PHP Ease is a WordPress theme built on the Blueprint and YUI Grid Builder CSS Frameworks. It utilizes the classes at php-ease.com to give you unlimited layout options by completely separating a page’s structure from it’s content. Scherzo is a simple 2 column theme with clear, large and readable text. Includes page specific sidebars. Zen Garden is stylish, simple and customizable. You can change the background image/color and header image from the WordPress admin panel.

Those of you who love SEO, WordPress, and presentations, are in for a treat with Making Sure Your Content is Found with Joost de Valk from WordCamp Bulgaria. Don’t worry, the video is in English, and it’s about forty minutes of both entertaining and educational content. Enjoy!

While I’m pretty excited about the Post Formats feature slated for WordPress 3.1, developers have been taken aback by the lack of flexibility or customization that can be performed with them. Many developers have been wondering how these post formats can be extended or how they can add some of their own. Although WordPress has always had hooks and filters to customize features added into the core, Post Formats strays from that routine by strongly discouraging straying from the standardized post formats. Andrew Nacin, a WordPress core developer outlines why Post Formats work the way they do. It’s important to note that Post Formats won’t be for everyone. With term names and such, we went through great lengths to ensure formats were as portable as possible. The idea behind the feature is this standardization and portability for a segment of bloggers. Many designers of themes used for microblogging wanted this […]

New plugins Bug Library provides an easy way to incorporate a bug/enhancement tracking system to a WordPress site. By adding a shortcode to a page, users will be able to display a bug list and allow visitors to submit new bugs/enhancements. HeadJS Loader reformats your page to utilize Head JS in your WordPress site. It strips out all your old javascript declarations and puts them into head.js calls so that they are loaded in parallel. Updated plugins Ad Injection can insert any type of advert (e.g. AdSense) into the existing text of your blog without needing any modifications to your code. Ads can be inserted randomly, at the top, bottom, or in the widget area. Bulk Delete can be used to delete posts in bulk from selected categories or tags. This Plugin can also delete all drafts, post revisions or pages. wpStoreCart is a free, open source, and full featured […]

Alex King has announced that his company WP HelpCenter will be shutting down on February 28th. The WordPress HelpCenter was a company aimed at providing support for plug-ins and themes to offload the support burden from developers. As Alex points out, the company was not able to gain traction with developers. But the nail in the coffin for something like WP HelpCenter is that commercial support for free plug-ins and themes was not something people were willing to pay for. Alex believes that the service WP HelpCenter provided is still needed in the WordPress community and for anyone else willing to dive into the market, he shares the following tips: I would recommend getting funding in place so that you can hire and do internal training, then come to market with a 5-6 person team (with dedicated sales and project management roles) in place from the start. Then it’s just […]

The dates have been set for the largest annual WordCamp, WordCamp San Francisco. This year, WCSF has been extended a whole three days, starting August 12, and ending August 14. WCSF 2011 will feature Matt Mullenweg’s “State of the Word” address, several well-known speakers, activities, summits, workshops, and other events. If you’re a northern Californian fan of WordPress, or you love to travel to great WordPress events, this is one WordCamp that you can’t miss! Have you ever been to WCSF? Do you plan to go this year?

Darnell Clayton of BloggingPro has published his list of questions you should have answered before you spend your hard earned cash on a plugin. While most of his questions are good ones, I’d say one of the most important is the aspect of support after you pay. Some commercial plugin providers have switched from unlimited support for the lifetime of the product to yearly subscriptions. For example, a plugin may cost $50.00 for the initial purchase which includes a year of support and upgrades but after the first year, you can opt to pay $25.00 for support or only the upgrades. So far, I’ve had great success with the money I’ve spent on commercial plugins but thoroughly do your research before you spend anything.

application is a very neat and clean white business theme. bx is a very clean and professional free business theme that is great for all kinds of sites but perfect for bloggers and business websites. Sanaa is a retro style WordPress e-commerce theme perfect for selling t-shirts and handmade items, designed to be a starting point for your online shop.