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Delicious Premium WordPress Theme
Delicious is a premium WordPress child theme for the Genesis Theme Framework from StudioPress. The theme comes in 3 colour styles – grey, blue and brown. This multi-purpose theme has multiple posts / page layout options, custom menu controls, custom widgets, comprehensive backend options panel and more. Genesis Framework Features Automatic Updates – easy upgrade [...]
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TheProfessional : A Premium WP Theme From ElegantThemes
TheProfessional has a sleek and simple design without all of the extra features on the homepage that some people have no need for.
This layout will be very easy for your visitors to understand and navigate.
The three short blurbs on the homepage are easy to take in and the prominent slider provides a clear call to action.
Features :Opera compatible
Netscape compatible
Safari compatible
WordPress 3.0 compatible
Four Color Schemes
Threaded Comments
Optional Blog-style Structure
Gravatar ready
Firefox compatible
IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
Advertisement Ready
Widget ready sidebars
Theme Options Page
Custom thumbnail images
PSD files
Valid XHTML + CSS
Smooth tabless designPrice : $19.95 (unlimited access)
Live Demo : TheProfessional
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WPEngine Offers an Easier, More Robust Way to Use Wordpress
Have you ever searched for a way to make a WordPress.com blog more robust? How about a way to make a WordPress hosted blog or site more secure and simpler to set up and maintain?A few WordPress superstars have teamed up to create WPEngine, a new and very exciting platform that promises to do all of the above and more.WordPress has become the killer platform for many bloggers, small businesses and developers/consultants with multiple clients.However, there’s a middle ground between a WordPress.com blog and a hosted WordPress site that a few apps are attempting to cover. This middle ground includes people who don’t have the technical skills of a WordPress developer or even a website administrator but who still want to take advantage of a greater part of the WordPress ecosystem of plugins and other benefits.About the ProductWPEngine offers a WordPress VIP-type experience for smaller-scale websites, and it includes top-notch…
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Restaurant WordPress Theme – Entree
Entrée is a premium WordPress theme for restaurants. The Entrée theme is child theme for the Builder Framework from iThemes. Builder is a powerful, flexible, easy-to-use WordPress theme designed to allow you to quickly build websites and blogs with WordPress. The Entree theme features an easy menu creator, Google maps integration and more. Features Easy [...]
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WordPress 3.0.1 Released
WordPress 3.0.1 has been officially released. This release fixes 55 minor issues, including a frequently reported export error and an incompatibility with PHP 5.0.5.
The upgrade should be available for most of you from your Dashboard. If you don’t see the announcement, go to Dashboard/Updates. If you encounter any trouble with the automated updater, try deactivating your plugins before reinitiating the update. As is accustomed with Murphy and his fabled law, a manual upgrade many be required, but it shouldn’t take too long.
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WordPress 3.0.1
After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The requisite haiku:
Three dot oh dot one
Bug fixes to make you smile
Update your WordPress
This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make it one of the best and most stable releases we’ve had.
Download 3.0.1 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area.
Note: If you downloaded 3.0.1 in the first 20 minutes of release (before 2200 UTC), you’ll want to reinstall it, which you can do right from your Updates screen. Our bad. -
Armonia Studio (Creative)
Armonia Studio PSD Template
- Shape layered .psd template (Photoshop CS3 ) with Web 2.0 style design. Can be used in portfolios, companies, agencies or studios.
- The package contains 4 screens in the same .psd file: Home, About, Works and Contact. Help file included.
- Aller font family: you can get for free at http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Aller
- Hands on laptop image ( FREE download / Owner’s permission for commercial use ): http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1287061
- Social Network icons: download for free at http://jwloh.deviantart.com/art/Aquaticus-Social-91014249
If you have any questions message me via my profile page or write me: elwever@gmail.com
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Review: MaxBlogPress Subscribers Magnet (It Rocks)
A couple of weeks ago Pawan from MaxBlogPress.com contacted me, saying he had developed a new plugin that would significantly boost the number of sign-ups I was getting to my email newsletter.
I have known Pawan for a while, and I use many of his plugins, so I said “Sure.” He sent me the files, and I installed it on Daily Blog Tips. The plugin is called Subscribers Magnet, and the idea is to create multiple “hit” points (i.e., methods and places your visitors can use to sign-up) to increase the number of new email subscribers you get per day.
The idea sounded cool, but only when I started playing with the plugin I realized it was a really neat piece of software, and here is why.
