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A specially developed block for managing colors will help you to configure the background, links, headlines and menu color etc. Be creative and design the color scheme for your site.

Visit NattyWP – Demo & Download Page

Everyone is all about Twitter these days. It’s all anyone was talking about last weekend.

I like Twitter, too, as you know, and what’s totally cool is that since JV Alert, I’ve picked up almost 300 new followers.  Wahoo!

Yesterday, Andrew Devine (@adevine1) posted an awesome tweet about 14 cool Twitter tools from Kenny Hyder. Some of them I’ve not heard about before, and I thought I’d share. Check this out: 14 Tools of Highly Effective Twitter Users

• Ever wonder if you should follow someone or not?
• Check out the plethora of # tags that exist
• Stalk people on Twitter (Follow them incognito.)
• Get some very cool stats about your usage
• Download and Save a copy of your Twitter account
• Get beyond TweetBacks
• Enter yourself in the Twitter Business Directory
• Host your own short URL
• Add your photographs to Twitter easily
• Post to Twitter from your Firefox address bar (I like TwiterFox for that better, really.)
• Post to your Google Calendar by sending direct messages
• Find stats on your Twitter relationships
• Grade yourself as a Tweep
• Schedule and post Tweets

Audio Player 2.0 beta is now available!

Usage

Once installed, this plugin allows you to insert mp3 audio files into your posts and pages. Use the following syntax:

[audio:name_of_mp3_file.mp3]

This code will insert a flash player and will load the file named name_of_mp3_file.mp3 located in your audio files folder. You can store your audio files anywhere in the web root as long as you update the path in the plugin’s options panel. The default is /audio.

You can also use absolute paths to link to files on other servers:

[audio:http://www.somedomain.com/path/to/name_of_mp3_file.mp3]

Audio Player can also play a sequence of audio clips. Use commas to separate the files:

[audio:name_of_mp3_file1.mp3,name_of_mp3_file2.mp3,name_of_mp3_file3.mp3#093;

You can also pre-append and post-append a clip to all your players. Explained in the Podcasting section.

Contents Examples

Default colour scheme

Custom colour scheme

Contents Podcasting

If you are using the player for a podcasting blog, Audio Player has special options just for you.

Enclosures

If you are unsure what an enclosure is, read the definition on Wikipedia. You have 3 options:

• If you set your enclosures manually, Audio Player can insert a player automatically at the end of your posts. Select the Enclosure integration option in the Audio Player options panel.
• If you let WordPress set enclosures automatically (by reading mp3 links in your posts), you can still use the Enclosure integration option.
• You can also use the [audio] syntax but you must use absolute URLs:e.g. http://www.somedomain.com/path/to/name_of_mp3_file.mp3WordPress will automatically detect the file and set the relevant enclosure option for you.

Pre/Post appended clips

You may wish to pre-append or post-append audio clips into your players. To do this, enter the full urls in the relevant section of the options panel. The pre-appended audio will be played before the main audio, and the post-appended will come after. A typical podcasting use-case for this feature is adding a sponsorship message or simple instructions that help casual listeners become subscribers. This will apply to all audio players on your site. Your chosen audio clips should be substantially shorter than your main feature.

Contents RSS Feeds

You have a choice over what to show in your RSS feed:

• A download link: Choose this if you are OK with subscribers downloading the file.
• Nothing: Choose this if you feel that your feed shouldn’t contain any reference to the audio file.
• Custom: Choose this to use your own alternative content for all player instances. You can use this option to tell subscribers that they can listen to the audio file if they read the post on your blog. You can set the content in the options panel.

Go to the options panel to set these options.

Contents The “chipmunk” effect

The Macromedia Flash player has a problem playing files that are encoded at a rate that is not a multiple of 11.025 kHz. This effect is sometimes called the “chipmunk” effect: the file is played at double speed. To avoid this, encode MP3s at 11.025 kHz 22.050 kHz or 44.100 kHz.

Contents Colour scheme

The entire player colour scheme is customisable. Use the Audio Player options panel in your WP admin to set the colour scheme of your player. You can also change the colours per player instance by using runtime options. Here are the colours that you can set:

Contents Runtime options

Use these if you want to use a different colour scheme for a particular player instance. You can also make the player open automatically or loop the loaded clip. You can pass a number of options to a player instance. To do this use the following syntax:

[audio:name_of_mp3_file.mp3|option1=value|option2=value]

Example:

[audio:name_of_mp3_file.mp3|autostart=yes|bgcolor=0x000000]

This will set the main background colour of the player to black and automatically start the player when the page loads.

