Premium WordPress Theme: Deep Order Web 2.0

By Kyle Eslick on March 3rd, 2008 | Filed Under Premium Themes, Themes | 2 comments

iThemes, which is one of the newcomers to the premium WordPress themes market, has released their third series of themes, this one called Deep Order Web 2.0.

There is no doubt that the premium WordPress theme market has gotten a little crowded lately, but iThemes has separated themselves from the competition with a true business look for small businesses. Their Deep Order Web 2.0 theme series includes the following features:

Change header images easily — upload a new header graphic straight from WordPress with our new Custom Image option! (PSD included)
Integrated blog component
Static home page
Widget ready sidebars
Dropdown navigation

Another thing they are known for is the variety of colors they make available with each theme. This one is no exception, with four colors available (Blue, Brown, Green, and a Mixture). Here is how the blue one looks:

If you are interested in purchasing this theme for yourself or your clients, you can now do so for $79.95 or pay $149.95 for all four colors and a multiple-use license.

How To: Change the WordPress Author Archive Permalink

By John Lamansky on March 2nd, 2008 | Filed Under Hacks | 2 comments

This guest post was written by John of The WordPress Expert, where he writes about WordPress tips, services, themes, plugins, and more. If you have WordPress knowledge and are interested in writing a post for Hack WordPress, please contact us.

Say you have an author page on your WordPress blog; but what happens when you find that your author archive URL looks like this?

http://example.com/author/Joe%20Smith/

Of course, you’d probably want to change your name to a more “URL-friendly” format like this:

http://example.com/author/joe-smith/

How do you do it?

Well, WordPress itself doesn’t let you (probably because the URL is intended to be a permalink), but it can still be accomplished through a simple database modification.

Here’s how. This is assuming your hosting account is setup with phpMyAdmin. (If you don’t have database editing experience, you might want to make a database backup just in case.)

Go to your hosting account’s cPanel and click on the “phpMyAdmin” icon. If you don’t see it, look for a “MySQL Databases” icon, click it, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and then click the phpMyAdmin link.
Select your WordPress database from the menu on the left.
Select the wp_users table, and then click the “Browse” tab.
Locate the row that has your username in the user_login column. Click the Edit button (the pencil icon) on that row.
Enter the desired URL version of your name into the user_nicename field.
Click “Go” to save your changes.

And that’s it! Your author archive will now show up at your new URL.

Revolution Releases New Forum Skins

By Kyle Eslick on March 1st, 2008 | Filed Under WordPress | 3 comments

Not only does Brian Gardner of Revolution fame have some great Revolution themes available for sale, but Brian has also shown a tremendous talent for running and marketing his business. He just seems to get it.

First Brian decides to promote his products by offering an affiliate contest for this month and offers some amazing prizes, and now Brian has continued to add value to his product by releasing a series of free Revolution forum templates to compliment each of his premium WordPress themes. Currently the forum templates are for the popular free phpBB3 forum software, but it looks like he has plans to do the same for vBulletin users.

Here is a sample of how a few of these templates look:

Revolution Pro Media Forum Template

Revolution Magazine Forum Template

So, what does this mean for you as a potential buyer? If you purchase one of Brian’s Revolution themes (or if you have previously purchased one), you can now easily set up a corresponding forum to match the layout of your website, at no additional charge. This is one of the many benefits of purchasing a theme from Brian.