Ataraxis literally means “absence of mental stress or anxiety” . And that is exactly what this beautiful WordPress theme does !The Ataraxis is a nature-themed two-column 800px wide WordPress theme with widgetised sidebar , Cufon text-image replacement for headers ,
jQuery tooltips on links ,Rotating headers , Custom logos , reply/quote feature on comments , collapsible widgets , built-in social bookmarks on posts and many other features.
The Ataraxis Features
- 800px wide
- Two-columns with left sidebar
- Cufon text-image replacement for headings
- 4 different nature-themed header backgrounds
- Collapsible widgets
- Sutured Javascript for faster loading
- jQuery animated tooltips on links ( use the title attribute)
- Reply/Quote feature on comments
- Zebra stripped and Admin highlighted comments
- Custom logo support
- Search Engine Optimized
- Smooth scrolling for internal links
- Custom description in footer for better SEO
- Builtin social bookmarking for 6 most common sites
- Ability to add custom CSS from theme options page without having to edit the stylesheet
- Google Analytics integration
- Displays a browser warning to IE 6 users
- CSS 3 curved border and text-shadow effects
- Easy to customize and clean CSS
- Some custom CSS classes that you can use in posts :
- .highlight , .note
- .warning , .error
- .download ( use on <a> )
- .frame ( us on images to give them a silvery frame )
- Around a dozen theme options
Download The Ataraxis v1.0
Well, this is my first guest post at DG…let’s start out with something useful in WordPress…
Sometime ago, I had to add a “homepage-only” link on my WP Blog, that would appear only on the Homepage of the blog and no where else. There isn’t any such option in WP so I tried out some googling to get a solution for it 
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Just finished a complete re-design of this site, this time i decided to choose light colors. The homepage now features a “featured posts” slider and an ad box. Comments are jazzed up with “Reply” and “Quote” buttons (how i did them? coming soon…!) . Let me know in the comment below what you think about the new design.
Scenic Sanity is yet another free gorgeous wordpress theme from dynamicguru.com licensed under GPL. It is a light color variant of my previous theme “The Last fall” .It has two-columns , a widgetized left-sidebar and gravtar integrated comments , ideal for personal weblogs . Some of the cool features include :
- Cufon text-image replacement for headers
- jquery hover effects on links in the sidebar
- Rounded corners in FireFox and Safari
- Excerpt based homepage
- Collapsible left sidebar widgets
- Sleek styles for the Calendar widget
Download Scenic Sanity 1.1
Check out this wordpress theme, perfect for photographers and bloggers.
“Featured Posts” are a key feature of any news/journal wordpress site. It is pretty easy to develop a wordpress theme to display a fixed number of featured posts from a specific category on the homepage. It can be done using the query_posts() function of wordpress. Here are few lines of code that displays latest 10 posts from the news category , you can edit it to tailor to your needs.
<?php
/* Name of your category you want to show posts from */
$cat =
"news";
/* No. of posts to display*/
$num = "10";
?>
<!– Show x Posts from $cat category–>
<?php query_posts(’showposts=’.$num.‘&category_name=’.$cat.”);
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
?>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<div class="entry">
<?php the_content(‘Continue…’); ?>
<p class="postmetadata">Posted in <?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?> | <?php edit_post_link(‘Edit’, ”, ‘ | ‘); ?> <?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments »’, ‘1 Comment »’, ‘% Comments »’); ?></p>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="permalink">Link to this article</a>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
The function query_posts(); can be used to control which posts are displayed in the loop. More information on using query_posts(); can be found here : http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts .
Wide Screen Wordpress Wallpaper
Here is a cool wordpress wallpaper for you wordpress fans…by a wordpress fan… Download and enjoy!
Download these free typography wallpapers that would all look great on your Mac or PC
In my latest project i was required to add a community touch to a site by listing the Name, Email, Nickname, URI and Gravatar of all the registered users on the site. I came with the following solution : I made a new page template called users and added the following lines of php to the template :
<?php
/*
First we set how we’ll want to sort the user list.
* ID – User ID number.
* user_login – User Login name.
* user_nicename – User Nice name ( nice version of login name ).
* user_email – User Email Address.
* user_url – User Website URL.
* user_registered – User Registration date.
*/
$sort= "user_registered";
//the default avatar to display in case gravatar is not available for a user
$default = "http://www.somewhere.com/some-directory/some-image.png";
//the size of the gravatar , here 96px
$size = 96;
//Build the custom database query to fetch all user IDs
$all_users_id = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare(
"SELECT $wpdb->users.ID FROM $wpdb->users ORDER BY %s ASC"
, $sort ));
//we got all the IDs, now loop through them to get individual IDs
foreach ( $all_users_id as $i_users_id ) :
// get user info by calling get_userdata() on each id
$user = get_userdata( $i_users_id );
//GETTING INFO FROM EACH USERS
//get the user’s email ID
$email = $user->user_email;
//build the gravatar URL
$grav_url = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?
gravatar_id=".md5( strtolower($email) ).
"&default=".urlencode($default).
"&size=".$size;
//get the user’s full name
$user_fullname=$user->first_name . ‘ ‘ . $user->last_name;
//get the user’s URI
$user_url=$user->user_url;
//get the user’s nickname
$user_nickname=$user->nickname;
//get the user’s description ( the biographical info field, )
$user_profile=$user->description;
?>
<!– Now here you can display each users info using the variables defined above –>
<?php
endforeach; // end the users loop.
?>
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Hope you found it useful, cheers , WORDPRESS ROCKS
The Official Wordpress Commercial Theme Directory has gone live today. The direcory is a part of the extend>themes section of wordpress.org. Though it is called “directory” right now it only lists some sites that provide commercial or premium wordpress themes licenced under our favorite GPL licence . The criteria for your site being included is quite simple.
To be included, you should:
* Distribute 100% GPL themes, including artwork and CSS.
* Have professional support options, and optionally customization.
* Your site should be complete, well-designed, up to date, and professional looking.
* Include a haiku about yourself to be included.
and send your details to themes@wordpress.com
Lets hope that they evolve further and start hosting commercial GPL themes themselves,
