Wordpress Plugins
Just some Random New Plugins I’m testing
Bring your old posts back to life.. sends them back to your front page and into the RSS feed. Randomly chooses an eligible post and updates the timestamp. The post then appears to be the latest post on your Wordpress blog.
Disable Revisions (Recently Updated)
Wow.. about time.. (Required 2.6 and above)
Disables revision functions in WordPress and delete all entries of revisions in database.
GD Star Rating (Recently Updated)
With added voters log where you can see who voted for what and where you can delete votes. And it’s short-code compatible so you can place reviews in your posts and pages.
Compatibility Notes is a simple WordPress plugin that will attach a list of supported WordPress versions to every plugin’s description on the “Plugins” page. Really handy if you plan on upgrading to Version 2.7. Here’s how it looks :
Demo of this looks absolutely awesome. Unfortunately couldn’t get it working for me. Basically you can upload your catalogues or books and get people to "flip" through them, all via a great little wordpress plugin. Doesn’t look like anyone’s having much success with it and their forum brings up 404 errors. Will be watching them though, cos I love this kinda stuff :)
See Demo Video & Demo Site
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Upgraded to 2.7 on another Blog - Blank Site & Errors
Used the WP Automatic Upgrade plugin to upgrade to 2.7 on one of my other blogs tonight.
Re-enabled my plugins.
Everything looked good (when I could work out where everything is - had to increase my memory in wp-settings to 64MB to "see" the new left-menu).
Disabled the non 2.7 compatible plugins.
Tried to install some new cool plugins I found and that’s when things got a little hairy :)
I couldn’t actually "activate" any plugin, nor could I "activate" any theme, and then I realized I couldn’t actually do "anything" without causing errors.. the only "link" that worked in my backend was "post new link"..
My Site was blank. And anything I clicked on in the backend gave me Fatal Errors:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_remote_post() in /blog/wp-includes/cron.php on line 201
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_remote_request() in /blog/wp-includes/rss.php on line 539
And the same error for the update.php
Anyways, after a few hours of trying to sort it out (disabling plugins, re-uploading core files, following step-by-step instructions on the wordpress site (ugh - ever done that?) and looking for blog posts from people with the same problem), I finally got it sorted.
The last step that "worked" was overriding the core files in /blog/
Downloaded Wordpress 2.7 from the Wordpress.org site.
Extracting the files.
(Note: Re-uploading the files in wp-includes folder did not fix the problem - I expected it would because it was the files referenced in that folder that were causing errors, but that’s just my logic?)
What Worked is Over-writing/Re-Uploading the Core ones.. (not the sub-folders) out of wordpress-2.7\wordpress
The file that caused my errors was one of the highlighted culprits below…
Tags: automatic upgrade | cron.php | rss.php | update.php | upgrade.php | wordpress 2.7 | wordpress upgrade
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Cache Nightmare Right now.. Fixed
Two of my fave plugins have caused an absolute nightmare to my servers today.. sorry for anyone who visited :(
BackupWordpress, was going over-board and backing up multiple times a day (not even an option in the settings) and doing all my blogs and sites, subdomains, etc.. basically getting carried away.
Bluehost Suspended my sites, when I called - they said that my backup files were taking up 160GB (yes.. GB) of space.. Oh My God.
7 Hours later, Im still in the process of deleting.. but this site (wordpress) didnt come back online until Wp Super Cache was removed.. but by removing it (as per instructions).. I can now login to the backend and can visit the homepage, but 20 mins ago found out from someone that no matter which post you click on.. you get a 404 error to my main site (pennybutler.com).
It’s 1am now.. I have to go to bed to get up for work in the morning.. I can’t find the problem.. there are no cache files left, the .htaccess is as empty as I can make it.. Im sorry if you are trying to access any of the themes or plugins in the meantime.. I can’t fix it til tomorrow night.. :(
=== The Solution ===
Solution ended up being really really easy. I went to work and discussed with the programmers, and through them asking questions I worked out that it was probably the permalinks.. and YAY that worked.. a 1 minute fix..
