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Display your Wordpress blog Statistics

One of the things I wanted to implement in my new website theme, was the display of the blog statistics. After the code snippet to display recent comments without a plugin, I really wanted to give something new to my footer.
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Wordpress: Social Bookmarking

Wordpress is the tool of use of an increasing number of people, be it a developer, clients or just blog enthusiasts. If you fall into one of this categories you should think in optimization your WordPress experience. One way to do that is insert more functionalities into your website / blog. You should be thinking by now – Widgets! Well, widgets are one of the ways to achieve that, but do we really want to depend on widgets to implement all the features on our blog? You can, but you shouldn’t. It’s pretty obvious that after a certain amount of widgets you will see the loading time of your website increase accordingly.
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Website Background Patterns

So you’re looking for a new pattern for your website? If you’re not you will be after this post!
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Wordpress Theme: Notepad Chaos

Smashingmagazine released another free Wordpress theme called Notepad Chaos, designed by Evan Eckard.

Today we are glad to release Notepad Chaos — a free professional Wordpress-theme. The theme has 2 columns, a quite vibrant design including “personal” design elements such as handwritten headings, stick-it-notes, clips and pins. The theme was designed by Evan Eckard especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Details: Notepad Chaos theme has handwritten search box and navigation at the top of the layout. It’s a 2 columns theme with a vibrant illustrated background. It uses no plugins or extras.

Requirements: No special requirements since the theme doesn’t use any plugins or extras.

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Wordpress Theme: Wordpress Fun

Smashingmagazine released yesterday a new free Wordpress theme. It’s a professional looking theme with a great design overall.

Today we are glad to release a wordpress.fun — a free professional Wordpress-theme. The theme has 2 columns, thumbnails integration, a “featured” post section as well as a nice grungy design. The theme was designed by Maleika Attawel from Germany, purchased by Smashing Magazine and is now released as a gift for our readers.

Details: The theme is built with WordPress 2.5.1 and is only partially backwards compatible. The theme also works with Wordpress 2.6. As this theme uses a few .png files, it is recommended that you make sure that the image paths to these are correct (for IE6). You find the two CSS rules in the ie.css file inside your theme folder. The theme can be used with or without widgets (below the fold).

Requirements: Wordpress 2.5.1 or Wordpress 2.6

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Customizing your Wordpress Sidebar

I’ve had some people asking me how did I customize the right sidebar of my blog, from the RSS Feed link at the top till the categories below. I’m writing this article to try to help you achieve something like I did on Paintbits on your Wordpress Blog.

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