Early Morning Child Theme

This elegant design was inspired by the colors of the early morning. It’s light, elegant and pleasantly surprising.

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Early Morning Child Theme for Thematic

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. Well, we’ve found a little addon plugin that integrates NextGEN with GalleryView, an excellent jQuery gallery plugin. What more could we want?

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By | Published: January 13, 2010 | Posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , | 79 Comments

Smarter WordPress Theme

Simply put, Smarter is a powerful CMS and business WordPress theme.

A Smart WordPress Theme

It gives your blog a personal look, with easy customization, without getting lost into too much options.
Its friendly interface and design work together giving your readers a pleasant experience every time they visit your site. Besides, you can get the most out of it’s SEO friendly structure by using the all in one seo pack plugin.

Pricing

For 25$ you can purchase Smarter, which includes the psd files.
Smarter is released under GPL license and that means you can use it on an unlimited number of websites.

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By | Published: January 11, 2010 | Posted in Theme Design | Tagged , , | 36 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 features. I hope you find it interesting and let me know what you think so far!

The theme will be released in January 2010 so if I got your attention
you should follow me on Twitter.
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 issues you might have with the code snippets found on the site.

So without further ado I here by present you the Cozmoslabs Forums.

By | Published: December 14, 2009 | Posted in General, Wordpress | Tagged | 7 Comments

jEdit – Programmer’s Text Editor

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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 must have lost several days searching and testing different editors!

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By | Published: November 21, 2009 | Posted in General | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

Create an “About the author” area for Thematic

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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 writer!

The scope of this tutorial is composed of two parts:

  1. Listing the author’s name, biographical info, gravatar picture and website inside the post body. ( Single Post Demo )
  2. Creating an author archive page with the same info as above, plus we’ll list the author’s posts in a different way (Thematic already has this functionality implemented, but we’ll do some changes to the styling and the way the posts are displayed). (Author Archives Demo)

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By | Published: October 28, 2009 | Posted in Thematic | Tagged , , , | 6 Comments

Multilingual WordPress – WPML Plugin Review

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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.

I’ve had this discussion in the past, with a description of various plugins and methods to develop a multilingual WordPress blog / site.

In that article I’ve talked about the theory behind multilingual web-developement and mostly about the multilingual WordPress and four ways of implementing it:

  1. The “Two-Tree” concept ( we use “language” categories )
  2. Automated translation (using google languages or babelfish)
  3. Manual translation using plugins ( I could only find one really good plugin that can do that so we’ll look into that)
  4. Semi-automated payed translation. (this is rather an ingenious concept and I believe the people who created the service will have a lot to gain from it)

Today we’ll talk about a new and really interesting
WordPress multilingual plugin: WPML.

The interesting thing about this multilingual plugin is the way it organizes the information. It’s completely different from qTranslate (that I presented in the previous multilingual blog post). Instead of using language tags (that separates the content in different languages), MPLM links one post in English to another post that will represent it’s translation in Spanish for example. This way you get to translate everything in a very clean way.

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By | Published: October 8, 2009 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 57 Comments

Members: WordPress Plugin by Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock has done it again. This time he released to the WordPress community a user, role, and content management plugin called Members.

Its purpose is to make WordPress a more powerful CMS by giving you fine-grain control over the users of your site.

So what dose this plugin do:

  • Edit Roles: Edit your user roles and their capabilities.
  • New Roles: Create new roles for use on your site.
  • Content Permissions: Adds a meta box on your write post/page editor that allows you to restrict content to specific roles.
  • Widgets: Adds a login form widget and user-listing widget that you can use in any widget area on your site.
  • Shortcodes: Creates shortcodes that you can use to restrict or allow access to certain parts of your posts and pages (or any other shortcode-capable area).
  • Template Tags: New functions for use within your WordPress theme for various things.
  • Private Blog: Allows you to create a private blog that can only be accessed by users that are logged in (redirects them to the login page).

I personally can’t wait for future developments of this plugin. It takes WordPress one step closer to full user management without having to code it your self :)

By | Published: September 18, 2009 | Posted in CMS, Wordpress | Tagged , , | 13 Comments

Early Morning Child Theme

This elegant WordPress theme was inspired by the colors of the early morning as I see them from my window. It’s light, elegant and pleasantly surprising.

This theme doesn’t scream at you, instead it takes a step back and lets the user read. Please don’t spoil it by putting ads on it!

Early Morning - A refreshing child theme for Thematic

Early Morning - A refreshing child theme for Thematic

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By | Published: July 20, 2009 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Thematic, Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 171 Comments