Free WordPress themes for the taking and using - all compatible with WordPress 2.5 and with plenty of options for customization if they don't suit your purpose straight out of the box.
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So what of the relatively vast and ever-growing number of sites that republish the themes produced, usually scraping the links directly off weblogtoolscollection news. Some are just doing it for the content, others are considerably more naughty and modify the packages, adding their own links…. the wonders of Open Source…
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Wallpaper is a simple theme, quite miminal - otherwise known as bland - and all ready to take your post images to spice it up a bit. It’s a fixed-width, 2 column with right sidebar, enabled for widgets and compatible with WP 2 upwards.
This theme has been tested on Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Firefox 1.5 and 2.x, and Opera 9.
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So the dust has settled after the latest Google update - as if it was of any importance whatsoever…
Gave up long ago worrying about these things - pagerank and even penalties on pagerank seem to make no difference to the SERPS
Silent is a fixed-width, 2 column with right sidebar theme, certainly minimalist, enabled for widgets and compatible with WP 2 upwards. The theme has been tested on Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 6,7 and Opera 9.
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themes, wordpress | Jesse, April 27, 2008 | 
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WordPress provides (at least) 3 ways to produce customized post loops - each has its application, sometimes it doesn’t matter which one you use, and sometimes there’s only one way to do it… You’ll need to have a little skill with PHP to follow the examples, but it’s not too complicated, honest…
Background
Every Wordpress url includes an instance of the WP_Query class - based on parameters supplied, dates, categories, tags etc., this provides a set of posts which is then displayed via the Loop.
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Now that gravatar are part of the Automattic family… WordPress 2.5 has the get_avatar() function
echo get_avatar( $email); //sends an md5 hash of the email, returns the user avatar or if nothing found returns the gravatar.com default image
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New for version 2.5, this function should clear up confusion when using a static page as front page - 2.3 and lower had trouble here when using is_home()
is_front_page() returns true when the main blog page is being displayed and the Settings > Reading > Front page is set to “Your latest posts”,
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Probably fair to say that Akismet has the comment spam situation under control now - though whether we’re all comfortable with such a close relationship with Automattic is an open question…
The annoyance these days is trackback spam - if you are moderating it, it’s completely pointless and gives no benefit to the spammer. Loads of hits, very little bandwidth wasted, just annoying in itself.
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wordpress | Jesse, April 20, 2008 | Comments (0)
The word is that Text Link ads is moving almost entirely toward a WordPress-centric microcosmos. Read more »
blogging, wordpress | Jesse, February 28, 2008 | Comments (0)
