THAT Music Three column, red and dark theme with support for widgets, gravatars and WordPress 2.7. Solitude wpMU The Solitude WP theme, create your own social network with the Solitude WordPress theme, loaded with a ”corporate” blue/white color scheme, an extensive options panel for full control over the frontpage layout, featuring a two column fluid layout with built in options panel, frontpage news slider and automatic SEO titles. Simple Blue Two column, widget ready, blue theme Grace It’s a stylish, 3 column, widgetized theme with a jQuery powered rotating gallery on home page. The Erudite The Erudite is a two column theme for writers who want readers. Everything has been carefully crafted to provide the optimal reading experience, and no attention has been paid to people who need gimmicks to maintain an audience. Small_Biz_Green Small_biz_green is an elegent 2-column, professional looking free WordPress theme. It’s a perfect theme for small […]

Here are the simple steps: Register on the Plugin Competition Blog, wait to be given author permissions (within 24 hours) Make sure you check all the Plugin Competition Rules and adhere to them in order to be eligible Introduce your plugin(s) or your plans for writing plugins on the Plugin Competition blog Once your plugin is ready, publish it on the blog and make it available for download via WordPress Extend Provide initial support for the plugins through the Competition blog, your own blog or other place of publication and through WordPress Support and Extend. The last step, but the most important step, is to submit the final code for your plugin to us via email. We do not publish this email or the instructions on what to put in the email till the final few weeks of the competition. Check back with us or on the Plugin Competition blog […]

As many of you know – plugins can add significant functionality to your website.  For instance there is a plugin that will add an entire forum to your site (Simple:Press) and there is another one that will allow your visitors to contact you via a customizable form (Contact Form 7). What if you were just looking for a few plugins to fancy up your site a little bit or maybe add a small piece of functionality or info?  Well they exist as well and sometimes it is the simple touches that really finish a site off.  Here are a few of my favorites: -  Shockingly Simple Favicon changes your sites favicon – that is the small graphic that shows up in the address bar of your web browser when your on a site. This even sticks when you switch themes after installing it. -  Simple Feed Copyright inserts a copyright […]

Go Green Two column, widget ready theme with built-in ad management and support for Twitter. Tonight We Party “Tonight we party” is a fixed background, flexible width, cross-browser compatible free WP theme. One column layout. Has a collapsible sidebar on the left, always visible to the user and extendable on click. Twitheme Widget ready, gravatar ready, 2.7 ready, two column theme using custom field for thumbnail. Panorama Panorama is a two column theme with a right widgetized sidebar and a main gimmick of a customizable header image… Facebook Addict Three column, widget ready, Facebook style theme.

I Like Content Two column, widgetized theme with a narrow sidebar in order to focus on content. VoodooEmpire2 It’s a DJ influenced black and red 3 column theme. The sidebars are on the right. There is a customizable greeting message that can be configured from the Theme Options area in the admin menu. Also there are now 3 widget columns in the footer area that can be set up in the normal widget area. Inksplash [REMOVED, SPONSORED THEME] A bi-color (navy-blue/tan) simple WP theme. Fluid layout. Cross-browser compatible. Gives the user the option to resize the font size (no plugin needed). 2 columns, sidebar on the right side. Paper pattern. Red Carbon and other themes Red Carbon is a two column widget ready WordPress theme with header that mimics red carbon. Carrington 2.0 Two column theme with support for threaded comments, custom colors and header images with lightbox for galleries. […]

When you build a website one of the things most people want are visitors.  New visitors are great because they tend to turn into return visitors.  People will return to your website because they find the content entertaining, informative and worth their time. However, you know how busy we get these days.  We save a link to our favorites for a website and promise that we will be back on a regular basis.  How often do you really go to your favorites directory and go back visiting websites? I know my answer – rarely. So what can you offer that might draw your site visitors back to your site every once in a while?  WordPress has this great ability to create RSS (stands for Really Simple Syndication) feeds.  These RSS feeds are read through most modern internet browsers, stand alone free reader programs, web based reader programs and even office […]

40 WordPress Optimisation tips – Yoast – Tweaking Websites.: Joost De valk has the slides for his talk on 40 WordPress optimization tips up for everyone. This is from his presentation at A4UExpo in Europe. If you do not follow Joost or use his plugins, you might be missing out. We have recently started using his Tweetbacks plugin on this blog (with some minor tweaks for load). To test it out, just Twitter this post and you will see it appear as a comment. The dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack.: The dotMobi WordPress Mobile pack is a set of plugins to make your WordPress blog easier to use on mobile devices. This pack includes the following: Mobile switcher to detect mobile visitors and provide an appropriate experience Base mobile theme for quick-and-easy XHTML-MP compliance Extended mobile themes so you can unleash your mobile creativity Transcoding and device adaptation to optimise the […]

Jane Wells recently put the call out to the WordPress Professionals mailing list asking for recommendations for Women WordPress developers. That is, those who develop plugins or patches for WordPress, not bloggers. Personally, when I think of women involved with WordPress, I think of Lorelle VanFossen, Lisa Sabin Wilson, and a few others. Other than Lisa who develops themes, I can’t think of any women off the top of my head that contributes routinely to the development of WordPress or plugins. If you are a female WordPress developer and you live on the West Coast, preferably around San Francisco, CA get in contact with Jane Wells as soon as possible. You may end up with the opportunity to present at WordCamp San Francisco.