Settings -> Permalinks
Changed it back to Default
Clicked SAVE
Then turned my custom Permalinks back on.
SAVE. SOLVED. BRILLIANT.
Tags: automatic backup | permalinks | wpsupercache
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Best posts on Wordpress Plugins from Nov 2008
Too many posts to handle? If you missed out on a great post from last month, here’s a quick digest of the top posts that you may want to check out:
- Great Free Real Estate Wordpress Themes and Plugins Posted on Friday, November 14th, 2008 in Themes - Comments: (4) While looking for a new theme for my GRN Travel biz.. I stumbled upon a few handy resources for those with real-estate blogs.. and they are all FREE to download!10 Great Real Estate Themes for Wordpress:Lux House theme - 2 column, 125 x 125 buttons or photos.Click here to view demo or download Loft Real Estate theme - very stunning theme.
- Ultimate Money-Making Wordpress Theme Posted on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 in Themes - Comments: (4) Today I stumbled into the site of a 13-year old Kidblogger (now he’s 15) and was amazed as to how he managed to grab the top spot at Google for keywords which some people have been trying to rank for such a long time.Well, he’s number 1, sometimes number 2 or number 3 for the keyword phrase "make money online".Not only that, he manages to earn a handsome four figure monthly income because of his top Google blog.
- Upgraded to Firefox 3, TechBlog theme, CSS Fixed Posted on Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 in Firefox Plugins - Comments: (1) I am sooooo NOT a CSS Themer.. I rely on the good work of others for all my themes..I want to be though, I dont like having to rely on anyone for anything, I’m a motivated do-it-yourself kinda gal.But when it comes to CSS.. man, I just need so much more training.. I want to find some kind of online course (not tutorials that bore you to death), that you can create great themes with, etc.
- Your PageRank can DIE with Wordpress - 17 Ways to Optimize SEO Posted on Sunday, November 16th, 2008 in Plugin Reviews - Comments: (6) Recently I’ve been looking back into SEO for Wordpress since converting all my static sites into Wordpress blogs, and finding that my pagerank decreased and in some cases disappeared completely. I totally expected the opposite to happen. I had made some huge mistakes and unfortunately I did it to all my sites at once. The default settings in Wordpress was not only blocking search engines but even if they weren’t blocked, they were very poorly SEO optimised.
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Best posts on Wordpress Plugins from Nov 2008
Too many posts to handle? If you missed out on a great post from last month, here’s a quick digest of the top posts that you may want to check out:
- Great Free Real Estate Wordpress Themes and Plugins Posted on Friday, November 14th, 2008 in Themes - Comments: (4) While looking for a new theme for my GRN Travel biz.. I stumbled upon a few handy resources for those with real-estate blogs.. and they are all FREE to download!10 Great Real Estate Themes for Wordpress:Lux House theme - 2 column, 125 x 125 buttons or photos.Click here to view demo or download Loft Real Estate theme - very stunning theme.
- Ultimate Money-Making Wordpress Theme Posted on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 in Themes - Comments: (4) Today I stumbled into the site of a 13-year old Kidblogger (now he’s 15) and was amazed as to how he managed to grab the top spot at Google for keywords which some people have been trying to rank for such a long time.Well, he’s number 1, sometimes number 2 or number 3 for the keyword phrase "make money online".Not only that, he manages to earn a handsome four figure monthly income because of his top Google blog.
- Upgraded to Firefox 3, TechBlog theme, CSS Fixed Posted on Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 in Firefox Plugins - Comments: (1) I am sooooo NOT a CSS Themer.. I rely on the good work of others for all my themes..I want to be though, I dont like having to rely on anyone for anything, I’m a motivated do-it-yourself kinda gal.But when it comes to CSS.. man, I just need so much more training.. I want to find some kind of online course (not tutorials that bore you to death), that you can create great themes with, etc.
- Your PageRank can DIE with Wordpress - 17 Ways to Optimize SEO Posted on Sunday, November 16th, 2008 in Plugin Reviews - Comments: (6) Recently I’ve been looking back into SEO for Wordpress since converting all my static sites into Wordpress blogs, and finding that my pagerank decreased and in some cases disappeared completely. I totally expected the opposite to happen. I had made some huge mistakes and unfortunately I did it to all my sites at once. The default settings in Wordpress was not only blocking search engines but even if they weren’t blocked, they were very poorly SEO optimised.
