Digital Statement Three column, fixed width, feature rich theme with support for Twitter and Flickr. The theme requires the user to follow some setup steps for optimum use. Pink Pink and white, two column, fixed width theme with rounded corners. Circuit Circuit is a high-contrast, two column, typographically-driven theme for WordPress that is based on the Sandbox theme (so you need both of them). Ark Ark is an olive colored 2 column widget-ready WordPress theme Positie 1 Four column theme with three sidebars – 1 widget-ready and 1 for Google Adsense.

Even though WordPress works pretty well out of the box, there is still a number of optimization tips that can be accomplished to make WordPress function that much better. Vladimir Prelovac has done an excellent job describing ten optimization tips that you can use on your own WordPress installation. The tips and techniques range from optimizing database tables to implementing caching. There should be at least one or two tips within this article that everyone can implement on their own blog. Here is a sample for you to chew on: Tip #1: If you are expecting a Digg Front Page you are likely to exceed your current limit of maximum concurrent MySQL connections which is among the prime reasons a site failing a Digg traffic spike. You can prepare by increasing this number to about 250 using this line in the config file. max_connections = 250 Check out the full […]

New Plugins osCommerce This pulgin/widget enable you to pull the category and product listing from you osCommerce site. WP-HoneyPot WP-HoneyPot enables you to add a hidden link on your blog in one of several locations that will change randomly to ensure that spammers are less able to adapt to the solution. Shollu This plugin will show information about pray (shollu) times in your place. Author Birthdays The Author Birthdays plugin will display in the sidebar or footer a list of authors born on the current day. There is also a feature which allows you to see all authors born in a given month. CatFeed Adds category, tag and comment feed auto-discovery links. Category feed links are added only to category views, tag feed links to tag views and commen Scriblio Scriblio enables faceted searching/browsing features and metadata tools that turn WordPress into a library catalog or digital archive. Eventr Eventr […]

New Plugins Negaraku Adds Negaraku button to your WordPress blog posts – fully customizable. Birthday List Enter the birthdays you want to remember and it will warn you 7 days in advance. WordPress PageFlip Flipping book image gallery for your photos. TinyMCE Valid Elements Allows one to add “invalid” and custom HTML elements to the TinyMCE editor. Hide Admin Icons Hides the icons in the expanded WordPress 2.7 admin menu. Quizzin Quizzin lets you create quizzes with any number of questions in it. Each question can have many answers – in which one should be marked as the correct answer. Map24 Routing This plugin allows you to display an Map24 Routing Form on your Blog. iSape iSape is meant for the sale of conventional and contextual links in Sape.ru Best Posts Summary Automatically generates a summary post of your best posts over a specified period of time based on the […]

I receive a lot of comments, emails and questions on WordPress and we try to answer them all as succinctly and as quickly as possible. However, there is one question that I receive over and over again that I do did not have a quick and painless answer for. Professional designers and web developers who help small businesses and individuals with their custom WordPress needs have been telling me that some of their clients are worried about the new WordPress 2.7 and the hype surrounding it. The completely new WordPress 2.7 admin interface scares some of their clients to the point that they are worried about switching. They are worried that the backend will continue to change and become unfamliar and different with every new release and their blogging lives will be made more difficult with each future upgrade. I have tried to allay the fears in my replies with […]

Will the Core Update feature in WordPress 2.7 work on your webhosting account? One way to find out is to view the new article in the Codex entitled “Core Update Host Compatibility“. This article serves as a central location to discover whether or not the Core Update feature works with a specific web hosting company. The article is divided up into three sections and lists webhosting companies in alphabetical order: Working Hosts, No Issues Works With Caveats Doesn’t Work Keep in mind that: It is important to note that the update feature will not work when updating to Version 2.7, but rather will work for Versions released AFTER 2.7 (e.g. upgrading from 2.7 to 2.7.1)! If you discover during the beta test period that the core update feature works on your webhosting account, please add the company to the Codex article within the appropriate section.

John Galt [EDIT] removed, sponsored 3-columned, search-engine optimized, widget ready, highly customizable WordPress theme with an emphasis on usability. SEO Blog Three column gravatar theme with widgetized sidebar and footer, customizable header and with twitter integrated. GreatIdeas Three column, fixed width, widget ready theme TDAge TDAge is a light-blue two column theme with big, bold feed and “about” images, and large-font headers. TDAge also has easy access links to a blog’s pages and categories from the headers, and has a clean-cut pre-defined template for use as an archive summary page.

As you can probably tell from the title, this episode features quite a bit of discussion surrounding WordPress 2.7. Not to worry though as there are plenty of other things that Keith and I discuss such as our favorite feature in WordPress 2.7 Beta 1, the WordPress showcase, whether or not Drupal can beat WordPress, and near the end of the show, Anthony Cole called in and gave us the 411 on WordCamp Australia which is taking place on November 29th and November 30th. Ad Copy: WordPress Weekly is brought to you by the fine advertisers on WeblogToolsCollection.com. Without their continued support, this show would not be possible. Those of you who continue to download the show and share it with friends, your continued support is appreciated. If you are interested in advertising on WordPress Weekly, please contact Mark Ghosh via this contact form. Stories Discussed: Your Favorite Feature In […]