I myself already installed this wonderful script to the site and now caching of the frontpage custom field images are faster since before that i was using the same big images from custom field with a image resize but the file size to load are the same as big image so you can imagine how the site loads will be effected.

With the TimThumb script, now all custom field images are auto crop or tonedown so the usual 100kb images are now only 50kb so to speak…even slight improvement on the site loading already enough to make me happy

Darren well known for his creation of Mimbo series and Ben Gillbanks a wordpress wiz that created the bm custom login and the widely used bm trackback and pingback separator started the work during the release of mimbo pro and releasing the script as an open source program

Finally thanks to Darren and Ben for this great work if you just like me who hate to created 2 separate custom images (big and small image) to associated with one post, this script definately worth a try..server management and script installation can be found at the script release page

Wordpress 2.5 Release Candidate 1 (WP2.5 RC1) finally out couple of days ago and i also got a chance to give it a local testrun on how the new system (core) will reflect on my current themes and old themes.

So far i passed the first stage on the testing specially the custom theme option that usually imprinted in custom themes still survive from the changes from wordpress 2.3.3 to wordpress 2.5 RC1. I do had my doubt early on since the last time core changes (taxonomy) in wp 2.3 lead to making a drastic changes in theme coding for me and also other developers in that time. Of course without doubt many high powered blogs still carefully using a early version of wordpress 2.1 since making an upgrade to an stable version of wordpress 2.3 will take much consideration into changes in database within the 2.3 core.

What I Like About The New Wordpress 2.5 RC1 Changes?

First of course will be the new interface inside the dashboard are pretty neat..well its some what a step forward look on dashboard. Also i do notice some improvement of caching or information retrieve from within the dashboard. Not sure if the core had something to do with it but i find this articles about Object Caching Improvement may playing the big roll on the new wordpress core.

Addition to the faster object cache, the built-in gravatar in comment page also come in handy if you don’t want to bother to install any plugin or touch the code into implementing the avatar alike plugins. The current default Kubrick already impose on that function so you can try it out yourself.

Also the new interface in write panel also been ajaxed (not sure if that’s the right word for it )

Adding media and video become more flexible..well if you’re into the ajax stuff..you will love this new stuff.

Presentation were change to Design in wordpress 2.5 and it also added a theme tags that can be found below of the theme in your design panel, kind of neat dont’t ye think..Now you can tagged your theme so its easy for user to found their desired theme, come to think of it, the theme tagging function maybe usefull if by any change WordPress Themes Repository come alive soon after the stable of wordpress 2.5 released….hopefully its been unactivate since 2007

So far second stage on testing the new core on theme option had been successful and it seems the new version did not had any deadly effect on it, below are the screenshot for the theme option backend:

Also did i mention that uploading new media or images become more easy and eye candy than before, now you can automatically align the media/image since the panel provide an option for alignments.

The new upload media interface do seems to complicated for beginner in wordpress but still a few trip to wrtiting your own post with images will let you learn and adapt on the new interface….ok now my gallery almost full :spoiler:

What I Did Not Like On The New Wordpress 2.5 RC1 Changes?

Ok there’s always a pro and cons on everything so here are couple of thing i did not like not in the motion of throwing it through the wall

1. The dashboard write a new page and write a new post order..haha..some might find this minor problems but there’s couple of time i want to write a new dummy post, i just accidentally or drowed to click the first button and that will be the write page…I would personally think its better to put the write post first before the write page…

2. Widget is kind of confusing..i do prefer the old school widget area…I had to think twice where should i click and input the widgets.

