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New Design Live

General

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 ... Read More »

Configuring Trash

Tutorials

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 ... Read More »

Buy a Theme and Help Some People

News

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, ... Read More »

Plugin Review: Easy Theme Upgrades

Plugin Reviews

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 ... Read More »

MaxBlogPress Plugins Pulled From WordPress Repo

News

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 ... Read More »

Delay Your Feed Publishing

Tutorials

Have you ever written a post then hit the publish button only to discover you missed a typo? I've done it a few times even after proofreading my copy. Of course you can always edit the post but the problem is your RSS feed has already been published and sent out. You can't edit that and it will take some time for the caches of the various feed ... Read More »

WordPress Strayhorn: A Visual Stroll Down Memory Lane

General

We all know WordPress is arguably the best content management system out there and the recent release of 2.9.1 just reinforces that notion. The software has come a long way in a short time. Do any of you recall the earlier versions of WordPress? At the time it was state of the art but compare it to today's incarnation and you'll see just how far it ... Read More »