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Park your new domain with the LaunchPad WordPress parking theme

| January 29, 2008 | 0 Comments

Here’s a new and interesting WordPress theme idea: LaunchPad is a WordPress theme for people who like to buy domain names, but don’t always put a site on them right away. On many hosts, if you don’t create a site, your domain name hosts a page full of ads for them. LaunchPad ... View Post

New Twitter-like WordPress theme released by Automattic: Prologue

| January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments

Matt just announced the release of a new theme that will make your WordPress blog into a Twitter-like environment. The theme is called Prologue, and is available on WordPress.com and as a download under Open Source GPL. (If you ... View Post

Hail all WordPress plugin creators – Reuters will pay you $5000 for a plugin

| January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment

Reuters OpenCalais project is looking for a plugin developer who can create a plugin or application for WordPress that can do the following:

Offer automatic blog content scanning

Support rich meta-tagging

Create and maintain a Semantic tag cloud for each blogger to post

Embed the related Calais URI.

The price? A measly $5000. I bet that’s the most anyone’s ... View Post

Would we use WordPress if there were no plugins?

| August 2, 2007 | 13 Comments

Garry Conn over at Blog Tips about Blogging asks an interesting question: Would you use Wordpress if Wordpress Plugins weren’t available? Basically, the question is: would WordPress be our preferred blogging platform if there were no plugins? Or, we can ask ... View Post

Make your WordPress blog look like a Linux/Unix terminal – only for the uber-geeks

| June 14, 2007 | 2 Comments

If you are not an uber-geek, read no further; this is not for you. Even I, who consider myself semi-geeky since I find code fun, cannot understand what possessed someone to do this. But since I try to overcome my own tastes and present stuff here that I think is weird since someone else ... View Post