Feed your WordPress Demons!
We had a post about TV.Elements a few weeks ago as we evaluated this excellent video blogging premium theme. TV.Elements 2.0 is significantly improved and now comes in black and white, which means you are pretty much getting two designs for the price of one. The price has stayed the same which is a big plus, but now you can do normal blogging in addition to Videoblogging. Who can beat that?
We’ll post a full review on TV.Elements 2.0 soon. In the meantime, don’t forget to read our review of the earlier version to get a taste.
Wordpress is the undisputed king of content management systems out there and more than 70% of blogs use Wordpress as their underlying platform. Wordpress is easy to use, convenient, and easy to enhance. In fact, many programmers have put their time and effort to produce plugins for free for everyone to use. However, int the theme market it’s a different story. While many Wordpress designers have put their time to design simple and easy to use themes, the premium market is always the place people look for for the best Wordpress designs. The premium Wordpress themes are in general come with single and unlimited licenses and cost from $20 to $500, depending on the quality of the theme.
But it seems now a few top designers are planning to offer their themes for free to public to show their dedication to the open source movement. I always thought that giving themes away for free in return for a text link is generally well worth it, but opening up the source for everyone to make changes can only make the Wordpress community better. I don’t know how successful this effort will be, but it is something worth watching out for.
The good folks at Wordpress have just released a new security patch for Wordpress platform (WP 2.6.3). Here is the deal:
A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today. WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. Although this seems to be a low risk vulnerability for WordPress users, we wanted to get an update out immediately.
For those of you who are a bit more technical:
This can be exploited to inject arbitrary shell commands via a script calling the “fetch()” or “submit()” function with an URL controlled by the attacker.
This is a highly critical security item, so you should download yours as soon as possible.
Wordpress 2.7 beta has finally been released. There is no question that Wordpress 2.7 is going to be a significant step up over the current 2.6 we have at hand, but it will take time for the Wordpress folks to release the new edition to the public.
The bugs with wp-mail and autosave have been fixed along with a bunch of other small fixes. Here is a complete list of changes.
Massive News 2.0 is the most recent Wordpress theme released by Press75 that is designed for those who are interested in running their news/magazine style Wordpress website. Massive News 2.0 is designed for folks who are interested in starting a blog, media site, or even a news site. It is very flexible, so you can change things around as you wish. It comes with feature and popular content tabs to help you promote your best content easier.
The theme supports thumbnails and makes it easy to build a news website from ground up. You get 3 columns to display your content and also display your sponsored ads on it. What I like about the featured section is that it’s not category based. You get to define where you want to link for and what image you want to show for it. That makes it easy to put your pages on your featured section as well.
Changing things around on Massive News is almost too easy. Once you install the theme, you are going to get a new tab on your admin screen that lets you change any aspect of your theme fast. You can change your logo fast. Changing your advertisement or disabling sections on this theme is easy as well. Finally, you can add your Google Analytics code right in the backend.
Overall, Massive News 2.0 is a cool theme for those who want a flexible theme for a news, magazine, or regular blog site. It is compatible with top browsers and is very easy in the eye. It does help that it’s highly customizable. Another great blogging theme from Press75.
