Michael Jackson Childhood A clean WordPress theme inspired by the song Childhood by Michael Jackson Spettro A minimal and brightly-colored theme, very minimal, and has a creative look to it. The whole site is aligned to the left with a bit logo at the top and a widgetized sidebar (login form hard-coded into sidebar.php). Also a recent thing that I am including with all of the themes now is a canonical links for comments hack which will reduce the risk of duplicate content, which is one of the major problems with websites and SEO Dynamic Slider Green Dynamic Slider Green come with three cool sliding tab consist of last posts, featured post and recent comments.

Comments are always welcomed and appreciated. However, comments are also one of the biggest causes of spam on websites. If you do not have a proper comment moderation and protection system, your site will be flooded with links to spam, phishing and other unwanted sites.

For those that don’t know, DD32 or Dion Hulse has been granted core commit access to the WordPress project. Just from an outside looking in view, I think DD32 is more than deserving of this position as his contributions in and outside of the core have helped many. On new commit messages you might start seeing a familiar name, DD32 aka Dion Hulse. He’ll be initially focusing on the areas he’s already contributed a ton to like automatic upgrades and HTTP. He has been a mentor to many and is not scared to jump into any part of the code keeping a positive outlook no matter how far down the rabbit hole he ends up. If we look deeper into Matts post, this will be a trend for 2010. More people will be granted commit access to the core as a recognition of trust. I think this is a good […]

I don’t see too many interviews with the CEO of Automattic Toni Schneider, conducted by people within the WordPress community so when I come across one, my interest is immediately grabbed. Dre Armeda who is one of the authors behind WPVibe.com had the unique opportunity to have Toni answer some of his questions about WordPress, Akismet, things they are working on, and one thing he’s learned as CEO of Automattic. One interesting bit of information I picked up out of the interview relates to PollDaddy: PollDaddy has been growing really impressively as well. It reaches over 117 million people a month! I imagine Toni is a pretty busy man but it’s nice to see him stop and chat with fellow members of the WordPress.org community. Not related to the interview but if you are interested in reading about how Automattic came to exist and how Toni Schneider became CEO of […]

New Plugins ThemePerPost ThemePerPost is ideal for people who want to style their about page, create a unique landing page, show theme previews for design showcases, split one WordPress install into multiple sub-sites. It’s for anyone who wants to have posts and pages with different styles. All you have to do to change theme for one or more posts or pages is upload the theme you want to use to the usual WP theme directory add a Custom Field to the page/post you want to style. WordPress Contact Form Contact Form plugin from 123ContactForm.com. It requires a free account on 123ContactForm. jQuery Table of Contents Inserts the lovely little table of contents you see on many of the pages of my website. It uses jQuery to inspect the content of your post or page and generate table of contents links based on the header tags. It’s easy, SEO friendly, and […]

Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress celebrated his birthday yesterday. He turned a year younger and is now 26 years old.

In the past year or so, you may have heard of the term ‘Canonical Plugins‘ being used throughout the community. Back in early December, a poll was published that goes into more detail regarding the idea of Canonical Plugins and what to call them. The poll has since closed without making the results viewable but from what I understand, the name for these plugins going into the future will be ‘Core Plugins‘. Core plugins are community developed and encourage collaboration with multiple developers to satisfy the most popular functionality requests that would not make it into the Core of WordPress. These plugins would be developed alongside the core of WordPress to ensure compatibility, coding standards are met, secure code, etc. To highlight these plugins, a screen would be added to the plugins page in the back-end of WordPress to highlight these special plugins. Everything sounds great right? Let’s take a […]

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