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Your PageRank can DIE with Wordpress - 17 Ways to Optimize SEO
Recently I’ve been looking back into SEO for Wordpress since converting all my static sites into Wordpress blogs, and finding that my pagerank decreased and in some cases disappeared completely. I totally expected the opposite to happen. I had made some huge mistakes and unfortunately I did it to all my sites at once. The default settings in Wordpress was not only blocking search engines but even if they weren’t blocked, they were very poorly SEO optimised. Time to rectify! I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me.. this is what I’ve found so far, and if you have any suggestions or additions to add to this list, please share so that we can all benefit :)
Wordpress SEO Plugins- Automatically optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
- Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
- Generates META tags automatically
- Avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs
- You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
- You can fine-tune everything
- Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.
- Automatically creates an XML sitemap of your blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, Yahoo and MSN Search.
- This one is also less troublesome than the other sitemap generators that I’ve tried.
- After creating, I suggest you submit your sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools.
- Prevents you from accidentally spamming all the sites that you ping
- Prevents you from being banned and therefore, leaving more links in tact to your site.
- Won’t ping sites if you just "edit" a post
- Provides a timer so that if you post a bunch of posts at once, it doesn’t automatically ping everyone and make you look like a spammer.
- Shows you what people are searching for on your site so that you can create articles that match your visitors interests.
- Shows you exactly what search engine they came from and whether your blog showed any "related posts" for their search terms..
- You can also configure customized messages for them.
- Visually shows you how your traffic is going
- What terms were typed in the search engine to find your blog
- What page they landed on
- What browsers they were using, IP, etc.
- It’s a great light-weight plugin.
- Searches your post for keywords that match tags of other posts, in order to link to itself to encourage people to find relevant posts.
- Different than the "related posts" type of plugins, this just links keywords and is configurable depending on the type of site you have.
- Prevents extremely long urls when you have long titles by ensuring that all the useless words are cut-out of the permalink.
- Can automatically tag your non-tagged posts
- Find Related tags, and display related posts
- Allows you to mass-edit tags to get combine or remove
- Automatically generates meta-tags
- Related Posts in RSS
- Automatically finds related tags from sites
- If a page cannot be found, it will search your posts, pages, tags, categories for related posts and show them instead.
- Gives another link to a relative article, but mostly it keeps people at your site longer if they click to related posts and therefore looks ‘better’ in the search engines eyes rather than people closing their page a minute or so after visiting.
- You can replace the image with one of your own or use text in its place.
- The more people linking to you, the better your efforts in the search engines..and if search engines are indexing different versions of the same page, it may effect your SEO.
- By allowing people & robots to only see one "version" of you page www.pennybutler.com or pennybutler.com, it will make your search engine listings more uniform.
- I like this one better than Ultimate Google Analytics and Google Analytics for WordPress because Google Analyticator is tinier, the others - I tend to have to remove on occasion for memory leaks and I just haven’t had any problems with this one and it seems to do the trick, although most of the themes I’ve been using lately seems to already support google analytics.
- Depending on where the visitor comes from.. shows a message to remind them to do something
- If the visitor comes from Delicious, it will remind them to bookmark your page
- If they come from Google.. reminds them to subscribe to your feed.
- From Stumble.. to give your post a thumbs up
- Digg.. to Digg.. Twitter.. Yahoo.. Technorati.. and any custom domain you wish to add.
- That little reminder may be the reason your site gets "dugg" or "stumbled" more than others, etc.
- I have a post coming up that talks about customizing this, but am yet to implement it in my sites first to test.. stay tuned.
- Google cares if your site has PDA support, so do those browsing by PDA.
- This awesome plugin automatically converts your site into a PDA readable format
- I’ve only checked my sites in an iPhone, but it worked flawlessly, then I checked Google’s webmaster tools for their PDA checker and it worked in there as well.
