Plugins: Category Icons made Easy

Sometimes it’s the smallest touches that lift a design and hammer home a feel of quality and attention to detail. A few well placed and well designed icons can make all the difference.
I noticed the icons on this site: theinterchangedesk.com

I asked the author what plugin he was using to run the icons. He wasn’t using […]

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Plugin building - it’s easy

Another simple link for a Sunday, how to write your own Plugin.
If you break out in a cold sweat on mention of terms like ‘the loop’ and ‘function’ you might want to just skip this post and look at some nice themes.
Plugin creation really is simpler than you think, and there are a host of […]

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Why wordpress? quickonlinetips.com

My first involvement with Wordpress was on a friends blog.
He’d recently upgraded and something on his layout had gone wrong, a floating column was wrapping below the middle placing all his navigation offscreen. I was impressed at how quickly I could locate the source of the problem and fix it. That’s the main reason I […]

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Themetech: Blank theme minilink

Sometimes you just want to take a nice photo, some photoshop scribbles, or a few icons and knock up a new theme. Well here’s a more ethical way to do that than simply ripping off an existing theme, rip off an existing  blank theme that WANTS to be ripped off! haha!
Tommorrows Laundry has released a […]

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New themes: Experimental

A new theme with a slightly laura ashley feel and some nice tricks to enable variable content on the sidebar between the homepage, articles and pages. What does that mean? Let me hand over to the author for a second:
“It means that the template has the capability of having a different sidebar for each […]

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Plugins: Twitter sidebar up

In some ways this is a test to see if the Twitter toolbar from Alex King works, and in some ways a flag to readers that it’s live. Either way - twittering commences! What fun.
If you haven’t looked at this plugin before, this plugin provides a two way connection between your Wordpress and Twitter accounts. […]

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Twittering follow-up

Following the twitter sidebar post a few days ago I’ve been pointed at a host of Wordpress specific info and general Twitter tools which I thought may be of interest. Logic being that if you add your twitter bar to your site it had better say something useful, so you probably need tools to help […]

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New themes: Beast blog

An unusual theme this one, but a great one. I love the boldness of this, combined with the delicacy of touch with the layout. It would be great as the basis for any wildlife project, or tweaked with some new graphics could adopt any theme. Much classier than the hundreds of ‘20 minutes with photoshop […]

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New themes: Dirtylicious

I love this for similar reasons that I enjoyed the last clean wordpress theme I reviewed. Even though it’s called dirtylicious, this strikes me as a very clean platform for a blog. No overcomplication, but some nice texture so that it doesn’t feel too clinical.

With an operating demonstration here, and a list ofother themes […]

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New themes: Crispy cornsilk

This is exactly the kind of theme I wish more people would use. Nice and simple, colours that are easy on the eye, rather than a million headings for sidebar elements which dominate the screenspace:

 Download it here, or see the test here. The author has other theme, which are just as clean looking.
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