http://www.blogopool.com Blogopool - everything for your Blog - themes, plugins, adsense, wordpress Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:01:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Almost two months ago, we found out what your favorite themes were, and with so much discussion lately on finding WordPress themes, theme malware, and plans to protect against it, there’s one discussion-worthy question that we’ve managed to miss. What do you look for in a theme? What makes you say, “I ... http://www.blogopool.com/what-do-you-look-for-in-a-theme/ 254 is a clean and minimal WordPress and DukaPress e-commerce theme. Adventure Journal allows you to select header art, backgrounds, and a one or two column layout from the comfort of your Dashboard. Ghostwriter is a minimal theme focused on typography. my base is a white theme that includes several ... http://www.blogopool.com/wordpress-theme-releases-for-121/ New plugins Content Parts allows you to split your editable content into multiple parts and display each part using template tags within your theme, allowing you to create complex content layouts. PhotoSmash Galleries is a flexible, customizable photo gallery plugin for the awesomeness that is WordPress! It is one of ... http://www.blogopool.com/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-123/ WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 3 is now available. After careful evaluation of the 3.1 features in RC2, we recognized the need to make some adjustments. There are some significant differences from previous versions of 3.1, so please review the changes if you have been developing against a beta or RC version. ... http://www.blogopool.com/wordpress-3-1-release-candidate-3/ The highly anticipated, multi-authored book entitled Professional WordPress Plugin Development is now available for pre-order from Amazon. The book which is written by Brad Williams, Justin Tadlock and Ozh Richard covers everything you’d need to know to build an awesome plugin. Here is just a sampling as to what is ... http://www.blogopool.com/professional-wp-plugin-development-book-now-available-for-pre-order/ The second release candidate for WordPress 3.1 is now available. The requisite haiku: Rounding up stragglers Last few bugs for 3.1 Go test RC2 As I outlined in the announcement post for RC1, release candidates are the last stop before the final release. It means we think we’re done, and ... http://www.blogopool.com/wordpress-3-1-release-candidate-2/ I am often asked how decisions are made for WordPress, who’s involved in decision-making, and how the open source project is structured in general. WordPress is a meritocracy, meaning that anyone can get involved, and a combination of the quality of someone’s contributions and their level of interest/time commitment will ... http://www.blogopool.com/coming-up-meet-the-makers/ Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or for download here, is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release ... http://www.blogopool.com/3-0-4-important-security-update/ Business is a simple business theme with 8 widget areas. The sidebar is 300px and good for Adsense. Language files are included. impressIO is built with options and SEO in mind, including 11 colors to choose from, layout options, social subscribe/follow and bookmark/share options, advertising options, and many more. Mwendo ... http://www.blogopool.com/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1228/ Haikus from Jane on her 39th birthday: Practice makes perfect is what they say about things, but sometimes it’s not. In this case it is not practice but refinement, and then more testing. You can help WordPress! Now: 3.1, beta 2 is here; needs testing. But! Remember this: Only install ... http://www.blogopool.com/wordpress-3-1-beta-2/