Archive for November, 2008:
Congratulations to the Contest Winners!
Written by Jai on November 28, 2008 – 3:38 pm - 2,548 views
The Premium Themes contest is officially closed and the winners have been chosen through a lucky draw. All the eleven winners of this contest are entitled to one single-user license from any one of the following themes :-
- Arthemia Premium Theme from Colorlabsproject.com - $70
- Chimera Premium Theme from Themespinner.com - $59
- WPRemix 2 from Wpremix.com - $75
- Thesis Premium Theme from Diythemes.com - $87
- Revolution - Real Estate from Revolutiontheme.com - $59.95
- Fresh Folio from Woothemes.com - $70
- On Demand Premium Theme from Press75.com - $75
- Braincast Premium Theme from Storelicious.com - $79.90
- Jobpress Premium Theme from Dailywp.com - $59
- Fresh News Premium Theme from Woothemes.com - $70
- WpShowcase from Gabfire.com - $59
There were a total of 71 entries in the contest and out of those, 11 have been chosen as the lucky ones (I use my own custom made PHP script to choose winners. You can download it from here if you want to test it for fun).
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Written by Jai on November 19, 2008 – 6:19 am - 4,441 views
Offline Mode
This plugin enable admin to put up a splash page to show that the site is down for maintenance. Come with a timer to tell how long the site is down. User can customize their own splash screen or get a list of splash screen from author’s site.
Resize at Upload
By using this plugin you can resize all your images when you upload them to your WordPress installation. It lets you specify the maximum width according to which it resizes your images keeping the aspect ratio proportional.
Albumize
This plugin lets you display the images uploaded through the WordPress gallery option in different albums. By organizing your galleries as multiple child pages of one parent page, you can use this plugin to see a preview thumbnail and description of each gallery.
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Written by Jai on November 10, 2008 – 3:19 pm - 25,956 views
Following the footsteps of the much successful theme Statement, comes another free WordPress theme from Blog Oh! Blog called - “Digital Statement”. This can also be called as Version 2.0 of the Statement theme because it takes all the code and converts it into a modern, more visually appealing, and with better functionality.
This version of the theme has been created by the owner of Neowster.com who gladly gave it to me for a free public release. With neat stuff like featured posts’ slide show, a nice navigation (for both pages/sub-pages and categories), content tabs, Twitter posts, site navigation, this theme is a winner 
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Written by Jai on November 3, 2008 – 2:49 pm - 9,193 views
The last post that I had made on 10 WordPress Hacks to Make your Life Easy got a good number of comments and views. Based on the success, I have decided to make another WordPress Hacks post to make your life EVEN easier. Here is the list of 10 new hacks ready to be bookmarked :-
How to make a Sticky Post
A sticky post is one that will always be on top of all your recent posts and stay there until you change it. You can use a sticky post as a notification, reminder or something that you want to emphasize to your readers. Here is how you can make a sticky post :-
First, decide on a category name that will hold all your sticky posts. For example, you can create a new category and name it “Stickies” and later use this name to call the posts from this category. Now, if you have ever opened the index.php file in any blog styled WordPress theme (Just install the basic Whiteboard theme for this tutorial), you will notice that it has a loop which is used to call your posts.
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