I have been meaning to post a note about some of the recent changes here, but have been busier then a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs (been dying to use that phrase for some time ;’)…
I’ve adopted a new theme called nobus, designed by Dezzain Studio. The UI is not [...]

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Just released the new version (0.94) of the missunderstood theme. Some major changes, lots of clean-up, added functionality:

Built-in Optimal Title (for SEO)
Built-in slimbox (faster, lighter Lightbox effect)
Separate lists for comments and trackbacks
Fancier blockquotes
Built-in pullquotes
Prettier search box
Code-block style with numbers and zebra striping

A lot of generous people have brought my attention to problems with the earlier [...]

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Version .95 is out now, with a lot of tweaks done over several months…
Incorporated some plugins into functions.php for convenience:

Optimal Title
Hot Dates
removed ’sociable’
Slimbox

Added the Top Post functionality (for a full-width ‘featured’ post). Top Post takes the latest post in a category (category set in the themes options under Presentation), displays it at the top [...]

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This is the release of the missunderstood theme, originally designed by Will Rossiter. This is a dark theme, with a slightly girlish touch (that’s not pink!). See a live demo here.

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Here is a newsletter-style 2-column with sidebar theme for WordPress which allows some control over which categories are displayed in each column. I included the WordPress Theme Toolkit by Ozh for user-friendliness. This theme is a modified version of Corporate Slave, by dreamLogic .

For style and functionality I have included some plugins: HotDates by Supriyadi [...]

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Over the past few months I have come across an enormous amount of resources and tools for every aspect of working with WordPress. This is another one of the benefits of Open Source (a large number of contributors), however the down side can be that there’s no central ‘management’ or quality control over these. It [...]

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Which of the following is true?

The Wordpress Support Forums can be a wonderful resource, a gold mine of wisdom and technical expertise, with quick, salient responses that get me right back on track…
The WordPress Support Forums can be a black hole you drop questions into, never to be responded to, or the responses seem to [...]

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