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Archive for July, 2008

Free Wordpress Theme | Travel Agency

WP Travel Agency is a 3-column wordpress theme with features of valid XHTML and CSS and widget ready.
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Comment on Sandbox by Elliot Jay Stocks » Wordpress tutorial:how …

body class brings up an article on Scott Allan Wallick’s site that talks about his excellent Sandbox theme. While all well and good, I wasn’t using Sandbox on this project so I wanted something

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WordPress 2.6

I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available , almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner , contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5 . We’ve prepared a brief video tour of 2.6, if you have 3 minutes and 29 seconds to spare, it’s worth a watch: If you’d like to embed the tour video in your blog, copy and paste this code for the high quality version: <embed src="http://v.wordpress.com/mARhRBcT/fmt_dvd" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="385" flashvars="blog_domain=http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26/&width=640&height=385"> </embed> And here’s a smaller version, 400 pixels wide: <embed src="http://v.wordpress.com/mARhRBcT/fmt_std" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="250" flashvars="blog_domain=http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26/&width=400&height=250"> </embed> Here’s a more textual overview of what’s hawt in 2.6: Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits With the power of modern computers, it’s silly that we still use save and editing metaphors from the time when the most common method of storage was floppy disks

Drop down menus and navigation tree plugin

Collapsible Category Widget/Plug-in – WP-d-tree Plugin

I used to use the Collapsible Categories Widgets by Leo Jackson until his site went down temporarily. This forced me to look elsewhere for my other sites and I came across the WP-d-tree plugin. I’m not sure why, but it took me ages to come across this plugin and it [...]