What’s Your Take On the GPL Argument Between Matt and Thesis?

If you have been on Twitter today, you might have come across a huge argument between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and Thesis theme developer Chris Pearson. Matt is unhappy that unlike other premium themes, Thesis does not distribute/sell their themes under the GPL licensing system.
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Menus, the Merge, and a Patch Sprint!

A Report from the 3.0 Development Cycle
Menus
There’s been a flurry of blog posts about the integration of the WooThemes Custom Navigation into WordPress core, so I thought it was time we posted the official word. For 3.0, the main user-facing feature we wanted to include was a better site menu management system. Currently, dealing with [...]

Where Is The Line Drawn?

Cory Miller who is one of the guys behind iThemes.com has published a long but excellent piece regarding his thoughts on why there needs to be a commercial WordPress plugin market. Honestly, I think Cory’s post has been the best on the subject and I don’t disagree with much of what he said. In terms
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WordPress Theme Releases for 01/26

Simple Magazine Red
Three column, fixed width, widget ready and gravatar ready theme
TNT Dark Green Golden Temptation
Two column, widget ready theme (12 widgetized areas including 3 footer widget ready areas) with easy integration with twitter and FeedBurner
5 Free Wedding Wordpress Themes
Two column theme gravatar-enabled, widget-ready, and perfect for posting wedding pictures
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Easier Theme Upgrades

Do you find upgrading themes to be a pain? To be honest, I don’t upgrade themes very often if at all but if you do, there is a newly created plugin that ought to make the process much easier on you. It’s called Easy Theme Upgrades and was developed by Chris Jean of iThemes. It’s
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How Often do You Use Functions.php in Themes?

Functions.php should generally be used when you just want to add a minor feature that requires a single function or few lines of code. However, you cannot use functions.php to run code in the actions such as “plugins_loaded”. This is by design and should be too, as each theme will have their own functions.php file
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Beginners Guide to Blogging

Beginners Guide to Blogging – A blog is basically an online journal wherein you can digitally pen down your thoughts, ideas, opinions and practically anything that you want people to read. Blogs come in different styles, formats, and settings, depending on the preference of the user. Many blogging sites, offer built in features such as [...]

Darn You WordPress!!

WordPress rocks! (Most of the time…)   Sometimes though it can make you want to pull your hair out. Today I want to talk about that. Those times when you wish you could take a machete to it. I’ve had my share of such situations several times in the past.
Now, I don’t mean plugins, or themes, or
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WordPress Theme Releases for 11/09

Glassical
Two column, fixed width theme with support for the WP Pagenavi plugin. This theme was designed with the main focus being on typography, clean look and simplicity.
Coffee Lite
Coffee Lite Theme is a minimalist blogging theme modded from the popular premium theme Coffee Break from WooThemes.
New York
Two column, fixed width, widget ready theme with inbuilt support
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For Our Canadian Friends

Just wanted to pass along another WordPress resource site to put in your bookmarks or RSS feed, especially if you’re Canadian called WordPress Canada. The site is managed by Len Kutchma, the same person who has been doing a great job providing feedback and even testing some of the themes being submitted to the New
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