Recently a security flaw was identified in the Timthumb – an image cropping and resizing library commonly used in wordpress themes. This flaw could be exploited by a hacker to embed malware in your site. Luckily the flaw was identified by a good soul Mark Maunder and alerted the community about it. Not only he got the word out but he also started working on rectifying the timthumb script from ground up and was later joined by the original timthumb creator. Together they have released an upgrade for the timthumb script and it is called Timthumb-2. It is available here  [ Read More ]

WordPress has become one of the most popular pieces of web-design software on the market today. Designed to be as simple, basic and straightforward as a word processor (like Microsoft Word or WordPerfect), it is easy to use, intuitive to work with, and very inexpensive. The software itself is free, as it is open source and community based, thus requiring the user to do nothing more than hunt down cheap WordPress hosting in order to start their own website. Many companies, including WordPress itself, offer basic hosting for the purpose of making a blog. More advanced servers can offer cheap  [ Read More ]

Shuttershot is a fullscreen slideshow template. This is a fabseries theme.  This theme is ideal for photography websites to showcase their portfolio in style.The theme has option to use either a full screen slideshow on the homepage or a regular blog with image slideshow as the background. If you are using a slideshow on the homepage you can set a custom page template as the blog.  I have created a screencast to show you how to add items to the slideshow.  

Tiberion is a game review theme from web2feel. This is a fabseries theme.  The theme comes with some cool features that will enable you to make a nice game review site for absolutely free of cost. The theme is WordPress 3 ready with features like Custom menu, custom post type, custom metaboxes, featured thumbnails , custom templates etc. This is a feature rich theme that would go on par with a paid theme in the similar niche. Reviews Theme has a  separate post type enabled for reviews. It has got its own taxonomy to categorize your game genre. Metaboxes are  [ Read More ]

Vasiliki is our new fab series theme. This is a minimalistic theme with jQuery masonry – A dynamic grid layout plugin. It re arranges the content grids in a brick fashion with smooth animation according the browser window size.  The theme is WordPress 3 ready with features like, custom menu, featured thumbnails, theme options, Twitter widget, Banner ads, etc.  

Ubert is a new tumblog theme from web2feel. Tumblog themes are wordpress themes with features similar to Tumblr sites. You can post different contents like, asides, link, video, audio, images, chats, quotes etc and each of these contents types are presented differently. This tumblog theme uses WordPress ‘post formats’ to manage these different content types. Ubert comes with a fresh and pleasant design and color scheme. The theme is powered with JW player, Prettyphoto etc to manage the audio and image media types respectively. I have made screencasts showing the setup of different post types. Screencast part-1 Screencast part-2