Contents Installation

1. Extract and upload the files to your plugins folder
   You should end up with this folder structure:
   
2. Create a folder in your blog root (where your wordpress install lives) where you will store all your mp3 files
   I recommend an audio folder in the root of your blog so it doesn’t interfere with your WP install. If you wish to use another folder, remember to change the audio files directory option on your options panel.
3. Activate the plugin in your WP admin
4. Go to Options > Audio Player in the WP admin
   Here, you can choose how you want to use Audio Player and also set the colours to match your site’s design.

Contents Upgrading from 0.x to 1.x

Once installed, the old player is overwritten with the new one and all colour options should be transfered to the new scheme. Some adjusting to the slider and loader bar colours might be necessary.

Contents Upgrade wizard

Audio Player comes with an upgrade wizard. On the options panel, you can find out if a new update is available by clicking the Check for updates button. If an update is available, you will be prompted to open the upgrade wizard. Simply click Upgrade and the wizard will download the latest version and install it for you. Note: The upgrade wizard relies on some PHP functionality that is not available on all server configurations. You host may have disabled these features, in which case the upgrade wizard will be disabled.

Contents Change log

1.2.3 (4 September 2006)

• Added a page background option. Transparent is no longer the only option. Transparent backgrounds can create problems for Firefox and some WordPress themes.

1.2.2 (14 February 2006)

• “replace all mp3 links” now works with uppercase href attribute in <a> tags

1.2.1 (12 February 2006)

• Fixed bug with “replace all mp3 links” option (now supports extra attributes in <a> tags)

1.2 (07 February 2006)

• Added configurable behaviour options: [audio] syntax, enclosure integration and mp3 link replace
• Added configurable RSS alternate content option: insert download link, nothing or custom content
• Amended player to allow for clip sequence playback
• Implemented post/pre append clip feature
• Check for updates and automatic upgrade feature
• Player now closes automatically if you open another one on the same page
• Minor improvements to slider bar appearance
• Fixed a problem with colour options in Flash 6
• Added player preview to colour scheme configurator
• Improved plugn php code syntax

1.0.1 (31 December 2005)

• All text fields now use device fonts (much crisper text rendering, support for many more characters and even smaller player file size)
• General clean up and commenting of source code

1.0 (26 December 2005)

• Player now based on the emff player
• New slimmer design (suggested by Don Bledsoe)
• More colour options
• New slider function to move around the track
• Simple scrolling ID3 tag support for title and artist (thanks to Ari)
• Time display now includes hours for very long tracks
• Support for autostart and loop (suggested by gotjosh)
• Support for custom colours per player instance
• Fixed an issue with rss feeds. Post content in rss feeds now only shows a link to the file rather than the player (thanks to Blair Kitchen)
• Better handling of buffering and file not found errors

0.7.1 beta (29 October 2005)

• MP3 files are no longer pre-loaded (saves on bandwidth if you have multiple players on one page). Thanks go to Craig Leikis for warning me about this one

0.7 beta (24 October 2005)

• Added colour customisation options.

0.6 beta (23 October 2005)

• Fixed bug in flash player: progress bar was not updating properly.

0.5 beta (19 October 2005)

• Moved player.swf to plugins folder
• Default location of audio files is now top-level /audio folder
• Better handling of paths and URIs
• Added support for linking to external files

0.2 beta (19 October 2005)

• Bug fix: the paths to the flash player and the mp3 files didn’t respect the web path option. This caused problems for blogs that don’t live in the root of the domain (eg www.mydomain.com/blog/)

Contents Download

Download audio-player.zip

Plan Before You Build

If your main motivation isn’t to solve a specific need for a plugin, than there are many other ways to generate ideas and reasons to write a Wordpress plugin. Sure, you could always whip up the simple “hello world” plugin (provided in the default Wordpress installation), but we want something a little more challenging, right? If your plugin idea seems simple enough to create from scratch, try using your plugin idea as your sample application instead of spending time building a useless application that you’ll never use, just for practice.

If you’d like some more ideas for building a plugin, DevLounge has created a list of ways to generate ideas for writing Wordpress plugins. Generally, the best practice is to start researching other existing plugins and work on ideas to improve them.

