Chris Wallace

Chris Wallace is a Front-End Developer and President of Walmedia, a web design company. Chris offers free WordPress themes and writes about web design and development on his blog, Designer&Developer. Be sure to check out other themes he’s giving away free.

I have updated the popular ‘Rusty Grunge’ theme to be compatible with WordPress 2.7 with support for threaded comments and other bugfixes that have been requested. Please download and apply the latest theme. As always, let me know if you encounter any issues.

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Download ‘Rusty Grunge’ (Version 1.2)

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 Wordpress remains the most popular weblog engine out there. It is simple, powerful, extensible and flexible. There are literally thousands of plugins, themes, tutorials and related articles describing the ways to optimize Wordpress for publisher’s needs and achieve the best possible performance of the blog.

You know them, because you use them and because you’ve searched for them once you needed them. In this post we’d like to give you an opportunity to share your knowledge and help us to create the essential list of Wordpress life-savers - plug-ins, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready to hand developing web-sites upon Wordpress.

WordPress Theme Hacks (Source: Web Designer Wall)

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 Styling Individual Posts Using the_ID (Source: WP Designer)

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Wordpress Plugins available for download are endless, to sift through them and find one or two that you can actually use can be horrendous. Quite often you can find, like a Flickr Plugins, hundreds that do the same function. Others are far too complicated for the designer as well as the user to be useable. Some are even just pointless, and use up design space. How do you test all of them? Do you rely on word of mouth? Do you ask someone to write a plugin for your tailored needs?

1. CForms 2 (www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin)

Cforms 2 is the first plugin I activate in any Wordpress Installation. It is not just a contact from, if you need it to be it can be configured into any type of form you can think of.
Don’t be put off by the functions list, these are understood by the pro,and taken for granted by everyone else, upon using the plugin you will see how easy this plugin is.

Functions: , Ajax supported form submission, Full localization support (see section below), Tell-A-Friend functionality, see Help documentation, File attachments / Upload, fully configurable per form, Multiple upload fields allowed, Backup & Restore, Role Manager support, Database based tracking of submitted data, Cloning / duplication of forms, Drag and drop form management, Fully integrated with TinyMCE and default WP editor (via button), Submission limits (e.g. registrations), Widget support and more

As with all the best plugins, you get an option to style the form to integrate seamlessly into your theme.

Download it NOW: CForms 2 Download.

2. FireStats (http://firestats.cc/)

I get different visitor stats from my Web Hosts control panel, Google Analytics and Alexa. So tracking visitors accurately is not an exact science, as it should be. FireStats is the closed thing to accuracy that I can find, its accuracy is on a par with Google Analytics, which will do me.
The configuration can be a little bit tricky for the novice, but they do have great help on their site. Have a look at the FAQ section before you install it, it will give you an insight into the functions that you can use as well understsand the installation procedure.

Download it here: FireStats Download.

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