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Top 10 Free Magazine Themes For WordPress
Dec 20th
Magazine themes for WordPress are increasing in popularity because they give a blog an unique “non-blog” look. Change some settings in the control panel, widgets and theme’s CSS files, add a custom logo in the header and you will have a brand new one-of-a-kind website powered by WordPress. Once you’ve decided to use a magazine theme for your own site you will soon realize there are a hundreds of free magazine themes. This post picks out the top 10 free magazine themes for WordPress.
10. Mataram Theme
Mataram theme had the right idea of how to make a magazine theme, but the design failed to impress. It has good features such as easy video display option and several level deep commenting capability – but the text-heavy will fail to impress today’s image-hungry viewer. If it’s any consolation the home page will load fast.
Theme Page | Theme Demo | Theme Download
9. Technical Speech Theme
Technical Speech theme is exactly how the name sounds. It has a polarising sparse-image design and you will either love it or hate it. The dynamic sidebars and menu design is impressive – but the 404 error received when I went to the author’s page and theme page does not bode well for theme’s support for future WordPress versions.
Top 10 Content Management Systems
Mar 11th
Who doesn’t love CMS? Today everyone and their cousins are using one content management system or the other to publish and manage content online for their own website or their clients. Every day I see a few more posts and new articles promoting and reviewing a new online content management software. Here are the top 10 list of my favorite content management systems. More >
WordPress 2.7
Dec 10th
The latest and greatest version of WordPress is about to come out any day now. The new version will be 2.7 More >
WordPress 2.3.2 Released
Dec 29th
Wordpress has just released a new version of widely used blogging platform. This is a security release which means there are no significant features added to WordPress, rather, the security of the application has been strengthened. WordPress has released a brief statement regarding the new release and has listed all the changes between version 2.3.1 and 2.3.2
WordPress 2.3.2 release has fixed a previous bug which allowed visitors to see future, draft and scheduled posts in advance. More details about the bug can be found here. For a complete list of bugs fixed in WordPress 2.3.2 go here.
Source: WordPress
Yahoo! Wants To Spice Up Your WordPress Blog
Dec 14th
Yahoo has recently released a WordPress plugin called Yahoo! Shortcuts which will help bloggers create great content supplemented by contextually relevant links but with very little effort. It requires no technical genius to use this superb utility but it when appropriately used it will help tell your story far more effectively. Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo! Developer Network writes …
Instead of putting the burden on me, it operates as an assistant in the background, looking for relevant links, images, and other shortcuts. Then, when you’re done writing, you can simply look through what it found and select what you’d like to keep.
What Does Yahoo! Shortcuts Do?
Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin automatically finds links and shows you the total count even before you finish writing your post. After you are done writing the content review which links to keep and which badges to display on your post. You have complete control and nothing appears on your blog page until you specifically put it there. Yahoo! Shortcut makes it quick and easy to integrate yahoo search results, maps, stock prices, locations, products, Flickr pictures which have Creative Commons license and much more. The complete tutorial gives a detailed demo of the plugin. If you are lucky you might even win a free tshirt from Yahoo.
Video Walkthrough
The following video shows Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin in action.
Source: Yahoo! Blog
