Posted by David on Jul 15, 2009 in
Other Stuff The last 2 parts of this series gave you a bunch of plug-ins to pimp your blog inside and out; see http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/other-stuff/pimp-your-blog-1 and http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/other-stuff/pimp-your-blog-2.
This time we’ll look at glamming up your blog with a customized theme!
Don’t know what a “theme is”?
WordPress defines a theme as:
A theme is a collection of files that work together to produce a graphical interface with an underlying unifying design for a weblog. A theme modifies the way the weblog is displayed, without modifying the underlying software. Essentially, the WordPress theme system is a way to skin your weblog.
Clear as mud, right?
Really, it’s simple. A WordPress theme is what the blog looks like.
For example, this blog has a brown “messy wood desk” look with the keys and the calculator, pen, etc. It has brownish letter on a very light brownish white background, the left side bad is a gray “paper” with white lined “paper” with red links. And so on and so forth.
WordPress makes it extremely easy to change how your blog looks like by just installing a new theme.
The hardest part is finding the theme you want out of the thousands of available themes 
Let’s look at where to get themes and how to install them.
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Posted by David on Jul 6, 2009 in
Other Stuff We’re going to look at 8 more “must have” plug-ins, in addition to the 9 we looked at in my last blog post.
This time we’re going to look at plug-ins that:
- Add that gives you MUCH better search capability than WordPress
- Adding lots of social media links
- Twitter Tweet and Re-tweet capability
- Gives you peace of mind by making sure your blog is safely backed up so that is some technical glitch happens you can get it back
- A nice visitor greeting facility
- Helps protects your blog from hackers and thieves
Let’s look at the plug-ins in more detail.
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