- Converts all your site content into multi-languages, making sure that your site can be found by non-English browsers.
- It will also show all their results in the country’s search engine results. I have heaps of traffic coming from Japan on one of my blogs.
Add to header.php
- I found this somewhere.. (don’t know where, it’s in a text file in my "must do" folder, and I will obey)..
<?php if(is_single() || is_page() || is_home()) { ?>
<meta name="googlebot" content="index,noarchive,follow,noodp" />
<meta name="robots" content="all,index,follow" />
<meta name="msnbot" content="all,index,follow" />
<?php } else { ?>
<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex,noarchive,follow,noodp" />
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
<meta name="msnbot" content="noindex,follow" />
<?php }?>
This is my Robots.txt file..
- If you have any suggestions to improve it, please let me know :)
User-agent: *
# disallow all files in these directories
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /z/j/
Disallow: /z/c/
Disallow: /stats/
Disallow: /dh_
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/backup
Disallow: /wp-content/wpau-backup
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /wp-content/mbp-favicon
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
Disallow: /wp-content/upgrade
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads
Disallow: /wp-content/themes
Disallow: /wp-content/files
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: */trackback/
User-agent: Googlebot
# disallow all files ending with these extensions
Disallow: /*.js$
Disallow: /*.inc$
Disallow: /*.css$
Disallow: /*.gz$
Disallow: /*.cgi$
Disallow: /*.cgi$
Disallow: /*.xhtml$
Disallow: */trackback*
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /z/
Disallow: /wp-*
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /
User-agent: duggmirror
Allow: /
User-agent: Adsbot-Google
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Allow: /
User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org
Allow: /
Permalink Structure
Setup Permalink Structure (/%category%/%postname%) and Category/Tag base if required in Settings > Permalinks
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1. ) 404 Page Configuration
Coming soon, I’ll be writing a post on how to configure your 404 page to not lose visitors as soon as they come. The basic gist will be to add the Smart 404 plugin, a search form, related posts, category list, mailing list, comments form, etc.. so that you don’t lose that visitor.
2. ) My Ping List
I really want to get it right before posting, there are plenty of sites you can borrow from in the meantime that make a list of valid ping services, but I want to have the creme-de-la-creme instructions on exactly who you should ping, the extra steps you have to take for some of them to take notice of you, and for the list to be valid, etc. It’s an on-going work-in-progress.
3. ) WP-Greet Box Configuration
I’ll probably write this very soon, I’m testing it on one of my blogs at the moment to see if it helps build my social traffic, if I have good results, I’ll write a post on how you can customise it the same.
Tags: 404 error | google | pagerank | ping | psychic search | search engine optimization | seo | Wordpress Plugins
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Great Free Real Estate Wordpress Themes and Plugins
While looking for a new theme for my GRN Travel biz.. I stumbled upon a few handy resources for those with real-estate blogs.. and they are all FREE to download!
10 Great Real Estate Themes for Wordpress:Lux House theme - 2 column, 125 x 125 buttons or photos.
Click here to view demo or download
Loft Real Estate theme - very stunning theme.
Click here to view demo or download
Real Estate Black theme - the header isn’t much chop, but replaced with your own real estate photos, this 3 column theme would be great.
Click here to view demo or download
Dream Home theme
Click here to view demo or download
Real Estate Clean theme
Click here to view demo or download
Real Estate Info theme - this is the one I decided to use for my GRN site but am having a lot of trouble making things work with it, if you wish to use widgets & sidebars, may require some technical expertise. The background image is also 165k which is a tad large! However, it is that image that makes this theme look so pretty :)
Click here to view demo or download
Real Estate Pro theme
Click here to view demo or download
Dark Real Estate theme
Click here to view demo or download
Real Estate CEO theme
Click here to view demo or download
Listing Beautifier theme
Click here to view screenshot or download
11 Real Estate Plugins for Wordpress:
RealInvent Wordpress Plugins for Real Estate Blogs
This great site http://realiventblog.com/widgets-and-plugins/ has a few real-estate related plugins that are not available on the normal wordpress site, also, if you search their site for wordpress related blog posts, they also come up with a wealth of useful posts worth bookmarking!
