83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen Smashing Magazine Peter Westwood Video, Music, Podcasts, Audio, and Multimedia WordPress Plugins We used to be happy with words and pictures. Now we have to add lots of noise and moving pictures to our WordPress blogs. The visual and audible web is here today, and videos, podcasts, music, and all types of multimedia are flooding the Internet bands. Bloggers are leading the way by hosting and showcasing video and audio files on their blogs in as many ways as there are tunes. Multimedia files can be stored and hosted on your blog or off your blog on an audio/music and/or video hosted service site. The process of adding video, music, audio, podcasts, and other multimedia files to your WordPress blog can be simple or complex, depending upon what you want the end results to be. There are good, do-it-all multimedia WordPress Plugins and there are very narrow, do-one-thing Plugins. Note: As with all trendy and fad Plugins, many of these Plugins will be here today, gone tomorrow, as the author changes focus and stops supporting the Plugin. Multimedia WordPress Plugins Flash Video Plugins
Wiki - fr_FR.po Blog Software Smackdown: The Big 3 Reviewed Over the past few years, Weblogs (or blogs) have taken the Web by storm. According to the Wikipedia definition, a Weblog is "a Web application which contains periodic posts on a common Webpage. These posts are often but not necessarily in reverse chronological order." Basically, if you publish content on a periodic basis, a blogging package may simplify your publishing workflow. This article assumes that you’re familiar with the basics of blogging and would like to start your own Weblog; for more information on what blogging’s all about, see Aaron Brazell’s article, The Blogger’s Primer. Why Have a Blog? Part of the Web professional’s job is to keep abreast of current trends in technology. Personal: an individual may want a blog to help keep family and friends informed of what’s going on in their lives.Topical: some blogs are devoted to a specific topic, such as politics or computer hardware. Why Use Someone Else’s Software? What’s on Offer? Hosted Services Self-Hosted Movable Type Features
Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes Aug 26 2008 This is the first article in our new three-part WordPress series. I want to share with you some hacks that i found to be very useful when i was working on the redesign of Noupe and during the design of my other site Devsnippets. You might be interested to check out our previous four part series, "Powerful guide to master Your WordPress Theme So let’s get started and don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-Feed to keep track on our next post in this series. Using Custom Fields to Display Post Thumbnails One of the most interesting features in WordPress is using Custom Fields, which can turn your WordPress blog into a fully customizable CMS website. Follow the steps below and you will get it ready You need to be able to upload images to your server in order to do this. Other great Solutions WordPress Custom Fields: Adding Images To Posts- This tutorial will explain how to add images to your posts using WordPress custom fields. Avoiding Duplicate Content <? Other Solutions <form action="<?
WordPress Geekeries › Plugins WordPress › Thèmes WordPress Tutorials > Installing WordPress on Tiger Matt Willmore teaches you the basics of getting the open source blogging engine WordPress installed on your Mac running OS X 10.4 Tiger. Of the many options out there, many people choose to run their own blogging software as opposed to a managed service like Blogger or TypePad . On the software side, there are many decent tools available, such as Six Apart's Movable Type (we have a tutorial for installing MT as well). WordPress is another mature, capable and blogging engine that is very popular with many bloggers (like its founding developer, Matt Mullenweg ) and rapidly gaining in popularity across the Web. The most recent version of WordPress is 1.5.1.3, which contains a security patch among other improvements. If you have installed another blog engine such as WordPress or Movable Type already, you may already have MySQL and/or PHP configured. Before we get started, let's summarize what we'll be going over in the installation: Downloading and Installing WordPress 1.5.1.3 Profit! .
10 WordPress Hacks to Make your Life Easy | Blog Oh Blog Displaying Gravatars in comments To refresh your memory, Gravatars are little user images from Gravatar.com that are displayed against your comments in the theme (if the theme is built to support Gravatars). A lot of WordPress themes are built without the support of Gravatars. So, here is some help for you to add Gravatars in your theme. Replace the above code with the following code :- =2.5) echo get_avatar( $comment->comment_author_email, $size = '50', $comment->comment_author_link);? The above code will display the Gravatars. When you check your theme again, you will see the Gravatar images against your comments. Image Gallery in WordPress All the versions of WordPress 2.5+ have inbuilt Image Gallery function where you can upload your images in a set and then insert the gallery either into your post or a new page. But almost all the old themes(before 2.5) and many new ones do not have the integrated functionality. ID, 'medium' ); ? post_excerpt) ) the_excerpt(); // this is the "caption" ?