For the second offering of free Wordpress themes here at EliteFreelancing.com, I’ve decided to feature one theme maker in particular — Jai from BlogOBlog — and hone in on what I feel is his best work. Let’s start with Angel.
For those you you fond of neutrals, Angel is offers you a low contrast look that can be used for many different purposes.
Angel - Free Wordpress Theme
There’s nothing like having the right tools and resources for the job. For us web workers, this includes having a great stash of icons we can draw on when the need arises.
Bright! A free icon set with vectors included. Yum.
Today, it’s 338 free icons contained in three different sets. One set in particular stands out for it’s workmanship, the sheer number of icons and the fact that the designers provide the vectors as well. Oh man, we love when the vectors are provided. Continue reading…
Creativity. At our best it surges through us like a high voltage current leaving beauty in its wake. At other times it’s fleeting, elusive and we struggle to manifest anything of value.
Whether it’s website design, Wordpress powered sites, logos or icons you should have some default go-to resources you can put into play when your own creativity runs dry. Here are some great resources to kick start your creativity…
Automatic plugin upgrade for Wordpress is a gem of a feature, when it works. If you’ve tried updating your Wordpress plugins using “upgrade automatically” in the plugins list and are getting error messages like:
“Installation Failed” or “Cannot download update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/”
You might try going to your host and making sure CGI support is enabled. I’m not sure if this is a must for the automatic upgrade plugin feature in Wordpress to actually work, however, enabling CGI worked for me when recently encountering these errors.
Naturally double check your FTP username and password are correct and relax the CHMOD permissions on /wp-content/upgrade folder.
Cripes. Have you tried to register a domain name lately? If you have, you’ll now that typing in anything remotely recognizable in one or two word combination is more than likely going to return results something like: “This domain is already registered.”
Then get red in the face as you repeat this search process a hundred times attempting to find a name that isn’t complete gibberish and/or 5 words long. Next time you’re in the market for a domain name, check out this crop of domain name generators and search tools that that will make your life way easier.
Heh. I just got done posting a quick shout to Jean-Baptiste for his excellent Sliding Doors + Wordpress technique when I realized it had happened again: The Visual and HTML tabs on the Wordpress text editor were broken again. I don’t know of any permanent fixes, but if this happens to you here’s how you can fix the issue temporarily:
I just got done experimenting with some options for the main menu here at Elite Freelancing. Given I don’t code PHP — I’m more of a cut ‘n’ paste kinda guy when it comes to PHP – I had to do some digging around to find what I needed. Specifically, I needed a way to add tags into wp_list_categories so that Wordpress.
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