Here’s the list of plugins they have available for download:
- Featured listing Plugin
- Recent Transactions Plugin
- Agent Details Plugin
- Home Search Plugin
- Buyer / Seller Reports Plugin
- Property watch Form Plugin
- Comparable Market Report Form Plugin
- Spam Free Email
- Comparable Market Analysis
Great Real Estate Plugin for Wordpress
This plugin showcases your listings, has Google-Maps-integration, Yahoo! integration, and "oh! so much more!"
* Integrates with the NextGen Gallery plugin for listing photos
* Integrates with WordTube plugin for videos.
* Integrates with FPP-Pano plugin for 360 VR photos.
* Integrates with DownloadManager plugin for PDF attachments such as brochures.
* Integrates Google Maps for pinpointing the listing location.
* Tab-based access to property description, gallery, videos, panoramas, maps, and downloads.
* Gracefully handles users with JavaScript disabled as much as possible.
* “No Branding” option for use as link in MLS - restyle your page to hide the navigation elements.
* Featured Listings widget or template for your front page or navigation bars. Includes three display options: thumbnail and text, text only, and a map of all your listings.
* Pre-designed templates for use with Feed Wrangler plugin to automatically feed your listings to Trulia, Zillow, and Google Base. Plus a custom RSS template for My Yahoo! and iGoogle supporting listing photos.
WordPress Realty plugin for Wordpress
EZ Pro Realty developed this free plugin to provide website owners with truly easy to manage easy to integrate listings management features into their WordPress blogs.
Tested with version 2.6+ and WordPress MU, the wp-realty plugin can provide blog owners with a powerful method of marketing their cars, trucks, rvs, real estate and much more right from the WP admin panel. Fully SEF and SEO friendly, the WP Realty plugin produces truly clean and effective permalinks to optimize your marketing success. This plugin was also tested with other tools like All in One SEO Pack and WP Featured listings. The generated output for all page items validate as XHTML and CSS compliant and meet all accessibility and compliance guidelines.
Other Plugins
The other Real Estate related plugins I found looked pretty out-of-date.. please share any that you think should be on this list though!
Tags: real estate | realestate themes | Wordpress Themes
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Ultimate Money-Making Wordpress Theme
Today I stumbled into the site of a 13-year old Kidblogger (now he’s 15) and was amazed as to how he managed to grab the top spot at Google for keywords which some people have been trying to rank for such a long time.
Well, he’s number 1, sometimes number 2 or number 3 for the keyword phrase "make money online".
Not only that, he manages to earn a handsome four figure monthly income because of his top Google blog.
How does he do it? Well, he is saying that a well-optimised WordPress blog theme helped him. In fact, due to persistent requests of many of his readers, he is sharing his blog theme at…
http://www.ultimatebloggingtheme.com
Aside from the blog theme, he is sharing some of his secrets in on-page SEO and ad placements optimisation.
He’s also got video training on setting up the blog including his recommended wordpress plugins.
I just bought the unlimited package that allows you to remove his link, have more colour-choices, and use it on unlimited sites.
It’s awesome don’t you think? Soon (probably this weekend) I’ll be uploading and using it here, despite spending hours last weekend making my current theme IE6-compatible (weep).. the Ultimate Blogging theme is already compatible with all the browsers!
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Upgraded to Firefox 3, TechBlog theme, CSS Fixed
I am sooooo NOT a CSS Themer.. I rely on the good work of others for all my themes..
I want to be though, I dont like having to rely on anyone for anything, I’m a motivated do-it-yourself kinda gal.
But when it comes to CSS.. man, I just need so much more training.. I want to find some kind of online course (not tutorials that bore you to death), that you can create great themes with, etc. Will keep a look out.
Anyway, you may of noticed that I signed up for Entrecard finally. I’ve been meaning to for a while. And while spending all day on their site yesterday checking it out and finding all these great blogs and getting caught up in all their posts ;) I found a firefox addon for Entrecard.
