Themeshaper Acamas Themelet giveaway

I’m a big fan of WordPress frameworks, Themeatic from Themeshaper along with some of his Themelets (child themes) being one I particularly love because of its focus on words and content rather than slick javascript and things blinking and flashing!

The Thematic WordPress Theme is an amazing theme, back-end and design wise. I fell in love at first sight. Even among all those “premium” news and magazine style WordPress themes, I’ve never seen such a complex and also organized back-end.

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SEO, See with your Eyes then Optimize

This will be a three or four part series outlining some basic and key point’s regarding WordPress and Search Engine Optimization.

The title ‘See with your Eyes then Optimize’will basically represent the mission of continuous optimization and we will use this blog as an example if it fails then you know not to follow these steps! ;)

A brief outline and I hope to have the first in the series of posts up within the next 24-48 hours…

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New WordPress plugin add Twitter id to your comments!

A few hours ago (OK 24 ish) this popped up in the RSS;

Direct link to post: How I added the Twitter ID field to comments on Twitip.com

A couple of days ago I added the ability for those leaving comments on my TwiTip Twitter Tips blog to add their Twitter ID as well as their URL to comments. Since doing this I’ve been asked time and time again how we did it. In this guest post Sean Walberg (the guy who actually made it happen and who is my server admin on TwiTip) explains how he did it.

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How to add text only social media links to WordPress posts

For this site I wanted to have only text links for post submissions to Social Media sites like Mixx, Sphinn, Digg etc. and had to search several different sites to find all the code so I thought I would make a quick post with the relevant code for submission to these sites as text only links:

First the CSS which you should add to your main Stylesheet (style.css)

[sourcecode language='css']

.socials { background-color:#efefef; text-align:center; font-size:12px; font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom:10px; padding:5px 0px 5px 0px; }

.socials a { margin-right:10px; text-decoration:none; }

[/sourcecode]

Submit codes for Feedburner, Feedburner email, Twit this, StumbleUpon, Sphinn, Mixx, Digg & Delicious. Continue Reading

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