I was digging through digg.com this morning and found an excellent article from designreviver.com titled “How I Learned To Build Wordpress Themes“. It provides many sources of information including programs, tutorials, color swatches and more. Definitely a great source of information whether you want to build your own theme or start building themes for other people.
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008How To Setup An Automated Wordpress Blog
Saturday, April 12th, 2008While I was cruising around the internet searching for a cool new theme for this website, I stumbled upon www.themelab.com. After reviewing tons of their high quality free themes, I realized they also had some helpful articles about the Wordpress publishing platform.
I found this really cool article titled “Put your dormant domains to use with Wordpress“. It’s a very simple and straightforward tutorial about how to set up your Wordpress blog to automatically syndicate posts from other blog feeds. He goes on to say:
For those of you domainers who have a lot of unused domain names earning nominal revenue at old-fashioned domain parking services or simply collecting dust and not doing anything, read on. Developed domains will almost always outperform one-click landers at parking sites. One of the easiest ways to do quickly develop a domain is to set up an automated WordPress blog.
Just a small note before continuing. This isn’t a guide on making content scraping/rewriting splogs. I’m merely going over a much more efficient way to monetize unused domains, or possibly to augment your current blog with regularly updated news from relevant feeds. Aggregating RSS feeds legally is a perfectly legitimate way to add content to your WordPress blog.
Click here to visit www.themelab.com to read the entire article.
New Gravatars By Automattic
Monday, April 7th, 2008The Gravatar, also known as globally recongnized avatar, has recently been completely rebuilt under the PHP platform by the Automattic development team. Now your gravatar photos will be clearer, larger, and load much faster.
Other Gravatar Information
Quick Fix
I added this to my comments.php code:
<img align=”right” src=”<?php gravatar(”R”, 60, “http://yourblog.com/images/your-gravatar-image.gif”); ?>” alt=”Gravatar” />
The Wordpress Help Sheet (Cheat Sheet)
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Wordpress is freaking awesome but at some point you have to tweak your site at least a little bit. Most bloggers end up changing all kinds of things especially if you have downloaded a custom theme from Wordpress.
I was surfing around the blogosphere and I found this site called wpcandy.com. They have lots of great stuff if you use Wordpress. They teamed up with Liquidicity and designed a really cool Wordpress help sheet.
If you you’re new and don’t know a lot about code, or maybe even if you do, The Wordpress Help Sheet will help you get it done. It provides a list of all the major Wordpress code snippets that get used throughout the site and what they do.
Visit wpcandy.com to download the help sheet.
If you don’t know about Wordpress, read this article I recently posted about titled “Get Your Blog Up And Running Fast“.