3. Ajax or jquery effect bug in write panel – sometime when i finished writing a post or uploading a media, the ajax or jquery function just stop and unrespond (do note i’m using firefox at that time) although the post was short and rewrting it was not a problem (also draft not save at that time)..it tend to give you the WTF feel…

well other than the above mentions, all the new interface and changes still make me wanna hug the wordpress creator (in none gayish way)

Couple Of Idea That I Would Love To See In The Future Build

1. Built-in Theme Switcher widget

2. Design or the presentation can be categorized or page separate – something like if my free theme and client work theme can be separate but still using the same wordpress installations. Similiar to design with submenu or something like that..:)

3. smaller screenshot in design/presentation page or pagination in design/presentations – one of the pain in the butt is when you have more 70 themes inside the design/presention. it took like 20 minutes for it to finished loading the screenshot of the themes..ok it wasn’t that looong..maybe 10 minutes:)

4. please can we have activate all plugins button ..my hand hurt when activate it one by one..hehehe

5. More cover and advance option on user roles

6. Built in podcast or built-in voice blog or even voice comments would be nice..although it may seems putting in some extra weight into already complicated wordpress core..but who knows:)

So what do you think on the new wordpress release?

Another month goes by and i finally got a chance to round up the prolong theme i wanted to release few weeks ago. The last free theme release from dezzain studio are nobusx2 in way back end of 2007 and here i present a new theme that finally seen the light from dark corner of the site

Here Are The Theme Features/Functional

• 3 column theme with separate top sidebar block and bottom sidebar with split 2 widget sidebars
• Theme Option to control your font style, featured category and frontpage post control (full content or excerpt content)
• 6-8 adspace for 125 x 125 banner advertisment to generate aside income from your advertising
• top header 728×90 skyscrapper banner *optional – you can replace it with google adsense
• 300×250 ad banner compatible in sidebar
• Bottom left post content to featured 2 parent category from your archive
• Sidebar featured category with custom field and auto excerpt
• Custom Category Page With Inline Left Custom Image
• Archives page and Sitemap page included

Plugins Tested With Theme

• Alex king’ s popularity contest
• WP-PageNavi

Using Post Styling In Post

You can style any additional information for your post, example below:

you have to write in code view and make the necessary post write such as below:

• <p class=”download”>This is download styling classes</p>
• <p class=”warning”>This is warning styling classes</p>
• <p class=”note”>This is note styling classes</p>
• <p class=”alert”>This is alert styling classes</p>
• <p class=”info”>This is info styling classes</p>

Using Theme Option

Basically the theme option is easy and user friendly, nothing much for you to worry

Using Custom Field For Featured Post/Category Page

This one a bit tricky if you are not familiar with custom field usage. First the theme option include a setting for a custom field value, by default the custom value is featured images. You can set this a different value beside the default in theme option if you already running a blog with your own image control key value for post.

Step one

when writing your post, you’ll notice a Custom Field below the Optional excerpt and trackback [+] tabs. Open or click the Custom Field tab and it will display:

• Select box *this is useful if you already create the custom value
• key *custom key – featured images – default for this theme
• value *this will be the image url…etc

Step 2
Everytime you wanted to publish a post with images, you can grab the full url of the images and paste it into the Value box

sample value accepted:

• http://domainname/wp-content/uploads/filename.ext
• http://img-upload-url/filename.ext

Resize the images is not necessary since the category page featured custom value will be hidden if overflow and sidebar featured images will auto resize

You Can Download And Preview The Theme Below

Click Here For Timeline Digest Theme Preview

Click Here To Download Timeline Digest Free WordPress Theme

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Theme License And Usage

Timeline Digest WordPress Theme is license under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. You may used, edit or modify the theme but you must leave the author/designer link attached

Theme License Removal And Upgrade

You can purchase a fresh copy of the theme for $20 only which include

• Author/Designer Link removal – you can used the theme as you wishes without author/designer link
• Theme package upgrade with added source psd files, xhtml/css files for your additional editng

Please note: Free theme version and Upgrade version are basically the same. The only different will be the additional package include (psd, xhtml/css) and you can remove the link back to the site without worrying and start making additonal incomes with your blogs since the theme is optimize with any form of advertisment you need.

As a little bonus, 2.3.2 allows you to define a custom DB error page. Place your custom template at wp-content/db-error.php. If WP has a problem connecting to your database, this page will displayed rather than the default error message.

For more detail on what’s new in 2.3.2, view the list of fixed bugs and see the changes between 2.3.1 and 2.3.2.

