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 just plain cool to have a moving tag cloud.
You can see it here or on his blog.
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Ian Stewart over at ThemeShaper is giving away 7 premium iThemes WordPress themes to the winner of their default theme contest. It’s a great idea to help come up with a new default theme, and I applaud his efforts.
I made a comment on the post that, after further reflection, I’d like to expand on here.
It is my opinion that the new default theme would need to embrace the newbies and intermediate users who are looking at WordPress as not only a blogging platform and CMS, but also as an outlet for their creativity and passion.
The question is: “How can we achieve that?”
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Since I couldn’t think of a better name, here’s the Black & Red Theme that was created during the tutorial on Creating Your Own WordPress Theme. There are no restrictions on usage since it’s released under the GPL, but I would appreciate you keeping the link in the footer. Other than that, I hope it helps you to create your own themes.
Download the Black & Red Theme
*UPDATE*
I updated the file to reflect the changes that I’ve made on the main index page for the famfamfam silk icons and how pages are displayed. Also, for those of you who don’t like red (the red was making my eyes bleed 
) there is now a blue option.
Download the Black & Blue Theme
*UPDATE AGAIN*
Updated both files to remove the double Tags on single.php.
Tags: Black & Red Theme, themes, WordPress Themes
In Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 4 we began adjusting the css to reflect what we want. In this part, we’ll wrap up this tutorial with a completed theme. There will probably be quite a few changes and this will be rather long. Hopefully we’ll have something a little unique when we’re done.
We’ll be working on the sidebars, comment area, footer, and making a few adjustments to several of the php files to make it all come together.
Let’s get started…
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In Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 3 we managed to setup the basic layout. We’ll go ahead and pick up where we left off and see what we can get accomplished this evening.
Since I wasn’t happy with the link colors, I played around with various color combos for a couple of hours until I found something that I think looks good and is a little different. So here’s the changed css…
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It’s been about a week since my last update to this series due to me being incredibly busy with paying work, but never fear…Part 3 is here.
In Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 2 we finished up with a very basic theme with no styling. It works, but it’s ugly. Today we’re going to pick up right where we left off and get most of the layout, minus any graphics, done.
Open style.css so we add in some of the basics including font, font-size, h1, etc. Here’s what I’ve done so far…
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