Archive for the ‘Wordpress’ Category

19
Sep

My first Minimalist, Typographic and Simple WordPress Theme

I have been working on a theme for a long time now. I am pleased to announce my first ever theme. I have named it revolutioners on my own blog. This theme is inspired from an existing tutorial created by Jon Phillips. I have worked up on the design and layout and customized it to my needs. I have always wanted to have a WordPress theme with lots of widgets. Most importantly the widgetized footer. I really feel the widgetized footer gives a theme a professionalism and grace. And this theme is so amazingly simple and minimalist that it just loads in seconds. Just check this post out where I have done a thorough analysis of the revolutioners theme with the use of various website speed test tools. OK enough of talk lets look at the design and what I have in store for you guys. This is how the layout looks like.

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7
Aug

So, you’ve just finished writing a new post huh ! What next ?

Do you also feel the same way as I do. I mean do you not feel a bit relaxed after writing that post. I get a sense of accomplishment every time and I am sure you do too. But remember that when you’re done writing a new blog post, you still have some work to do. There are many things you should be doing after writing a new post and I will try and explain a few of the most important things you should do after every blog post you write.

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7
Aug

Use WordPress.com Blog as your Image Host

I recently got this idea and implemented it on this blog. I always run out of bandwidth if I use lot of pictures in my post. I like to add pictures in my post but as you might have noticed for the past few months I am not using much images while writing post. So I came up with a solution for  that. I had some blogs setup on WordPress and I was not using them very frequently. So I basically used the WordPress blog to host my images. Its very easy to start a blog of your own with having to have hosting or any technical knowledge.

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21
Jun

17 WordPress Footer or Header Bar Plugins that you can use

Seen that Digg Bar on Digg website. Well I have been trying or rather say thinking of adding a bar of that sort on this Blog. But I have not been able to get what I really need actually. All of these bars give you certain good functionality but they all have their own pros and cons. I am not going to go into too much of depth for each one of them. I will leave that part for you to decide which one to use. For me none of them worked. I think I would have to develop one of my own plugin. I have been thinking of getting rid of these social bookmarking icons for the first and then think about adding some more features of the plug-ins listed below.

Here is the list of Plug-ins that I could find on the web.

  1. The WordPress Bar
  2. WP-Super Bar
  3. WP External Links Bar
  4. Wibiya Bar
  5. Meebo Bar
  6. Apture
  7. Quick Navigation Panel
  8. Hello Bar
  9. ViperBar
  10. Attention Bar
  11. Easy Heads Up Bar
  12. Notification Toolbar
  13. Quick Notice Bar
  14. FooBar (Premium)
  15. Attention Grabber (Premium)
  16. WP Top Bar
  17. Social Toolbar

Do let me know about any other plugin which serves the same purpose, if you stumple upon one.

Update 1 : Found more; Apture and Quick Navigation panel. Added to the list.

Update 2 : Added Hello Bar in the list on 11 May 2011. I removed the images so that you go and check out and each and every plugin and decide what suits best for you

Update 3 : Added Viperbar which lets bloggers have an email subscription form in the bar. It supports feedburner, awber and many more services.

Update 4 : Found another great post and added some more paid and free header footer bar plugins.

Update 5 : Thanks for the comment DD. I have added another Toolbar, Social Toolbar.

25
Apr

Over 1300 Free and Premium WordPress Themes

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29
Jul

Mission – 1 Million Digg Post

Have you ever wondered how would 1 Million dugg post look like.  I am not sure whether anyone has ever checked Digg’s compatibility for that many Duggs. This has been going on in my mind for a long time. Looked out and searched for most dugg posts but they were just in thousands. Now I have created this post which may get maximum number of Diggs ever. Leave Your Digg and be a part of History.

Note : This post has dofollow tag, so maximize it to fullest :)

22
Jul

14 Must To Do after WordPress Installation

  1. Change the Default Admin Username and Password (This is must do as soon as you login after installation)
  2. Change Permalink as per your requirement. Mostly people use /%post name%/
  3. Change the theme. if not millions then thousands of themes are available over the internet for free. Just do it man !
  4. Read the rest of the bullet points

10
Jul

WordPress 2.8.1 Plugin Compatibility List

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I logged in today in my WP-Admin panel and saw that there is an upgrade available for wordpress 2.8. I was about to upgrade it manually as usual but then I stopped and thought about the plugins installed. Will the be compatible with WordPress 2.8.1 or not. That made me think about publishing this post. I may not be able to give you the complete list of compatible plug-ins but at least those I am using I will definitely check those. I will be installing a local copy of WordPress 2.8.1 and will check them one by one. I will be posting the list of plug-ins compatible with newly released WordPress 2.8.1 after I check them.

So stay tuned..

10
Jul

Simplest way to Display Random Rotating Dynamic Posts in WordPress Widget and Sidebar

I have been trying to do if for a long time but could not find any plug-in to rotate posts in sidebar. Actually I wanted to display my featured posts in sidebar that too in random order and with some effects if possible.

After a lot of research I found out some plug-ins that could display random posts in text format only with some more limitations like; no pictures can be attached, no random display, no effects while displaying the posts. With the this wordpress technique you would basically be able to fulfill the following requirements. [Read more →]

7
Jul

Using Windows Live Writer to Publish this Post

 

Well I am still learning to use WordPress. Countless wordpress plug-ins checked and still installed in my Blog. Still not satisfied with the setup of my Blog. Though the theme seems to look good but at times its just plain. I need something useful and flashy things on my Blog. Things that when visitors see they just say “Wow !” Anyways lets get to the point. I was actually really tired of going in WP-Admin panel and posting the post from there. So I was looking for some tool which can do it from Desktop. And Voila look what I found. I have actually found a windows based free tool which can be used to blog directly from your desktop. The best thing is that it can be done while you are offline. So its really handy I must say. I don’t really have a mobile internet connection and I spend a lot of time travelling everyday, around 3-4 hours so it will really come handy in that. I am just checking how the post will look like. Basically I am just using the software and will give you the review of Live Writer once I have used it.

Till then Bye and I am really missing Google

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