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Arena Magazine powered by Wordpress
Without question… the growth of Wordpress is in no way slowing down. In fact, the reach of Wordpress grows leaps and bounds with each new day.
Thanks to the heads up over on the Wordpress Publishers blog, I see that Arena Magazine is now powered by Wordpress.
Arena Magazine, from what I understand, is a fairly well known brand with a decent sized following. It’s encouraging to see a large scale site such as Arena not only embrace Wordpress, but in doing so embrace open source software.
Arena isn’t the first, of course. Just days ago the Wordpress Publishers blog linked to Revista, another online magazine site powered by Wordpress.
I think this is a positive move for both sites, and I look forward to seeing others begin shifting in this direction as well.
As Wordpress advances and becomes much more like a full scale CMS, us users will be able to do a lot more with the software and many more doors will open up.
Good stuff!
Now that I’ve figured out how to record my actions on screen, I plan on creating a few simple video tutorials for blogging and various other projects I’m involved in.
I probably won’t be able to start these until the second week of February because I’ll be in DC all of next week. But it should be a lot of fun once I get them flowing.
But, in the mean time you can find a plethora of Wordpress video tutorials over at iThemes. Most of the videos are fairly basic, but they’re well done and helpful for anyone just starting to dabble with self hosted Wordpress blogs.
Check back for my own version of these videos, which should start coming in mid-February.
It’s a cold and snowy Monday morning here in Chicago, so nothing could start the day off better than a good cup of coffee and the discovery of a new Wordpress theme.
Meet Blue Dream.
Blue dream is a clean and revenue ready Wordpress theme with a three column layout and a top navigation that gets right to the point. The theme comes preloaded with a killer set of icons that sit at the top right of the design. There is one for feedburner, one for Technorati, and one for RSS.
Blue Dream is widget ready, and looks like it will be fairly easy to edit or customized to meet your needs.
The only downside that I can see is that the theme appears to load a bit slow. Not sure what the hang up is, but both times I pulled up the page the theme struggled to “pop” in to view.
If you can get that fixed, you’ll find this to be a great theme. Visit the official theme page and grab a copy.
OK… I got it. Trying to run several different blogs on the site was a pain in the ass. Not just for me, but for you. Up until today I was running SE Tattler, Blogging Tips, and my “personal” blog on the same site and server, but on separate Wordpress installs.
The original logic was sound, I believe, but proved to be far more time consuming for myself as well as my readers.
Why did I try it? Well, it’s worked wonders for my political site, ConservaBlogs.com. Over at CB we have more than 20 Wordpress installs running on the same domain and server. Google is LOVING having each independent site with a different political niche on its own install. Each blog also has its own sitemap, and the search engine traffic is constantly on the rise.
In fact, it’s fairly safe to say that we’ll be breaking 90,000 unique visits per month over at CB from here on out. Time and time again I’ve posted a page that went on to outrank BIG sites like RealClearPolitics and ABC News within a matter of minutes. Some of those keyphrases brought an instead 900+ unique visits. Continue Reading
Phil Hughes, pitcher for the New York Yankees, recently started a Wordpress.com blog. His blog is kind of cool because it shows more personal side to Hughes compared to what you would get with the media or the Yankees PR machine.
Hughes has yet to edit his about page, so you won’t find much there, but he has a handful of posts up with topics ranging from ideas on what to on over the weekend to spending time with family over the holidays.
I wish more people of his status level would join the rest of us in the blogosphere. It’s pleasant to know we’re all one big community and people like Hughes feel they need to be a part of it.
Oh… and yes… I’m still a Cubs fan.
I’ll be honest here… I wouldn’t have written this post if I hadn’t read WPCandy’s Wordpress Hoodie contest post. Not because I’m only in it for the Hoodie, which would be super cool to win, but because I had no idea that Brian Gardner was involved in the Chicago Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk.
Before getting to Brian Gardner, let me say that I’ve seen the ads for this event all over Chicago. In fact, I think I saw one on the CTA “L” this evening on my way home from work.
I’ve often pondered the event, and even wondered if it was something I could Continue Reading
Well, not necessarily my “top five picks” of all time; Rather, my top five picks from the Smashing Magazine 100 Excellent Wordpress Themes list.
#1: WP-Polaroid
I was pleased to see Adii release a public version of his own theme late last year. I’ve always been a fan of his blog design and it’s good to know that the rest of us are now welcome to use it.
#2: Structure
This is the coded theme we’re using over Continue Reading
