DarkMood
The DarkMood Theme is a free dark greenish theme 980px wide with two Sidebars and an Option Page to populate the Footer.
Expressivo
Expressivo is a three-column theme with two righthand sidebars – going to a single sidebar on single posts and pages. With Cufon embedded fonts for post titles, threaded and paged comments – you can also replace the header completely with your own image.
Bright Light
Bright Light is a two columns, fluid width WordPress theme with support for custom top navigation. It also has built-in support for social icons.
5 Grunge Wordpress Themes
Themes are a little bit dark, a little bit dirty, and very grungy. Widget-ready and gravatar-enabled
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Original post by Perurry
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By now you have surely read the news of the release of BudyPress 1.2 (which now will work with single WordPress.org blogs, previously limited to WordPress MU) and this dev blog announcement from Jane last evening about another plugin Andy wrote that lets you use your present theme with BuddyPress.
I have always been of the opinion that this blog, its content, its collection of authors and most of all, its community of readers, is a prime candidate for BuddyPress. Having a common signup between comments, ratings, forums and blog posts would be a fantastic feature. This news is the first step in making those features a reality. We will start working on our test version of this blog very soon.
Are you thinking about trying BuddyPress? What is your greatest concern in adding BuddyPress to your blog? What is the greatest benefit?
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Original post by Mark Ghosh
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First of all, thank you for all the great feedbacks and suggestions on the Vector Social Media Icons I released on IconDock. I updated the set with the new Google Buzz, Microsoft Bing, Picasa, Meetup, Feedburner, Ebay, Drupal, Gowalla, ICQ, Metacafe, Yelp, Xing, Paypal, Podcast, and various color buttons. Head over to IconDock to download the latest zip.
Original post by Nick La
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Improvisation is the name of the game, and we tend to do a lot of it with plugins and themes. In that process we tend to modify functions by adding more variables to incorporate changes in them. However, unlike most of the other languages, PHP allows users to set default values for variables passed to a method too.
As a developer when you start out coding, you have a certain number of things a function will require in order for it to work, some may be optional too, so you set out to create a method signature similar to the one below.
function do_something($var1, $var2, $var3, $var4 = false, $var5 = ”) {
//process business logic here
}
Now, say you release your plugin or theme and get more feedback on features and other improvements. If the features or improvements suggested require you to change the method signature to incorporate new variables and […]
Original post by Keith Dsouza
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The biggest reason many of us require to edit themes is to add JavaScript libraries, CSS codes or analytics tracking code. However, the problem with editing themes is that you will lose all your customization when you decide to change your theme or redesign it.
Most analytics software do provide […] Continue Reading…
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Original post by Perurry
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About a month ago I was augmenting a client site with some added functionality that, while technically out of scope, I was able to add quickly thanks to a plugin. For whatever reason on this particular instance, I was really struck by how much value I was able to add to a client site thanks to that plugin. There was relatively little effort on my part to make the client happy due to a significant level of effort by the developer that built the plugin. Regardless, it didn’t cost me, or my client anything more than a little time.
Because I realized how much more I’ve been able to do with almost every site I’ve built in the last two years thanks to plugins, I decided to try to start a movement, not out of guilt or self interest, as I have never released a plugin, but rather out of gratitude to the plugin […]
Original post by Scott Ellis
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While I was coding the Notepad theme, I’ve learned some new CSS3 features and now I would like to share it with you. View the demo to see a Mac-like multi-level dropdown menu that I’ve created using border-radius, box-shadow, and text-shadow. It renders perfect on Firefox, Safari and Chrome. The dropdown also works on non-CSS3 compitable browsers such as IE7+, but the rounded corners and shadow will not be rendered.
View Demo CSS3 Dropdown
Preview
The image below shows how the menu will look if CSS3 is not supported.
One Gradient Image is Used
A white-transparent image is used to achieve the gradient effect. Because the new CSS3 gradient feature is not supported by all browsers yet, it is safer to use a gradient background image.
The instensitiy of the gradient can be changed by shifting the background image up or down. Also, the gradient color can be easily adjusted by changing the background color.
CSS […]
Original post by Nick La
New Plugins
Mloovi Translate Widget
The Mloovi widget allows you to easily add links to 52 different language versions of your blog and RSS feeds.
Online Backup
The plugin allows online backup as well as email backups both on demand and scheduled. Put your backups on auto pilot with 50 MiB of free space and encryption. Save time and protect your blog from lost info. You will need to register for a free account.
WP Comment Pages
Your users can link directly to an interesting comment, instead of the whole article.
InvestorGuide.com Stock Ticker Link
This plugin automatically looks for ticker symbols like (AAPL) or (GOOG) and link the tickers to research pages at InvestorGuide.com
WordPress Exploit Scanner
This plugin searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.
Updated Plugins
WP Archive-Sitemap Generator
WP Archive-Sitemap Generator plugin generates simple Archives/Sitemap based on […]
Original post by Perurry
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The biggest reason many of us require to edit themes is to add JavaScript libraries, CSS codes or analytics tracking code. However, the problem with editing themes is that you will lose all your customization when you decide to change your theme or redesign it.
Most analytics software do provide users with plugins to insert code into themes, but why use plugins to insert simple HTML code into your theme? I have been using a very useful plugin called Footer Stuff (WP repo link) which allows me to add code to the header and the footer of the site without having to manually edit the theme.
The best part of the plugin though is the fact that it will insert the code into the theme no matter how often I change the theme without having to constantly edit the theme.
Footer Stuff Walkthrough
Head over to the plugins page in your admin dashboard and […]
Original post by Keith Dsouza
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Fesbuk
fesbuk is, yet another Facebook-like WordPress theme. Comes with features like author profile page, custom author thumbnail and profile pic, etc.
Wooden
Fixed width, widget ready and gravatar ready two column theme
BLANK
BLANK is a WordPress theme with all the functionality of a typical WordPress theme but almost none of the styling. The idea is that when starting a new theme, it is far easier to use this as a base then a theme that is already finished and styled.
Natural
Natural Theme is a free WordPress Theme 980px wide with two Sidebars a 160px and 300px (Adsense) and 5 Widget Positions: Left, right, top below navigation (whole wide), top of postings and below postings, and there is also an Option Page to populate the Footer.
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Original post by Perurry
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