I have used a theme I had created myself but it is time to pick a more professional look. There are many themes available, I decided to swith to Vigilance which is a powerful and flexible theme.
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Tag Archives: WordPress
WordPress and magazine-style themes
August 31, 2008 – 6:52 pm
Through The Blog Herald I was pointed to Smashing Magazine and When To Use Magazine-Style Themes For Blogs?
It is a great and long post that deals with
• Key Differences
• Why Are More Blogs Moving to Magazine Themes?
• Pros and Cons
• Considerations for Choosing a Style of Theme
• Tutorials for Designing a Magazine Theme
• Resources for Grid-Based Design
• Free Magazine-Style Themes for WordPress
• Premium [...]
WordPress and how to disable post revisions
August 17, 2008 – 9:39 am
WordPress introduced Post Revisions in version 2.6 which results in lots of posts (each revision) getting stored in the database. The feature is nothing I need or use and after seeing the result in my database size I looked for ways to disable it.
In How To Turn Off Post Revision In WordPress 2.6 is the [...]
WordPress 2.6 and blank admin screen
August 3, 2008 – 9:42 am
I am in the process of upgrading my blogs to WordPress 2.6. That gave me a strange problem in some of my blogs, I got a blank screen when trying to access the admin part of WordPress. The strange thing was that those two themes (my own tweaks) that caused problem in admin mode worked [...]
My WordPress plugins, an update
July 19, 2008 – 10:12 am
I have updated my list of WordPress plugins that I use at my blogs.
StatPress is out, it logs too much to the database.
A mobile plugin is in, so is WordPress Database Backup.
Making WordPress mobile
July 12, 2008 – 4:27 pm
I am testing two different plugins that shall make your WordPress blog easier to read using mobile devices. Here at fortyplustwo I have installed the WordPress Mobile Edition and over at btwendel.com I have installed the WordPress Mobile Plugin.
If you are reading this blog using a mobile, please let me know how it works.
What about blog sidebars?
July 9, 2008 – 4:40 pm
I have taken time to work on my blogs, behind the scene as well as how they look. Part of that work was creating a list of WordPress plugins that I use at my blogs. Some of those plugins – Best Foot Forward, Random Posts Widget and Tag Functions – give me functionality that I [...]
My WordPress plugins
July 8, 2008 – 9:27 pm
I have created a page with the WordPress plugins that I use at my blogs. There are posts about various plugins here, now I have a list of what is currently used. My intention is to keep the page up to date.
Using WordPress as a business directory
June 30, 2008 – 12:03 am
I use hosted WordPress for my blogs and also as a CMS for my coaching business at Key Coaching. When using WordPress as a CMS (content management system) the emphasis is on using pages, not blog posts.
Since I find WordPress easy to work with and also tweak themes myself I wanted to use Wordpress for [...]
SEO from a layman perspective
June 20, 2008 – 8:07 am
I must confess that I thought SEO, search engine optimization, was something consultants sold to the big guys and not for small blogs like mine.
More for the sake of it I did install the All in One SEO Pack in WordPress, put in on automatic (the plugin autocreates SEO keywords and excerpt) and forgot about [...]
