In case you haven't noticed I have a penchant for changing themes. I don't feel I do it excessively but I do like a new change of clothes now and then. I have purchased themes from all of the major players in the WordPress themes market such as StudioPress, WooThemes and iThemes. In fact the design that previously adorned this site was a heavily customized StudioPress theme called Corporate. (no those... continue reading
Back in November I mentioned a few of the cool new features introduced to WordPress 2.9, one of them being Trash. (see WordPress 2.9 Brings Cool New Features) With Trash enabled, should you accidentally delete any type of content such as post, page, comment etc it is moved to Trash where it can then be either restored or permanently deleted ala the Windows Recycle Bin. The default setting for content... continue reading
I just picked up on some good news via Twitter and thought I should pass it along as it is quite important. The good folk behind KreativeThemes are holding a promotion whereby a portion of sales will be donated to UNICEF to help out the earthquake victims of Haiti. What we will do is that we’re going to make a special sales run for 30 days, where you can purchase our themes (both packages and theme... continue reading
Upgrading your theme with WordPress 2.9.1 couldn't be easier ... or could it? Currently, if you're using a theme hosted at the WordPress Theme Directory and a new version comes out you'll see a notice in the Manage Themes section of your backend. You click the upgrade link and presto you have the latest version. While this is a handy feature it comes with a caveat in that the upgrade procedure will... continue reading
I don't know how many of you are familiar with the plugins created by MaxBlogPress but after numerous complaints in the WordPress support forums they have been yanked from the WordPress plugin repository. I've never used any of these plugins but after doing some research they do add some usefulness to your site. The problem with these plugins is that once they are installed they require the user to... continue reading
