So WordPress 2.5 has been out for a few weeks now, have you taken the plunge and upgraded yet? Well if you still haven’t there’s a useful plugin that will do it for you automatically. If you use a lot of plugins it’s always a good idea to test them on a separate installation. Failing that Backup, Backup & Backup your blog before proceeding.
Great for users wanting a unique theme but lacking the knowledge in coding or design skills, I have compiled a list of all the WordPress Theme Generators I could find:
WP Pal looks very impressive unlike the others this one has multiple theme layouts to choose from that you can use as your base theme to begin customising. With options of suggesting additional themes.
Possibly the first WP Theme Generator, comes with a simple base theme to get started with many options for customising, well laid out and very easy to follow.
WordPress Theme Gen This one is a stand alone application for Windows, I personally haven’t tried it yet, but it looks very interesting.
Out of the above I’m most impressed by WP Pal, in the fact you can choose from multiple layouts for your base theme, although limited at the moment, once they get the ball rolling this could be an invaluable source for creating quick and easy custom themes for the novice.
Tony Scott recently took it upon himself to start discussions on the possibility of a Word Camp UK, in the last month it seems to have gaged a lot of interest from fellow UK WordPresser’s, a date is now being considered for 19-20 July, although location is still not clear.
Hopefully a list of speakers and location will be announced soon. As soon as I find out I’ll update WP Core with the full details. I could also be willing to ‘car share’ with any local Bristolians wishing to go but have no transport.
I’ll be doing a mini interview with Matthew Mullenweg founding developer of WordPress soon, and decided to open it up to wpcore readers, so if you have any specific questions you would like me to ask Matt, either leave a comment with your question or email the question you would like me to ask to contact[at]wpcore[dot com].
I’ll be accepting questions for 7-14 Days from this post before interviewing Matt so get your questions in
Here are some great firefox extensions for increasing productivity for WordPress users and developers:
Codex Search addon Adds a codex search option in firefox for quick searching
OneClick Installer for Wordpress OneClick is a companion extension for the OneClick plugin for WordPress. It allows you to install any wordpress theme or plugin from the context menu of firefox.
WordPress Post
This extension lets you post the text you select in your browser directly to your WordPress blog.
WordPress Helper The Firefox extension WordPress Helper helps you working with WordPress by providing useful help and tools.
Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page…
YSlow
YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on Yahoo’s rules for high performance web sites.
IE View
Adds a tab for quickly switching a tab to use internet explorer, great for cross browser testing.
Did I miss any other useful extensions? Let me know if there is any others you think should be added to the list
