Archive For May, 2009

Vista84

3 column, widget ready, adsense friendly template with space for a 468×60 banner targeted at technology blogs

Garland Revisited

A flexible, three-column theme with customizable colors.

WPBlue

3 column, gravatar ready theme with two widget ready sidebars,

RedTime

The theme is in magazine style and features an absolutely massive “Twitter FollowMe” icon, which is not only extremely attractive but quite useful too.

Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get featured here.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 05/31

Hello,We are very pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB “quite furry” 3.0.5 package. This release fixes numerous bugs since the 3.0.4 release, corrects style issues, fixing one very minor security bug as well as increasing performance and scalability again. We also decided to add a few new minor features.New features and important changes are:Added and refined CAPTCHA options to better protect against new version of CAPTCHA crackers.Added an option to the registration screen to allow users to refresh the displayed CAPTCHA.Performance improvements for native fulltext search.Added a new search option. The admin can define the maximum number of…

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This weekend is special for two reasons, firstly it is WordCamp SF 2009 and I wish I could have made it as it would have been nice to attend the original WordCamp. Secondly it is also your last chance to get tickets for WordCamp UK 2009 at a discounted price.  This is a growing list of confirmed speakers and of confirmed attendees.

Looking forward to seeing some of you there.

Next up in the “Five” series for plugins is a snapshot of five advertisement related plugins for your WordPress site.

Once you have done the work to build your site, create the content and get the visitors streaming in it may then be time to monetize your site and maybe create a little income stream.  Now I am not talking get rich schemes here – just simple and easy ways to place ads in and around your site.  They may never make you a ton of money but they might create just enough of an income stream to make you a…

New Plugins

Grooveshark for WordPress

Made to make music easy to add to any post, Grooveshark for Wordpress takes the trouble out of mixing music with your blog. Just install, then enjoy instant access to literally millions of tunes you can use to make your blog posts even cooler. Create playlists of one song — or hundreds — and add them to any part of your Wordpress blog as a Grooveshark Widget.

Linkubaitor

Search engines determine a website or blogs popularity according to the amount and quality of backlinks pointing to a website. The Linkubaitor Wordpress Plugin displays HTML code for website visitors…

Introducing Typekit, an iTunes-for-fonts on the web that allows you to have rich typography in your designs and pages without resorting to flash or image hacks. (Old time readers will remember my yellow design which used Dante, the original WordPress logo font, and generated-image titles.) Typekit takes advantage of the current and upcoming browser support for embedded fonts and abstracts away all of the complications thereof like Feedburner did for feeds. Brought to you by my friends at Small Batch, previously of Adaptive Path, Measure Map, Start, and Wikirank fame. The people building the web have been waiting for this.

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AFP: Blogging guru chips away at Great Firewall of China — the Agence France-Press talked to me when I was in Hong Kong about the early days of WordPress.com and our experience with the Chinese firewall. Today we are still sporadically blocked, nothing official but enough that almost everyone in China uses WordPress.org. It’s funny that this story came out almost two months after the interview because I’m wearing that exact same sweater today.

GigaOM Pro is a new subscription research site from my friends on the GigaOM crew. It’s also the first major media site I know about powered by BuddyPress and it’ll be interesting to see how the social features influence the sites evolution. Here’s Mark Jaquith’s post about building it.

2009 is the year of BuddyPress. It’s also the year where online content providers have to figure out how to make money outside of the flailing “get a lot of views, sell ads” model. For the past couple of months, I’ve been working on a project that tackles both of those things, and I’m really proud to present it to the world:

GigaOM Pro is a WordPress/BuddyPress-powered premium research membership site, focused on four initial verticals: Mobile, Green IT, Infrastructure, and the Connected Consumer. A network of independent analysts provide in-depth research papers and research notes, which subscribers can view on…

Along with a bunch of other folks from the Crowd Favorite team, I’ll be in San Francisco this weekend for WordCamp SF. I’m looking forward to catching up with some old friends from my decade in the Bay Area, and meeting some new folks.

I’ll also be helping staff the Genius Bar from 2:55-3:30pm, so feel free to stop by (perhaps with some Carrington questions). I’m looking forward to helping out.

Unfortunately I’ll miss the developer day since we booked our flights before it was planned. That’s a shame, but maybe next time – I’m sure I’ll get a chance to hang…

Our Carrington Text WordPress theme has been updated to version 1.1 to address a couple of IE6 issues. Preview and download.

I’m using this theme for my daughter’s site.

ShareThis

This weekend is the granddaddy of WordCamps, WordCamp San Francisco 2009 on May 30, 2009. Registration is closed at over 700 attendees for this one day event packed with a ton of the top blogging, social media, search engine, business, and WordPress experts. I’ll be there, so be sure and find me for a hug.

That’s part of the joy and difference between a WordPress event and other social tech events. WordPressers serve up hugs, not just hand shakes. What I hear over and over again at these events is how we all know each other, so meeting face to face is…

New Plugins

BookLinker

A WordPress plug-in that converts existing affiliate links into a list of book resources: Amazon, Powells, and IndieBound affiliate links, WorldCat library searches, and LibraryThing book pages.

Link Harvest

This plugin will go through all of your posts and pages and compile a list of all external links. Then it will create a linkroll for you based on your actual linking activity.

Best Post Page

Best Post Page is a WordPress plugin, that utilizes optimization algorithms to chose the best posts based on criteria such as views and comments. This plugin automatically generates a page called ‘Best of Posts’ that displays the…