With 37signals welcoming Backpack into the Open Bar last night, I started thinking: embracing OpenID would be the next and smartest step for WordPress to make. Here’s why.
OpenID makes things nice and easy. Granted, it’s scary because still few know about it. But once you do—such as in the case of many 37signals’ customers—you’ll never [...]
One of the best and most widely used WordPress Plugins on blogs is the Related Posts Plugin. I can think of plenty of big name sites that use some rendition of it, if not this very plugin (Daily Blog Tips and Problogger, for example). But even more than using this plugin is using it well. [...]
When setting up a new website, one of the most important things to consider is how well your site will rank on search engines. Arguably the most influential of these is Google. Having a Sitemap is one of the first things Google instructs a webmaster to do (it’s good practice anyway) and Google Sitemaps Generator [...]
This weekend WordPress.org announced t-shirts available at their online store, as well as the fact that they will now allow international purchases.
If you get a chance, run over to the WordPress Shop and see the nice red WordPress t-shirts being proudly displayed. Personally, I think the two wearing it are a little too happy to [...]
WordPress comes with an easy to use (and find) RSS feed location. It’s sort of a staple for a blog nowadays, so it isn’t all that commendable that a blogging platform uses it. The only disappointing thing about the default WordPress feed is you can’t really find out much about who is subscribing to your [...]
One of the latest additions to recent versions of WordPress is the ability to choose which page you want your posts to show up on, as well as which page you want to be your home page; and you can do it from the Options panel quickly and easily.
Navigate on your Dashboard to the Options [...]
If anyone has a theme they would like reviewed (especially the great ones!) and get some publicity for their work, let us know here at Theme Playground. I would especially like to see any themes which have a difficult/impossible time getting on and remaining on the WordPress Theme Viewer.
For example: Cory Miller has recently faced [...]
Caught wind of some backlash that I hadn’t considered in regards to WordPress removing sponsored themes from it’s Theme Viewer (upwards of 2,100 and counting removed).
Apparently many theme authors are being caught off guard.
Theme authors such as Cory Miller are finding out that without warning or any chance to make their themes comply with the [...]
Two themes have been submitted recently, and I’m finally taking the time to get them up here. These are both great, powerful themes (otherwise I wouldn’t be posting about them).
myJournal Hypereal
Hypereal is running on top of the popular Sandbox, a theme for theme designers. Basically this means that this packs even more punch (for those [...]
For a nice inside look at some of the thinking directly behind the removal of all sponsored WordPress themes from the WordPress Theme Viewer, check out Matt’s post this morning.
Matt shares some interesting thoughts, as well as the fact (numbers shared) that non-sponsored themes are much more popular on Theme Viewer than sponsored ones.
So if [...]
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