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WordPress – How to Find the Best Free Themes

WordPress theme: Dilectio (by Buou)

On Monday I asked the readers what they would like me to write about. Unfortunately, I didn’t get much of a response. Either I have no readers, my readers want me to stop writing, or they, like Vered, are happy with the topics I have selected. Ellen asked me a question about image padding and olu_guy on Twitter asked me to write about how to find WordPress themes and customize them. I’ll accept olu_guy’s request even though he didn’t ask me in the comments :-)

I plan on discussing image padding and other properties next week. Today, I am going to tackle part of olu_guy’s question; How to Find WordPress Themes. His entire question is an enormous topic so I am going to have to break the theme issue into different articles.

So, how do you find WordPress themes? Well, it depends. Do you want a free theme, a premium theme, or a custom built theme? Today, I am going to primarily discuss free themes.

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WordPress – Do You Prefer the Visual or HTML Text Editor to Write Your Posts

As a Pin (by Jennie R. F.)

Lately I’ve been curious about how other people use WordPress. Recently I asked if people preferred the visual or html editor in WordPress via Twitter.

I received 9 responses after asking twice. Since I have almost 500 followers, that isn’t a very good ratio but I doubt all of my followers use WordPress and of course, not everyone is logged in at the same exact time as me nor are they interested in answering my questions. What is also interesting is that only 1 of the 9 responses came from a woman. I’m not sure what this says about my followers or who is interested in WordPress or even who was online but it’s still interesting. Well, at least to me it is.

And survey says:

  • Visual: 1
  • HTML: 4
  • Both: 2
  • Other: 2

I was relieved to see that most of those surveyed use the html editor. I prefer it as well although I also fall into the other category as I frequently write my articles in Notepad++ and then copy them into WordPress. I think it’s good for people to use the HTML editor for 2 reasons; 1) it produces cleaner code and 2) it provides a familiarity with HTML that is useful in making edits in other parts of the template files. The people who gave reasons for preferring the HTML editor said it was because it produced cleaner code or that they didn’t trust the visual editor.

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Stuff This in Your RSS – 9/16/08 – Shows Recently Added to Hulu

stuff like that (by debaird)

I don’t watch television. I don’t have a snooty, “oh I’m too good for tv”, reason. I am just SO busy that I don’t have time nor can I sit still and enjoy it. The new season, however, is starting so I decided the RSS feed for the week should be the recently added shows added to Hulu. If you haven’t heard of Hulu, well actually I would be surprised if you hadn’t, it’s a free streaming video site for television shows and movies. Most of the content is provided by NBC but the service is growing rapidly.

The downside to this feed is that Hulu is currently only available in the United States. Their support page says they are working on global access but they don’t give a time frame on that. So, I apologize to my visitors from other countries that my feed of the week can’t be stuffed by you.

RSS Feed: http://rss.hulu.com/HuluRecentlyAddedShows

photo credit: debaird

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Question for My Readers – What WordPress Tips Would You Like Me to Write About?

Hooded Reader (by Big Mike 42)

Recently, two of most popular articles were How to Exclude Pages From the WordPress Navigation Bar and WordPress – Sort Your Search Results by Relevance Rather Than By Date. So, I’m getting the impression that my readers are WordPress users who want to learn how to customize their blogs with template tags, plugins and CSS. I have a lot of WordPress ideas to write about, so I thought I would give you the chance to tell me what you would like to know or something you’ve been trying to do that you just can’t quite get to work. Ask me about it in the comments, and I will write an article just for you.

We all know that the WordPress Codex has poor search functionality and is not written in everyday language. I’m offering to interpret it for you and translate it into English.

Whoever comments first will get their request written about first. Sounds fair enough to me.

photo credit: Big Mike 42

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(Anti) Social-Lists – 9/14/08

I’ve got some great links for you this week, including some information about me! I’ve also found a awesome tutorial and two links about getting involved. I hope you enjoy this week’s installment.

  • Mark Hayward of mytropicallandscape launched Train for Humanity. Check out the site and get involved.
  • Dave Wilkinson posted an awesome tutorial on how to backup your website via ftp with Filezilla. He’s got a lot of other useful information on his website, so it’s worth reading some of his other articles.
  • Green & Clean Mom launched the Mommy Go Green Blog Tours. If you would like to write about and review environmentally sound products on your website, get involved with the tour. There is also a section for companies who would like to have their products reviewed.
  • Narayanan Hariharan provides a humorous look at the Unnecessary Knowledge database. I don’t want to divulge any spoilers but watch out for donkeys, ok?
  • Soon, I will be relaunching my website in order to highlight my services as a WordPress Technical Consultant. So, I am shamelessly plugging myself by linking to Kristen King’s write-up about me, Upgrade Complete! Meet the Brilliant Mind Who Made it Possible, at Inkthinker and Siel’s recommendation of my work at Green La Girl. If you need some help with WordPress, contact me via the information in the sidebar and we will work something out.

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Email: kim.woodbridge@gmail.com
Twitter: kwbridge
Phone: 215-534-6557
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