Tutorial: Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress.: A fantastic, detailed and quite useful tutorial on creating custom write panels for the WordPress Write Post page. I had written something similar for the WordPress Jobs site and it turned out to be a fantastic tool to quickly get to and add/modify Custom Fields in posts. Custom write panels are most useful for customized installations of WordPress and could be used to add many different types of information into a post both easily and quickly. The image below shows a couple of examples of custom panels and I am sure there are hundreds more. This tutorial makes use of Custom Fields in WordPress using the various functions that help manage Custom Fields (I keep typing customer), and is a shining example of how useful and flexible Custom Fields can be in developing a full CMS with WordPress. Since the final code is […]

Cellar Heat Dark and light, two column, gravatar ready theme Glucent Two column, blue theme with support for FlickrRSS and Page Navi plugin Classic Modern A classic old style theme with a modern look. I think the brown color is a symbol of the old and classic style while the blue is the modern color. Check out more WordPress themes by the same author. PlainWarrior PlainWarrior is very simple-looking, clean and elegant two column widget, gravatar and tag ready theme Fervens Remix Two column, green and white theme with a wide content column for wide pictures EcolutionWarrior Two column widget, gravatar and tag ready theme inspired from the dark side of our environment. Chrono Press Three column theme available in ten flavours Modern Girl It is a two column, fixed with, widget and gravatar ready, pink and brown theme that uses absolutely no images. Blue Tech 3 columns, widget and […]

New Plugins WordPress Game Plugin Add a rock, paper, scissors game to your WordPress blog. GeoTarget Gives us a 2 digit $country_code global variable to use in our themes so we can present users with geo-specific content. d13slideshow Add animated slideshows of your featured pages and posts. WordPress Database Table Optimizer The WordPress Database Table Optimizer plugin will automatically make sure that your WordPress MySQL database tables are always optimized. Author Profile Picture Profile Pics is a WordPress plugin which adds a photo upload utility to the user profile editing pane, and 4 template tags to place the picture in an author page or elsewhere — even as a comment avatar. WP Post Thumbnail This plugin enable bloggers to upload images, crop and save it as post thumbnails without manually copy-n-paste custom field values. For theme develop Updated Plugins ZdStatistics ZdStatistics Version 2 is a wordpress plugin allowing you to […]

In this action packed episode of WordPress Weekly, Keith and I dissect the news of the week. Jacob Santos was cool enough to call in to confirm that Andrew Rickmanns idea of placing a configure link inside of the plugin management panel would be included in the core. Also, he gave us an update as to how far he and others have come with in line documentation. Stay tuned for our plugin picks of the week and our job of the week. 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: Happy Birthday Gravatar Polldaddy Acquired By […]

Grassland Grassland is a two column theme, widgetised, clean in design and structure and designed for bloggers. Going Pro – Simple Mind Two column, gravatar and advertising ready theme with included plugins and PSD files Milbits Two column, widget ready theme. (Page in Spanish) Angel Two column, fixed width, gravatar and widget ready theme with tabbed sidebars

Automattic Acquires PollDaddy.: From their recent bi-yearly assembly of Automattic folks, this time at Breckenridge Colorado, Matt announced that the PollDaddy service is the most recent member of the Automattic family and WordPress.com users will now be able to add polls to their WordPress blogs. He also said that the team is working on many features and customizations of polls to make the polls have the same look and feel as the blogs. There is a WordPress.org plugin for PollDaddy and Matt posts about the PollDaddy acquisition on his blog. From the sound of things, a few cool projects might be announced and introduced in the few weeks following this Automattic meeting.

New Releases Results Count Results-Count is a very simple plugin that does exactly what it says on the tin & will count the number of posts that result from operations in WordPress such as a search, viewing a category, or viewing a monthly archive etc. Updated Plugins Custom Field Template The Custom Field Template plugin adds the default custom fields on the Write Post/Page. The template format is almost same as the one of the rc:customfieldgui plugin. eShop An accessible Paypal Shopping Cart plugin. Tango Smileys Extended Tango Smileys Extended (TSE) is designed to replace the standard WordPress smileys and extend the number of available smileys from 18 to 186. Viper’s Video Quicktags Allows easy and XHTML valid posting of videos from various websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo, and more. FeatPlug Featplug is a plugin that can mine your WordPress (or any other Blog/CMS/Forum software’s) posts and generates “featured […]

Decker Two column, widget ready, gravatar ready theme with a 300×250 AdSense unit integrated on top of the sidebar Soho   Soho consists of a fluid two column outfit with widgetized sidebars and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. CSS drop down menue, flickr is enabled in the themes options panel, tabbed sidebar and extensive footer. DailyPress DailyPress comes with widget-ready sidebars, tabbed content, banner ads, minimalistic color scheme and social bookmarking options. The theme is compatible with all versions of WordPress including the latest 2.6 version and has been tested with Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera. Firebug Firebug is a dark (but colorful) theme with two widget-ready sidebars, space for 125×125 banner ads, social tagging options at the end of each post, Gravatar ready comments, feed subscription options, WordPress 2.5+ Gallery feature, and much more. Gridblog Gridblog is a fast loading […]