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“The Future of WordPress Themes” Opinion Poll

A high level opinion poll concerning WordPress themes and its future is presented on Ian’s new site Theme Shaper. Highly recommended read for WordPress theme designers and enthusiasts alike. I have my 2 cents in there too!

// Tagged Announcements, Economics, GPL, License, Theme, Un, WP, Web Design, YUI, blogging, blogosphere, poll, resources, technology, web 2.0, web sites, websites, wordpress themes // 03.06.2008 at 1:35 pm // Have your say »

Al Gore’s WordPress Powered Site Hacked

Al might think he “invented the internet“, but he sure failed to upgrade his WordPress CMS, which resulted in negative publicity for the best open CMS out there. His site was powered by version 2.0.4, which as Matt points out, was released a good 16 months ago, and even beats the version I was running a [...]

// Tagged Al Gore, Conspiracy, History, Matt Mullenweg, Media, Stupid, Un, WP, blogosphere, funny, internet, news, socio-political, technology, wordpress // 11.27.2007 at 1:38 pm // 5 Comments »

No More RSS Feeds on WordPress.com

I guess folks at WordPress.com start talking about copyright violation only when it hits home. When we cried foul about WordPress themers ripping our work and calling it their own, no one cared except Thomas (and Lorelle).
The reality is, you can’t stop people from stealing content or code, it pinches those of us on the [...]

// Tagged Announcements, Google, Matt Mullenweg, Oddities, RSS, Spam, WP, Web, Yahoo, blog, blog traffic, blogosphere, competition, internet, mandarinmusing, news, socio-political, technology, wordpress // 08.10.2007 at 10:13 am // 3 Comments »

5 Blogging Mistakes I Make that you Should Avoid

I know a lot of people who write posts about how one should blog based on their personal experience, I get a lot of emails asking for pointers, so here’s a list I compiled that is the anti-advice or what I call “5 blogging mistakes I make that you should avoid”.

Be irrelevant: Over 50 percent [...]

// Tagged Blogging Mistakes, Blogging Tips, Content, Humor, Stupid, blog, blog traffic, blogging, blogosphere, socio-political // 08.07.2007 at 3:27 pm // 4 Comments »

Sandbox (CSS) Design Competition Tutorial

This ‘how to’ tutorial was written for beginners/users designing a Sandbox based theme/CSS redesign using minimal CSS hacks and imagery. The objective of this exercise was to do “as little work as possible” while ensuring the result appears “significantly different” from the starting template. This is not the end-all strategy to design a Sandbox theme/skin, [...]

// Tagged Announcements, CSS, Code, Design, HTML, Projects, Sandbox, Theme, Tutorials, WP, Web, Web Design, blogosphere, competition, free wp theme, hacks, how to, meta tags, resources, techniques, tips, toolbox, websites, wordpress, wordpress skins, wordpress templates, wordpress themes // 07.19.2007 at 12:57 pm // 12 Comments »

Matt takes over http://themes.wordpress.net

So we are not trying to wait it out or anything like that, we are just as sick of it as y’all are so let’s get this thing done and over with. Today will not go down in history as the day WordPress died; in fact it’s the opposite. In my opinion, WordPress is the [...]

// Tagged Announcements, Conspiracy, Economics, GPL, Google, Google Page Rank, History, Law, License, Matt Mullenweg, Oddities, Politics, Sponsored Themes, WP, WP Theme Viewer, Web, Weblogtoolscollection, blog, blogosphere, earthling, monetize, news, theme viewer, wordpress, wordpress themes // 07.14.2007 at 12:59 pm // 35 Comments »

Gathering 3C: Free Clean Adsense Ready WP Theme

Gathering 3C: Download | Test run
3 Column, White, Black, Fixed width, Widget ready, Right sidebars, Corporate, Business Blog, Personal Blog Template
Gathering 3C is a 3 column “adsense and widget” ready Web 2.0 WordPress theme with a professional look by headsetoptions.org and MandarinMusing. Clean Corporate, business, technology, personal blog template.
Here’s a few words from the people [...]

// Tagged 3 Column, Adsense ready, Gathering, SEO, Tristar, WP Theme Viewer, Web Design, Widget, best wordpress themes, blogosphere, free css templates, free wp theme, personal blog, premium templates, professional quality, tech blog, web 2.0, web sites, white, wordpress, wordpress skins, wordpress templates, wordpress themes // 05.16.2007 at 6:26 pm // 22 Comments »

Free Blog Directory

The top tip for better SEO ranking is to submit your website URL to search engines and web directories. Yahoo has a paid directory and DMOZ takes forever to list new websites!
So quality free directories are your best bet and here’s a quality blog directory that is totally free!
All-blogs.net is a manually edited blog directory, [...]

// Tagged All-blogs.net, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, blog, blogging, blogosphere, directory, dmoz, free blog directory, seo checklist, submit your site, tips // 05.14.2007 at 1:51 pm // 7 Comments »

Free Adsense Web 2.0 WordPress Theme

ELITE CIRCLE: Download | Test run
2 Column, White, Red, Adsense Ready, Fixed width, Widget ready, Right sidebar, Personal Blog, Corporate/Business Template
Elite Circle is a neat and clean, white, 2 column, “widget ready” WordPress theme with a right sidebar and a professional Web 2.0 looks by headsetoptions.org and MandarinMusing, based on a design by Styleshout for [...]

// Tagged 2 column, Adsense ready, SEO, WP Theme Viewer, Web Design, Widget, best wordpress themes, blogging, blogosphere, business blog, clean, elite circle, free css templates, free wp theme, mandarinmusing, personal blog, premium templates, red, styleshout, tech blog, web 2.0, web sites, white, wordpress, wordpress skins, wordpress templates, wordpress themes // 05.08.2007 at 2:33 pm // 17 Comments »

How is Yahoo different from Google, explains Jeff Weiner

Is AOL trying to be the next Yahoo?
Did Google try to be the next Yahoo? Yes and no.
Google has got extraordinary attention in the last two years, most of which could be attributed to the contribution of users. Google’s strategy of becoming bigger and better is by buying everything that has potential for growth, mostly [...]

// Tagged Google, Jeff Weiner, Media, San Francisco Expo, Web 2.0 Expo, Yahoo, blogosphere, internet marketing // 04.30.2007 at 11:43 am // 6 Comments »