Gather Powerful Tools

You can’t start building your plugin without setting up a proper test environment. Here are some must-have tools for building a Wordpress plugin:

• Firefox - If you’ve yet to install Firefox on your computer run, don’t walk, over to Mozilla and snag a download of the superior web browser. It’s an incredibly useful tool for web developers.
• Firefox Extensions - There are two really good Firefox extensions that make debugging and designing your plugin much less of a chore: Firebug and the Web Developer extension.
• Wordpress - You’ll need a clean install of Wordpress so that you can set up your testing environment on your computer.

Gather Good Information

Aside from this post, you’ll need some other documents that allow you to quickly find Wordpress plugin API references. Here are a few that will come in handy:

• Wordpress’ Plugin Resources - Reference guide for all things Wordpress plugins. Tutorials and how-tos galore.
• Wordpress Plugin API - This is your lifeline, your cheat sheet of everything that comprises a Wordpress plugin. If you’re ever stuck, this is the document you’ll go back and reference for help.
• Plugin API Action Reference - The list of actions that are available in Wordpress plugins.
• Plugin API Filter Reference - The list of filter hooks that are available in Wordpress plugins.
• Wordpress IRC Channel - Fire up your favorite IRC client to access this pool of Wordpress developers who are willing to help with your plugin creation woes.

Create a Dedicated Test Environment

Now that you’ve gathered your tools and resources needed to create a plugin, it’s time to set up your test environment. There are two different methods of setting up a plugin test environment. The best way to speed up your development time is to create a testbed on your own computer, using Apache and MySQL. While this can be a bit more advanced, there are tutorials for setting up different Wordpress environments with both of these technologies.

For developing on a Windows machine, try installing Wordpress using XAMPP, a nifty program that bundles Apache and MySQL together in an easy install. (Note: XAMPP is cross-platform, so Linux and Mac users can use it too.)

Another option for Mac users is to install Wordpress using MAMP, a program that bundles MySQL and Apache for use on Macs.

The second option for test environments is to just make a separate directory on your webserver and create a fresh install of Wordpress on that. You’ll have to upload every change using FTP, so it will be much slower than a local test environment.

Master the Basics

Fortunately for unskilled programmers like myself, building a Wordpress plugin can be a relatively simple process. Sure, you can make incredibly advanced plugins, but it’s quite easy to just dive into creating a simple plugin with the framework that Wordpress has set up.

Jarkko wrote an article on earlier this year on the anatomy of a Wordpress plugin, and this is an excellent place to start with the basics of plugin writing. The tutorial shows how to create a simple plugin that creates a widget that shows upcoming scheduled posts on a Wordpress site. A perfect resource for any beginner, complete with source files.

Access and Manipulate Database Data

Database interaction is crucial to nearly all plugins, so it’s important to understand the basics of how to connect to the Wordpress database and access data. The Wordpress documents have an excellent tutorial on how to interact with databases.

Utilize Javascript and CSS

While some plugins might not need any extra styling, adding a little spice to your plugin never hurt. DevLounge has a great article on how to include elements like Javascript and CSS into your plugin.

Ajax is another element that can really make a difference in a Wordpress plugin. Sending data without needing a page refresh is a useful attribute to have in your plugin. Here are some resources on how to utilize Ajax in a Wordpress plugin:

• Wordpres’ AJAX page
• AJAX in Wordpress plugins
• Simplified ajax for Wordpress plugin developers
• jQuery and Ajax in Wordpress plugins
• jQuery and ajax in Wordpress plugin administration pages

Add a Versatile Options Page

Your plugin might require an Options menu and page to show configurable choices for the Wordpress administration section. The Wordpress Codex has a great reference page on adding administration menus. If you’re wanting a tutorial with screenshots, then try Wordpress Bits’ Adding Options to Wordpress tutorial.

Internationalize It!

A useful way to spread the reach of your plugin is to translate it into different languages. The Wordpress plugin framework allows developers to localize the plugin, allowing for different translations to be made.

Spread it to the Masses

Here a few of the main resources to publicize your kickin’ plugin and allow other Wordpress users to download it:

• Wordpress.org’s Plugin Directory - The official Wordpress site is far and away the best place to promote your plugin. It has an extensive plugin directory that many Wordpress users find plugins with. Just register an account and upload your plugin. The plugin will have to be approved by Wordpress.org to make sure that it follows their plugin guidelines.
• Weblog Tools Collection - You can submit your plugin to Weblog Tools Collection, a widely-read blog on blog tools and plugins.
• Wordpress Forums - You can use the Wordpress forums to find beta testers for your plugin, to make sure the plugin is free of bugs and ready for “prime time”.
• Plugin Submission and Promotion - The Wordpres Codex has a great resource on how to get your plugin in front of testers and other Wordpress users

My WordPress consulting side business has been getting a lot of attention lately. In fact, I’ve been struggling to keep up. (I do this, by the way, mainly on the weekends.) Over the last several projects, I’ve noticed a common trend of questions about WordPress and blogging. Here’s what everyone asks.

