From the monthly archives:

April 2008

loop generator beta

by Joshua Unseth on April 30, 2008

I wrote a WordPress loop generator to expedite my own site building process. So far, I have only been able to incorporate the standard loop option into WordPress. I will be adding to this as I go, making it evermore complex.


FIRST, PICK THE TYPE OF LOOP YOU WANT:


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The Incubator

April 28, 2008

Postable: an AJAX utility that turns your HTML code into displayable text
Essential WordPress Plugins for running a magazine
Some really useful SEO tools
Customizing tabs and other junk
Java Sun Tabbed Pane Tutorial
Tabber

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Mimbo for bimbos: Making Mimbo do what you need

April 27, 2008

Mimbo is a great magazine theme. It is easy to manipulate, the CSS is clearly written, and there are so many uses for it.
For an example of a site that uses the Mimbo theme, look at The Brown Spectator. The Spectator has modified the Mimbo theme to fit its own needs, which is skill you’re [...]

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Great Articles

April 27, 2008

How to use WordPress to run a magazine, news website
Some WordPress Theme Basics
Mastering your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques
Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme

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Magazine Templates

April 27, 2008

Mimbo for Bimbos

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Elegant, easy to use websites

April 26, 2008

SpiderMarket is an online resource for developers of magazine websites using opens source Content Management systems like Joomla, Wordpress, or Drupal.

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To their credit

April 20, 2008

Below are the list of and links to the programs that have made my my life easier.
CG-FlashyTitles is a wordpress plugin that implements sIFR. All I have to do is embed the fonts. This plugin makes sIFR installation easy as pi (which is my favorite number).
Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator generates a handy-dandy sitemap whenever the [...]

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The Brown University Spectator

April 14, 2008

The Brown University Spectator is Brown University’s monthly conservative publication. They needed a navigable site that looked good. The theme we developed for them (a heavily edited version of Mimbo 2.0) achieves exactly that. The site is easy to get around, content is indexed well by Google, and the site is easy to update.
Content Management
After [...]

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