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It is getting harder to show you professional and good looking wordpress magazine themes. The Majority is widely advertised by bloggers. A brief google search for “Free wordpress magazine themes” will show you the usual suspects. Pages that you are tired of visiting and showing the same old magazine themes.

Fortunately from time to time there is a new free wordpress magazine theme release that is worth mentioning. Today i have only 3 but i assure they are top quality.

The first two are from one of my favourity designers (Web2feel.com). They present us with regular wordpress magazine themes. The themes “skeleton” is basically the same, but they make alterations that make them impressive.

Well, i said i was back, but it seems that isn’t entirely correct. It seems my blog mysteriously decided to monopolize the server resources, giving an high server load in a 8 cpu server… My host decided to bring this blog offline. I did some tweaks and everytime bloggervenue went online, i was contacted again by my host that they shut down the blog again because the situation remained the same.
Today i did more optimizations to the blog and so far so good, but no one knows what can happen tomorrow. If the blog is down again then you’ll know what the reason is.
If it happens again i will have to go radical… All my plugins will be deleted and installed again, this time only the extremely necessary… Also, this blog theme, which i love may need to be changed, because it isn’t fully compatible with wordpress 2.7+.

In the last week, i decided to try to convert some wordpress themes to use with Bans. I wanted to do this, because of two reasons:

First I didn’t want to depend on others to get the themes i wanted to use on my wordpress/bans sites and secondly  there is an high demand for this type of integration and very few themes available.

This Saturday, the first stable wordpress 2.5 was finally released. After some delays and two beta release candidates, wordpress as reached another new level.

I could mention the new features that come with the new version, and how awesome the new control panel was, but i won’t do that. First, im not in the mood for that, and second, my first impression on the new cpanel was not that good lol.

Last week, with the release of the final version of the options theme, i decided to upgrade to the wordpress RC-2 in order to properly use the new theme, which was WP 2.5 specific.

Good evening fellow bloggers!

This has been a busy day for me. I have spent the last hours configuring the new design for the blog and updating the wordpress version of this blog.

A new version of the wordpress 2.5 has been released. It is in the RC-2 Version now. Still in beta though. But still, i decided to upgrade the blog. First i did a full backup of my hosting (a thing that i haven’t done in a long long time). Downloaded a backup of the blog’s database, checked for compatibility issues with some plugins i run here, and deactivated the problematic ones. Then i did the upgraded with no problems at all.

Well, i was giving away 3000 entrecard credits, but for some reason, i only got one application! The deadline has passed, i even extended the the deadline but no more applications were made. I blame my self. I haven’t advertised the contest like i should, but, there is another thing. The prize. Maybe 3000 Entrecard credits don’t make a good prize to give. I agree with this. Maybe if i put a cash prize i would have the success has the first contest i ran here.

Justin Tadlock has become one of my favourite wordpress templates designer. He produces a style of templates that im very fond of: magazine style templates.

Recently, he created what he calls, a super theme. It is called Options theme, and it is a wordpress magazine style template. It is not only a magazine, it is a versatile theme that will fit every blogger need. As Justin says, the options theme is like Structure (the theme im currently using) on steroids!

Last week, during my scarce free time i decided to search for a wordpress plugin that could manage my ad sales on this blog in an almost automated way. I found a couple of them but none gave me exactly what i wanted.

So, i decided to invest some money to buy a tool for the first time to use on this blog. I decided to buy OIOpublisher. I knew this wordpress plugin for some time now and read good reviews about it. So it seemed the right choice for me.

One of the most usefull wordpress plugin i have ever found was the One Click Installer.

With this plugin, you can simply install wordpress themes and plugins at the distance of a few clicks. There is no need to login to your ftp account to upload the files. This plugin does the job for you.

You can choose to install the wanted  script from your computer or directly from the place where the plugin is hosted.

This script even has a mozilla plugin!

I really recommend this script. It made my life easier, and now i update my plugins in seconds!

After every post you make on your blog, wordpress will ping some online services telling them that you have made a new post (like ping o matic). So, users from these services will know that you updated your blog, and bringing you possible visitors

The default ping service that wordpress uses is not enough. So i gathered some ping services over the time and now i want to share with you them.

The services that im currently using are:

http://bitacoras.net/ping

http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.

http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php

http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.blogoole.com/ping/

http://www.blogoon.net/ping/

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1