One Column Theme Grunge Superstar Grunge Superstar is a simple one column theme. The theme uses dark colors and you can add in additional information in the footer area. Linquist Linquist is a simple one column theme which can be used to display portfolios. The theme comes in light and dark styles and has built-in lightbox and gravatar support. Two Column Themes Brightness Brightness is a magazine style 2 column widget-ready theme. You can control the layout of the theme using settings in the Admin Panel. WP Pixels WP Pixels is a two column widget-ready theme. The home page has no sidebars and uses loops for three different categories. Three Column Themes Voodoo Empire Voodoo Empire is a three column widget ready theme. The theme makes use of dark colors. Both the sidebars are to the right of the content. Elements of SEO Elements of SEO is a 3 column […]

James Dimick, author of the Easy Admin Color Schemes plugin for WordPress has released a color scheme based exclusively on WordPress 2.3. Now, when you install this plugin, the default color scheme selected is called “For the Love of 2.3” which will take the new WordPress and make it look like the old. Something many WordPressers have wanted since the release of 2.5. However, James mentions that: It isn’t a completely faithful recreation but I think it’s pretty darn close. The scheme was created purely from CSS with no modifications to the core code. So while you might not be able to make WordPress 2.5 look similar to the way WordPress 2.3 did in terms of the user interface, you can at least slap on old faithful for that nostalgic look.

So how much would you pay for an installation of WordPress? This question was raised by Damien Mulley of mully.net. In his post (Wanted: People to install WordPress without robbing others blind), Damien mentions that he is building a list of people with reasonable prices who will perform default WordPress installations. According to Damien, there are a few people who are charging anywhere from €550 to €1500 (Euros). This equates to $857.00 to $2,338.33. I can’t imagine anyone in their right mind who would pay that amount to have WordPress installed for them. However, when I stop to think about those who are brand new to blogging or to WordPress in general, those are the ones that when offered these prices, may believe this to be normal when in fact, it’s not. The conversation about this topic was handled pretty well within the comments. Most people commented that they would […]

Kym Huynh is a songwriter and is writing a song about WordPress (just for fun I have been told) and has offered to write a song and record it professionally in a studio for the winner of the WordPress Plugin Competition! What an amazing prize! I love it when WordPress Samaritans offer their thanks in their own way. It has been added to the growing list of prizes for the competition. Thank you Kym! For those that have not noticed, we have eleven plugins entered/announced for the plugin competition already, with many more in the works. Have you signed up yet?

Increase Sociability Increase Sociability shows customized messages to users who visit your site through StumbleUpon, Digg. The messages enhances your chances to gain better traffic from social networking sites. Hoard Hunter Hoard Hunter is an online treasure map game designed and developed for people who would like an easy (and fun) method of fund raising online. Nofollow Links in Posts Nofollow Links in Posts plugin enables you to add the nofollow attribute into links in a post within a specified category. Newspaper Style Posts Newspaper Style Posts is a simple plugin that splits your post into two columns, as you find in newspaper articles. SEO Smart Links SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags. Platinum SEO Platinum SEO offers all the features of All in One SEO plugin plus more. You can import your settings from […]

Not too long ago, I published a post which dove into the controversial subject of comment ownership and I must say, you guys and gals came up with quite a bit of discussion points. In that post, here is how I described my position on the matter: I don’t believe a commenting bill of rights needs to be created in which all blogs should follow. However, I do think that each blogger should create and make publicly accessible a commenting policy. This policy should clearly explain what you as the blog author will do with comments posted on your site, who retains ownership of those comments and explain circumstances which would require you to edit an end user’s comment. For those of you that agree, I’d like to draw your attention to Alex King’s Comment License WordPress plugin. This plugin makes it as easy as 1 2 3 to add […]

So far, there are two excellent performance enhancing caching solutions available for WordPress, WP-Cache and WP-SuperCache. Both do an awesome job of caching posts/pages to help keep your website from falling off the map in the middle of a Digg effect. Now, there is a new entrant in the caching arena called Batcache which was created by Andy Skelton. This plugin is meant to be used in situations where file-based caching is either not practical, or is not desired. According to Andy, development testing showed a 40x reduction in the time it took to generate pages. Pages that were generated in 200ms ended up being served from the cache in only 5ms. Batcache uses Memcached to store and serve rendered pages. It’s not as fast as Donncha’s WP-Super-Cache but it can be used where file-based caching is not practical or not desired. The basic premise of the plugin works similar […]

That if you change your URI after a post has been published, the old URI continues to work while the links are changed to the new one?