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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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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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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The word is that Text Link ads is moving almost entirely toward a WordPress-centric microcosmos. Read more »