Archive for March, 2008

Upgraded To WordPress 2.5

If you haven’t found out by now, WordPress 2.5 has been released.  It includes a bunch of new stuff in the admin area including, automatic upgrades for plugins, media gallery, upload music, pics, and video, and tons of other changes.  You can read more about the features in WordPress 2.5 here.
I’ve been testing the plugin [...]

Black and Red, Black and Blue Themes Updated

I’ve updated both of these themes due to an issue where WordPress doesn’t like the & sign in the name. Thanks goes to mgn of Techwizards for pointing this out. You can download the latest versions from the Free WordPress Themes page.

Testing Another Theme

I’m currently testing another new theme on this site that I made for another site that I run. Well, actually there are some differences…
The theme for the other site is actually wider than this one and has one more sidebar. I just thought that I would make a version that would fit on [...]

Tips To Make Your Blog Search Engine Friendly

Here are a couple of blog posts that give some great information regarding making your WordPress blog theme more SEO friendly. There are a bunch of good tips and I recommend that you take advantage of them.
The first, How To SEO Your WordPress Theme, was written by Courtney Tuttle, of Court’s Internet Marketing School, [...]

Testing This Theme…

I’ve just finished working on this theme, “Dark Matter”, for my wife’s blog, and so I’m testing it here prior to uploading it to her site. If someone who owns a Mac and/or uses a browser other than Firefox and IE7 could tell me how it looks, I’d appreciate it.
I’m not a fan of [...]

There Are Times

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There are times when I’m designing a theme that I just want to beat Internet Explorer to death with a sledge hammer.
For those of you who are still using Internet Explorer, download Firefox and see what the web is really supposed to look like.
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WP Cumulus - One Really Cool WordPress Plugin

Roy Tanck has created one of the coolest plugins for WordPress 2.3+ that I’ve seen. WP Cumulus creates a flash based revolving tag cloud that has to be seen to be appreciated. The plugin also gives you the option to change color, background, width, and height to fit your blog.
Besides, it’s [...]