wordpress theme and plug-in challenge

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    timethief · Member ·

    Here is an article that may be on interest http://www.successful-blog.com/1/interview-6-blogging-pros-david-peralty/ wrote ME Strauss this July 4th @ 7:48 am:
    David Peralty, Blogging Pro

    A few days ago I posted about the WordPress Theme and Plugin Challenge set by David Peralty at Blogging Pro. In that post, I promised more information about David and his reasons for posing the challenge. Both are worth a closer look.

    Aren’t there already enough WordPress themes and plugins to go around? David Peralty thinks the community deserves a “Wow!” David doesn’t just write for Blogging Pro. He thinks that there are still more plugins in the minds of creative people that if given the right incentive, and motivation, will be released and we will all go “Wow!”.

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    drmike · Member ·

    There are a lot of theme areas that aren’t covered. Heck, one of the reasons why I moved my categories off of the sidebar was because of all of the hits I was getting for “World of Warcraft WordPress Themes” since theye were right side by side in the sidebar and I have yet to find any of those.

    Granted though, it takes all of two seconds to change a header image for the standard WordPress themes on a WP blog hosted elsewhere.

    I’m just tired of hitting themes that have simple issues that should be seen and fixed. Like those that assume you’re only going to have one category tag on a post and assign the background image for that line to be one line wide. Looks like crud when you tag five or six times and it spaces it out to two lines. Heck my current theme is broken on the search and the archive pages. The sidebar is thrown to the bottom because the Post column is set at 100% and forces everything else down.

    Or how about all the themes that don’t have Next/ Previous Post links? There’s a reason why I’m using the Sapphire theme here on the webcomic.

    As to the plugins, *shrug*. I’ve usually found what I’ve needed when I go looking for a plugin. Granted, a few have needed corrections to make them work in the enviroment that I have with my blog but no major beefs there.

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    timethief · Member ·

    I’ve noticed an interesting pattern evolving over these past 3 months on the wordpress.com forum. I read a lot of blogs some here some from wordpress.org and others webhosted with wordpress software downloaded.
    I read many are “techie/geek” type blogs although I never leave comments – what valuable comment would a newbie trying to gain an information base have to offer to these conversations, eh? Well sometimes by osmosis (reading lots of techie/geek types arguing back and forth over merits and de-merits for this and that) I get a glimmer of understanding of what the theme and plug-in issues are.
    The pattern I notice on this wordpress.com multiuser – we can’t hack for security reasons platform forum is – within days (hours) of reading that a new theme or plug-in has been developed this forum will have people on it requesting them.
    Now one would think the requesters would all be newbies like me that don’t understand the security issues. And one would think that experienced long term WPMU bloggers would use feedback to make their but that’s not always the case. My observation is that even long time wordpress.com will do this on this forum rather than going directly through feedback.
    Either it’s a puzzling sort of something new, it must be good, so jump on the bandwagon response. Or … Weird.

    edit – I just read the other thread saw “post it on your blog too” and lol

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