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Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme & Admin Area: Tips and TricksDecember 14 2008

Lot of news flying around about the release of WordPress 2.7, featuring new Administration Panel interface to make WordPress more usable and accessible. Significant features and redesigns was added to WordPress 2.7 to make blogging on the new Dashboard Panel more valuable than ever.

You may find your Themes no longer work the way you are used to. It could be that they might be broken, because something in WordPress that was fundamental to them changed, but it’s also possible that you can get them working again by updating some settings, or maybe just a small edit.

This post will highlight WordPress 2.7 HOW-TO get your theme working again by updating some settings and represent some of the best and significant features added to your Administration Panel.

1. Enhancing your WordPress 2.7 Theme

1.1. Enhancing Comment Display - Threading, Paging, etc.

WordPress 2.7 includes a lot of new enhancements, but one of the big ones is the new comment functionality. Comments can be threaded, paged, etc. Making your theme’s comments compatible with WordPress 2.7 should be your first step when you edit your theme files. Otto has written a detailed post on the new comment enhancements in WordPress 2.7.

For details on how to update your theme to take advantage of these new features, please see the

50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008December 9 2008

Icons is everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only complete our design but also to attract the user’s eye. Designers use Icons to create breath-taking designs and decorate their desktop as well. Today we’re going to take a look at 50 most beautiful icon sets we’ve found over the year 2008.

Some amazing Icon Sets are missing? Let us know!

Free Icon Sets

1. OldSchool Icon Set

2. Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers

3. Milky icon set

4. FRESH Add-on

20 Incredibly Useful Themes and Plugins to Boost your Admin AreaDecember 7 2008

Sometimes we just want to get our WordPress Admin area to look neat and professional just to add a bit more functionality and enhance the way we use it. In this case, WordPress Admin themes and plugins come to the rescue. Here are 20 WordPress Admin themes and plug-ins that expand the functionality of the admin area specially if design isn’t your primary skill set.

Of course WordPress 2.7 comes with a huge number of changes, a good chunk of them making some older plugins redundant. However some of us might need time to upgrade, until the vital plugins that we depend on gets upgraded too to be compatible with the new release.

If you need to create your own Admin WordPress theme you might find this post useful.

This post was the first request we receive regarding a post idea one of great readers wanted us to work on. We are looking for creative ideas - e.g. designs trends etc. Any suggestion is always welcomed.

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WordPress Administration Theme

1. Fluency

Flex Developer’s Toolbox : Free Components, Themes and TutorialsDecember 1 2008

One important goal of flex components, is to help the community see how you can merge the best of what flex gives you (productivity, development process, consistent component model) with the best of what people have been doing in flash for years (rich, highly interactive, fluid, etc).

Adobe Flex is the tool of choice for many web developers when it comes to building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Developers are picking up Flex with great speed. One of the reasons for this is that Flex programming is relatively easy to learn if you’re already familiar with XHTML.

Flex applications can be developed to run on user’s desktop. Now you can develop and launch an application that runs in a web browser and as a desktop application. Deploying an application to a user’s desktop with Adobe AIR is easy, users just need to install the AIR runtime and your RIA on their machine.

In today’s post we provide you with some essential Flex resources - Flex components, Flex Skins & Themes, Online Flex Apps, Flex Frameworks and Flex Tutorials.

What is FLEX?

1. Tour de Flex

Tour de Flex is a desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR and data integration, as well as a variety of third-pa

Pushing Photoshop to the Limit: 13 Most Advanced tutorialsNovember 26 2008

Adobe Photoshop is probably one of the most popular graphic editing program used extensively. There is one simple reason for that. Photoshop is easy to learn and offer a variety of advanced tools to optimize and emphasize some impressive results.

That’s why many designers use it to compliment other programs like Flash, Illustrator, Cinema 4D and After Effects. But wait it doesn’t stop here, there is more! If you need to design an impressive layout, you will sure use Photoshop to do the design and slice it into XHTML later.

This article provides 13 Advanced Adobe Photoshop tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works whether you are using Flash, Illustrator, After Effects or Web design.

Photoshop wih Cinema 4D

1. Creepy Ghost in Photoshop & Cinema 4D

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a nice ghost using Photoshop mixing an image created in Cinema 4D with some photos. You will also learn how to use the Cloth feature in Cinema 4D.