I already have a site. How can I add a WordPress blog to it?

Although it’s possible to customize a WordPress theme based on your existing site, you can buy a premium theme that probably looks better than your original site for about $100. You can then migrate the content from your original site to the WordPress blog, which will function as a micro-content management system.

When you install the blog, if you install it in your web’s root folder (not in a subdirectory), your blog will load as the default site — just remove the original site’s index file. Of course, no theme is perfect out of the box, so you’ll likely want to customize it a bit. But having one site for all your content will greatly simplify your life.

And some resources for free themes:

• Smashing Magazine (site search for WordPress themes)
• The WordPress Theme directory
• WordPress Hacks
• Weblog Tools Collection

I want to sell products from my site. How can I do that?

Paypal provides Buy Now or Add to Cart buttons that you can add to your site, along with the appropriate shopping cart code. If you sign up for a Paypal account, and then go to Merchant Services, you’ll see a wizard that will walk you through the creation of the buttons and code.

You can then lay out the buttons how you want them to appear on your site. I recently did this for a client here. In this example, I used div tags to push the Add to Cart buttons into a right column.

Paypal is free, but they charge 2% per transaction. You can also integrate shopping cart services that make Paypal easier to use. For example, E-junkie. Its interface is easier to manage and looks sharper. When users add a product to their cart, rather than being taken to a new page (as with Paypal), a pop-up window appears that allows users to remain on the same site. The downside is that E-junkie costs $5 per month to sell 5 products.

The following WordPress themes have e-commerce options built directly into them:

• iThemes ecommerce theme
• Market Theme

With the e-commerce shopping cart plugin, you can integrate a shopping cart with any theme you have. I find this plugin a little convoluted on the backend, but you can make it work.

What web host do you recommend?

There are scores of different web hosts, but some are more friendly than others with WordPress. I’ve seen hosts that require all kinds of permissions and privileges just to update your blog or install a plugin. It can be a pain. When you shop for web hosts, look for cPanel or auto-installers.

How do I adjust my site for search engine optimization (SEO)?

I recommend using the All-in-One SEO Pack plugin. With this plugin, you can configure two distinct titles for each of your posts: a title that Google sees, and a title that appears when your readers load the post. In SEO, three factors take precedence over anything else:

1. Backlinks to your site with the right keywords.
2. Keywords in your title and first paragraph.
3. Lots of content.

Don’t assume that just installing the plugin will put you at the top of Google. It’s a long, hard struggle to climb up the search results. Post a lot, use the right keywords, and create interesting content that invites others to link to you.

Can you recommend a theme for me?

I can no more recommend a theme for you than I can buy clothes for my wife. Look at the links I provided in my first section. Realize that every theme can be customized — font, widths, colors, layouts. If you find a theme that would be a good starting point, you can customize the rest. If you’re good with CSS, and you’re familiar with the Web Developer Extension for Firefox, you can tweak every aspect of your site.

When customizing your site, you don’t need to be a PHP programmer, but you do need to understand the WordPress template tags, which are written in PHP. Read the WordPress Codex to recognize these tags and what they do.

What plugins do you recommend?

You can see all the plugins I’m using here. I recommend starting with the basics: Akismet, Bad Behavior, Subscribe to Comments, All in One SEO, Google Analytics, and Feedburner.

Then gradually ramp up to Related Posts, Popularity Contest, WordPress Video Plugin, Flash Embed, Google Sitemap, WP Super Cache, Get Recent Comments, and Google Ajax Search.

You can view hundreds of plugins at the WordPress plugin directory. A plugin exists for almost everything you want to do. But be careful about adding too many plugins. In my experience, the more plugins you add, the slower WordPress moves on the backend.

Installing plugins is easier than it used to be. Previously, you had to download, unzip, and upload plugin files via FTP. Now you can install and update plugins directly from the admin panel in WordPress. So experiment with different plugins. Play around with them. It’s a fun thing to do on a Friday night while you’re watching movies.

