yet elegant, two-column WordPress theme. Misty Morn is a grey-based WordPress 3.0 child theme for Purple Pastels with custom image and attachment templates, thickbox enabled image attachment pages, and additional page templates for pages without comments and pages without the sidebar. My Valentine is a pink-based WordPress 3.0 child theme for Purple Pastels with custom image and attachment templates, thickbox enabled image attachment pages, and additional page templates for pages without comments and pages without the sidebar. Steampunk is a steam punk inspired theme built under the Themeatic Theme Framework environment with clean and SEO friendly HTML/CSS code. Sun City is a darker WordPress 3.0 theme that makes use of orange, green, blue and other primary colours to provide a visually rich display. ZenLite Black Mandarin is a darker child theme for the single column ZenLite theme.
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New plugins List Yo’ Files adds the ability to list files by file name for a given folder with hyperlinks to each file making it downloadable. Readable Names forces commenters to write their names in the language that your blog uses. WP-comment-master enhances your comments with AJAX posting and pagination. WP-WikiBox allows you to get a Wikipedia article summary for a keyword in any language, inline with your posts and pages, with a simple shortcode. Updated plugins IE6 Upgrade Option displays a warning message, simply and politely informing the IE6 user that their browser is out of date, and provides links to download newer browsers. Vimeo Quicktag enables the user to embed a customized Vimeo video into the blog content. WP-Stats-Dashboard displays your blog’s stats graph plus your blog traffic, social engagement and social influence directly in your dashboard.
[Continue Reading...]The WordPress development team had a very successful meeting last Thursday, where they solidified their plans for WordPress 3.1. The finalized goals for WordPress 3.1 are “to have a very short dev cycle, a decent amount of testing time, and a release in mid-December. Low on new features, heavy on ui and code cleanup, and avoidance of schema changes. Save the big ideas for 3.2 where we’ll have the liberty to implement those ideas in PHP5. No schema changes and no big new APIs.” Besides bug fixes and code cleanup, users can look forward to a new wordpress.com inspired admin bar and theme browser, as well as post templates and styles, and a separate network dashboard. The team plans to halt new feature submissions on October 15th, followed by a primary code freeze on November 1st, and a string freeze on December 1st. The beta period will begin November 15th […]
[Continue Reading...]BlogTimes is an old school Newspaper style WordPress Theme, based on a three column fluid layout, enabled with cufon fonts with beautiful typography for the headlines, options panel, and a custom front page slider. Dark Tuts is a very clean WordPress theme that has been designed with blogs in mind. This theme has an HTML5 doctype, clean and valid code, 3 color schemes (blue, green, red), 3 different ways to add post thumbnails, the ability to change thumbnail sizes via the theme panel, 1 advertisement spot and tons more features. Quick-Vid is a simple blogging theme with slick design elements. Semanu is powered by the 960.gs css framework with multiple widgets and a 3 column layout. Syailendra is an adsense (advertising) ready theme with multiple widget positions, threaded comments, theme options, drop-down menus, and custom menus. WP Perfect is a two column SEO optimized WordPress 3.0 ready theme. The theme […]
[Continue Reading...]Lorelle VanFossen has published a recap of her Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins session given on August 29th at OpenCamp in Addison, TX. To Lorelle, “a mind blowing WordPress Plugin is one that breaks the rules. It is unique and original in its implementation, and pushes WordPress. It might not be a Plugin that everyone must have on their site. It might not be a Plugin that even interests you. What these will do is to get you to look at the incredible diversity of Plugins available.” Her recap not only briefly covers the topics discussed during her session, but she also lists all of the plugins that were featured, and that list is well worth exploring. Even if you think your blog couldn’t possibly use any more plugins, you might find something that you (or rather your blog) just can’t live without.
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Facebook Like for Tags converts a standard Facebook Like button from a one-time sharing feature to a one-on-one relationship for ongoing updates and sharing based on tags (keywords) or categories defined by you, the blogger/author. LBAK Google Checkout is aimed mainly at small projects that just want to sell a few things on their blog through Google Checkout and don’t want too much else apart from ease of use. Pingdom Status lets you display your Pingdom monitoring data on your WordPress site, essentially creating a status page for whatever it is you are monitoring. WP Tweetbox adds a highly customizable Tweetbox at the end of blog posts and pages. Updated plugins Relevanssi replaces the basic WordPress search with a partial-match search that sorts the results based on relevance. WP-reCAPTCHA integrates reCAPTCHA anti-spam methods with WordPress including comment, registration, and email spam protection. WP-SimpleViewer allows you to easily create […]
[Continue Reading...]The WordPress mobile apps for Android and BlackBerry have both been updated with some shiny new features, like a new comment notification system and improved VideoPress integration. There’s no word yet on an update to the iOS mobile app, but the team still has its eyes set on making this one a major bug-fixing release. These recent updates 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! Do you use any of the WordPress mobile apps? I use the iOS mobile app and can honestly say that it has certainly simplified my life when it comes to moderating comments and making last-minute post corrections. How about you? Have the WordPress mobile apps added to or detracted from your WordPress blogging experience?
[Continue Reading...]Lukoo is a simple and stylish theme based around the color green. Modernist is a beautifully built yet transparent theme. It was designed with a focus on optimal typography in order to better showcase your content. Twist of Ten is a simple clean CMS style theme. Us and Them is a modern, clean, blog-style, 960 – 1200 px grid-based, smooth WordPress theme and features some cool jQuery plugins just out of the box as some neat tool-tips and accordions.
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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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