The problem was that it only works for Firefox 3. I figured it was time for me to upgrade, so I installed Firefox 3. And then I went to this site, and found that the theme was completely screwed up in Firefox 3.
After finally getting this theme right with IE 6 and Firefox 2, I was distraught that Firefox 3 made my blog look hideous! I set out on a mission today to fix it, thinking it shouldn’t be too hard. Ugh.. 7 hours later.. I finally fixed it. :( I know, sad isn’t it?
Most of the forums I found were full of people who were belittling people with questions, telling them to go to the validator site and that it’s “obvious” what you need to fix. Lemme tell ya.. not so obvious to some of us! :)
That’s why I hate forums actually, people get full of themselves and build their own egos by belittling people with so called easy-questions but never providing the answer (if it was so easy.. just answer it you assholes) lol.. anyway..
Thanks to Twitter and some CSS sites with people having the same trouble, and trial and error (sorry for anyone visiting my site today when I was testing it .. probably all my new entrecard buddies, oops!) it’s finally resolved and I have a better understanding of what’s needed to be added to the style.css for firefox 3 to work (still have a long way to go though with a tonne of errors according to the validator, but for now, Im happy that it works with Firefox 2, Firefox 3, and IE6, not sure about other browsers - feel free to share)
Since there might be other non-CSS coders out there that might have the same trouble as I did, I thought I’d share what I did to fix. I couldn’t find any conditional’s for Firefox 3 and only saw posts relating to the fact that there isn’t any.
This is what I did to fix the Tech Blog theme.
In the style.css, I changed:
/* ———– BEGIN: GLOBAL STYLES ———— */
body
{
background: #343e46;
color: #343e46;
font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
margin: 0;
text-align: center; <– Added
}
/* ————- END: GLOBAL STYLES ———— */
/* ————- BEGIN: SUB-HEADER ————- */
#subheader_wrapper
{
background: url(images/bg_subheader.gif) top left repeat-x;
}
#subheader
{
border-top: 1px solid #C3F134;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 940px;
text-align: left; <– Added
}
/* ———— BEGIN: PAGE WRAPPER ———— */
.page
{
margin: 0 auto;
width: 940px;
text-align: left; <– Added
}
#sidebar
{
float: right;
width: 360px;
}
#content
{
margin: 0 370px 0 0;
}
.two_columns
{
float: left;
width: 50%;
min-width: 176px; <– Added
}
/* ————- END: PAGE WRAPPER ————- */
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Arthemia Premium Theme - Really Sweet!
Arthemia Premium Theme
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Wow check out this beautiful premium (but cheaply priced) theme!
Click here to view demo & features
Beautiful custom-colorful categories.. each category can be assigned it’s own "color" ..
This:
Becomes this:
Drop-down menus in your navigation..
W3C standard compliant! Renders perfectly in Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer. W3C CSS and XHTML valid.
Heaps of options in the Admin section:
Supports Gravatars.
Auto-Thumbnails for all your old posts, and all thumbnails will be assigned & automatically generated.
And an extra random post section on the bottom of each page that uses the thumbnail as a teaser..
Adsense & ad friendly - already inbuilt, just ad your publisher id.
Embedded Feedburner & Analytics - just add your id..
The right menu below, automatically scrolls with your latest posts or featured.. or category stories of your choice
The only way to really appreciate this theme is to look at the demo, I’m trying to do it justice, but it’s just so much better when you are clicking around on the demo site…
Click here to view demo & features
Tags: arthemia | wordpress theme | Wordpress Themes
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Free Advanced Wordpress Theme: Flexibility
Flexibility Theme
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- Easy-to-use control panel in your WordPress administration
- Absolutely no need to know CSS, HTML or PHP to completely customize your blog
- Multiple sidebar options: choose from a stacked sidebar with multiple sub-sidebars or make your sidebar just one column
- Free add-on graphics available to change as little or as much of your theme as you wish
- Use custom background and header images including CSS repeat parameters
- Easily create a full-width header or footer
- Take advantage of PNG transparency and create entirely new looks - even in IE6!
