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JobRoller 1.0 Released – A Premium Job Board Theme for WordPress

August 24, 2010 | Published in: Wordpress & plugins | Tags: , , , , , , , 22

After many months of development, and an evening of last minute tweaks, JobRoller has finally arrived :) I started developing JobRoller back in March, then teamed up with AppThemes (makers of Classipress) to finish it off.

JobRoller is a premium theme for WordPress 3.0 which lets you turn your WordPress blog into a professional job listing Web site.

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Secure & Accessible Contact Form v2.1 for WordPress

July 11, 2010 | Published in: Wordpress & plugins | Tags: , , , 33

The Secure and Accessible Contact Form plugin has now been updated for WordPress 3.0 and also contains many other tweaks to set it apart from its predecessor, such as the ability to remove optional fields (a much requested feature). Read on for more information and the download link.

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Video Review of the WordPress MiniCard theme

April 18, 2010 | Published in: Reviews, Wordpress & plugins | Tags: , , , 4

Just posting a video review of my MiniCard theme by Mark Adams I found whilst googling today; some of you might find it interesting to watch.

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I will add that there are actually ways to add your own links to MiniCard now; this was added in an update. If you want to get MiniCard and give it a whirl you’ll find the post here. Thanks for the review Mark :)

Download Monitor 3.3 Beta Available for testing & feedback

December 30, 2009 | Published in: Wordpress & plugins | Tags: , , , , , 234

Wordpress Download Monitor Plugin

WordPress Download Monitor is my popular plugin for managing files available for download in WordPress – version 3.3 is a major update containing many new features and improvements.

Version 3.3 (beta) is now available for beta testing to ensure this is a hassle free update when released officially. I would appreciate any feedback, praise and bug reports in the comments. Read more about the new features and grab it after the break.

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WordPress Snippet #2: Style the login page

September 10, 2009 | Published in: Wordpress & plugins | Tags: , , , , 21

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The Wordress Snippets series of posts will give you some useful code snippets for use in your projects – just copy and paste (but try to understand how they work!).

This snippet will add a stylesheet to your login page so that you can style it fully, and also change the default WordPress logo link (to wordpress.org) and title text to something of your choosing. Add it to functions.php in your template.

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WordPress Snippet #1: “nofollow” your blogroll

August 28, 2009 | Published in: Wordpress & plugins | Tags: , , , , 8

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The Wordress Snippets series of posts will give you some useful code snippets for use in your projects – just copy and paste (but try to understand how they work!).

This snippet will add rel="nofollow" to the links in your blogroll, or those outputted by wp_list_bookmarks. Add to functions.php or your links template.

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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.