WordPress Theme Releases for 09/03

BlogTimes is an old school Newspaper style WordPress Theme, based on a three column fluid layout, enabled with cufon fonts with beautiful typography for the headlines, options panel, and a custom front page slider. Dark Tuts is a very clean WordPress theme that has been designed with blogs in mind. This theme has an HTML5 doctype, clean and valid code, 3 color schemes (blue, green, red), 3 different ways to add post thumbnails, the ability to change thumbnail sizes via the theme panel, 1 advertisement spot and tons more features.

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Lorelle’s Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins

Lorelle VanFossen has published a recap of her Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins session given on August 29th at OpenCamp in Addison, TX. To Lorelle, “a mind blowing WordPress Plugin is one that breaks the rules. It is unique and original in its implementation, and pushes WordPress.

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elRTE – open-source WYSIWYG HTML-editor

elRTE is an open-source WYSIWYG HTML-editor written in JavaScript using jQuery UI. It features rich text editing, options for changing its appearance, style and many more. You can use it in any commercial or non-commercial projects.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/01

New plugins Facebook Like for Tags converts a standard Facebook Like button from a one-time sharing feature to a one-on-one relationship for ongoing updates and sharing based on tags (keywords) or categories defined by you, the blogger/author. LBAK Google Checkout is aimed mainly at small projects that just want to sell a few things on their blog through Google Checkout and don’t want too much else apart from ease of use. Pingdom Status lets you display your Pingdom monitoring data on your WordPress site, essentially creating a status page for whatever it is you are monitoring.

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WordPress Mobile Apps for Android and BlackBerry Updated

The WordPress mobile apps for Android and BlackBerry have both been updated with some shiny new features, like a new comment notification system and improved VideoPress integration . There’s no word yet on an update to the iOS mobile app , but the team still has its eyes set on making this one a major bug-fixing release. These recent updates would not have been possible without your feedback and beta testing skills , so keep doing whatever you can to make each release better than the last! Do you use any of the WordPress mobile apps?

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Touch Gallery – Full-screen Photo Gallery For Touch Devices

Touch Gallery is not just an another lightbox. Touch Gallery brings the look and feel of native photo viewing apps to your mobile browser. Download& Demo: http://neteye.github.com/touch-gallery.html

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WordPress Theme Releases for 08/30

Bombax is a nicely crafted theme with 5 different color schemes and configurable options such as right or left or holy grail or no sidebar, magazine style or traditional style, custom header, and custom background. Lukoo is a simple and stylish theme based around the color green. Modernist is a beautifully built yet transparent theme.

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WordPress and the Fatal Memory Error

Remember the old days when your computer would crash because you were running too many applications simultaneously? Well, you might be surprised to know that WordPress can fall victim to the very same thing. You see, your server may be packed with 4 GB of RAM, but that doesn’t mean that all 4 GB have been allocated to PHP on your account.

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QuickFlip 2: The jQuery Flipping Plugin

QuickFlip is a jQuery plugin Jon has wrote that uses a CSS trick to cause a div, paragraph or any other piece of HTML markup to flip like a card. With a result similar to the UI animation on the iPhone, this jQuery plugin is easily integrated into your webpage to make any portion appear to flip and show its back. QuickFlip works by using an animation shortcut that is barely noticeable when flipped quickly (hence the name).

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