First of all it integrates with most email marketing applications (e.g., Aweber, iContact, ConstantContact), so getting the plugin to work is straight forward.… -
Ice
Free sports community BuddyPress theme. Features: custom full width slider for perfect motoGP images, fully widget ready-made, built-in ad server, built-in options panel for full control over the front page, fluid layout, css3 enhanced, special BuddyPress profile page.
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WordPress function: Get category ID using category name
As usual, let’s start by pasting the function in your functions.php file:
function get_category_id($cat_name){
$term = get_term_by(‘name’, $cat_name, ‘category’);
return $term->term_id;
}Once you saved the file, just call the function with your category name as a parameter. Example:
$category_ID = get_category_id(‘WordPress Tutorials’);
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Unite
Unique Features
Works like Tumblr
Tumblr is an impressive & very popular platform and now you can replicate that functionality & awesomeness on your WordPress-powered tumblogging site.Fancy AJAX Commenting
Unite includes a fancy AJAX commenting module to improve the interaction on your blog. Get your readers interacting with both you and other readers to unify one, massive conversation.More Posts (AJAX Load)
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and simply click the “More Posts” button to show you more posts without having to reload the page. Sweet!Advanced QuickPress
Post to your tumblog from your dashboard, using the amazing new AJAX-powered & WooThemes-exclusive QuickPress functionality that is bundled with this theme.Extensive Multimedia Support
Posting a variety of multimedia elements (images, video, audio, quotes, notes & links) is super-easy to do and the theme handles all of the different “post types” automagically.Custom Widgets
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/29
New plugins
FourSquare Integration for WordPress allows you to view your last checkins either as a list or on Google Maps on Pages and Posts.
DynamicWP Featured Post is a free WordPress jQuery plugin that will list your featured post based on the post tag and displayed as a widget. The post will cycled automatically.
DukaPress can be used to build online shops quickly and easily. It is built to be both simple and elegant yet powerful and scalable.
Add image_src Meta Tag ensures your content has a relevant thumbnail when shared on social sites, by adding an image_src meta tag to your header which contains your post thumbnail image.
Updated plugins
The AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites.
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How to Identify and Stop Blog Comment Spam
As a follow up to Jonathan Bailey’s great post yesterday, Blogging Pitfalls: Becoming a Spammer, I wanted to talk about comment spam a bit more. Bloggers are often inundated with comment spam, which can get so bad that they might even reconsider moderating comments.
Unfortunately, there are some forms of comment spam that have gotten out of control over the past year or so, and bloggers need to be aware of these spam tactics, try to identify them, and mark those comments as spam using their comment spam detection tool (for example, Akismet). Identifying comments as spam helps your spam tool better identify them in the future, so hopefully, they won’t get through to your moderation queue anymore.
But how do you know if a comment is spam if it’s not the usual link-filled or gibberish spam comment that can be identified with a cursory glance? That’s the problem with… -
Productz : A Premium WP Theme From Templatic
Productz turns your wordpress install into a quick professional website that represents all your products (digital or physical) with their own strategic homepage.
Features :Out of the box – Auto Install
Strategic design of the homepage
Site wide featured products slider widget
Lots of custom built widgets
Showcase product image or video. On left or right
Above the fold wonder of product details page
Page sidebar of a product page
Blog and pages
Built in contact form
Rotating testimonials
Good for any business – easy of usePrice : $89.95/Single Use License – $149.95/Multiple Use License
Live Demo : Productz
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GREPTEM – Business & Portfolio Wordpress Theme (Corporate)
Business & Portfolio is a Premium WordPress theme, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. It comes with a very nice featured slider, and very great featured content where you can add very important information. It’s really clear and simple!
Also you could download xHTML version:
GREPTEM has 28 Fantastic skins to choose from:
Light
Blue
Blue & Blue
Green
Green& Green
Yellow
Yellow & Yellow
Blue
Orange & Orange
Purple
Purple & Purple
Red
Red & Red
Black
Black & BlackDark
Blue
Blue & Blue
Green
Green& Green
Yellow
Yellow & Yellow
Blue
Orange & Orange
Purple
Purple & Purple
Red
Red & Red
White
White & WhiteWordPress 3.0 Ready
- Includes full support for WordPress new Navigation MenusjQuery Slider
- Easy to add new imagesCustom fonts – Cufon
Custom Sidebars
- Each page can has own sidebarCustom Widgets
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DiW v3.0 Book News
We have been working diligently on updating Digging into WordPress and finding the best print-on-demand solution. Thanks to your suggestions and ideas for book printing, there were many options to check out. After sizing things up, we’re pleased to announce the following:
Digging into WordPress version 3.0 will be released near the end of August
Printed editions of DiW will be available in SeptemberWe’re still working out the specifics regarding cost, shipping, and so forth, but the book will be updated soon and printed books are back on the menu. So that’s the plan at this point – no hard promises but rather strong goals for DiW v3.0.
