Updated: Got rid of the Custom Metadata, used the modified date and the created date of the post to check if its a new post or an old one. Now you don’t have to worry about updating your old posts.

Updated: To Make the title text more Twitter friendly.

I been trying to cut down on the number of Plugins used. Firstly to make maintained easier, secondly to simplify and reduce to the bare minimum without using Plugins, thirdly to hone up my WordPress skills. The latest plugin I got rid of was the WP to Twitter Plugin. Initially I started off trying to modify how I wanted it to work. Basically I wanted to cut off Bit.ly as a URL shortner and use my own blog as a URL shortner to send people directly to my site and keep the traffic on my site without the need for a middle man. I figured this out after I saw how Amit Aggarwal was tweeting his links to his site.

Short URLs in WordPress without Bit.ly or URL Shortners

We all know that WordPress generates long Permalinks for your site, it automatically converts your titles into those long URLs called permalinks that you see. Example http://www.clazh.com/this_is_some_random_post, If you switch off Permalinks in WordPress you’ll see that links to your posts will be of the form http://www.clazh.com/?p=401 if you look at it you’ll notice the last bit has a number attached to it, each post has a unique ID associated to it. The trick is to make use of this ID to and create a URL for our posts, so when people click on this shortned link they’ll be automatically taken to the Permalink associated with that post its as simple as that.

A Simple WordPress To Twitter Function.

First we’ll write a really simple function that uses CURL to post to the Twitter API. Just copy paste it into your functions.php file in your WordPress theme directory. In case you don’t see the file in yours themes folder just create one and paste the code inside it. To check if CURL is enabled on your server you can paste this function into a blank PHP file and call the function like this twitterUpdate("some random post", "http://clazh.com", true); with some random inputs. Make sure you uncomment the last few lines where it says to uncomment to test for CURL support.

Note: In the rare case your host does not support CURL you can always make use of fsockopen for PHP 4 or the much easier stream_context_creat for PHP5

function twitterUpdate($postTitle, $postLink, $isNew)
{
	// Enter Your Twitter ID Here
	$username = 'Twitter_ID';
	// Enter Your Twitter Password Here
	$password = 'Password';

        # text into a twitter friendly text
	$code_entities_match = array('--','"','!','@','#','$','%','^','&','*','(',')','_','+','{','}','|',':','"','<','>','?','[',']','\\',';',"'",',','.','/','*','+','~','`','=');
	$code_entities_replace = array('-','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','');
	$postTitle = str_replace($code_entities_match, $code_entities_replace, $postTitle);

	// Check if New or Updated Post
	if($isNew)
		$postTitle = 'New Post: ' . $postTitle;
	else
		$postTitle = 'Updated Post: ' . $postTitle;

	// Calculate Twitter Msg and keep it under 140 Chars
        if(strlen ($postTitle) > (140 - strlen ($postLink)))
		$postTitle 		= substr_replace($postTitle, '...', (140 - 3 - strlen ($postLink)));

	$message = $postTitle . $postLink;

	// The twitter API address
	$url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml';
	$curl_handle = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
	curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
	curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
	curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "status=$message");
	curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
	$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
	curl_close($curl_handle);

	// Uncomment the lines below to check if
	// CURL is enabled on your Web Server
	// check for success or failure
	/*
	if (empty($buffer))
		echo 'message';
	else
		echo 'success';
	*/
}

WordPress Function that Triggers Post To Twitter

Next we’ll write a simple wordpress function that triggers whenever you update or publish a post, we will also added a custom metadata to the post check if its a new or old post. Copy paste this code below the twitterUpdate function in your functions.php themes file.

function postToTwitter($post_ID)
{
	// Create your Short URL replace with your blog url
	$postLink = ' http://clazh.com/?p=' . $post_ID;
	// encode the URL to fix Post to Twitter issues
        $postLink = urlencode  ( $postLink ) ;
	// Get the Post Object
	$get_post_info 	= get_post( $post_ID );
	// Get the Post Title
	$postTitle = $get_post_info->post_title;
        // Get the Post date
	$postDate 		= date('U', strtotime($get_post_info->post_date));
	// Get the post Modified date
	$postModified 	= date('U', strtotime($get_post_info->post_modified));

	// Check if the post is new or modified
	if($postModified == $postDate)
	{
		twitterUpdate($postTitle, $postLink, true);
	}
	/*  If You want to fire everytime You update
	      a post remove these comments around the else.
	else
	{
		twitterUpdate($postTitle, $postLink, false);
	}
	*/
}

// Post to twitter when you publish or update a post
add_action('publish_post', 'postToTwitter');

So thats about it, just paste these two blocks of code into your functions.php and change the required parameter, you can play around with the code and modify it to change the message being posted to twitter.

