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The Ethics of WordPress Themes At A Premium

I haven’t really talked about it a lot but I’ve been trying to do pay-for-use themes differently. Namely, giving away what might normally be considered a “ Premium ” theme —my WordPress theme framework Thematic—and charging for upgrades

When Premium Wordpress themes and open source ethics collide

Open source software is a wonderful thing. It allows a community to grow around an idea and for that idea to develop along with, and because of, that community. Code is moved forward, modified and..

Why valid HTML code is crucial to SEO

Valid HTML code is crucial to search engine optimization. Valid HTML code is crucial to search engine optimization. Copyright 2005 Marketing Defined.

Build Your Website With Wordpress And No Building Knowledge

Even beginners can use WordPress – general article on how easy it is to use Wordpress
Wordpress is now the best software for designing, building and maintaining a website. Originally developed and designed for bloggers to create personal blogs, WordPress is now the world’s most popular blogging platform.
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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