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nathan rice home about themes plugins contact 10 most influential wordpress twitter ers october 19 2009 bull 18 comments a couple of days ago bryan tweeted via the modthemes twitter account that i was considered the 6th most influential wordpress twitter er according to wefollow com very cool so i figured i 8217 d share the spotlight with 9 other people that make up the top 10 and help introduce you to them here they are more 8230 serve ie6 visitors the default wordpress theme september 15 2009 bull 62 comments it 8217 s been talked about time and time again 8230 what do we do about the ie6 problem of course there are a couple of options already available to you you can make ie6 crash when users visit you can move on to bigger and better things and ignore ie6 altogether or you can do like i do and display a little message to ie6 visitors encouraging them to upgrade this plugin makes that pretty easy but if you 8217 re not in the business of pandering to inferior browsers but you don 8217 t necessarily want to be seen as a jerk i have a solution that might work out perfectly for you more 8230 modthemes com launches today august 24 2009 bull 9 comments after 15 months as a lead developer at ithemes com today marks the launch of my very own premium wordpress theme business modthemes com that 8217 s right myself and three other talented individuals are launching a new business together and it 8217 s time to open up shop more 8230 biztech free wordpress theme bull 1 comment if you 8217 re looking for a simple super easy to modify free wordpress theme check out biztech from the folks at web design developed by yours truly join the public developer beta for the prodigy theme july 15 2009 bull 5 comments for the last several months i 8217 ve been quietly developing a theme framework for ithemes 8212 a framework we could use to offer solid code killer designs and futureproofing one of our most common requests at ithemes a couple of weeks ago i invited a few people to join a private beta of the theme called prodigy in case you hadn 8217 t gathered and it has been silky smooth hardly any complaints or bugs and tons of compliments so i think the theme is ready for a public beta and you 8217 re all invited more 8230 final word on wordpress themes and the gpl july 2 2009 bull 39 comments matt mullenweg the founder and lead developer of the wordpress blogging platform emailed the software freedom center recently asking about the legality of wordpress themes being licensed under copyright not compatible with the gpl and they 8217 ve now responded which matt has published on the wordpress development blog the conclusion the php files in wordpress themes must inherit the gpl but css and images do not from the email more 8230 what do you want to know about wordpress bull 24 comments over the next few weeks i want to take reader submitted questions about wordpress and answer them here on the blog have a question about themes plugins simple or complicated 8212 it doesn 8217 t matter if i pick your question i 8217 ll answer it in as much detail as necessary here on the blog and link to you as the source of the question hopefully this will be a big help to everyone out there and make for some really good conversation leave your questions in the comments ithemes wordpress and the gpl june 11 2009 bull 15 comments since starting ithemes back in early 2008 one thing cory and i when i joined the team were justifiably concerned with was protecting our products and of course our hard work from being stolen or used without permission this was our livelihood so we couldn 8217 t fool around even though we both believed that we would have been within our rights to copyright the entire work we decided that we would license all wordpress code in our themes function calls loops etc as gpl and protect our images stylesheets etc under a copyright we felt it was a good compromise more 8230 an introduction to wordpress action hooks june 10 2009 bull 31 comments if you 8217 re going to be doing any level of wordpress development themes or plugins you will invariably run into the need to take advantage of the wordpress action hook system but the more i am able to talk to people in the community the more i realize that people simply don 8217 t understand the concept very well or at all in fact one of the biggest barriers to using what is referred to as a theme framework or creating their own plugins is the fact that they rely heavily on action hooks to function properly understanding this concept accelerated my level of development skills immediately after i figured out what hooks were and how they worked and today i want to help you find that path too more 8230 how to redirect a page using custom fields in wordpress june 8 2009 bull 15 comments today i wanted to share a very quick tip that will allow you to insert an internal or external url in a custom field for a page and when a user visits that page they will be redirected to the url you put in the custom field why would you need to do this well if you want to add a link to your navigation menu instead of editing code you could just create a new page and have that page redirect your users to the url you specified i 8217 ve had clients in that situation before and this code has come in pretty handy for them more 8230 subscribe i recommend twitter popular posts wordpress 2 8 and the body_class function mdash june 1 2009 the definitive sticky posts guide for wordpress 2 7 mdash november 11 2008 wordpress single post templates mdash may 13 2008 the ultimate guide to wordpress seo mdash august 8 2008 an easy way to get the contents of a custom field mdash october 9 2008 creating a blog page with paging mdash may 14 2008 the fine print all content is copy 2010 nathan rice design by blankenship proudly powered by wordpress