38 Comments / Bima Arafah on Jul 13, 2010
in Web Development

After a quite long awaited by many WordPress users all over the world, finally this world most popular blog portal launchs its brand-new version WordPress 3.0 a.k.a Thelonius.
Thelonius is the software version 13th which have been launched by WordPress until now. We’ll find not less than 2.700 changes and 1.217 bugs fixed inside it. The most striking change is its capability to run some blogs at the same time or generally called Multiside Capabilities (with WordPress MU). Before, each blogs on the web shall be run separately. This capability to run many blogs has been integrated into its brand-new version, so that it can be utilized easier. Bloggers are now be able to upgrade through upgrade menu on the WordPress or we can also download it manually. So what any other features can we maximize on it? Let’s now discuss it a lil’ bit deeper.
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41 Comments / Lam Nguyen on Apr 14, 2010
in Quick Tips

This small code snippet will help you to display the time ago for WordPress post if your post was published less than 24 hours ago. You can find some code published on other blogs that used for displaying the time different from now to the time when the post published like: “minutes ago“, “hours ago“, “days ago“… This code will display only when the different time is less than 24 hours.
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29 Comments / Jilson Thomas on Mar 09, 2010
in Themes

You may have your own blog or working for someone else. What ever may be the content of the blog, the theme of the blog gives the first impression about the blog to the reader. If your theme is very interactive and user friendly, then reader will probably enjoy it. If you are serious about your blog, you should have a serious theme. If you have a design or technical related blog, you probably don’t want to miss this showcase.
In the showcase below, I tried to include some of the highest rated magazine/business WordPress themes voted on by bloggers and designers. Once you have a licence for the theme, you are (of course) free to edit it to fit for your requirements. Here are some premium themes that will get you noticed, for sure.
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45 Comments / Lam Nguyen on Jan 08, 2010
in PHP

This tutorial is in the series of “WordPress Theme from Scratch†that helps you build a WordPress theme by yourself from nothing. Previous tutorial in this series helped we convert a mockup in PSD to HTML and today, we will continue to go to last tutorial: build WordPress theme from the HTML file.
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61 Comments / Lam Nguyen on Jan 02, 2010
in WordPress

WordPress is getting popular now and everyone is switching to use WordPress because we can build anything with WordPress: WordPress as a magazine, WordPress as a bulletin board, Video site ….. Today, I would like to put all my love for WordPress into this tutorial to explain how to build WordPress as a Community News, … but in a right way.
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34 Comments / Lam Nguyen on Dec 27, 2009
in WordPress

People asked me how I mention my recent articles in WordPress sidebar by display post thumbnails and titles with a well-styled. Today, I would like to response their request. This way is being used in some blogs. I’m not sure if they are using the same method as mine, but at least we will get the same result.
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67 Comments / Lam Nguyen on Nov 12, 2009
in Popular

Do you know what the most difference between the hard-working wordpress theme developer and the lazier one is? The hard-working always finds the ways to restrict plugin using for his theme, but the lazier one just needs a plugin that can use for his theme and save his time is fine. However, sometime, there are wordpress plugins that two kind of designer above must use.
This post contains 10 wordpress plugins that help you to boost up your wordpress design. Some of plugins in this collection based on the ideas around the web blog design tutorial posts. Enjoy it!
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