WordPress developer Dan Cole has created a Plugin to take the job of theme options out of the hands of theme developers and, in that way, universalize them. The idea is that instead of each theme creating its own options page, each with its own strengths.
Topics: Interviews, theme options, Theme Options Plugin

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Thanks to all of those that dropped by and left a comment in the Tweem giveaway post. Without further ado, the five randomly drawn winners are:Rafie,Kel,webbografico,JB, andRichard HowellCongrats to those who won, I’ll be sending your copy of Tweem.
Topics: Contest, microblogging, Tweem

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Recently Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and other popular services we all know and love, launched a partial redesign of their company website. Most notably, each of the company’s projects is described in a haiku, a Japanese form of...
Topics: Automattic, Editorial, haikus

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Update: Comments are closed because the winners have been chosen.After the review of Tweem yesterday, I now have 5 copies to give away to you guys. Are there 5 of you out there that would like to run your own Twitter microsite?Tweem is an awesome theme...
Topics: Contest, giveaway, Tweem

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You may be saying WP-what? Excellent question. Short one, but excellent nonetheless.WPurls is a new project of mine that I’ve been nursing for a few weeks. It’s my effort into the new niche of WordPress link aggregation, in a similar vein as..
Topics: Announcements, Bookmarks, wpurls

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