Tom has put together a WordPress Theme Viewer with 39 themes. Many of these themes have been announced here before and before anyone asks, Tom has no plans to update the viewer with new themes. You can download the themes in his viewer from this list. Another reason for this post is to draw attention to some of Tom’s work and the reason I want to garner that attention is because I believe that his work can be really helpful to novice bloggers. He is a technical writer and podcaster and has a lot of good things to say on and about WordPress. He has written on themes (on which the theme viewer was based), plugins and various other WordPress and blogging tips and tools.
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Where Are All the Open Source Billionaires? The lack of open source software billionaires is by design. It’s part of the intent of open source software — to balance the scales by devaluing the obscene profit margins that exist in the commercial software business. . . . There are real millionaires– even billionaires– who built companies on open source software. Just ask Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Or the YouTube founders. The real money isn’t in the software. It’s in the service you build with that software.
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I love bloggers, they are very good people. But even the most kind hearted and best intentioned bloggers sometimes either misinterpret or misread information and the piece ends up very different from where it started its life. This somewhat macabre movement of information from one person to other with slight mutilations is very interesting to me. All of us have studied or read about it in one form or fashion. Now here is the idea for the meme: Read through the following news paragraph and recreate a post on your blog from memory if you will. Encourage your readers to do the same with a link back to your post. Now, imagine throwing video into that mix. By the time I got the headphones on and the video downloaded, I’d be on to designing some new feature (or, more likely, answering more email). I’d only get to hear three words […]
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[EDIT] Thanks for the catch, the date was wrong. Links remain same, but the date changed. 10 Rules for your Small Business Website: Having worked for a small business for some time and with WordPress being such a widely used tool for building small business websites, I think most of these are well thought out and make a lot of sense. My ex-employers website violates almost every rule mentioned. Spotback provides you with a small script to embed on your posts to provide centralized and socialized ranking for almost anything. Visitors will also receive personalized referrals and recommendations from your site or blog. No WordPress plugin available but I am sure the plugin programmers out there can whip something up quite easily with the WordPress hooks available. Perils of Problogging ia points out the Perils of “Problogging” and when I was notified of the entry, I almost felt like I […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post APAD: Author Adsense
A Plugin A Day (APAD) in Chinese: Denis had asked to be able to translate our APAD series into Chinese and you can read the fruits of his labor at his blog.
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Theme Releases for 04/16
Name: Snap Shots Plugin (Formery Snap Preview Anywhere) Plugin Page: Snap Shots Plugin Description: This plugin, now in version 1.3, lets you display small thumbnails for your linked pages. This plugin received a lot of attention since it first was released and has been downloaded over 10,000 times. Snap Shots is currently also available on WordPress.com Features: Generates perfectly valid XHTML code All options can be set via WP-Admin. Options can be changed at anytime to customize the preview. The plugin can automatically add the code to the footer Changelog Version 1.3: Plugin name changed from Snap Preview Anywhere Plugin to Snap Shots Plugin in accordance with the name change of the service. Code added to footer is now XHTML 1.1 compliant as well. Blocks of Links behavior has been deprecated. You can now set if you want only PreviewShotsâ„¢ to be displayed LOADS of options to play with! Future […]
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Vista WordPress Gadget: Get easy access to the core WordPress activities on your Windows Vista machine with this Vista Gadget for WordPress. Installation and setup should be simple. I was working on a gadget to pull the Planet’s feed but all work came to a grinding halt when I realized that Vista would not work with Cisco LEAP at school (by design I understand, LEAP is too weak) and with Safenet SoftRemote for work. So now it resides on an abandoned hard drive waiting for vendors to come up with solutions. I had it on my laptop for a total of three weeks and beside the atrocious memory requirements, was quite impressed with the product. Sidebar Gadgets are my favorite new feature in Vista and there are some terrific resources to build gadgets for those that are so inclined.
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WordPress Silicon Valley Meetup at Google HQ (Friday, April 13, 2007): Grab your WordPress Schwag and head to the Silicon Valley Meetup at Google Headquarters. Ryan will be there. The organizers ask that you RSVP by the 11th of April. This is your chance to eat at Google (and do WordPress stuff, of course). 🙂
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post APAD: Feed Styler
The following is a quote from a post on a theme blog: Hello, I plan on posting a thread about this on digitalpoint, but I thought I would put the information here as well. I am selling two sponsor links to this theme which will appear in the footer where it says “Sponsor One†and “Sponsor Twoâ€. I will be selling each link for a BIN price of $120 and a starting bid of $20! (BIN for both links together is $180).You may say, why would I pay this price for one link at the bottom of a theme?!Your answer: This theme will be promoted on many wordpress theme sites (I’ll list them below) and will be seen by many wordpress bloggers who will hopefully choose to use it on their blog. Each person that chooses to use the theme is another link that you have to your site, which […]
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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