Happy birthday WordPress!

Today, WordPress turns 5. I have been a WordPresser since early 2006, and have to say hats off to this great blogging software, which is getting better everyday with the fantastic community around it. WordPress is getting more and more fans around the world everyday, and more and more people “convert” from other blogging systems. Ever since my first installation of WordPress and my first tweaking of the famous Kubrick default theme, I am a “WordPress addict”. It is a pity I cannot join the birthday party announced by Matt Mullenweg

New projects coming up

After Morangodesign has been dealing with some database problems, everything is now working fine again. Meanwhile, I began working on some new web projects.

WordPress theme in progress

I just began working on a new WordPress theme, which will be released freely after completion. The basic planning and coding is now completed and I am beginning to brainstorm about how the graphics will look and which graphic will go and in hand with the coding. Some of the features of the theme will include:

• Two widgets-ready sidebars
• Featured posts section
• Tabbed browsing in the footer
• And, maybe, some customizable options for the theme

CSS Zengarden submission

I got to know the CSS Zengarden years ago, and was fascinated by all the beautiful designs featured there, powered by CSS. I downloaded the files back then and tried to modify them to learn about CSS. Now, I actually decided to work on a design to submit it and see if it is cool enough to be approved. This project is still in the very beginning.

While writing these lines, I note how fascinated I am by the new WordPress look and functions. By the way, now that the admin panel and its color scheme can be customized, would you like me to figure out some color schemes and offer them for download?

WordPress 2.5 released

A few minutes ago I revisited the WordPress.org site to see it revamped and to find out that WP 2.5 has finally been released…I will upgrade as soon as I can