Wordpress Themes

screenshot from wp-design.org

screenshot from kate theme viewer

Wallpaper and Art

A collection of cool wallpaper and art from smashing magazine

Came across this one from wonderwallpaper.com and used it as my backgorund image for the halloween festive…kind of spooky..

NobusX2 a 2nd version of Nobus Theme with added feature such as:

• 4 adblock sidebar
• Global CSS font and Headline Headings
• UTW and Native Tags Compatible
• PSD for footer, header, sidebar glossy bar included
• removed the -1 pixel font style
• add archives, sitemap, links as requested
• more clear and larger font post

DOWNLOADS() | DEMO

Morning yall its 7am in the morning here in Malaysia..just woke up early and get this theme rolling. The theme is a upgrade modification from previous Nobus so the sponsors link still valid and will need to be intact for the usage. In any case hope you guys enjoy and find the theme useful to your site…i will be releasing more non-sponsored theme later in October so stay tune..zzzzzzzzz its early right now..:)..hehe…if any problems with the theme, feel free to address here awright..i’m out

Attentions: If you’re using the older nobus theme with sponsors links, you are allowed to remove the sponsors links due to recent request from original sponsors. New downloads had been updated with sponsor links removed

Trevilian Way Is A Unique And Clean Theme by DesignCanopy. A 2×4 Magazine Layout spice things up and a main topic and secondary topics separator. Basically the theme is something different and unique style with its own flavour.

Trevilian Way is designed on a grid, so there is an underlying structure to the design. It includes several predefined classes to pull images out of the post measure to the right or to the left, or to just float an image left or right. These classes and their functions are listed below.

• left1col: Pulls the image one column to the left.
• right1col: Pulls the image one column to the right.
• right2col: Pulls the image two columns to the right.
• right3col: Pulls the image three columns to the right.
• right4col: Pulls the image four columns to the right.
• left: Floats the image to the left.
• right: Floats the image to the right.

More info about the theme can be found at author page.

Small potato from WPDesigner Released A premium theme at the mid of September and it is a paid theme that works almost just like any css gallery out there.

Css Gala Theme are become more and more popular among showcase top-notch design and neverseen design and style. With the release of Showcase, more and more people can had themself a css gallery and digg those un forseen web design to the design community. As a designer myself, Showcase give much room for improvement since the body layout are almost css based (nice work sp)…it also take to consideration that it can be modify easily to your need or site appearence.

Custom Css Gallery Theme mostly cost start from $500+ for the design and coding..not include the in depth support for a serious theme gallery developer. Showcase bring an alternate option for users that can’t afford an expensive full package CSS Gallery Development. For a catchy price as low as $70, you can run your own css gallery within times. Here are the actual price listing for Showcase

• Single Domain License – $70
  This license allows you to use Showcase on one website. You may not remove the credit in the footer.
• Multiple Domain License – $280
  This license allows you to use Showcase on multiple websites / domains, which means you can use this theme as many times as you want, for yourself. You may not remove the credit in the footer.
• Developer License – $700
  This license allows you to use this theme as many times as you want, for yourself and for clients’ websites. You may also remove the credit in the footer without having to pay a licensing fee for each time you use this theme.
• Credit Removal – $30
  This allows you to remove the credit message in the footer, for purchase with single and multiple-domain licenses only. You don’t need this for the developer license.

information above last update 29 septmeber 2007

more latest theme info can be found at WPdesigner Showcase

Smashing magazine well known for it portal infomation blog had release a free themes and font in celebration of their anniversary. The theme was designed by Elena Gafita from the DesignDisease team

Smashing theme are 3 column based theme with a mint coloured flavour, mild white background and a wondeful smooth of colour stripe that really smooth in the eye. More about the theme and detail work can be found at Smashing Magazine

Beta 3, the third and final beta for WordPress 2.3, is now available. Many bugs have been fixed since the second beta, and we could use your help finding and fixing more bugs in preparation for the first Release Candidate due next Monday. The standard disclaimer for betas applies. Beta 3 is pre-release software that is still being tested.

Quoted from wordpress beta download form, you can view more datails and download the BETA here