- Turn the search box, e-mail subscription, top sidebar and home page feature box on and off
- Have full control over the color of text, links and hover states
- Insert Google AdSense ads in 5 positions simply by selecting your color scheme, ad size, and content type
- Insert anaytics and statistics scripts without touching the code
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Free Social Networking Twitter-Friendly Wordpress Theme
Wicket Pixie
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I’ve just spent the last few hours playing around with this one on my personal homepage blog, it’s a good theme for Lifestreams, Twitter, recent blog posts, etc, basically, if you want a theme that pretty much pulls all your sites and social networking/bookmarking into the one place, then this is worth looking at - and it’s completely free.
My Fave things about this theme:
- It supports - Latest "Tweet" in the header in a very user-friendly way, using your gravatar icon as the pic and a speech bubble.
- 6 Sidebars
- Homepage 2 spots for videos
- In-Built "LifeStream" page which automatically pulls in what you’re doing on your socialnetworking and social bookmarking sites
- In-Built "Faves" page which automatically pulls in the latest feeds from your Blogs
- It’s Free :)
My connection is a bit lousy today so I’ve given up custom-making the site for the night but you can have a preview of what I’ve done so far here.
You can download it free from Chris’s page here. Tags: twitter | wicket pixie | wordpress theme | Wordpress ThemesRelated posts
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Fave Premium Wordpress Themes
In no particular order because I LOVE them all and it’s really hard to say which because they can all be "best" depending on the type of blog you have.. so here they are, my fave Premium Themes:
The "One Theme" to Rule them all theme. I wrote a blog post especially about it here.
Click here to view demo & features
I really love this "clean-look" Wordpress Theme. It’s called Blog4Cash and is made especially for bloggers wishing to make money, with side-ads and "recommended ebooks" sections, etc.
Click here to view demo & features
The Omni-Themes are great - includes flickr sidebar, featured video, tabbed featured section, a picture caption to each "list of posts" and archive pages. Love them.
Click here to view demo & features
Revolution Pro Media Theme - I bought this one and started using it on my naturalhealing site - I still have a lot more tweaking to do, but so far so good, I do love the features of this blog.
Click here to view demo & features
Another theme I love from Brian Gardner is the Revolution City theme. Designed for a City Portal type of site, I’m thinking of getting it for my GRN business.
Click here to view demo & features
I also tossed up this Brian Gardner theme for my Natural Healing site but ended up going with the other one, but had both of these demos open for hours tormenting myself with indecision lol, I love the Revolution Magazine theme.
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Live Wire 2.0 by WooThemes - Yeah I guess I have a thing for magazine-style themes :)
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Press75.com put out these special themes for those who love Video-Blogs. I like the Video Elements one the best, and they have others on their website.
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Like the "one theme", the Viva 7 Theme has even more options (only found it today), allows you to completely customize a magazine-style theme from within the dashboard.
You need to view the demo to really spot all the features, and I’ll post about all it’s features soon.
It is fully cross-browser compatible (tested on Mac and Windows in IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera.), comes with exclusive custom-made Viva plugins, Image thumbnails are all generated on the fly - NO CUSTOM FIELDS!, Homepage thumbnails all ZOOM to reveal more information and larger image, Integrated Feedburner Sign Up Form, Random Video in sidebar, and so much more. I’d hate to say it, but I think it even surpasses Brian Gardner’s Magazine themes.
Oh dear, for all the features it has, I’m really going to need to create a brand new post dedicated to the Viva 7 Theme as I see it also integrates even more plugins I’m about to purchase as well.. stay tuned..
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This theme is great for an online store, even has a backend for adding new products easily.
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The Blog Oh Blog themes are pretty good, I like their Expression Theme (I know my images make it look a bit "white" hehe.. Just add your own Background).. I like that it lists a snippet of your recent blogs in the way that they do, the 3 columns by 2.. the tabs, etc..
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Live Wire Edition by WooThemes - it actually comes with the other one (#7) with another one as well, so you can switch them easy and work out which one suits your content the most. - Sweet!
