BlogBuzz July 18, 2009

Jul 18, 2009 by Matt | Posted in BlogBuzz No Comments

WordPress Theme of the Month: Doc

Jul 17

This month’s featured WordPress theme is Doc. [Preview] Doc is a minimal one-column theme, about as minimal as you can get. Lots of whitespace, and absolutely no imagery. It’s all typography. The theme is meant to put your content front and center, with as…

Combining RSS and Twitter Subscriber Counts

Jul 16

If you’ve been to Mac AppStorm recently, you may have noticed that their new subscriber count box doesn’t just list the FeedBurner circulation. It seems to be a sum of the FeedBurner subscribers and the AppStorm Twitter account’s followers. An interesting idea, isn’t it?…

Scheduling WordPress Hooks With WP_Cron

Jul 15

If you do much in the way of WordPress plugin development, whether you’re doing plugins, themes, or just customizing your own sites, you may have come across a scenario where you wanted to have a function fire every so often. WordPress has a system,…

Turnkey Linux

Jul 14

Turnkey Linux is an interesting open source project I happened across fairly recently. They have several different specialized Ubuntu-based Linux distros tuned specifically to run certain scripts. The slim OSes run around 150MB in size, and have just the right packages installed for a…

ThemeForest Goes GPL For it’s WordPress Themes

Jul 13

Envato’s ThemeForest marketplace will now be licensing the PHP portions of their WordPress themes under the GPL. To better respect the spirit of WordPress, beginning August 4th, all WP templates on ThemeForest will be sold with two licenses. The first is the GPL, in…

Design Spotlight: Tumblr

Jul 12

Tumblr redesigned their website sometime in the last few months or so. The new design is very simple, with a few nice touches.

BlogBuzz July 11, 2009

Jul 11

Would You Pay For Support?

Jul 10

Suppose a major WordPress plugin, such as WP Super Cache, All in One SEO pack or insert-name-of-your-favorite-plugin, decided to go the paid support route, would you pay? If they offered the plugin for free, but sold an optional package with some extras as well…

An Approach to Fair Ad Blocking

Jul 9

Wladimir Palant, author of the ever-popular AdBlock Plus extension for Firefox, recently penned an interesting article on the AdBlock blog: An approach to fair ad blocking. As I stated many times before, my goal with Adblock Plus isn’t to destroy the advertising industry. In…