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Introducing: Theme Slice

Theme Slice is an exciting take on the current crop of Slicing services out there; a PSD to WordPress Theme conversion service; brought to you by Anthony Brewitt and yours truly, Mike Jolley. You send in your mock up design and Theme Slice will send you back a full WordPress Theme based on your design. Read on to learn more.

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…new host…fresh start

June 27, 2006 | Published in: Personal | Tags: , 0

Well, I must say this was a really, really long exciting week.

If your a returning visitor you may notice something with Blue anvil… yes it has been hacked apart and wordpressified.

After giving up with 1&1 web hosting (not value for money at all) ive switched hosts and redesigned Blue Anvil at last.

What have I done?

Well the main difference is the lack of cutenews and the introduction of wordpress, which I taught myself last week.

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IE7 is coming…

May 17, 2006 | Published in: Browsers & Hacks, Personal | Tags: , , 0

IE 7 is on the way, mircrosoft has released a public beta, but is this browser going to be less naff (my opinion) than the current offering?

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    • Download Monitor 3.3.5 Tagged for release

      The latest update to Download Monitor for WordPress has been released; this version comes with a many fixes and some new features, such as improved sorting. For full details view the readme; you can grab the plugin here.

    • Closing the Forums

      Just posting to let current users know that I’m closing the forum on Blue-Anvil. This is mainly due to spam-registrations getting out of hand and being a general nuisance. I will be posting good topics as FAQ items within posts if applicable.

      Please note that you can still post and get help for my plugins/themes by posting on the wordpress.org website.

    • Show off your MiniCard!

      Are you a user of the WordPress MiniCard theme? Its been downloaded over 14,000 times so far!

      If you have used it as-is, made your own child-theme or done something creative with it, please show off your MiniCard’s in the comments, I’d love to see how the theme is being used!

    • Spam Stopper updated for WordPress 3.0

      My Spam Stopper plugin has been updated for WordPress 3.0 (version 3.1.3) – you can grab it here. Sorry this update took longer than my other plugins but this one gets less lovin’ – if you want to change that feel free to donate, spread the word, or rate it on the WordPress.org plugin page.