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Free WordPress Theme: Alibi

Jesse — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:55:41 +0000

Alibi is a 2 column fixed-width, free WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets.

There’s only one option in the admin panel - choose any color for the links/headings (the screenshot and demo show the bright red version). The horizontal menu is for top-level pages, sorted in wordpress menu order.

When time permits, a 3-column version, with double righthand sidebar, will accompany…

The theme is compatible with WordPress v2.3 upwards and has been tested on Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and Opera 9.
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Free WordPress Theme: Portofino

Jesse — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:45:43 +0000

Portofino is a postcard from the Italian Riviera - once fishing village, now resort of the rich and powerful who wouldn’t be seen dead in Monte Carlo next door….

Portofino is also a 2 column fixed-width WordPress theme, with righthand sidebar, enabled for widgets.

Comments are gravatar-enabled and will work whether you’re using WP2.5 or lower - the WP gravatar plugin is not required. There’s also a separation of user comments from pingbacks/trackbacks.
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WordPress 2.6 update

Jesse — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:00:37 +0000

WordPress 2.6 beta is announced

Any chance of making WordPress admin work at 800 x 600 px resolution on Firefox… that would be good - might update from 2.3 in that case…

Free WordPress Theme: Shanghai City

Jesse — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:36:18 +0000

It’s cityscapes, and what used to be referred to as ‘tiger economies’…. Shanghai City is a 2/3 column fixed width theme, with a double right-hand sidebar, enabled for widgets.

User comments are separated from pingbacks/trackbacks, enabled for gravatars - and will work whether you’re using WP2.5 or lower - you won’t need the WordPress gravatar plugin.
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Free WordPress Theme: Memento Mori - Medieval woodcuts

Jesse — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:35:47 +0000

Memento Mori is a 2 column fixed width theme, with a right-hand sidebar, enabled for widgets.

User comments are separated from pingbacks/trackbacks, enabled for gravatars - and will work whether you’re using WP2.5 or lower - you don’t need the WordPress gravatar plugin.
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WordPress Theme Brokers

Jesse — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:01:03 +0000

So what of the relatively vast and ever-growing number of sites that republish the themes produced, usually scraping the links directly off weblogtoolscollection news. Some are just doing it for the content, others are considerably more naughty and modify the packages, adding their own links…. the wonders of Open Source…
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Free WordPress Theme: Wallpaper

Jesse — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:48:29 +0000

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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Public PageRank update

Jesse — Sat, 03 May 2008 06:12:52 +0000

So the dust has settled after the latest Google update - as if it was of any importance whatsoever…

Gave up long ago worrying about these things - pagerank and even penalties on pagerank seem to make no difference to the SERPS

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Free WordPress Theme: Silent

Jesse — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:36:02 +0000

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 - modified, dependent and extra Loops

Jesse — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:31:31 +0000

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…

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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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