Archive for January, 2008

WPDesigner Themes Club

Posted on 26. Jan, 2008 by Artur Kim.

Last week, I announced that Small Potato from WPDesigner was going to launch a themes club and he officially launched it a few days ago.
Basics about the WPDesigner themes club:

Pay $5 per year for unlimited access / downloads
You’re guaranteed at least 12 themes
You do not need a developer license to use the club themes for [...]

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iThemes – Premium WordPress Themes

Posted on 25. Jan, 2008 by Artur Kim.

Cory Miller and Brian Gardner have recently officially launched iThemes, a premium WordPress theme site.
Its first theme series is called Essence and there are 5 color schemes (Blue, Dark, Golden, Red, and Silver) to choose from. Each theme in this series includes:

Static home page
Elegant look and feel of traditional website
7 inside page layouts
Integrated blog templates
Two [...]

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The Crunchies 2007 and More News

Posted on 19. Jan, 2008 by Artur Kim.

the Crunchies 2007
Congratulations to Automattic and Wordpress for winning in two categories yesterday at the first annual Crunchies! Toni Schneider for Best Startup CEO and WordPress for Most Likely to Succeed.
More News

Automattic launched the WordPress Publisher blog and their goal is to help publishers get the most out of WordPress.
Small Potato from WPDesigner announced [...]

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Displaying Related Posts in Single Posts

Posted on 16. Jan, 2008 by Artur Kim.

A few weeks ago, I’ve showed how to display the most popular posts in the sidebar. Another way of getting more interested readers and pageviews is to display related posts in single posts. This is great for the readers as well, because they’ll get exposed to content that is related to what they’ve just finished [...]

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Installing WordPress Locally

Posted on 11. Jan, 2008 by Artur Kim.

If you are developing a theme or plugin for WordPress, you should definitely install WordPress on your machine because it will save you time, hassle, bandwidth, and much more. It’s also good for when you are just starting a new blog or a new project because you’ll be able to preview it and fix any [...]

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Top 40 Blogs About WordPress Update 01/07/08

Posted on 07. Jan, 2008 by Artur Kim.

WPTG Rank #1: Weblog Tools Collection
WPTG Rank #2: WPDesigner
WPTG Rank #3: Daily Blog Tips
Best Google Pagerank: Photo Matt
Best Alexa Rank: Weblog Tools Collection
Best Technorati Rank: Photo Matt and Ryan Boren
New Blogs added to the Top 40:

PremiumPress
We Love WP
Upstart Blogger

A few blogs have been removed because they weren’t “Blogs About WordPress” or because they just listed [...]

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The Advanced WordPress Help Sheet

Posted on 03. Jan, 2008 by Artur Kim.

Michael from WPCandy has released today The Advanced WordPress Help Sheet, a follow-up to his WordPress Help Sheet that was released about a month ago, which I had translated it into Portuguese-BR. Unfortunately, this time I won’t be releasing a translated version of his WordPress Help Sheet. I actually finished translating it, but after contacting [...]

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The Most Popular Free Magazine WordPress Themes of 2007

Posted on 03. Jan, 2008 by Artur Kim.

As a follow-up of my previous post, I made a list of what in my opinion were the most popular free magazine WordPress Themes of 2007. The paid magazine WordPress themes listed in my previous post are great, but the free magazine themes in this list are great as well. The authors could have definitely [...]

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The Most Popular Paid WordPress Magazine Themes of 2007

Posted on 01. Jan, 2008 by Artur Kim.

I made a list of what in my opinion were the most popular paid WordPress magazine themes of 2007. You probably have seen blogs using these themes or have seen these themes being mentioned in other blogs. Well, I decided to list them all in one place. By the way, they are not listed in [...]

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