As always, stay tuned for more news!
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deLucide : A Premium WP Theme from ThemeShift
deLucide is a very sleek and elegant portfolio WordPress theme to showcase your photos or any other work in a professional and lucent design.
Manage your porfolio without any programming skills.
Features :jQuery Content Slider
jQuery Display Switcher
Advanced Custom WidgetsPrice : 39€
Live Demo : deLucide
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HOW TO: Add Multimedia to Your Blog
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.A website without multimedia is like a cupcake without icing: Functional but lacking. These days, all manner of web pages from huge company sites to small business blogs are expected to add audio, photo, or video to their posts and homepages.While this all sounds well and good for multimedia companies that produce endless amounts of content, small businesses with text-based websites can run into trouble finding and providing appropriate content. The real trick is adding multimedia that enriches your site, product, or brand without taking away from your company’s core message and aesthetic. And how do you get a rich multimedia experience without hiring a coder?This is rarely easy. To help, we’ve collected some simple resources to add audio, photo or video to your blog. The BasicsFor…
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Implicit – Business, Blog and Portfolio WP Theme (Business)
Welcome to Implicit! Implicit is ultra modern, simple and clean business, blog and portfolio Wordpress Theme with lots of custom options and unique features! It’s perfect for individual people (you can use it as blog or sleek portfolio) and business owners (it’s a great theme to clearly showcase your brand and work!).
Features
All Fundamental Page Templates (main page, full-width page, search results, 404, contact, archives, author pages, post pages)
6 Additional Page Templates (blog, 3 portfolios, left sidebar page, right sidebar page)
2 Portfolio Layouts with animated jQuery filters!
Animated portfolio with category filtering!
multiple CSS Styles
Text Logo (+ tagline)
Image logo
30+ custom easy to use Shortcodes
Drag & drop Sidebar
Drag & drop Footer
Breadcrumb
Cufon Font Replacement (separately for H1, H2, H3, H4)
CSS Font Eeplacement
8 Custom Fonts to Choose From
Custom Twitter Updates Widget
Custom Flickr Images Widget
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WebPoint business template. PSD. (Business)
The “WebPoint” psd is most marvelous webdesign ever created by LionWebMedia. Layout is designed for Business and Companies. This item include WHOLE inner pages necessary to build professional business website. The package contains 32 screens!
Homepage with 3 slider layouts
Gallery with 4 layouts and light-box
Sample page
No header
Automatic header
Header with custom text
Twitter feed header
404 Page design
Site map design
Left or right sidebar layout
Full-width page
Rich typography examples
Info boxes design
Blog with comment design
Widget design11 color schemes
Every page is fully layered and organized with proper names.
Fonts The theme uses mostly font Helvetica! Logo use only Helvetica!
Icons To make the layout looks even more professional in the theme are included Icon Sets released on the GNU General Public License or Free for commercial use.
Twitter bird:
http://artdesigner.lv/Dark Glass:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Dark-Glass+reviewed?content=67902Valentine:
http://www.icondrawer.com/free.phpTweet my web:
http://artdesigner.lv/archives/434Lovely:
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The Professional Premium WordPress Theme
The Professional is a sleek and classy premium WordPress business theme from Elegant Themes. The theme is designed to be simple and easy to understand and navigate and features 4 colour scheme options, full width page template, drop down menus, comprehensive options panel and more. Features 4 Colour Scheme Options Full Width Page Template Complete [...]
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Custom Post Type and Permalink
Since WordPress 3.0 you can use Custom Post Types and you can define your own types of content – it’s more like pages than posts! Thereby you can use automatically the Permalink structure of your WordPress installation. That means, if you create a new post type, you can use Permalinks.But the Permalinks only work if you recreate the Rewrite Rules of WordPress – that’s why many users initially have problems with it. If you create a new post type you probably get a 404 if you open this page because WordPress doesn’t know the URL-structure in your Permalinks since you didn’t create the Rewrite Rules again.The easiest way is to safe the Permalink structure in your settings again. Alternatively you can include in your Plugin or Theme the function flush_rewrite_rules(). This enables to create the Rewrite Rules again.Related posts:First Impressions of Custom Post TypeCustom Fields in your FeedWordPress 3.0 Custom…
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A New Way to Install Plugins
There are two ways to install plugins in WordPress 3.0. You can either search for and install plugins via Plugins/Add New in your admin panel, or search for and download plugins from the plugin directory, then upload them to /wp-content/plugins/. Now, thanks to Mark Jaquith, there’s a new way to install plugins.
