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Five New Free Awesome WordPress Themes

Five New Free Awesome WordPress Themes

by Jerome

March 15 th

Here is a quick update on some new and wonderfully FREE WordPress themes I came across this month that are ready for you to download.
A big thank you to the developers  for generously giving away their latest creations.
Notepad

Live Demo | Release Page
DesignPile

Live Demo | Release Page
Rockwell

Live Demo | Release Page
Sport News PVM

Live Demo | Release [...]

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The Technical Support Plugin for WordPress

by Jerome

March 4 th

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New Default WordPress Theme Coming Soon

New Default WordPress Theme Coming Soon

by Jerome

February 2 nd

It has been a long time coming!  WordPress has decided to replace their outdated Kubrick theme with a new default install theme in version 3.0. The 2010 theme is now under development based on Kirby, created by Ian Stewart and you can have a sneak peek here. It shows a massive improvement: a nice modern [...]

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Run WordPress Locally In Just Few Clicks

Run WordPress Locally In Just Few Clicks

by Jerome

January 25 th

It’s always a good idea to have a copy of WordPress running on your local PC for anyone who wants to create a new WordPress Theme, test some plugins or try the latest version of WordPress.
One of the quickest ways to install WordPress locally was to use the popular XAMPP on Windows machine: but I [...]

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Get Notify Via Email On Any Updates

Get Notify Via Email On Any Updates

by Jerome

January 18 th

For anyone who doesn’t login that often to their admin panel but wants to keep getting informed of any WordPress, theme or plugins updates available, can now receive email alerts with the “Update Notifier” plugin.
This plugin will do exactly what it says by checking daily if any new version is out and then sending out [...]

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How To Expand Your WordPress Post Box

How To Expand Your WordPress Post Box

by Jerome

January 14 th

The other day I was checking the Writting Settings options and discovered after years of using WordPress that you can extremely easily expend your text editor post box. I find it extremely useful especially for large posts,  as it means there is  much less need for back and forth scrolling.

Expand Your Post Box In One [...]

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How To Insert Videos With One URL In WordPress 2.9

How To Insert Videos With One URL In WordPress 2.9

by Jerome

January 7 th

In WordPress 2.9 there is no more need to embed the full source code of your videos into your post thanks to the support of oEmbed. Now you just simply need to drop the video URL in your WordPress blog post.  It’s that simple!
As an example we are going to show you how to embed [...]

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Optimise Your WordPress Blog For Mobile Devices

Optimise Your WordPress Blog For Mobile Devices

by Jerome

January 3 rd

Recently we have seen a massive increase of people browsing the web from their mobile devices.  That is why it is getting more and more important to have your blog pages loading quickly and being easy to read on small devices. Here are some plugins to help you achieve this:
Top Plugins

WPtouch-the WPtouch plugin is my [...]

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