Today sees the release of a WordPress Plugin which I’m sure will be popular. Pawan Agrawal from Max Blog Press contacted me a few weeks ago to give me a preview of this new plugin which aims to make adding advertisements to your blog quicker and easier.
By default, the plugin lets you add banners to 4 zones : Within the post, the sidebar (via a widget), top of first post and bottom of first post. You can also add new zones. The add zone feature is extremely flexible. You can align…
Today marks the first day of a long weekend for me. You see, this weekend I plan on fully optimizing all of my blog themes, cleaning up the code and adding in the final needed plugins to make them as search engine friendly as possible.
I started working on this earlier, and during a coffee break I got the itch to hunt around for a few themes that were already well optimized. The following is a list of what I found.
First two up to bat are Bitter Sweet and Shades of…
Sometimes you want to write a post that stands out from the rest. Usually giving the selected post an additional CSS class will do the trick, but how do you work out which posts need highlighting? This is simply done by creating a new category called ‘Featured’ (note you can call the category anything you like, but I’ll refer to it as Featured in this post).
If you create a new category called ‘Featured’ to highlight your posts, you can choose whether to also keep this category displayed on the category…
Daily Blog Tips released a new wordpress plugin today entitled ‘My Top Commentators‘. Unlike other top commentators plugins, this plugin does not add a top commentators list to your sidebar. Instead it generates statistics about your commenters in your WordPress dashboard.
I removed the top commentators list from BloggingTips last year because it was being spammed and the ones making the top ten list were mostly the ones who were leaving short pointless and irrelevant comments which contributed nothing to the thread. This is why I quite like this plugin. It allows…
The Simplicity Wordpress Theme is a basic yet effective theme which we have released under the Creative Commons License. To see the theme in action please visit the Simplicity Demo Page.
By default the sidebar only has 3 areas : Subscription, Recent Comments and Recent Posts. The theme is widget ready so you can add more to the sidebar very easily however I wanted to keep things simple with this theme. I think this would be a great theme for anyone looking to launch a journal or personal blog.
For full details…
