Themes: skittlish

Another wordpress theme without photography or overt ‘designiness’ which may be appropriate for a business blog wishing to display a lighter edge without going all out cool. I like the clean lines, strong colours, and simple typography of this theme.
Interestingly the author has bundled a number of plugins to ensure they styling of these fits […]

Popularity: 5% [?]

Themes: far from fearless

I love the style of this theme by Chris at Far From Fearless, it has a nice balance between a blog and a more traditional static structure website.

This is an interesting example of what I would term an ‘experienced user only’ theme, in that it comes with a number of healthwarnings:
“as much as I would […]

Popularity: 3% [?]

Speedlinking: wordpress bookmarks for March 07

To clear up the sidebars a little I’m killing the automated del.icio.us links, here is the roll of links for March so far. A mix of useful plugins, themes, articles and other WordPress related goodies.

guff » Head META Description
Cache Images plugin for WordPress - Blogging Expertise - WordPress blog design, installation, and consulting
jemmille.com » […]

Popularity: 6% [?]

New themes: Superfly

Sometimes the name of a theme gives you absolutely no option but to review it. Introducing superfly by Milo. I love the header, I can see a cool zombie book review site running with this theme. I don’t know why it says zombies to me. Maybe I’ve been 360ing too much this week!
Preview it here.
Popularity: […]

Popularity: 3% [?]

Blog interview: NorthxEast.com design strategy

This is the first in a series of WordPress case studies talking to bloggers old at new about a key aspect of their blog from a technical, design or even ethical viewpoint. All featured bloggers will have be using WordPress, and will pass on real world advice, pointers and experiences which should be of interest.
My […]

Popularity: 15% [?]

tips speedlink: WordPress Optimisation

A nice article on WordPress optimisation focussing on the early days, just after you set up your installation (some of the topics apply to hosted options too) by Scott at  meridiancrest.
The mybloglog advice is the only part of this that I would apply a health warning to. Unless you really want a random selection […]

Popularity: 4% [?]

Plugins: Comment License

Comment licencing is likely to become a growing issue as ‘user generated content’ becomes more and more important to all media, but in particular blog. I was pleased as the proverbial punch when reading Techquila Shots to find one of my comments on TechCrunch (yes, it was about twitter) being linked directly.
A timely reminder for […]

Popularity: 5% [?]

Finding WordPress Plugins

One great way to find WordPress Plugins is when you aren’t even looking for them. You see something being done well on a blog, you check to see if it’s running WP, then you have a peek at the source to check for any plugin credits. Sometimes they are there, sometimes not. When not I […]

Popularity: 7% [?]

Experiment: tumblr as a wordpress aggregator

Reading this post on tumblr at Michelle MacPhersons blog about how tumblr can be used to up your technorati ranking by posting automated links to your blog got me thinking:
A single tumblr which aggregates a number of RSS feeds into a single blog would be useful if maintenance wasn’t an issue and setup was […]

Popularity: 100% [?]

New themes: Marki

Another new theme with a grey / mono base.

As dark background themes go I’m quite a fan of this.
The author (website worth a visit btw) also has a genuinely entertaining turn of phrase when describing the process of putting the theme together and the decisions along the way:
The name of the theme is Marki, well […]

Popularity: 3% [?]

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