Finally, although it sounds very snobby to say this, I’ll say it anyway. WordPress has a learning curve. If concepts like FTP, CSS, and RSS are totally unfamiliar to you, you’ll struggle a bit at first. But if you’re really cut out to use a self-hosted WordPress blog, you’ll figure it out. You’ll read the Codex, search the support forums, experiment and tinker until you get it to work right.

If you’re not this type, you might do better with a freely hosted WordPress blog at WordPress.com. With a WordPress.com blog, you won’t have to hassle with code, you can access free support when you need it, and you can focus on what you want to do: write.

If you ever want to upgrade from a WordPress.com blog to a self-hosted WordPress blog, you can export and import your content fairly easily using WordPress’ built-in tools.

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A recent discussion has popped up on the WordPress Testers mailing list revolving around using the list as an area to receive support. Over the past few weeks, users have been publishing support questions which in many aspects, would be better served in the WordPress.org support forums. The problem with that is, the testers list is maintained and operated by people who have a knowledgeable background with the WordPress software, there are less users, and receiving answers is typically a speedier process.

With this in mind, I’ve decided to whip up a guide on how to maximize the use of the WordPress.org forum. It’s not exactly as cut and dry as you would think. This list of steps was comprised mostly by Michael E. Hancock with additional tips provided by Otto and myself.

1. A new user may want to read the Forum Rules

2. Report inappropriate posts/threads by adding the ‘modlook‘ tag to that thread

3. Link to Codex article by using the wiki code of two beginning and ending brackets. [[Template Hierarchy]] will create a link to that article in Codex.

4. Try to place your question in the correct Forum–if it is related to Plugins use the Plugins and Hacks Forum.

5. If needing to put a large code example in your thread, paste the code in a pastebin and put the link to that code in the thread.

6. Click on View Your Profile to see all your threads. Note: Currently the Threads Started feature is broken.

7. You can initiate a forum topic from a particular plugin at the WordPress Extend Plugins site. At the bottom of each plugin page there is a “Write a new topic” link that displays a form to enter the topic and automatically creates a tag related to that specific plugin and automatically selects the Plugins and Hacks Forum.

8. A new topic is started by first selecting(entering)the particular Forum (e.g. Installation) and at the bottom of the screen, the New Topic form is displayed.

9. Use the Version box when starting a new topic. If the Version isn’t listed, select Other and then type the Version in the box.

10. A tip from LesBessant - You can hide the tag cloud in Firefox by adding the file usercontent.css to the …\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxx.default\chrome folder. Put this in the file:

.frontpageheatmap, #hottags {
display: none;
}

11. Use the Report a Site Bug link at the bottom of the screen to report bugs with the forum software.

12. When creating a new topic, make the topic be descriptive and brief. “Help me now” is a poor topic.

13. If asking a question about a plugin or theme provide a link to download the plugin/theme.

14. Use meaningful tags. Using the same tags as the topic isn’t very useful, but using keywords from the topic is good.

15. Make use of the search before starting a new topic. Also a Google search such as “wordpress plugin cforms” will return a good list of info about the Cforms plugin.

Here is a tip provided by Otto42 - DON’T BUMP. Bumping makes your threads have a reply, which makes them not show up on the “threads without replies” list any more. Meaning that bumping actually decreases the chances of you getting any help.

Here is a tip from me to you. If you end up resolving your problem, be sure to edit the post and mark it as resolved. I’ve forgotten to do this step several times but the good news is, you can always go back to those posts via your user profile and edit them.

Conclusion:

As has been discussed on the Testers mailing list, there are many things that can be done to improve the forum experience that are out of the control of end users. For example, an improved search. Based on what I’ve heard, the search for the Codex as well as the Forum and Plugin Repository has a good shot at being implemented before the release of WordPress 2.8. While on the subject of search, I think it would be nice if the forum search provided a set of Advanced options so that I could search the forum in all threads that have been marked as resolved.

While BBPress is decent forum software (for now as Sam continues to work on version 1.0) I wonder if it’s the software of choice that meets the needs of the WordPress.org support forum. There is no private messaging, distinct thread/post filtering, etc. Not that every feature found within PHPBB3 or other forum software needs to be integrated into BBPress but I feel there is quite a bit missing at this point to provide a sound experience on the forum.

With that said, I ask you, the community how we and the powers that be can improve the WordPress.org forum. I ask that you do not take this opportunity to vent your frustrations with particular users but instead, provide feedback and ideas on how to improve the system.

