The ultimate WPMU / WordPress theme pack is now ready to download!

Well, it’s been a while in coming, but we’re delighted to announce the release of the latest Farms theme pack, and we think you’re going to like it!!!

Introducing the 133 WPMU & WordPress Theme Pack!

Yep, you read right, we’ve added 33 new themes, but more importantly we’ve spent literally months working on every single theme to ensure that this is by far the highest quality theme pack we’ve ever released.

Probably the most important thing about this pack is that we’ve paid a massive amount of attention to consistency.

So, for example, every page allows comments… but when comments are turned off it doesn’t show ‘Comments are closed’ – just a nice professional looking nothing :)

But that’s hardly scratching the surface, because also…

Every single theme is 100% WordPress 3.0 ready, and utilizes all of the fantastic features that have appeared in the 2.x WP releases, including.

Custom headers wherever they can be included, have been… in fact over 100 themes have them!

Every single theme has been customized (extensively!) to support threaded comments.

Of course every theme is 100% widgetized and completely internationalized.

Did I mention that each theme also supports post thumbnails.

And contains perfect gallery CSS.

Tags included too!

And on a technical front, we have:

• replaced PHP_SELF call in search to bloginfo(‘url’) *security issue
• added load_theme_textdomain() to all themes
• replaced the hardcoded footer ‘hosted by..’ main site link to auto fetch a link to the main site
• replaced timthumb usage in some themes to auto fetch thumbnail images
• separated comments and pingback with custom wp_list_comment call, so you can turn off trackbacks if not used
• replaced the hardcoded date time call to wordpress built in gmtdate()
• added missing wp_head() and wp_footer() in some themes

And, of course, we now support every single theme through our support and upgrade guarantee, so if you have any problems, bugs or issues we will immediately fix them for you. 100% supported, 100% guaranteed.

No more compatibility issues, bugs or theme headaches.

So I think you’ll agree, this is one pretty huge and wonderful, and you can download the pack here.

Tweet This Post

BuddyDress tutorials have landed: Learn how to add widgets anywhere

Over at BuddyDress a new weekly feature of tutorials has kicked off with the first ‘Add a widget anywhere in 3 steps‘.  These tutorials are both a video and a written step by step guide.  The aim of these is to each week take you through a customisation you can do to any BuddyPress theme starting as said with adding a widget anywhere.  You can see the video here:

Over at BuddyDress you can also request a subject to be covered in a tutorial if you want.  You can also keep an eye out on the tutorial vimeo album here.  Future tutorial plans include:

• Adding a custom header
• Adding CSS to a child theme
• Using firebug to find a class
• Creating a page template
• Creating an author template
• Creating a home page / front page template
• Inserting the activity stream into your front page

Tweet This Post

CMS Tool of the Week: WordPress Widgets Wherever You Want Them

I’d like to introduce you to a handy tool that will allow you to fine-tune the display of content in the widgetized areas of your WordPress theme. If you’ve ever been frustrated by the limitations of pages and posts with the same inflexible sidebar, this plugin is for you. It will help you to build a CMS that is able to accommodate the unique needs of your website, as well as conserve page real estate without having to sacrifice vital information. The Section Widget plugin was the Grand Prize winner of the WordPress Plugin Competition of 2009. This plugin has been created to display widgets on specific pages, posts, categories, etc. and display content generated by plain text html and shortcodes. It includes two different types of widgets – the regular section widget and the tabbed version, which helps you to save space by separate content in jQuery-powered tabs. If you need a more modular layout to your WordPress site, add this plugin for an instant boost in flexibility. Section Widget comes with a remarkable array of controls for displaying your widgets within your theme:

Mix and Match Built-In Conditional Controls

• Everywhere on your site (new)
• The front page
• The posts page (new)
• All posts
• All author pages
• All or selected pages and subpages
• Pages or posts with comments enabled
• Pages or posts belongs to selected categories
• Pages or posts with selected tags
• All (new) or selected category archive pages
• All (new) or selected tags archive pages
• All date-based archive pages
• Search results page (new)
• “404″ not found page (new)

The tabbed section widget comes bundled with 25 switchable themes, powered by the jQuery UI project, including a live preview in the settings page. You can also create your own themes for the widget if you want to more perfectly match them to your site.

Install by downloading the Section Widget plugin and dropping it in your wp-content/plugins directory. The theme settings for the tabbed widget can be found under Appearance >> Section Widget. Otherwise, just drag and drop the section widget as you normally would any other widget and configure it according to your preferences directly within the widget settings.

If you widgetize an entire page, you can display an entire page of tabbed widgets, including more information without requiring the user to scroll through it all. This plugin is compatible with BuddyPress as well, so you can use it to promote different aspects of your community on categories and tagged posts that you specify.

Section widgets offers a level of fine-grained control to widgets that will keep your theme from looking like a canned template. It helps you to save hours of coding for custom templates. If you need help making more widgetized areas than your theme offers, check out our tutorial on How to Widgetize a Page, Post, Header, or Any Other Template in WordPress.

Support for this plugin can be found at the WordPress forums where you can post issues and get feedback.

Tweet This Post

Are You A ClickBank Affiliate?

If you’re a CB affiliate, and you have a WordPress blog, you need to check out the ClickBank Hop Ad Builder.

My good friends Eric Farewell and Richard Legg put it together, and I think it’s a fantastic tool for ClickBank affiliates.

From the Hop Ad Builder site:

Makes it extremely easy to create ads with ClickBank for use in your WordPress blog or website. With quick installation and simple management it’s never been easier to design ads to match your theme and drop them into posts, pages, sidebars and templates.

WordPress Plugin Template

I know that when I started coding WordPress Plugins, I had a rough time getting started. So, after spending a lot of time building them from the ground up, I eventually developed a plugin template that I start all of my plugins from.

So, after building a number of plugins from it, and “perfecting” it (read: adding time saving features, because I’m lazy and don’t like to re-write code) I’ve decided to release it to the WordPress community so that other plugin authors don’t have to start from scratch anymore either.

WP Comment Remix

WP Comment Remix adds a plethora of new options and features to WordPress. From Reply and Quote links for commenters, to a full upgrade to the edit comments pages in the admin panel, WPCR will save you time and effort when running your blog.

Featured Images Widget

Featured Images automatically features a thumbnail (or thumbnails) from your latest posts on your sidebar.

Rating Dominator

Rating Dominator is a powerful plugin that easily turns your blog into a ratings/review site. Between the point-and-click DHTML rating system, the aggregator functions/widgets, and the usefulness ratings that contribute to the overall accuracy of the overall rating, Rating Dominator is a power-packed plugin for WordPress.

Featured Video Plugin/Widget

Featured Video automatically features the latest video you include in a post in your sidebar.