Free theme Scarlett has been around here for more than an year now. It was released when wordpress was in its 2.5 version. It is one of the most used theme released by web2feel.com. I have been working on an a Pro version of the Scarlett with added features and functionality for some time. The Pro version of the Scarlett theme is almost complete now. It will be a paid theme. This version is packed with features that are not available on the free version of the Scarlett theme. The paid version will have a better Options page with more  [ Read More ]

Every blogger in the blogosphere is aware of the Google’s tracking service , Google Analytics. It is an essential tool to monitor the site traffic details and performance statistics. Anybody can setup an analytics account for free with their Google account. Users will be a given a unique js tracking snippet, which can be inserted to the website. When it comes to WordPress blogs, there are numerous plugins available for enabling analytics tracking on the blog. But here we are going to see how to add the analytics script to the site template, ideally to the footer using your functions.php  [ Read More ]

On many of mine or other magazine type of WordPress themes, you would see the homepage displaying blocks of post excerpts. These excerpts are generated using the template tag <?php the_excerpt(); ?> By default this template tag returns the first 55 words of the post’s content. This teaser is generated only if you have not specified any custom excerpt from your post editor section. But what if you want to display more than 55 words on your excerpts? Simple, just add the following code to your theme function.php file. It will return first 100 words of post’s content. function new_excerpt_length($length)  [ Read More ]

Since the release of WordPress 2.9, themes released by web2feel are using a new feature to enable thumbnails on featured posts and post excerpts etc.  Earlier we have been using the Timthumb script from  Darrenhoyt.com. This involved creating a customfield and applying the required image url to it. But with the release of WordPress 2.9 we have a  new feature called the_post_thumbnail feature. This enables us to add a thumbnail image to any of our post from the post editor itself. Yes, we do not need to use any customfields anymore.  I have relied on this feature on my new  [ Read More ]

Christmas is here. This occasion always brings an unexplainable joy to our hearts. Everybody relates themselves to Christmas in their own ways. To me it is about a lots of cakes, wine, greetings, carols etc..lol.. This time there is one more thing, that is Christmas niche WordPress themes. I did a search for Christmas themes across many sites and found that the number is much less compared to last year. I myself did only one theme and it was a white label design and it is listed among below. Following is a list of good Christmas themes released this year  [ Read More ]

Normally on a blog every post is styled uniform. But wont you think it would be nice if you could style these posts differently. One way to do it is to retrieve the post-ID and then apply style to it. But it is a painstaking process and you would have to repeat the css edit every time a new post is made. Here I am concentrating on a different method. It is by exploiting the post_class(); feature added to WordPress since 2.7. The post loop markup using post_class(); features is given below. <div> id="post-"&gt;</div> The post_class() generates dynamic class names  [ Read More ]