May
13
2010
I just added the Menu Management feature for compatibility with WordPress 3.0, the next version of WordPress. Menu compatibility has been added to Patagonia, Tandil and Director.
It’s one of the most exciting features in the coming WordPress 3.0. It gives you full control over your site’s navigation menus. Users can easily drag and drop items, to create menus that include any mixture of links to internal pages, external URLs, categories, basically a customized widget. Then you can embed these custom menus as a widget, in the sidebar, footer, etc.
Apr
26
2010
Today, April 26th 2010 is WpThemesPlanet’s first birthday! To celebrate I’m releasing a new and original theme called Director. Check it out. This WordPress Theme is compatible with the latest WordPress Release and includes theme options, threaded comments, JQuery menu and a very Professional and unique look inspired by Hollywood and Cinema in General. However this theme can be used for any kind of site, niche or business. By the way, the Hollywood Sign has been saved today by a fund raising and announced by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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I designed this template in Photoshop, coded and edited it in Dreamweaver and Notepad++. Although this theme is visual attractive (which in many cases means “heavy”) it does not take a lot of resources like some other similar wordpress themes. Most of the visual attractive themes tend to be heavy for your host and slow loading for the user. Most of those themes load a lot of add-ons in their header.php, plus they have a very complex functions.php. I designed Director to be as “lite” as possible, yet visual attractive.
Many more features will be added in the next versions of Director. Some extra features like custom CSS, Analytics, Adsense and more. Custom CSS will let you modify the stylesheet and save the customization, so you don’t lose the changes when you update. Twitter, Facebook and Custom RSS can be added from the theme’s options. Enter the WordPress Dashboard, go to Appearance -> Director Options. You can also send suggestions here. This WordPress theme will be offered in Spanish (my native language) in the next few versions. Want to translate Director Theme to another language? You can contact me as well and I will add your credit (name and site) to the changelog!
Here are some stats of WpThemesPlanet first year:
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Apr
14
2010
Over 60% of registered Twitter accounts come from outside the United States. There are Twitter users in every possible country around the world. Even in some smaller countries you might not expect (like the Vatican City) and even one in outer space. Yes, this guy is tweeting from outer space. Amazing!
The staff guys from Twitter say they have seen growth in every country and they would like to share a few of their stories:
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Apr
5
2010
Patagonia and Tandil WordPress Themes have been updated today. A print.css has been added to improve printing. Some people still like to print out web sites, so this feature can be useful to some of your visitors.
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Apr
3
2010
WordPress version 3.0 Beta 1 has been released. This is an early beta which means there are a few things that are being worked on.
They are releasing it now rather than waiting another week, because they wanted to get people testing it during this weekend. There’s a lot of new stuff going on in WordPress 3.0, so this time they are giving you a list of things to check out, to make sure people are testing all the things that need it.
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Mar
23
2010
TypePad AntiSpam Plugin for WordPress is a great tool to fight comment spamming, a big problem in Today’s 2.0 Internet Model.
As you may know, Akismet is another great plugin and I use it on WpThemesPlanet. It blocks most of the spam comments. However, it is always interesting to have an alternative in hand. I have tried TypePad on another blog for the last 3 months and it works wonders. It blocked 100% of the spam.
Mar
11
2010
A favicon is a tiny image with a .ico extension and sized to 16 pixels by 16 pixels. The favicon is displayed alongside the URL in the web address bar of your browser.
Creating the image
The first thing you need to do is to create the image that you want to use as favicon. Don’t make your image too complex because small detail tend to get lost when resized to a tiny 16 by 16 pixels.
If you want to easily draw your own favicon, there is a great online tool called Favicon.cc. It lets you draw your own icon while the Favicon in the browser updates in real time to reflect your changes. If you use this tool you can skip the next step as the tool will handle the conversion to .ico as well.
