New themes: Rockin Seaside

I’m quite a fan of this relatively simple, clean, picturesque theme. The Renault website makes excellent use of photography and I can imagine scripting this theme to swap pics based on tags to similar effect.
Nice job. If you use this for your blog do drop me a line and I’ll link to it as an […]

Popularity: 5% [?]

Kitta.net: Wordpressguy Design Favourites #20070301

First in a series of favourite blog designs implemented with, you guessed it, Wordpress. First in series, stumbled across via Twitters public timeline, is Kitta.net.
I won’t spoil the impact of the design, just give you a hint at it - so prepare yourselves and click the inverted clouds below.

 Suggestions for future favourite blogs welcome below. […]

Popularity: 4% [?]

Cache defence

One of the criticisms WordPress is often on the receiving end of is that it performs poorly under load. By load we mean a Digging. And it’s true - most WordPress sites will collapse pretty quickly under pressure of a lot of concurrent traffic.
I think 90% of the problem is in the repeat visits to […]

Popularity: 6% [?]

Wordpress plugin template

The best way to learn is often to simply take a starting point and play. For me it’s always a finished item I respect, which I pull to pieces, replace the pieces, and then build up again. But for many a bare template is the prefered starting point.
Despite having a ’so hideous it’s somehow cool’ […]

Popularity: 8% [?]

No more passwords - hurrah

A number of projects are active at the moment to free us from the dreaded password. Only the most geeky of us have a genuinely unique password for every service we use, and even then if someone gets into our email I’m sure most services will be at risk. I often sign up for a […]

Popularity: 3% [?]

Pimp my blog theme

The simplest way to differentiate your blog is to select a theme which fits your topic. And there’s no shortage of themes out there. There are new themes and updated themes springing up every day, which get excellent coverage both at Wordpress.com and at the excellent weblogtoolscollection. Finding something close to what you’re looking […]

Popularity: 8% [?]

Twittering sidebar plugin

Twitter is getting mountains of coverage at the moment. Twitt-Twoo 1.0 plugin for Wordpress is a plugin which displays your twitter status in the sidebar of your blog, and lets you update it in the sidebar too.
A few examples to see this in action: look for “Mi estado en Twitter” on the right of this […]

Popularity: 3% [?]

Plugin wishlist - show my plugins

Perhaps it’s down to the difficulty of coming up with a sensible search phrase for the search engines to find it, but I can’t find a plugin which displays the plugins that I’m running on a WordPress blog.
I want a simple plugin that gives credit where it is due on a sidebar or on the […]

Popularity: 5% [?]

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