Experiment: tumblr as a wordpress aggregator
Reading this post on tumblr at Michelle MacPhersons blog about how tumblr can be used to up your technorati ranking by posting automated links to your blog got me thinking:
A single tumblr which aggregates a number of RSS feeds into a single blog would be useful if maintenance wasn’t an issue and setup was [...]
New themes: Marki
Another new theme with a grey / mono base.
As dark background themes go I’m quite a fan of this.
The author (website worth a visit btw) also has a genuinely entertaining turn of phrase when describing the process of putting the theme together and the decisions along the way:
The name of the theme is Marki, well [...]
Plugins: Category Icons made Easy
Sometimes it’s the smallest touches that lift a design and hammer home a feel of quality and attention to detail. A few well placed and well designed icons can make all the difference.
I noticed the icons on this site: theinterchangedesk.com
I asked the author what plugin he was using to run the icons. He wasn’t using [...]
Plugin building - it’s easy
Another simple link for a Sunday, how to write your own Plugin.
If you break out in a cold sweat on mention of terms like ‘the loop’ and ‘function’ you might want to just skip this post and look at some nice themes.
Plugin creation really is simpler than you think, and there are a host of [...]
Why wordpress? quickonlinetips.com
My first involvement with Wordpress was on a friends blog.
He’d recently upgraded and something on his layout had gone wrong, a floating column was wrapping below the middle placing all his navigation offscreen. I was impressed at how quickly I could locate the source of the problem and fix it. That’s the main reason I [...]
Themetech: Blank theme minilink
Sometimes you just want to take a nice photo, some photoshop scribbles, or a few icons and knock up a new theme. Well here’s a more ethical way to do that than simply ripping off an existing theme, rip off an existing blank theme that WANTS to be ripped off! haha!
Tommorrows Laundry has released [...]
New themes: Experimental
A new theme with a slightly laura ashley feel and some nice tricks to enable variable content on the sidebar between the homepage, articles and pages. What does that mean? Let me hand over to the author for a second:
“It means that the template has the capability of having a different sidebar for each [...]
Plugins: Twitter sidebar up
In some ways this is a test to see if the Twitter toolbar from Alex King works, and in some ways a flag to readers that it’s live. Either way - twittering commences! What fun.
If you haven’t looked at this plugin before, this plugin provides a two way connection between your Wordpress and Twitter accounts. [...]
