ThemeDreamer Adobe Dreamweaver Extension For WordPress Themes

ThemeDreamer Adobe Dreamweaver Extension For WordPress Themes

If you have ever tried creating a WordPress theme in Dreamweaver, you know it’s not very easy and the process is rather repetitive. Even with a localhost WordPress installation with WAMP or similar, you are continually editing, saving, previewing, re-editing, etc. ThemeDreamer removes a lot of the hassles out of creating WordPress themes by integrating with Dreamweaver’s design view. ThemeDreamer takes the assortment of WordPress PHP files such as index.php, header.php, sidebar.php, footer.php, etc. and combines them to allow WYSIWYG editing in design view.

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A Cool Little WordPress Hack To Help Protect Your Blog From Comment Spammers

A Cool Little WordPress Hack To Help Protect Your Blog From Comment Spammers

If you own a WordPress powered website you will most surely have Askimet enabled to help detect and easily manage spammers from posting comments. Askimet is a great plugin that has worked pretty successfully for me on all wordrpess sites that I own or administer. This little wordpress comment hack adds another layer of protection though by looking for the HTTP referrer (the page where the request comes from) and automatically blocks the comment if the referrer is incorrect or not defined.

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50 How To Create Design WordPress Themes Web Layouts In Photoshop Tutorials

50 How To Create Design WordPress Themes Web Layouts In Photoshop Tutorials

One of the best ways to learn how to create custom theme designs in photoshop is by practicing through using tutorials that are freely available on the web. Many of the tutorials that are available will teach you techniques that can then be incorporated into your own original designs, it’s also much easier to learn by following others detailed steps and techniques than it is through trial and error or even a paid course. All you need to learn design techniques nowadays is the ability to read, follow instructions, sweat, time, effort, google and of course a copy of Photoshop.

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Hotaru CMS A Truly Modular Content Management System

Hotaru CMS A Truly Modular Content Management System

Hotaru CMS is a modular CMS that can be used to launch almost any kind of website, the use that interested me though was the fact that Hotaru CMS can be configured to build a Social News website similar to Digg or Wpscoop the second of which I own and is built using Drupal. Being that Drigg for Drupal hasn’t really been developed or maintained since 26 Jun 2009 now I was looking at possible systems for the future in case Drigg never makes it to a Drupal 7 release.

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Are WordPress Premium Themes Becoming Too Heavy and Bloated With PHP Code

Are WordPress Premium Themes Becoming Too Heavy and Bloated With PHP Code

Premium WordPress Theme providers are everywhere on the net these days with some having made very successful business’s developing themes for sale. Is the relentless push and advancements of wordpress theme development also having a side effect of themes now becoming very PHP heavy and server resource intensive. This is a question I have been asking myself for several months now “Are WordPress Premium Themes Becoming Too Heavy and Bloated With PHP Code?”.

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WPscoop – WordPress Social News

WPscoop – WordPress Social News

WPScoop (WordPress Scoop) is website dedicated to bringing you WordPress related News, Reviews and Stories. All the latest and greatest information on the WordPress blogging platform can be found on the pages of WPscoop.

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Dan Bull – Doorways I Am Really Loving Dan Bulls’s Music

Dan Bull – Doorways I Am Really Loving Dan Bulls’s Music

So over the past few days have been really digging some of Dan Bulls tracks that aren’t the “Lily Allen Open Letter” one, Doorways just like another favorite of mine “Generation Gaming” is an absolutely fabulous track. Dans lyrical talent and song writing/production skills in Doorways especially in my opinion surpasses many of the commercially signed artists in the charts today. Give Dan’s track “Doorways” a listen in this post and you will see why i hold Dan and his music in such high regard.

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Dan Bull – Generation Gaming A Geek Gamers Anthem Video

Dan Bull – Generation Gaming A Geek Gamers Anthem Video

After my previous post about Lily Allen and Dan Bull’s fantastic open letter song that was a response to Lily’s recent pro copyright ideals  i explored some more of Dan’s music. One particular song of Dan’s that stood out for me is titled “Generation Gaming”, for me the song is a perfectly crafted piece of music aimed at anyone who loves video games and once again Dan’s song writing and lyrical skills shine. I could rave on all day ling about this track but to fully appreciate it’s quality it’s better if you listen and watch the excellent video for yourself.

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