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Recently a new controversy have arisen. Its about WordPress themes.
WordPress maintains that themes of WordPress should be licensed under GPL or general public license, a license that makes themes modifiable by general public.
But few of the premium developers want a copyright on their themes.
Know more about this license here
The rationale given behind this stand is that the themes are derivative of WordPress code.
Interesting!
Let us se how things turn out!
Popularity: 9% [?]
WordPress keeps amazing me. Recently a new feature has been added to WordPress.com hosted blogs. This is like calling your blog to make a post.
The feature is in beta phase only but quite intriguing.
A blogger on WordPress.com could get it set up and he would receive a special number and code. [Read more...]
Popularity: 21% [?]
It was such a nice surprise to see the alert in my dashboard when I opened the dashboard today. There are major changes in the new theme and one of the most noticeable is the new theme called “Twenty Ten”
For Theme developers have new APIs allow east allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus without file editing, post types, and taxonomies.
To a user, it provides the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the bug fixes and feature enhancements. Theere is an option of plugin upgrade where you can update 15 plugins at once with a single click. [Read more...]
Popularity: 4% [?]
Have you ever thought of expanding your readership by offering your blog in more than one language. English is no doubt lingua franca but there are people who do not know English but could be interested in what you write.
Yes! The world is a tiny village now thanks to internet. We are just a click away from anybody, anywhere.
With WordPress, the task of translation becomes easy with use of plugins. There are many WordPress plugins that will help you get your message across. [Read more...]
Popularity: 4% [?]
WordPress introduced the Toggle feature with recent release ie. 2.9 version.
Word toggle is used to denote a on off switching action.
The term is used to indicate turning a feature on, or off, typically by pressing one key to turn the feature on, and then pressing the same key again, to turn the feature off.
The “Toggle” button in WordPress allows you to go full screen mode with a click and clicking the same button again brings you back to normal mode.
I decided to take screen shot to make this interesting and easy to understand.
First screen shot is what we normally see without using full screen toggle. Click on the image to view in full size.
The images are from admin interface while I am writing this post only. [Read more...]
Popularity: 6% [?]
WordPress version 2.9 is here. What a pleasant surprise in Holiday season. It has been named “Carmen” in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae.
Here are some hotties from WordPress 2.9
Global Undo/”Trash” feature
It means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also ends those annoying “are you sure” messages we used to have on every delete.
Built-In Image Editor
Something I always wanted in WordPress. The cool new feature allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images.
Batch Plugin Update & Compatibility Checking
Another time saver. You can update 10 plugins at once rather than having to do multiple clicks for each one.
WordPresss 2.9 uses new compatibility data from the plugins directory to give you a better idea of compatibility. Would save a lot of headaches.
Video Embeds Made Better
Just paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv .
More are expected in next release.
There are a lot of other goods you can check them here
But I am going to wait before I upgrade. There have been experiences in the past where my upgrade has disrupted my couple of days.
I would rather wait to ensure everything is smooth.
Popularity: 7% [?]
You need to upgrade the plugins after you upgrade to WordPress 2.8.
Yeah I know. I too hate upgrades but they make WordPress better. Moreover they are making it simpler by one click upgrade from your admin interface and they do not cost any thing.
I recently ran into a trouble after WordPress 2.8 was installed on my previous version. i used automatic upgrade from admin panel.
After the upgrade was successful I started receiving errors on trying to access website.
Even I could not log into admin panel.
The error was related to Redirection plugin [Read more...]
Popularity: 14% [?]
Premium wordpress themes give your blog a great advantage over regular themes. But all of premium themes are not that great. When I was asked to review one-theme.com, a new WordPress theme that sells “One Theme” premium theme, my first question was,”IS it something unique or another me too premium WordPress theme.”
As I went to their site my doubts were answered well. One-theme is a really unique theme. It is designed to answer your all kinds of needs you can expect from a blog.
It is well laid them and comes in five color shemes of blue, green, pink, black and red. All are well designed and beautiful to look at. There is an option of three home page layouts which can be changed with a click. They offer a custom control panel but I could not see it as there was no demo access. Javascript dropdown menu, Hot conversation plugin are other unique features that make this theme hot.
You can see full features here
They have readymade page templates that you can use to construct pages. Links, archives, Contact page come prelaiden. There is an option of creating a page without sidebars. This is good for making squeeze pages or sales pages
The price of theme is quite competitive. One license would cost you $99, 3 licenses would be for $199 and you can get five licenses for $299.
I would have liked to see an unlimited use option but it is not there.
They offer free support and free lifetime upgrades.
Popularity: 20% [?]
WordPress 2.5 is being waited with much eagerness and enthusiasm.
I love WordPress. I love it because it is so damn impressive. It makes you work little on your website taking care of everything and focus on your business. I love it because it is being updated everyday by team of volunteers in response to their creative queries and people’s responses.
I have walked 3 upgrades with WordPress. While I love to upgrade, I must utter a word of caution. [Read more...]
Popularity: 14% [?]
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