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Theme Teasers

The last two months have been really productive. So I thought I’d share with you two of the works in progress. While still far from ready to be released, they are ready to be shown. Both will be child themes, but with a twist. This is as much as I can tell you at this [...]
By | Published: February 22, 2010 | Posted in Theme Design | Tagged , , , | 9 Comments

Remove Google Buzz from Gmail

I don’t like google buzz. Here is how to remove Google Buzz from Gmail in three easy steps. Hide Google Buzz from the Gmail interface Turn off Google Buzz completely
By | Published: February 11, 2010 | Posted in General | Tagged , | 6 Comments

Exclude posts from WordPress Navigation in Thematic

Let’s say you have a certain category that you want to be displayed some place other than on your main blog page. No big deal, you just exclude your special category from the main index loop. Now, you’re probably also want to make some changes to the single post navigation, and make it so that [...]
By | Published: February 10, 2010 | Posted in Thematic, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 10 Comments

Extending the admin post filtering

We have a brand new plugin for all you WordPress maniacs out there. Now you can filter your posts in all imaginable ways, even by custom taxonomies! Download it via the official WordPress plugins repository. Filter the admin post listing by: authors tags custom taxonomies that you have declared
By | Published: February 8, 2010 | Posted in plugins, Wordpress | Tagged , | 30 Comments

WordPress Photo Slideshow with NextGen Gallery

After looking into tons of solutions for a WordPress photo slideshow, most of them being flash applets, I’m confident that I’ve found the very best one. And it’s not even Flash, it’s just JavaScript. Are you familiar with the NextGEN Gallery plugin? Well, you must be, since it’s probably the most downloaded photo gallery plugin. [...]
By | Published: January 13, 2010 | Posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , | 79 Comments

Smarter Theme Teaser

It’s called Smarter and simply put it’s a CMS and business WordPress theme. The idea behind Smarter Theme is to quickly build a presentation website for small and medium size companies without the need to touch a single line of code. We’ve put together a screencast with a quick walk-through of the theme and its [...]
By | Published: December 18, 2009 | Posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

Cozmoslabs forums

It’s been really difficult to keep track of bugs and requests for the free Themelets I’ve released. There are over 380 comments related to the free themes and since I have plans in the future to release more a forum sounded as a good idea. Besides support for the themes I hope to discuss any [...]
By | Published: December 14, 2009 | Posted in General, Wordpress | Tagged | 7 Comments

jEdit – Programmer’s Text Editor

Since version 2.0 Aptana stopped supporting their own fork of the Eclipse PDT I’ve been searching for another editor. I got feed up with how slow it is, all the bloatware, installing the PDT was made me loose an entire day and I honestly believed there had to exist a better editor for Windows. I [...]
By | Published: November 21, 2009 | Posted in General | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

Create an “About the author” area for Thematic

By default, Thematic comes with a simple and useful representation for the Author Archives template. While this might be enough for the majority of users, there are times when we need more detailed information about the author. This is particularly useful on multi-author blogs, where readers might want to read more posts from a particular [...]
By | Published: October 28, 2009 | Posted in Thematic | Tagged , , , | 6 Comments

Multilingual WordPress – WPML Plugin Review

Photo by derSven ¶ One of the hardest things to do with WordPress is creating a multilingual blog / website that is easy to maintain and develop. My interest on the subject comes from the need of my customers for easy to maintain multilingual websites. This way they can extend their services to new markets. [...]
By | Published: October 8, 2009 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 57 Comments