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ThemeGate put out a lot of good quality themes, I like this one they call "PressGate" the best, it’s easy-to-read, has integrated ads, etc, but mostly the clean-look has impressed me the most, fitting the content in as well but having a spaced-out ordered look about it, and it’s the cheapest premium theme at only $20
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WordPress 2.6.3 - Automatic Backup & Upgrade
A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced yesterday. WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. 2.6.3 is available for download right now. If you don’t want to download the whole release to get the security fix, you can download the following two files and copy them over your 2.6.2 installation.
I was already running 2.6.2 so I just overrode the above files, but if you have an earlier version, you might find it easier to use the free automatic upgrade plugin, called, not surpisingly Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin.
Also a good one to have is the Wordpress Automatic Backup Plugin which I’ll write about one day (having too much fun with the "fun plugins & themes")
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Auction Thumbs Plugin - Earn Extra 65% from your Blog
How to get an extra 65% revenue from your blog?
Auction Thumbs..
Found this neat plugin tonight and I can’t wait to purchase it tomorrow to install on my niche blogs.. currently I add my code manually to each post on my niche blogs which is driving me insane because I never have enough time, and I haven’t liked the other pay plugins for eBay, but this post won’t be to bag those ones out lol, I’m just excited to find something like this which I think looks great and will save me heaps of time.
Auction Thumbs displays highly-relevant thumbnail images of Ebay auction products in your blog, seamlessly working into your design. The thumbnails will either be displayed in the Post Footer of each post, in the Sidebar, or both, if you so choose. Each of the thumbnails has an affiliate link and the Ebay Partner Network cookie is dropped once a visitor clicks on an image. Mouseover text informs the visitor as to the item Title, Current Bid, and Auction End Date.
Auction Thumbs is designed to display highly-relevant thumbnails along with your content. The more relevant the items are to your blog post, the more likely a visitor will click on the affiliate links, the more revenue you will see.
Auction Thumbs’ powerful tag-based matching randomly selects tags from your post and matches the tags against Ebay inventory. You control how many tags are randomly selected. This is set globally and can instantly populate your entire blog with relevant affiliate links. You can override the global behavior at the post-level by providing fine-tuned search criteria if you so choose at the time of post authoring.
Auction Thumbs is a plugin for self-hosted Wordpress blogs. Installation is a three-step process:
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Upload the plugin
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Activate the plugin
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Configure the admin page with your ebay tracking numbers/campaigns, default search criteria, image size, and # of thumbnails to display
I’ll update this post to give you a demo of what it looks like on my blogs when I get around to doing it, but in the meantime, he’s only just released it and the first 50 orders can get $10 off by using the Special Code “promocode" when ordering, so thought I’d better post because it’s already down to 25 orders..
(Actual size of small thumbs, I resized the other images down a bit out of habit)
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One Wordpress Theme to Rule them All
The Best Pro Wordpress Theme
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One theme - forever, no other themes needed with this one! The most customisable, User-friendly theme I’ve found so far..
Yep, found the only theme you’ll ever need.. No web experience, no problem! One Theme gives you the freedom to edit certain aspects of your web site’s appearance without requiring any web design experience. 5 colors, 2 layouts and many other tasty features including a custom made control panel just waiting to be used! The only limit is your imagination.
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View the Video that introduces you to the features!
Premium WordPress Theme - One Theme - video powered by Metacafe
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Review of WpInstall.com - Blog Setup & Submission
Review of WpInstall.com
I found this new site (launched in August) the other day and I must say that I’m extremely impressed. They have some great deals on setting up your blogs for you, including the content, keywords, plugins, SEO, ads, and submission to RSS feeds and Social Bookmarking sites.
Basically, for the "cost of a night out", and with "no work" by you, you can have your new biz blog up and running without all the hassle!
I can see even Pro bloggers using this service to save the "backend" time that it takes to setup new blogs and submit to feeds, and gather the first lot of content, etc. I’m especially impressed with all the social bookmarking sites they set you up on, they must really know their stuff. I might even do it for those sites that I’ve already wasted months on, and have lost momentum with, just to get them up and running.
They’ve even got "addon" services such as publishing your video with your URL to 30+ video sites for only $25, and unique article