WP Framework is a powerful theme framework that empowers you to create solid, functional WordPress Themes that raise the standards of theme authoring as we know it.

Packaged with pre-defined microformatted CSS styles along with a sensible base/print layout, WP Framework lays the foundation for your themes allowing you to focus on what’s important—Site Specific features.

But that’s not where it ends. WP Framework is backed with a support forum and tons of additional features to help you build your next WordPress theme. Once you start using WP Framework, you’ll wonder how you’ve been developing themes without it. WP Framework is an open source project licensed under the GPL2.0.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://wpframework.com/

After a huge success of Blogging Icons Set, we are really happy that Eli Burford has created this amazing Social Media Icons Pack for Blog Perfume. These icons come in really handy when integrating social media sites to your blog.

Download: Social Media Icons Pack (.rar), Social Media Icons Pack (.zip)

About the icons:

I was motivated to put these icons together after I scoured the web in search for a circular social media icons set and couldn’t find any decent options. Of the two options I found, one was very low quality and the other was in .ico format. What are we meant to do with social media icons in .ico format?

The zip file includes 3 sizes for 17 icons: 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32. There is an icon for the following: Blogger, Delicious, DesignFloat, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Google, a heart icon that will work for anything (such as bookmark), MySpace, Reddit, an RSS icon, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Twitter, WordPress, Yahoo! and YouTube.

Please feel free to use Social Media Icons Pack on both personal and commercial projects.

About the designer:

My name is Eli Burford and I live in Australia. I’m an amateur designer and Blogger, occasionally working as a freelancer. My real dream is to come up with a million dollar Blog or website! You can check out my small design resources Blog at Design Blurb.

Incidentally, WordPress themes have become the most widely-used subset of site frameworks on the Web. Because of this, savvy developers now have the chance to create—and support—robust template systems that will not only drastically alter the Internet landscape, but also set the standard for best practices in coding and site development in the years to come.

The Thesis Theme for WordPress is a high-quality template system that you can use to improve your site immediately. Thesis boasts the strongest SEO of any theme on the market today thanks to its expertly-coded HTML + CSS + PHP framework. The days of worrying about your in-site SEO are over—with Thesis, your strategy is “just add links”.

The Thesis options panel allows you to command your site with ease, while Thesis does all of the heavy lifting behind the scenes. Thesis also offers a plug-and-play stylesheet system that you can use to produce unique, customized creations.

When you purchase a theme from DIYthemes, you are essentially getting a lifetime subscription to that theme. This means that you’ll be able to login at any time and download an updated version of the theme—it’s how you’ll keep your Website up-to-date and on the digital edge.

Pricing: Personal ($87), Developers ($164)
Requirements: -
Source: Thesis WordPres Theme

The Organize Series plugin helps with the organization and presentation of articles/posts you write as part of a series. It helps make it easier for readers of your blog to discover all the series you’ve written and also to easily find post that are part of the same series.

Organize Series actually adds a new taxonomy to the WordPress taxonomy structure so your blog would have “categories”, “tags”, and “series” as the taxonomy types.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://unfoldingneurons.com/neurotic-plugins/organize-series-wordpress-plugin

WP-Invoice lets WordPress blog owners send itemized invoices to their clients. Ideal for web developers, SEO consultants, general contractors, or anyone with a WordPress and clients to bill. The plugin ties into WP’s user management database to keep track of your clients and their information.

Once an invoice is created from the WP admin section, an email with a brief description and a unique link is sent to client. Clients follow the link to your blog’s special invoice page, view their invoice, and pay their bill using PayPal. The control panel is very user-friendly and intuitive.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://twincitiestech.com/services/wp-invoice/

Elegant Grunge is an unwashed yet crisp Wordpress theme with a feature footer, styled image frames, a page template with a uniquely configurable sidebar and a photoblog tag page.

It features automatic surrounding of all images with a frame packed with eye-candy that makes images really pop out. A ‘photoblog’ tag page that displays entries in a photoblog style. A widget to display thumbnails from latest/random photoblog entries.

A custom page template that allows complete customisation of the sidebar: Supply a list of tags to automatically display related posts, and specify any text/html to be displayed.

Per-page and per-post configuration to turn on and off automatic image framing, among other things, and a global configuration interface - turn on/off the RSS link, set your own copyright message, or add your own extra header content - like adding a rel=alternate link to your Twitter feed. And a ‘feature’ footer that you can add widgets to.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://michael.tyson.id.au/wordpress/themes/elegant-grunge/

Fire Eagle is a site that stores information about your location. With your permission, other services and devices can either update that information or access it.

Fire Eagle allows you to share your locations with other sites and services safely through a secure server - you are always in control. You can decide to share your location with any site that can use it, and even choose how much detail to give that application (exact point, neighborhood, city, state, country).

Now you can display your current location on your WordPress blog by using Fire Eagle for WordPress. it installs as a WordPress widget, which displays your last know location from Fire Eagle in your side bar. This has only been tested on WordPress version 2.5.1 (and 2.6 now!) with PHP Version 5.2.5, it should work on earlier versions of WP that allow widgets, but has not been tested yet. Your WP theme needs to support Widgets for this to work.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress version 2.5.1 or higher
Source: http://wordpress.fireeagle.yahoo.net/

Over the past 10 years, the MySQL database has become incredibly popular on the Web. Every WordPress blog is driven by a MySQL database, which contains the blog’s posts, settings, comments and much more.

While plug-ins and even coding hacks can solve some problems and achieve some tasks, sometimes you don’t have any other choice than to execute SQL commands in phpMyAdmin or directly to the database via SSH. Let’s take a look at 8 useful SQL hacks for WordPress. Each section of this post presents a problem, suggests a solution and provides an explanation to help you understand the solution.

Source: 8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks

We have just published a post about the release of WordPress 2.7 few days ago. Significant features and redesigns was added to WordPress 2.7 to make blogging on the new Dashboard Panel more valuable than ever.

You may find your Themes no longer work the way you are used to. It could be that they might be broken, because something in WordPress that was fundamental to them changed, but it’s also possible that you can get them working again by updating some settings, or maybe just a small edit.

Noupe has published a post of “Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme & Admin Area: Tips and Tricks“. The post will highlight WordPress 2.7 HOW-TO get your theme working again by updating some settings and represent some of the best and significant features added to your Administration Panel.

Source: Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme & Admin Area: Tips and Tricks

The first thing you’ll notice about WordPress 2.7 is its new interface. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7. The new dashboard can let you arrange with drag and drop to put the things most important to you on top, QuickPress, comment threading, paging, and the ability to reply to comments from your dashboard, the ability to install any plugin directly from WordPress.org with a single click, and sticky posts.

Digging in further you might notice that every screen is customizable. Let’s say you never care about author on your post listings — just click “Screen Options” and uncheck it and it’s instantly gone from the page. The same for any module on the dashboard or write screen.

If your screen is narrow and the menu is taking up too much horizontal room, click the arrow to minimize it to be icon-only, and then go to the write page and drag and drop everything from the right column into the main one, so your posting area is full-screen.

Last, but certainly not least, this may be the last time you ever have to manually upgrade WordPress again. Now WordPress includes a built-in upgrade that will automatically notify you of new releases, and when you’re ready it will download them, install them, and upgrade your blog with a single click.

Source: WordPress 2.7 Coltrane