When WordPress 3 launched on June 17th of 2010, the ability to run a multisite network from a single installation quickly became one of the most talked about features. Formerly known as WordPress MU, this entirely separate WordPress project was simultaneously upgraded and merged with the main WordPress branch. Many were expecting WordPress Multisite to carry with it the usual WordPress simplicity, but there’s quite a bit more to do after WordPress’ famous 5-minute installation when creating a multisite network, and the complexities of the network system have led to some confusion and questions along the way. Andrea Rennick became a user of WordPress MU about three years ago, when it was still in a pre-beta stage. She was just your typical stay at home mom and teacher, and she wanted to create a community where other homeschoolers could have their own blogs all in one location, so they could […]
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Glossy Stylo is a colorful theme with nice transparency effects, 2-column layout, and a widget-ready sidebar. JustCSS is an HTML5 theme with custom colours using CSS3, based on Toolbox. Portfolio Theme uses custom post types for portfolio pages, takes advantage of the new menu navigation, and includes a ton of neat features. Summ is a theme in blue and white, with widgets supported, and no plugins required.
[Continue Reading...]Nothing can be more unsettling than an obvious problem with absolutely no error or diagnostic message, and that’s exactly what the infamous white screen of death is. Imagine that you were changing a setting on your blog, installing or upgrading a plugin, upgrading to the latest version of WordPress, or simply returning to your blog at the start of a new day, and you see nothing but white. Unfortunately, the white screen of death became all too well-known in the WordPress community when a few incompatible plugins began to cause the issue after users upgraded to WordPress 3. Today, most white screens of death are either caused by plugins or themes (theme functions can sometimes interfere with core WordPress functions). If you want to immediately attempt to find the culprit, you can enable debug mode, but even that can produce nothing more than a blank screen, so why not attack […]
[Continue Reading...]New plugins Custom Post Permalinks will set up custom post type permalinks for non-hierarchical permalinks which have the flexibility of blog post permalinks. Dev Corner Badge places a highly visible marker in the upper corner of every post/page to denote a development site. Favicon Rotator is a free plugin for WordPress that makes it incredibly simple to add a favicon to your site. Favicon Rotator uses WordPress’ own media management features to upload and add a favicon to your site so there is nothing new to learn. Trigger Warning allows you to wrap content in quicktags to hide it. Readers can choose to read the trigger content by clicking on the “Show” button. WP Tweet Button implements Twitter’s own Tweet Button on your blog or site. The tweet button can be positioned as you please and can be styled to your delight in the settings page. Updated plugins Fast Secure […]
[Continue Reading...]I’m sure you’ve all heard about the new Twitter button, which finally provides an official way to share links to Twitter and display the number times each link has been shared, but how do you go about adding it to WordPress? If you love messing with your theme, you can use the official Twitter button generator to generate just a few lines of HTML code that can be inserted into your theme templates, but why not use a plugin to simplify the whole process? I highly recommend Simple Twitter Connect. This plugin, or rather series of plugins, will provide a simple yet customizable way to automatically add the new Twitter button to your posts and pages. You’ll also enjoy a wealth of additional features, including the ability to automatically tweet your posts while publishing, display a list of followers, use your Twitter credentials to login to the admin panel, and […]
[Continue Reading...]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. […]
[Continue Reading...]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 […]
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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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