This guest post was written by Jean-Baptiste Jung, who maintains a blog over at Cats Who Code that covers WordPress and other webmaster stuff. If you have webmaster or WordPress knowledge and are interested in writing a post for WordPress Hacks, please contact us.

Inspired by the well-known Mimbo theme by Darren Hoyt, OpenBook is a free Magazine style Wordpress theme, which doesn’t require you to manually edit a file.

I first realeased this theme in January, but at this time it was only available in French. So it is the very first English version.

Download OpenBook

Download OpenBook 2.2 Wordpress Theme: zip archive

If you’re looking for a live demo, check out my personnal blog which uses this theme.

OpenBook Features

Here’s what you can expect in OpenBook theme:

• Magazine-style homepage, including 2 columns and SmoothGallery for your featured posts.
• 100% Gravatar compatible.
• Custom fields to insert images on the homepage gallery, on homepage posts and in categories posts.
• Magazine-style dropdown-menu for your categories.
• Not manual editing required. After installing the theme, you’ll find an OpenBook tab under Design, where you can set up the options for the theme, including featured posts, featured category, blog logo, number of posts to display on the gallery, categories to display on the blog homepage…
• If you hate Internet Explorer 6 as I do, you’ll probably be happy: OpenBook have an option which litteraly crash IE6 if checked. If unchecked, IE6 will not crash and people who (still) use it will see your blog just as other users.
• Compatible with Firefox 2, Firefox 3 beta, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 6. (OpenBook is also probably compatible with other browsers like Konqueror, I just haven’t tested it myself)
• Widget-ready sidebar
• SEO-friendly titles
• Page templates for Links and Archives
• Compatible with Wordpress 2.3 to 2.5.1

Installing OpenBook

OpenBook install is like installing any Wordpress theme: Unzip the archive, and upload the openbook22-en directory into the wp-content/themes of your Wordpress install.

Then, go to your WP administration panel, Design » Theme and select OpenBook.

Now, you should go to Design » OpenBook and fill the various fields:

• Your blog logo url
• ID of your featured category
• Number of posts to display in SmoothGallery.
• IDs of categories to display on the homepage.
• If you want to make any IE6 crash, just check the related checkbox.
• Number of posts to display on the homepage, by category

Configuring SmoothGallery

SmoothGallery is a very pretty mootools script by Jonathan Schemoul which display posts along with big images. In order to configure it, you must create a new category (In this exemple, we’ll call it featured) and report its ID to Design » OpenBook.

When you want to show a particular post in the SmoothGallery, just edit the post and check the featured category. Of course, you can add the post to other categories as well.

Now, you should define an image that will display in SmoothGallery. Juste create a custom field, give it featuredimg as key and your image url as value. Once saved, the post will be displayed in SmoothGallery.

The ideal SmoothGallery image size is 600*250 pixels. You can use different size, but the image will be cropped or will not fill all the available space.

Using custom fields to display images in posts

As I said above, it is possible to assign one or more image(s) to a post. Theses images will be displayed on the homepage, or in categories pages, depending of the custom field used.

Here’s the custom fields keys, and the place where the images will be displayed.

• featuredimg » The image will be displayed in SmoothGallery (Only if the related post is in the featured category)
• Image » The image will be displayed along with its related post, on the homepage.
• catimage » The image will be displayed in category pages. Ideal size is 125*125 pixels.

Please note

The OpenBook theme is (and will stay) 100% free. I also try to always help people who use it as much as I can. The only thing that I’m asking, is that you leave my link on the theme footer. Thanks in advance

Edit on July 3, 2008: I just wrote a simple tutorial for modifying OpenBook color scheme. You can read it here.

Dream Crib is a 3 column theme ideally designed for home improvement niche. This theme is xhtml and css valid plus tested for some major browsers like firefox, ie, safari and opera.

Features:

• Tested on Latest Wordpress version
• 3 columns
• Widget ready
• Fixed Width
• Cross browser compatible with IE, FF, Opera, Flock & Safari

Demo | Download

The name says it all. A lot of webmasters that like the structure of John Chow’s blog, use Firefox and wish to have a high quality design for their blog that will be — free, yet without a train of sponsored links, that will be — stylish, yet not too busy and finally — will be optimized for ads placement. If this is what you want and need, here is a theme exactly for you.

- LIVE DEMO -
- DOWNLOAD THEME -