Archive for the 'Wordpress' category

Interview with WPShower.com

In a recent blog post, I sang the praises of one of the WordPress community’s rising stars; a site devoted to producing high quality, free WordPress themes called WPShower.com. WPSHOWER released their latest theme today. It’s called ‘Sight‘ and it’s clean, sophisticated and free! Since so little has been written about this curious project, I [...]

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WPShower.com, Rising Star of the WordPress Theme World

The old school bloggers among you will remember the days back in 2004-5 when WordPress was just starting out; a time when the themes were free and the blogosphere was alive and bristling with excitement. By 2007 the platform had begun to dominate the blogosphere and the blogging industry as a whole was about to [...]

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25 Free Kick Ass WordPress 3.0-Ready Themes

The consensus is that WordPress has benefited greatly from the explosion of the premium theme market. It has brought new designers, ideas and extensions of the WordPress blogging platform to proliferation. WordPress is far more versatile and complex a CMS than it was in its first few years of development. At the same time, there [...]

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WordPress: Hero With Half a Dozen Faces

WordPress is a widely used PHP/MYSQL blog platform or to quote directly from the source: “WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.” See the OSLiving Archive entry for more information. In Retrospect WordPress (WP) began in 2003 as a fork of the blog engine known [...]

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