The new plugin installer tool allows users to easily install plugins via a web-based interface outside of WordPress, with no FTP knowledge or tedious admin panel searching required. The new tool will be officially rolled into the plugin directory during WordPress’ impending site-wide redesign. For now, plugin developers can create a link directing users to the plugin installer tool and their plugin, and the rest of us can use the bookmarklet to install plugins from the directory. -
The Complete Handbook on Building a Blog Business
How to Build a Successful Blog Business is a straight forward guide to building a publishing business online that covers everything from choosing a niche to hiring staff, registering a business to selling it, finding traffic to monetizing it.
Collis is a web veteran with a wealth of experience and an easy to read style. He has founded sites such as the Tuts+ network, the Envato Marketplaces, FreelanceSwitch and AppStorm which combined serve up over 50 million pageviews a month.
In How to Build a Successful Blog Business Collis shares tips from his years of operating kick ass blogs, and reveals stats, graphs, revenue figures and inside details from three real world case studies.
Nowhere else will you be able to find information like this. Step behind the scenes of Envato’s wildly successful sites and find out how you build blogs that are both profitable and popular. This is the… -
Theme: Grid-A-Licious with Special Grid Layout
Divs are placed in chronological order with a special grid. Grid-A-Licious uses the jQuery javascript framework which can be downloaded from www.jquery.com. This layout can be seen at sites such as Reform & Revolution and TypeNeu.
The theme is available to download, but please read the included license agreement before installing it to your Wordpress application.Pricing: FREE except for Commercials
Requirements: WordPress 2.9+
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istudio – Clean and Minimalist Business Theme (Business)
istudio is clean, elegant and minimalist wordpress theme that can be switched as business, corporate, portfolio and blogging theme.
Features :
5 skins option(orange, red, dark, green, blue)
Unique slideshow
Custom Post type for slideshow
Support Wordpress 3.0 Menu System
Custom Page templates (Blog, Services, Portfolio, Full Width and Contact Form Page Templates)
3 Custom Category templates (Testimonial, Portfolio and Archive Category templates)
3 Portfolio page templates with Pop up Lightbox (support for image and Video type)
Cufon Text Replacement (4 fonts available)
Dynamic Sidebar Widget
8 Custom Widgets (Support for Multiple Instance Widget)
Built in Ajax Contact Form with validation
Valid XHTML /CSS
Gravatar Support
Auto Image Resizing
Poweful Admin Theme Options
XML sample data included
PSD Files included
Well DocumentedSkins
Orange
Red
Dark
Blue
GreenHTML version available here
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Product Showcase Business WordPress Theme
Productz is a specialist business premium WordPress theme from Templatic designed to showcase products online. This CMS theme can be used to build a website to showcase one, or many different products. It includes a dynamic widget ready homepage with products slider, custom product details page template, 6 colour scheme options, lots of custom widgets [...]
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Green Tea – Free WordPress Theme
Today’s free WordPress theme is designed by Roshan of CSSHeaven.org (you might know him from his RamblingSoul themes). I ported the static template to WordPress and packed it with WordPress 3.0-specific features, including custom menus, headers, and backgrounds. More on that below.
WordPress 3.0 Menus
As stated above, this theme includes WordPress 3.0 menu support which means you have very flexible control over what links show up in your header menu. If you don’t set up a menu, it will default back to a list of WordPress pages.For further reading on implementing the WordPress 3.0 menu feature into your own themes, I found these links really helpful:
Goodbye headaches, hello menus! – A write-up by Justin Tadlock on WordPress 3.0 menus.
wp_nav_menu – The official WordPress codex on the function used for the menus.Custom Header
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Sposh (Shopping)
Magento theme “sposh” includes 2 types:
Dark Sposh
Light SposhSwitching between types make very easy in admin panel. On livedemo the main tamplate is “dark”, for switching to “light” click on german flag in the header. For switching from “dark” to “light” click on the british flag.
Features:Sliding new products on home page
Sliding banners on home page
Lightweight images preview on category listing page
Accordioon for sidebar boxes
Jquery tabs for product view page
Unusual product zoom using jQuery
Cufon text replace
Optional Twitter link (using magento custom block)
Optional Rss link (using magento custom block)
Optional Facebook link (using magento custom block)You’ll get:
All theme files
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Bookmarklet to install a WordPress Plugin
As a followup to my previous post, I’ve created a bookmarklet that you can use to install a WordPress plugin. While viewing a plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory, click this bookmarklet, and you’ll be guided in installing that plugin on your site.
Here’s a screencast showing it in action!
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