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Legend of Zelda: The Lost Oracle
Anyone who knows me knows that I love some Zelda action. So I'm in love with this trailer for a new Zelda game..? The Lost ... -
WordPress Theme Framework: Less Is More – Or Is It?
I have a conundrum. I want to improve Elemental - my WordPress theme framework. I want to make it lean and fast; but this will ...
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YouTube: Best of 2011
YouTube is awesome - I recently read a statistic that said that the average YouTube user is watching over 300 YouTube videos a month. Part ... -
New Xbox 360 – Just For Games?
This post is Art Directed. This means it has a unique post design, so you may want to read New Xbox 360 – Just ...
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A Strange Request and Your Chance to win £200 of Amazon Vouchers
This is a slightly strange request - but I have had a pr company contact me and ask me to get my readers to fill ...
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Wireless Void
My favorite piece of writing in the last year was “Sad as Hell”, published by n+1. Officially it's a book review for Gary Shteyngart's ...
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Lost Art, Rediscovered
I’m going to do more writing over at the Readability blog soon. My first post was about attention deficits, portable content & rediscovering longform on ...
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Designing Readability
The original Readability bookmarklet took on such a life of its own between 2009-2010, it made this week's launch of Readability.com inevitable.
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Facebook 'Confirm' Shortcut
I know you can edit this in Settings, but I want the ‘Confirm’ dialog to simultaneously ‘befriend’ old acquaintances while keeping them at bay. Here’s ...
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Current Status
A year ago I started collaborating with my friend Lawrence to develop custom software that hooked up technical experts with people in need. We ...
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Nominate

Nominate is a social voting theme for WordPress. Inspired by sites like Digg and Reddit, Nominate uses all the power of WordPress and Elemental combined to make a powerful flexible theme allowing your users to submit posts and then vote ...
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LIFE.com
LIFE magazine has relaunched, powered by WordPress.com VIP. I’m a huge fan of the magazine’s history and the work of photographers like John Dominis.
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On the Evolution of Investing
Today Y Combinator announced they are adding two new partners, Garry Tan and Aaron Iba. This announcement is unique because it does not list their ... -
MPAA Threatens Politicians
MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Arent Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought on Techdirt.
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Hollywood and the Justice System
Two excellent essays on how Hollywood has completely put our legal system out of whack through years of twisting our legislative process to their ends, ...
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#Reinventing: Chamber of Commerce
Really great article from my friend Hunter Walk on #Reinventing the Chamber of Commerce, which is especially relevant given how the US Chamber of Commerce ...
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 2/3
New plugins Quick Notice Bar will help you to display a sticky message in your site’s header. RePress allows you to circumvent internet censorship by ...
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WordPress Theme Releases for 2/1
Dusk To Dawn is a dark theme that melds old-style organic ornaments with modern design and typography. Grisaille is a classic and simple two-column design ... -
The WordPress Theme Review Team Needs Your Help
Are you a WordPress blogger? Do you enjoy having thousands of safe themes to choose from in the official directory? Did you know that a ...
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 1/30
New plugins No Soup allows you to block users from a specific IP or range(s) of IPs and redirect them to another site. WhatElse is ...
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WordPress Theme Releases for 1/28
Putte is a clean and beautiful theme with great features. Red Modern is an elegant theme with red modern menus and elements.
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Digging into WordPress v3.3 Update
New version of Digging into WordPress now available! The DiW v3.3 update covers WordPress 3.3 & 3.2, with fresh new sections and updated content throughout ... -
Notification List for v3.3 Printed Books
Digging into WordPress v3.3 is now available, and more printed books are on the way. It can take some time for the books to be ...
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WordPress SEO Tips
Alex Denning interviews Nathan Rice, Alex Moss, and yours truly about WordPress & SEO. If you’re new to WordPress, SEO, and/or the whole online content ...
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WordPress CMS Plugins
To make room for new content for the DiW 3.3 update, we’re “excerpting” this section into its own blog post. Here you’ll find an extensive ...
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Smarter Slugs ~!@$%^&*()={}[]?
See those crazy characters in the title of this post? Now see how they don’t appear in the post’s URL? That’s one of the finer ...
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Dusk To Dawn Now Available for WP.org Sites
Dusk To Dawn — a dark theme that melds old-style organic ornaments with modern design and typography, originally developed exclusively for WordPress.com and it’s received ...
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Using Media Queries to Make a Clean Break from Legacy Browsers
There’s a nice, clean, javascript-free, approach to mobile-first design in Joni Korpi’s post Leaving Old Internet Explorer Behind. Adopting it sounds pretty tempting.
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Twitter Bootstrap and WordPress Theme Frameworks
If you haven’t yet you should make some time to read Building Twitter Bootstrap at A List Apart. Especially if you’re interested in building a ... -
Optional Markup for Optional Post Titles
Whenever I write a post to publish on a WordPress powered website, I start by crafting a title. While I do this 99.9% of the ... -
Vertical Rhythm Project
A project to link the aesthetic and discipline of modernist poster designs to the world of digital and dynamic grids, manifested by a series of ...
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WordPress tip: Use shortcodes in theme files
Many people asked me if it is possible to use WordPress shortcodes in theme files. Yes, it is - Follow this simple recipe to get ...
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WordPress tip: Speed up your blog by caching custom queries
Is your theme using custom queries? If yes, you should definitely use WordPress Transients API to cache the queries and consequently speed up your blog. ...
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WordPress tip: Show admin bar only for admins
Introduced in WordPress 3.3, the admin bar is a new version of the controversial "Toolbar" which came with WordPress 3.0. Personally, I think the admin ...
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WordPress: Improved the_excerpt() function
The the_excerpt() function is useful and very popular among theme developers, but it's far from being perfect. Today's recipe showcase an improved the_excerpt() function, which ...
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WordPress hack: How to build a network navigation menu
Multisites networks are definitely a great feature introduced in WP 3.0+. In this recipe, you're going to learn how you can create a "network" navigation ...
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Bulletproof WordPress Pages-based Navigation
How to code up a navigation menu with a home tab and be ready for a static page set as the front page. Direct Link →
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The Pico WordPress Theme by WPLover
Another gorgeous magazine-style Theme. Direct Link →
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Creating Custom WordPress Widgets
An easy to follow tutorial from Darren Hoyt and Ben Gillbanks on creating your own custom widgets. Direct Link →
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Add Categories to Menu Plugin
This is a great plugin if you’re using WordPress as a CMS with ‘Blog’ as one of your menu links. It adds your list of ...
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Creating Theme Options with the WordPress Settings API
This tutorial shows you how to create an options page for your theme users that they can access from the Appearance menu in their Wordpress ...
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