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Jack of All Blogs WordPress Theme

Jack of All Blogs theme

The Jack of All Blogs Theme is a three-column brown and green theme based on the old design of Jack of All Blogs. Widgetized sidebars are located on either side of the main content. There’s an options page that lets you enter a Twitter username to display the latest status at the top right of the page, and a Google AdSense publisher ID for ads at the top of the posts (468×60) and the left sidebar (120×600). The blog title uses a custom web font and CSS3 transforms, best viewed in the latest browser versions. View Demo »

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Erati WordPress Theme

The Erati Theme is a white, gray, and pink three-column theme based on the old design of the Erati entertainment website. It contains an options panel that lets you enter banner code for a 125 x 125 ad zone at the left of the header. You can enter related network links at the top right using the Network menu name.

There are two widget areas at the right, and supports threaded comments and custom menus. View Demo »

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ForeverGeek WordPress Theme

ForeverGeek WordPress Theme screenshot

The ForeverGeek Theme is a gray and white two-column theme with blue and orange accents and lots of rounded corners. It has an options page that lets you enter a banner ad code below the header as well as RSS feed and social media account links.

There’s a custom menu zone at the top right of the page, plus 4 widget areas in the sidebar and 3 more in the footer. The theme also supports WP-PageNavi, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP), and has Facebook Like buttons built-in. View Demo »

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Come check out how ForeverGeek looks now!

AppleGazette WordPress Theme

In the following weeks we’re releasing WordPress themes based on old designs of our Splashpress Media network sites. Today, it’s AppleGazette, which recently got a facelift.

The AppleGazette Theme is a black, white, and blue two-column theme and has an options page that lets you enter ad codes, RSS subscription links, and social media URLs in the banner and sidebar areas. There’s a custom menu area at the at the top and bottom of the page, and of course a widget area at the right. It’s compatible up to WordPress 3.1. View Demo »

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WordPress Tip: Enable excerpts for static pages

We’re working on a site that lists the children of a static page and wanted to display descriptions for each one. Doing a custom WP_Query is pretty straightforward in accessing those subpages, but we don’t want to display the full content via the_content(). Built-in excerpts via the_excerpt() will suffice.

Problem is, WordPress doesn’t display the excerpt metabox for pages, unlike posts. This can be solved by adding the following code to your functions.php:

[php]function businesslogs_add_excerpt_box() {
add_meta_box(‘postexcerpt’, __(‘Excerpt’), ‘post_excerpt_meta_box’, ‘page’, ‘normal’, ‘core’);
}
add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘businesslogs_add_excerpt_box’ );[/php]

(Remember that it’s always a good idea to prefix your custom functions with a unique string.) Now go to the Page editor screen, pull down the Screen Options panel, and check Excerpt. Et voila!

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