Creating a widget ready footer in Wordpress July 24, 2008

It is a common site now to see a widget ready footer on a wordpress powered site, it adds some extra areas to add widgets that would maybe look out of place in the sidebar. It is good to have widgets at the bottom of the blog for links to other posts and maybe some details about yourself. In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create 3 footer widget areas which can be edited from the admin area of your wordpress installation. I am going to use the default Kubrick theme for this tutorial.

Wordpress Theme Directory Online July 18, 2008

Wordpress have released a theme directory based on their popular plugins directory. You can read the official post here.

Wordpress used to have a themes directory but it was pretty bad and now they are saying that they need a centralised area for people to download Wordpress themes because there is not quote “a good centralized place for people to browse, search, comment on, and rate themes”. Personally I think that there are plenty of places for this, Wordpress are just entering this area a bit late and showing that they haven’t done any research into this.

Wordpress 2.6 Review July 16, 2008

Wordpress 2.6 “Tyner” was released yesterday and has some nice improvements over 2.5 and 2.5.1 making the new interface much easier to use and adding some great features to make blogging much easier. Today, I installed 2.6 on my localhost to check it out and I was pleased with the new features. 2.5 had quite a few bugs that were pretty annoying but most of these were ironed out in 2.5.1, 2.6 however just seems much more stable like a chair built with wood and nails as opposed to wood and tape. Oh, and if you are wondering why it is called Tyner, it was named after jazz pianist McCoy Tyner.

FREE: Mimbo Magazine Premium Wordpress Template July 11, 2008

Looking for a magazine style template but don’t want to pay out huge amounts of money? Well Mimbo Magazine is for you, this premium (but free) wordpress template is packed full of features including an area for the featured post, thumbnail support and a drop down page menu.
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Create a tabbed featured posts area in Wordpress July 10, 2008

A couple of days ago I released version 2.0 of my premium news wordpress template - Simify, one of the templates main features is the tabbed area for the featured posts. In this tutorial I am going to show you how to produce a tabbed area for your featured posts on your blog complete with [...]