New Blog: The WP Ninja

Check my new blog over at http://thewpninja.com!

Also for those that don’t know and are looking for WordPress inspiration, check my css gallery.

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Small Potato, How To Create a WordPress Theme, and New Redesign

Tung Do also known as Small Potato seems to be slowly coming back to the WordPress community. For those who don’t know him, he was very respected by the community as the founder of WPdesigner.com which is now dead. I don’t know what his plans are, but he’s definitely designing again and you can find some of his new work at his personal blog.

I learned a lot from his blog and one particular series of posts that helped me a lot was called “So you want to create WordPress themes huh?” However, since this series was written more than 2 years ago, Ian Stewart from ThemeShaper.com felt the need to create a new series teaching how to create a WordPress theme. So, if you always wanted to create your own WordPress theme and didn’t know how to, go check this series out!

One last topic that I want to talk about in this post is the redesign of this blog. As you can see, I’ve designed a child theme using the Thematic theme framework created by Ian who I’ve mentioned earlier. I actually wanted to create my own theme again at first, but after I played around with Thematic for a few weeks, I just decided to design a child theme and I’m happy with the result. Hopefully with the redesign, it’ll be a new start and I’ll be updating the blog regularly.

By the way, feedback on the redesign is appreciated. It could be constructive criticism, tips, or whatever you want to talk about it. I think they will all make me a better designer, so they are all welcome.

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WordPress 2.8 “Baker” released

New version of WordPress is out! Version 2.8 “Baker,” named in honor of noted trumpeter Chet Baker, has been released with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. Over 790 bugs has been fixed and major new improvements include:

  • Way faster to use because of changes in the way WordPress does style and scripting;
  • One click theme install;
  • CodePress editor;
  • Redesigned widgets interface;
  • New Screen Options on every page.

For more information about version 2.8, read Matt’s blog post or take a look on the Codex.

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Top Blogs About WordPress Update 02/15/09

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It’s been almost a year that I haven’t had updated the list, but I finally did today! Since it’s been so long, several new blogs have been added, but I’m pretty sure that I didn’t add all of them. So, if you know of any other blogs that can be added, feel free to leave a comment or contact me. Also, feel free to leave suggestions that will help improve the list.

WPTG Rank #1: Upstart Blogger

WPTG Rank #2: planetOzh

WPTG Rank #3: Nathan Rice

Best Google Pagerank: Photo Matt

Best Alexa Rank: WpRecipes

Best Technorati Rank: Daily Blog Tips

New Blogs added to the Top 40:

A few blogs have been removed because they weren’t “Blogs About WordPress” or because they just listed WordPress themes and/or plugins in their posts or because of inactivity.

Do you know a blog that should be listed in the Top 40? If you do, please send an email to wpthemesgallery [at] gmail [dot] com, so that I can add it to the list.

Do You Digg the Top 40?

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