Bruce WPmu buddypress The Bruce WPmu BuddyPress theme, fully loaded WPmu theme design for a WPmu powered site with the Bruce theme, featuring a multi column fluid layout, enabled with theme option panel, pagenavi support, frontpage slider, related posts, recent comments with gravatars are built into the theme. Victoriana This is a two-column wordpress theme, a highly customized theme. It has theme options to let you customize the font, sidebar position (left or right), post background color, sidebar background color and the link colors Celestial Aura Celestial Aura V2.0 is an SEO-friendly free three column WordPress theme with left and right sidebars. They can accommodate blocks of Wide Skyscraper width (160×600). It has a beautiful cosmic header with a slick menu bar elegantly blended in a sky blue background. The article area is suitable for a adsense banner ad of 468×60 pixels. Palmixio WP theme with 2 column layout, custom […]

When it comes to Search Engine Optimization, there are a slew of options out there. Some good and some not so good. But today I want to talk about the best options out there for WordPress. There are many. But I’m going to try to sift through the cruft to find the truly great tools that are available. Here we go… All In One SEO Pack I suppose the most obvious plugin is the All In One SEO Pack. According to statistics it is the most popular plugin in the whole WordPress Extend repository. It has a robust feature set. Of all the SEO-related WordPress plugins I have tried it is, in my opinion, the best there currently is. The plugin allows you to optimize various things in WordPress for search engines including your site title, your keywords, page titles, and much more. One of the features I like the […]

Coralis Coralis is a three column WordPress theme with two Sidebars on the right side. This free theme is widget-ready and SEO optimized. This light weight theme has been designed to accommodate 125×125 Adsense blocks in the left sidebar and a Wide Skyscraper Ad (160×600) in the right sidebar. The Favicon of this theme can be easily replaced with your own. Elegant A simple but elegant looks wordpress theme. Valid XHTML, 2 column dark theme, widget ready. Also available are the other themes by the same author. Travel Three column, widget ready theme with two right sidebars. BerryPress Two-columns wordpress theme, inspired by blackberry 7230’s vodafone theme, has a cool sidebar with accordion style widget. Page not in English

New Plugins WP Archive-Sitemap Generator WP Archive-Sitemap Generator plugin generates simple Archives/Sitemap based on your sites/blogs posts and pages. This is not another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a nice sitemap generator. Selective JavaScript Loader This plugin will try to load different Javascript files based on the blog section that is being viewed. Free CDN This plugin rewrites (almost) all static contents in a wordpress powered site – being any of images, objects, css, javascripts – so that they are served from Coral CDN – a free P2P Content Delivery Network – instead of site’s own server, thus saves a lot of bandwidth and increases stability. Vibe SEO Search Engine Optimization for WordPress have never been easier! Vibe SEO Pack is a powerful and easy to use search engine optimization WordPress plugin. The Spacializer Widget Represents multiple sound samples, each as a luminescent orb of color. The volume of each […]

Xioletter Two columns, widget ready (sidebar and footer), custom gravatar, flexible width, threaded comments, theme options, custom header, easy to customize, into options page you can insert a logo image, setting title and description or title and random articles excerpt, or if you prefer disabled all if you want modify the code manually in the header.php page. FashionPress Widget ready, gravatar ready theme, compatible with WP 2.8 and support for Feedburner, Twitter and Flickr PaperWork Three column theme with both left and right sidebar inspired by the days gone past Grunge King Two column dark theme, elegant, yet messy Corporate Life Two column, widget ready theme available in three skins

I’m pretty sure by now that you’ve heard about the worm attack on older versions of WordPress. In the trail of destruction, I’ve been reading quite a few blog posts regarding the attacks along with comments attached to those posts and quite honestly, I can’t believe some of the comments I’ve read. One of the most absurd comments I came across stated that upgrading was not an option for them. How on earth do you put yourself in a position where upgrading is not an option? Might as well just leave the door open so the bad guys can come in freely. Unfortunately, the blame game has come back in full force with those affected generally blaming WordPress, and those not affected blaming users who failed to upgrade in a timely fashion. The bottom line is, the issues that lead to this worm attacking older versions of WordPress was fixed […]

WordPress Codex has extensive documentation on the different template tags available for use in themes, but having a cheatsheet of all the available template tags can definitely come in handy.

New Plugins Wp-Newsticker Wp-Newsticker provides a powerful and nice JavaScript Newsticker for WordPress. It can be integrated anywhere on your Blog/Website. This Newsticker shows up the last 5 Posts from your Blog. WP Twitter Users Allows authors to showcase one or more Twitter accounts. Useful for creating Follow Friday lists in posts or pages. Memepress Provides wordpress widgets for displaying public posts from Yahoo! Meme. Memepress is SEO ready and has options to noindex/nofollow your Meme posts. Socialize Socialize is a WordPress plugin that gives publishers the ability to selectively add actionable social media/social bookmarking buttons to their posts. Update Notifier This WordPress plugin sends a daily notification email to the admin email if the WordPress installation is out of date. Updated Plugins Ajax Edit Comments WP Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.5+) allows users and admins to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for […]