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For those who follow WooThemes, you will no doubt have seen our Tumblog Themes such as Cinch and Crisp, and will know that they give you similar functionality to a tumblr style blog from within WordPress. So if you didn’t buy one of our tumblog themes you wouldn’t be able to have that functionality, but now you can for FREE! In addition to this, you can buy the Express for WordPress iPhone app and publish content to your Tumblog enabled WordPress blog right from your iPhone!! See the official announcement page here: http://www.woothemes.com/2010/10/tumbling-along/
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I’ve been doing some modifications to the default WordPress Twenty Ten theme and I needed a custom taxonomy page template for my taxonomy archives – taxonomy.php – to take advantage of the WordPress template hierarchy. So I made a generic one for the Twenty Ten theme seeing as it doesn’t come with one.  So now your custom taxonomy archive pages don’t have to say “Blog Archives”, instead with this it will output the Taxonomy as well as the Term, similar to the Category archive page. Simply download the file below, extract it, and put taxonomy.php in the root of your Twenty Ten theme!

  Twenty Ten Taxonomy Page Template (1.3 KiB, 1,686 hits)

Just saw this from the guys at wpmu.org – Membership Lite. It’s a membership plugin much like others (Wishlist Member, Magic Members), but this one seems to be free and actually looks really good! Plus it’s in the WordPress repository. I’m gonna give it a try for sure and will post my thoughts when I’m done. Anyone else used it?

Grab it here now.

I recently got interviewed by Dan Milward for GetShopped.org as part of their 12 Awesome Examples of Custom Post Types article, in particular the innovative ways we’ve implemented them at WooThemes. I gave him the low down on what we did with Estate and the Tumblog themes.  There’s some really interesting examples in the article, check it out.  Thanks Dan!

Read the full interview here

Something I found useful while brushing up on my PHP MVC knowledge was this book by Packt Publishing. It’s called CodeIgniter 1.7 and takes you through the fundamental concepts of MVC within the CodeIgniter framework including a chapter on basic CRUD functions. I’m a big fan of this framework, having worked on a custom MVC framework and CakePHP in my web app building days, and I find it a really great framework to keep my skills sharp while not being frustrated with a steep learning curve.

Check it out: CodeIgniter 1.7 – https://www.packtpub.com/improve-coding-productivity-with-codeigniter-1-7/book

I recently purchased the treasure from Bundle Hunt and found the contents to be pretty rad. I’m particulary looking forward to getting to grips with Billings (a invoicing, project management, time tracking app for mac/iPhone), Subernova (online project management tool), and reading the Smashing Magazine ebook on Mastering Photoshop. The Bundle Hunt concept seems similar to the whole MacHeist vibe, and includes some other useful design stuff like icons and WordPress themes.

If you havent got it, you only have 5 days left to get it! You’re getting $1400 worth of stuff for $49 – pretty good in my opinion.

Get it here now : http://bundlehunt.com/

For those who have been too busy playing Starcraft 2 to notice, WordPress 3.0.1 has just been released! 50 minor issues have been dealt with and the download counter for 3.0.x stands at a whopping 11 million! (more…)