Posts Tagged ‘theme’

Posted on October 14, 2008 - by Jonathan Davies

Featured Site: WPCandy

I’ve been talking about WordPress a lot lately, as you probably all know by now WordPress is what a lot of bloggers use on the back end to publish what they have to say. There are loads of plug-ins, services and themes out there for you to try, but how do you find the best ones?

WPCandy does that and a lot more.

About the Site:

WPCandy was created by Michael Castilla on October 2007, since then it has gone through three different themes. Currently it has two main bloggers, including Michael, and lots of contributing authors. WPCandy is split up into five main categories for you to enjoy:

• Articles
• Themes
• Plug-ins
• Site
• Community

From all of these catergories you can whittle down what WordPress is all about and easily find out the key things that are going on in the vibrant community that makes WordPress what it is.

Why I Like It

I’m by no means a WordPress guru, however I do like to tinker and keep up with what is going on, I find WPCandy is a great source of not only primary information but also tertiary information through the community page so I can keep up with all of the latest developments.

Strangely enough I also go for the ads. WPCandy has some very interesting and relevent advertisers, mainly in the themes realm, who have some cool WordPress related service.

Why You’ll Like It

As I mentioned before, WPCandy offers a great collection of WordPress sites, tutorials and just cool stuff. If you want to find some awesome themes - they review them. If you want to learn how to make some design changes to your blog - they can help. If you want to find your way about WordPress -  they have some resources for that.

From WPCandy has spawned some other very cool services, such as WPCoder that will turn your PSD designs into WordPress themes if you’re looking for a individual look to your blog.

Finally, I would like to wish WPCandy a late 1st Birthday, keep up the great work guys!

Posted on September 15, 2008 - by Jonathan Davies

Welcome To Blogging Adventure!

For the past month or so I have been scheming in my lair (aka bedroom). Making plans and slowly putting them into action - one of these plans has been Blogging Adventure.

Blogging Adventure is a blog that I have created to document what has become one of my biggest passions. Blogging and how to be successful at it.

I don’t pretend to have all the answers, after all the site is called Blogging Adventure. It is just as much a learning experience for me as it is for you.

I can use Blogging Adventure for different experiments, for trying various different methods, whether is being ad campaigns or writing styles. That’s what is so great about Blogging Adventure, I can make all the mistakes so that you don’t have to!

I want Blogging Adventure to be just as much a community driven blog then it simply being a journal of my thoughts. If you have ideas or methods don’t hesitate to send them in and, if I can, I’ll give them a go and document the results.

Why you should read this blog:

• If you are interested in starting a blog.
• If you want to earn money from your blog.
• If you want to produce better content for your blog.
• If you want to be cool!

My thanks go to Woo Themes for providing their Papercut theme. Also, my friend Rupert Maspero has been working away at something very special for Blogging Adventure in the next couple of weeks.

Coming Up!

• Feedburner: a blogger’s best friend
• Which is more important? Unique Visitors or Subscribers?
• 5 Ways to keep your content fresh
• Choosing a Niche to blog about - a guide