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I am using WordPress as a CMS for one of my websites. For that website, instead of having a default category page, I wanted to have a customised category page which lists titles of all posts under that category. And I also wanted to display a category image if it exists in /wp-content/uploads/images [...]

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iTheme is a WordPress Theme for Mac lovers – a work of art by N.Design Studio. I love the colors and how sleek it looks!
View a demo or download iTheme here.
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I have just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.1.3. Although there is no major changes on the look and feel and functionalities, it is highly recommended to upgrade because the latest version includes fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase [...]

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If you are using any WordPress Themes from esn studio, you might like to download latest versions from WordPress Themes page. You don’t have to update it if you don’t want to as old versions will still work just fine, but I suggest you do in order to take advantage of newly added features. [...]

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While WordPress offers almost every functionality you need for running a blog, there are a few things missing when using it as a Content Management System (CMS) for a corporate website. The following plugins are considered must haves (by me) because they provide various functionalities which contribute to a successful website but do not [...]

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According to the folks at WordPress, version 2.1.1 may contain a security hole, and therefore, if you are running 2.1.1, upgrade it to 2.1.2 immediately.
Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should [...]

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This blog’s title (have a look in the title bar ^) has been seo-ed to the max. Here’s what I put in header.php of my current theme.

<title>
<?php wp_title($sep = ”);?>
<?php if (is_home()) { bloginfo(‘description’); } ?>
– <?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>
</title>

Robert thinks [...]

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Golden Green WordPress Theme (pic above) is now available for download.
Features:

Links to all pages with an excerpt
Advertisement spot (Leaderboard) in the header of all pages
A matching favicon
An image logo
Links to 10 recent posts on the homepage
Links to random posts at the footer – You will need to install Random Posts plugin for [...]

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What do you think of my new wordpress theme – Golden Green?
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esn studio is now running on WordPress 2.1 Ella. The upgrade was painless. The only change I needed to make to the theme was replace wp_get_links() with wp_list_bookmarks() because wp_get_links() has been deprecated.
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