http://www.themearena.com Free & Premium Wordpress Themes, Wordpress Tips, Blogging Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:35:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While browsing Guy Kawasaki's blog archive I cam across an interesting article by Dumb Little Man about improving your grammar and your punctuation when writing posts. I mean, let's admit it, you can be a very good blogger, have a very interesting opinion about something, but nothing can ruin it ... http://www.themearena.com/improve-your-writing/ Today we present you the Seo-Design Wordpress theme, which wasn't created by us, but by our friends over at Publisher Heaven. The theme looks very good and it's also very functional, with very good Google Adsense integration (or any other type of advertisement). The Seo-Design Wordpress theme features: 1. This Wordpress Theme ... http://www.themearena.com/seo-design-wordpress-theme/ Here's the EasyTube Wordpress plugin, created by Paul Bain and which enables you to put videos from YouTube or Google Video very easy, on your blog. Some of our more advanced readers would ask why trouble and install this plugin when YouTube and Google offer the embed code. Well, the ... http://www.themearena.com/very-simple-youtube-and-google-video-integration-with-the-easytube-wordpress-plugin/ Categories Autolink is a nice Wordpress plugin developed by Alberto Lombardo and I'm thinking of activating it on some of my blogs. When you create your posts, if you write a word that's also a category on your blog, the plugin automatically transforms the word into a link to that ... http://www.themearena.com/categories-autolink-wordpress-plugin/ Wordpress announced 2.2.2 and 2.0.11 releases, which include security and minor bug fixes. Because of this, you'd better upgrade as soon as possible, because the upgrades won't mess your plugins pr your themes. Click to see the fixes for 2.2.2 and for 2.0.11. View the official Wordpress announcement on the development blog. http://www.themearena.com/wordpress-222-and-2011-available/ TipMonkies has a list of keyboard shortcuts you can use when writing or editing your posts in Wordpress: Bold: Alt+SHIFT+b Italics: Alt+SHIFT+i Link: Alt+SHIFT+a Blockquote: Alt+SHIFT+q Code: Alt+SHIFT+c Read More: Alt+SHIFT+t Unordered List (ul): Alt+SHIFT+u Ordered List (ol): Alt+SHIFT+o List Item (li): Alt+SHIFT+l These shortcut may not work in some browsers, or some versions of browser. http://www.themearena.com/wordpress-keyboard-shortcuts/ Allegory Kiss is a two column theme Wordpress theme, with full widget support that has a right column and navigation links in the footer. The theme is released under GPL License. Here are some screenshots to give you an idea of how this theme looks like. We do not have a ... http://www.themearena.com/allegory-kiss-free-wordpress-theme/ Upgrading Wordpress when new versions come up is a must to, because, beside new features, these upgrades fix some bugs and, most important, fix some security problems that make your blog vulnerable. For some of you, upgrading can be a real pain in the ass, especially that, if you don't ... http://www.themearena.com/automatic-upgrade-plugin-for-wordpress/ Dagon Design released a cool plugin for Wordpress. Called Drop Down Post List, the plugin allows you to display drop-down lists with the posts in a specified category. You can use this plugin by entering the trigger text in a post or page, or by adding the function call directly to ... http://www.themearena.com/drop-down-post-list-plugin-for-wordpress/ Here's an interesting widget for. The 'Most Commented Posts' widget for Wordpress allows you to display a list with your most commented posts. This is good, because it will outline your most popular posts and you want people who come for the first time on your blog to get to ... http://www.themearena.com/most-commented-posts-wordpress-widget/