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14 New Colorful Wordpress Themes!

// January 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // Apple, Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Featured, Ipod, Magazine Theme, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, sidebar, webdesign


Here you’ll find 10 Wordpress themes using the magazine style and colorful templates.

Stone Mag Wordpress Theme

stonemag

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WP Plugin Nifty-ness – Wordpress plugins – Flickr slideshow

// November 1st, 2008 // 4 Comments » // Admin Tools, Cool Links, For Geeks, Geeks, I recommend, Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, sidebar, web tools, webmaster


Flickr SlideShow Plugin

Check out this cool Flickr slideshow generator at FlickrSlidr
You might also want to download the wp plugin here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tylr-slidr/
because it works great if you just plan on embedding the slideshow code into a post and then never editing the post again but if you plan on going back and changing something for whatever reason the code will cause problems and in my test completely disappeared.. So the plugin allows you to insert the slideshow straight from the wp editor toolbar. Pretty cool.

[tylr-slidr width="400" height="400"]group_id=40961104@N00&user_id=&set_id=[/tylr-slidr]

Shantz WP Prefix Suffix

- For those who are new to this plugin, Shantz WP Prefix Suffix is a light-weight and easy to use plugin which allows you to add any text, HTML/CSS/PHP/Javascript code to your posts and/or pages as prefix and/or suffix. (That includes even any new or old posts and pages and even your feed)
Examples: your copyright message, advertisements (like adsense, etc), permalinks, your other site links, any other custom messages. This works very fine with ad plugins like adsense-manager etc,

Options also include the ability to enable/disable displaying the text/code on home page and excerpts. Also a small bug was fixed that displayed the code even if it was chosen not to.

For full details and download, click here: Shantz WP Prefix Suffix Home Page

SEO Siloing WordPress Plugin

The plugin’s primary purpose (so far) is to create category landing pages, which are static pages with links to all the postings in a given category. You can, however, use it to create pages with lists of posts in any category. You can even use the plugin in posts, but you’ll have to explicitly specify a category name/ID. For details and download..

Excerpt-Reloaded

This is probably one of the most useful plugins I use and really come with Wordpress pre-installed. I wasn’t satisfied with the fuction that the Wordpress developers provide. The problem I had with the_excerpt, is that it strips html. a great little plugin for Wordpress that allows me to format my excerpts all I like. It’s called The Excerpt Reloaded, and it let’s you set a ton of options like excerpt length, the name of your “read more” link, the allowed html in the excerpt and more. I even got it to allow my slideshow above. :) Here is the code I put in my index.php page in place of the default.




Useful Links for Bloggers..

// October 30th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Aside, Blogging, Cool Links, Cool Websites, I recommend, Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Themes, sidebar, web tools, webdesign, webmaster





11 Cool Social Networking and RSS Feed Icon Sets – Twitter, Digg Stumbleupon etc.

// October 11th, 2008 // 13 Comments » // Blogging, Design Resources, Icons, Social Network, Wordpress, main, sidebar


I love these little rounded social networking icons by Vikiworks.com and I’ve also included 8 more sets after the cut tag. Just click the Read More link below to view them. Instructions on how to add social networking icons to your blog posts without a plugin.
Build your own little icons with this icon generator like the ones I made below..you can pick your own colors of course.

Here’s a list of all the Social Bookmarking Submission Codes…

The Social Networking and Rss Feed Icons Icons..

vikiworks_round_social-bookmark-icons

Package includes 1 PNG file with all social bookmark icons and it also includes a Wordpress icon.

Download at Vikiworks.com


vikiworks_round_social-bookmark-icons2

Package #2 also includes 1 PNG file with all social bookmark icons.

Download at Vikiworks.com

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UBD Block Ad Wordpress Plugin

// September 4th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Affiliate Networking, Blogging, I recommend, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, sidebar, web tools, webmaster


I recently started using the UBD Block Ad Plugin for Wordpress and I really like it. It’s super easy to configure. The plugin comes with a user interface that allows you to manage your advertisers banner ads in your sidebar and you can add up to 10 at a time. It gives you the ability to choose how many ads show at a time. You can choose to show all ten of your ads or rotate 3-4 ads at a time.

The plugin automatically rotates your advertisers for you. Now you can spend less time managing your affiliates banners. It’s all done for you with this plugin. I love it.

If your using banner ads on your website then I recommend checking it out. You can see a live example of how this plugin works on my website. (the 3 verticle ads in my side bar).

Co-developed by Alex King and UBD, the new plugin is a must for anyone who uses block ads on their Wordpress blog. With smart, easy to use features, the plugin will help you manage the advertising more effectively than manually editing code (if you are even familiar with editing code, that is).

The plugin is also fully widget compatible. You don’t need to manually edit the sidebar.php file in order to add the add the block ads to your page.

Uniqueblogdesigns.com also offers a free Wordpress theme

UBD Moneymaker Theme

Free UBD Moneymaker Wordpress Theme