ColorPress is a theme that lets you play with color! Now, you will not be restricted to using a few color schemes provided by the developer. You have all the colors to apply to your theme! Just pick your color and magic happens. The theme comes with a configurable slideshow, 3 blog layouts, dropdown menus and a load of other options that will rock your socks!
Whoa! No need to get excited! WordPress 3.0 hasn’t been released yet.
But, here is a sneak preview of the features that will be included in the upcoming release of WordPress on May 1, 2010. The expected features are pretty cool as they will make an already robust CMS more effective and efficient.
Wordpress Merged with WP-MU
As most of us already know that WordPress MU allows users to run multiple sites under one installation. In the upcoming release, WordPress MU will be merged into the WordPress Core. So, from now on, you will be able to run more than one site/blog from a single installation of WordPress. Here is a screenshot of what to expect :-
Most of the coders like to write CSS manually, but sometimes the availability of useful tools can make coding simpler and easier. These tools can prove to be helpful if you want to do some rapid CSS development. I have tried almost all of the following tools and found them to be useful in my projects.
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 :-
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). Read more
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.
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.
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. Read more
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 Read more
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. Read more
Its been a long time since we had any contests on Blog Oh! Blog. To add to your winter happiness, I am announcing a mega contest where everyone gets a chance to win not one, not two, but 10 Super Premium WordPress themes made by the coolest theme designers from all over the Internet.
I am not including any of my Premium themes in this contest so that recent buyers don’t feel cheated (And yeah, that doesn’t mean I am not cool ).
Here is a list of the Premium themes (Single-User Licenses) that you can win by entering this contest :-
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone – “George Elliot”
Blog Oh! Blog is pleased to offer the community yet another free WordPress theme called “Angel”. The theme uses a soothing White color base with subtle Grey, rounded corners and a lovely tiled background which will appeal to anyone who cares about beauty
Salient features of this theme :-
Minimalistic Design
Sidebar DOM tabs
A unique layout that highlights your most recent post
If you are looking forward to excellent opportunities as a freelancer or permanent designer, online presence in front of the employers is very important. The online portfolios are the only means to catch their attention. Now it is pretty tough to impress a person who cannot see your skills practically or you in person. They might chuck your name out of the list looking at the high payment rate you mention on the portfolio without knowing the quality you can produce. So cite the finest samples at the beginning and make sure that the portfolio is performing its best to impress the employers. As I have been a freelancer myself and now am into hiring them, I have few tips up my sleeve that can let you know about the employer’s perspective.
Who is going to look at it?
The first task for you is to identify who all are the potential viewers of your portfolio. There can be two types of visitors -Your employers and new clients. Sometimes your existing clients might also refer to your portfolio in order to find some more information or simply to refer you for another client. Now the most important thing that you need to know about these potential viewers is that they are very much efficient themselves and probably know all the small details of designing. Moreover they even get to see a number of portfolios everyday; hence they tend to find out an easy trick to shortlist the profiles. So make sure you win the game at the beginning because no one is going to give you a second chance as there are many competitors available to outperform you. Read more
Blogging is more than just posting your views and any serious blogger would agree to that note hands down. There are many specialized tools available on the Internet that can enhance your website to a whopping extent and the only way to know what is going to work to your profits’ is to just try them out! Here is a list of 50 useful blogging tools (other than brains, creativity and the will to work!) that will help you in picking up your bet.
Let’s kick off with ‘Hosting, DNS and domainname’- that’s the first step anyways!
1. Domainscour: This is a website which helps you to find all the available domains in your niche within a span of few seconds. Powered by web 2.0.
2. MyIPneighbours: Snooping is always fun, right? This IP search facilitates in finding out how many other websites your ’shared host’ is hosting! This information if handled appropriately can be useful in web analytics and SEO.
3. WhoIshostingthis: A simple tool that enables you to find out the hosting company behind any website! Looking for a change in website hosting?
4. You Get Signal: This is a collection of various network tools and has in store, some of the best tools in the internet community. A treasure of useful resources! Read more
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