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The NEW! Notepad Wordpress Theme is quite original, and i can see it being used by a variety of niche bloggers. Take a peek below. The theme is not like most wp themes, it features a large centered intro box, a stripe at top for announcements, a placeholder at the bottom with split content sections...

I recently started a series about useful WordPress plugins - the first post was about how to keep a blog clean of spam and bad language. This second post is about scheduling your blog posts in WordPress. I decided to write about this because you are reading a scheduled post right now - by the [...] ...

If you’re reading this post, you’re most likely a fellow blogger. Have you heard of ContestBlogger.com, yet? ContestBlogger is a forum with a blog that features a slew of cool contests held by bloggers, from around the blog-o-sphere. I have won many good prizes in several contests, most...

What Plugin Coders Must Know About WordPress 2.6: Just like it sounds, Ozh has started a post, followed by a lively comment thread, on the challenges that can be faced by plugin coders with WordPress 2.6. This might be a good time (WordPress 2.6 Beta 2 is out) to start digging into your plugins to g...

So recently I was working on a project that required image based navigation AND drop down menus. From the get-go I decided to use CSS Sprites for the tabbed menu for the normal, active and hover styles. I also decided the best way to implement the drop down was to use the “Son of Suckerfish...

I’m a huge, huge fan of the latest Firefox release. But I was really, really disapointed that a LOT of my very favorite (and most used!) plugins were incompatible. The plugin I felt most lost without was Aardvark, which I use every single day, practically all day long to aid me in development...

Every once in a while we have to take our site down for upgrades, or god forbid something breaks and we have to fix it and we don’t want to leave the broken version for our users to see. I was inspired to write this after seeing the funny Technorati maintenance page this morning: Maintenance ...