blutheme Feature rich theme with support for thumbnails, feedburner, twitter, widgets and gravatars Crispp Crispp is a minimal theme with clean lines that lets visitors focus on your content. A separate administrative section allows you to change the color scheme however you like. The theme is very flexible Insanitious Fluid width two-column theme with widgetized sidebar, gravatar and comment ready Dusty City Dusty City is a WordPress Theme with 5 Sidebar / Widget positions. One below the navigation, one left and right, one between them, and one at the bottom. If you combine the Theme with the Side Posts Plugin, you will have a great flexible Magazine Theme. There is also an Option Page to populate the Footer. Page in German Santa SantaTheme is a WordPress Theme for Christmas with one Sidebar, and one Footerbar for Ads or whatever Widget you want to place there. There is also an Option […]

A few days back, Jeff had told you about WordPress 2.9.1 being around the corner. The WordPress team has worked hard to get it out of the doors and a beta version of WordPress 2.9.1 is now available for downloads. It fixes bugs with scheduled posts and pingbacks which some users had been facing, due to a bug in curl.

While paying for plugins is nothing new, I’m predicting that by the end of 2010, there will be a large assortment of plugins for WordPress that will be available for purchase. As we wind down 2009, I’m already beginning to see the trend in action with at least 3 of my 31 installed plugins switching to a paid model. Each person is doing something a little different but the end result is the same. I have to pay to keep using it. Now I don’t particularly have a problem with plugin authors charging for support or for services around the plugin but I’m seeing the plugin being bundled as part of the purchase. So in a way, you’re not only paying for the plugin, you’re paying for access to support. In most cases, the free plugin becomes dormant and I’m forced to either stick with what works until a version […]

My name is Doug Stewart and I, together with Stephane Daury and Viper007Bond, entered and won the “mobile admin interface contest” Matt Mullenweg sponsored on the wp-hackers mailing list back at the end of 2007. Our plugin, WPhone: …creates an option while logging in to replace the default admin interface with one designed for your phone (see screenshots). It contains two versions of the mobile admin interface: Rich: designed for the iPhone / iPod Touch and other phones supporting full Javascript and CSS featuring fancy AJAX and sliding menus Lite: a lightweight, simple version designed for all other phone types (no Javascript or anything else required) WPhone was readily picked up by the mobile computing WordPressers of the world and saw a great deal of use in its first months. Then Automattic announced the release of their iPhone/iPod Touch app and we figured that WPhone’s days were numbered. However, folks […]

WordPress 2.9 was released last weekend. Yesterday, I was notified that 2.9.1 is most likely around the corner due to some issues that arose because of a last-minute addition to the core of WordPress. The issues revolve around scheduled posts not firing because the cron scheduler ends up broken. The patch can be found here which is already a part of 2.9.1. While reading the support thread, I became concerned with some of the responses that were published. For example, “How could you release an upgrade that is obviously this problem-filled?” or “WordPress should have tested 2.9 before releasing it!“. I’m not sure how many times this has to be preached to the choir but each version of WordPress is tested before it’s release to the public. That is what the Beta releases are for as well as the Release Candidates. WordPress 2.9 went through one release candidate version and […]

New Plugins HDLNS Today insert one of over 1200 categorized RSS feeds, using the (latest) post date on the page to keep the rss headlined contextually relevant to the blog post Q2W3 Inc Manager This plugin was made to easily add html, css, javascript and PHP code to public WordPress pages. Q2W3 Thickbox This plugin enables thickbox pop-up window on thumbnail images. As soon as plugin is installed, all your thumbnail images will be opened in popup window. Updated Plugins scbFramework A set of useful classes for WordPress plugin developers. AVH Amazon The AVH Amazon plugin gives you the ability to add multiple widgets which will display one or more random item(s) from your Amazon wishlist, baby registry and/or wedding registry. It also has the ability to show an item with its link, in posts and pages by use of shortcode. WP-Table Reloaded WP-Table Reloaded enables you to create and […]

Mons Montis Three column theme perfect for churches and other non-profits. CleanRoar Keeping up with the seasons, cleanRoar takes a facelift and puts on the Christmas skin. It features a functional back-end packed with options. The skins can be swapped between the Legacy cleanRoar skin and the all new Christmas skin. Technology The Technology WordPress theme is a three column theme. Supports banner ads and the WP-PageNavi plugin. Navy Spiral Navy Spiral is a notebook-inspired theme with cool blues and grays, clean lines, and subtle design cues to let your writing pop! No matter where writing inspiration takes you, you’re online notebook will always be there to share your thoughts and stories. Widget-ready, gravatar-enabled, and set to download. Racing Red 01 Racing Red 01 is a simple WordPress Theme with one Sidebar and Widget Support. There is an Option Page to populate the Footer. Page in German

WordPress 2.9 (Carmen) has been officially released and has quite a few new features.  Some are visible and right on the page while many others are under the hood.  One of the features that I really like is the ability to bulk update my plug-ins.  In previous versions of WordPress you had to update each plug-in individually by clicking on the automatic upgrade link in the WordPress plug-in, entering your FTP credentials and then waiting for the update to happen. If you had a lot of plug-ins this process could take a while to do. To utilize the new bulk update process go to the Tools>Upgrade menu in the admin panel:    There you will find a screen that looks something like this": Select the check boxes for all the plug-ins you want to update and then press the Upgrade Plug-in button at the bottom and you will then be […]