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January 31, 2009

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WordPress links week 5 -2009

Here are this weeks links to articles from the WordPress community. I will update this post every day (morning and evening) with good and useful articles so you can follow what happens in the WordPress community.

February 1, 2009

General

Sandbox/Plaintxt Goes Up For Sale

Scott Wallick, one of the founding developers behind the popular Sandbox theme for WordPress has published an announcement on his blog where he states that he is selling not only the Sandbox theme/website but also Plaintxt.org. Scott mentions the following in his post…
- By WP Tavern
Fairwell Keith And Get Well Soon Kym

Episode 40 of WordPress Weekly discussed a wide range of topics from the release of WordPress MU 2.7 to the All In One SEO Plugin reaching one million downloads. Also sad to say that this was Keith Murray’s last episode as co-host. I wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors.
- By Weblog Tools Collection

Plugins

Media RSS The Next Core Integrated Plugin?

On a recent discussion thread within the WordPress Hackers Mailing list, Aaron Brazell of Technosailor.com suggested that the Media RSS or (mrss) plugin be integrated into the core of WordPress. Media RSS is built on top of the Media RSS Module framework developed by Yahoo!. Essentially the module supplements the < enclosure > element inside of RSS 2.0 feeds to allow for more robust media.
- By WP Tavern
Plugin Review: Autoclose

The man, the myth, the legend, Ajay D’Souza not only brings you news of the latest WordPress plugins and themes to hit the community but he also has a few plugins under his belt. Today, I’ll be reviewing one of those plugins called Autoclose.
- By Weblog Tools Collection
Fix For Filosofo Comment Preview Plugin

Community member Kim Parsell recently sent me an email that contained a link to a post she found which describes the exact same problem I was having with the Filosofo Comment Preview plugin. Each time I activated the plugin on this blog, I received an error similar to thi
- By WP Tavern

Themes

Darren Hoyt Releases Mimbo 3.0 Theme

Though there are a number of popular magazine WordPress themes on the market, including a number of great free magazine themes, I think it is pretty safe to say that none have been more popular over the past year than the Mimbo theme (and the Mimbo Pro version).
- By WP Hacks
WordPress Theme of the Month: Too Newsy

This month’s featured WordPress theme is “Too Newsy” by Performancing Themes. It is a nice lightweight theme with a professional and journalistic feel to it. The minimalism and color scheme work well together, creating a nice overall look.
- By Webmaster-Source
15 Great Examples of Cloned WordPress Themes

Cloning popular websites into WordPress Themes has become a popular phenomenon. Possible that this is due that many are interested in such type of themes. Everyday you can see a lot of requests on different forums like: “I want a WordPress Theme like this site …”, and which led to the specialization of some WordPress Market Places, such as StyleWP, which are dedicated in creating WordPress Themes inspired by popular websites.
- By WP Zoom

Blogging

How to turn your passion into a blog

I was talking to a friend who visited my blog and got excited about the idea of making a blog himself. These were his words: “I am sure your blog will help. I have not blogged before but know lots of stuff about online and marketing. But I just need a topic! This is the hard part!”
- By How to make my blog

WebDevelopment

Unobtrusive JavaScript for “Print-This” Links

One of the oldest JavaScript tricks in the book involves providing a “print this!” link for visitors that enables them to summon their operating system’s default print dialogue box to facilitate quick and easy printing of whatever page they happen to be viewing. With the old way of pulling this little stunt, we write this in the markup comprising the target “print this!” link in question
- By Perishable Press
Useful tips to design horizontal website layout

In the past weeks I received some messages from my readers which asked to me to dedicate a post about horizontal website layout. So in this tutorial I want to illustrate some useful tips to design this kind of layouts using CSS and HTML code, also adding a nice animated scrolling effect using JavaScript.
- By Woork

Inspiration

20 cool sites for Typographic Inspiration – Part 1

Face is the image of mind and when it comes to a website, it is the design and layout from images and graphics. But is it all? Well, not really and Typography says it aloud. Imagine, a website conveying the designer’s mind just by fonts, its design and arrangement! Yes, fonts can do wonders. Designers have used it effectively to reflect their creativity and many have gone to combine their sense of colour and context to come up with some stunning designs and layouts.I too love Typography which plays a key role in every text based design or product. The design inspires the viewer with the way you place the text which describes the design or product and in turn the product sells based on the type of marketing.
- By Witty Sparks