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Here are 9 + 1 Icon sets and collections that I used on this site and 1 bonus icon collection that I contemplated using for the design.

Social Network Icon Pack

Social Network Icon Pack By Komodo Media. These icons are really quite popular and have become common place. Designed by the awesome Rogie King. It contain a extensive list of icons in 16px and 32px for the most popular social networking sites on the internet. These 16px Icons are really crisp and sharp.

Social Networking Icons

Download the Social Network Icon pack

The Oxygen icon theme

An Open Source Icon Them, the Oxygen icon theme was initially started by David Vignoni, then a number of other designer joined in to create an Icon Theme for the KDE Desktop. The icons are a collection of different works from different designer. While there is no official download package you can download it from the Ubuntu repository.

Oxygen Icon Theme

Download the Oxgen Icon Them Note: Download the Deb Package and use 7-zip to unzip and extract the contents.

iPhone style sidebar icons

These pretty Icons were created by Susumu Yoshida. I found it while hunting around for 16px Icons.

iPhone Toolbar Icons

Download the iPhone Style Sidebar Icons

The Crystal icon theme

Another Open source Icon theme created by Everaldo and a list of few other designers designed exclusively for Linux. These icons are very Popular and have been ported to Windows and the Mac too.

Crystal Icon Theme

Download the Crystal icon theme

Danish Royalty Free Icons

Create by the famous now retired Icon designer, Jonas Rask of Denmark, these are a list of Icons designed exclusively for the Web and for use in web applications.

Danish Royalty Free Icons

Download Danish Royalty Free Icons

Web Injection Icons

Web Injection Icons Designed by Jonatan Castro from Galicia, Spain. A small collections of web icons.

Web Injection Icons

Download the Web Injection Icons

Toolbar Icons Starter Kit

A small set of web Toolbar Icons, created by Kombine, contains about 45 Icons in the set.

Kombine Toolbar Icons Kit

Download the Toolbar Icons Starter Kit

Glyphish Icons for iPhone Applications

A collection of 130 icons for iPhone applications. Created by Joseph Wain. Has been used in a large number of popular iPhone Applications.

Glyphish iPhone Icons

Download the Glyphish Icons for iPhone Applications

DelliPack 1 & 2 Icons

A small set of generic web Icons created by Dellustrations.

Dellipack Icons

Download the Dellipack 1 & 2 Icons

MinIcons Set

Though I didn’t use any of these Icons to round of the number to 10 I included MinIcons Set by Asher Abbasi.

Mini Icons

Download the MinIcons Set

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About the new design.

Well this is the longest time I have ever taken to design something, the design went through more than 40 revisions, it was partly my fault since kept putting it in the back burner and every time I brought it up to work on I would change something. I happy with the overall look and design. I know its not as colorful as my last one. The pink color in my last design became a running joke among my friends. Currently the site is still in beta.

• Running on the latest and best WordPress 2.8.
• Very Lightweight.
• Uses only one image for the whole site, CSS Sprites.
• All Javascript are hosted on External CDN
• New featured content slider on the homepage.
• New community submitted articles.

Please do provide some feedback, will really appreciate it. If something is broken get in touch with me using the contact form. Lots more new stuff coming up on the site just keep a watch.

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hey just a heads up, your site got ripped. Its out in the world wide web now.

In the evening while catching up with my RSS feeds I noticed a bunch of strange links showing up in Technorati and I found a bunch of sites using my theme. Unfortunately for the ripper I am not upset, why you ask? I was going to release the theme this Christmas as a free download but was waiting for the WordPress.com guys to launch the Wordpress marketplace. Since my theme had been approved to be listed on it when it opens up, I was asked not to make it available for download till they launched. Its been almost a month and the Wordpress.com guys haven’t got back to me yet. The theme would have made a really good Christmas and New year gift since a huge number of people had requested and begged me to release it. If you guys can be a little more patient I’ll make it available right after the market place launches.

Currently since I haven’t released the theme it is copyrighted and using it without my permission is illegal. I will be releasing it under a GPL licence after which you are free to do whatever you wish with the theme.

As a side note can you help my friend Kanak his comments seem to be going into the spam queue any solutions?

A belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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5. Part3 Top Best Beautiful Wordpress Themes and Templates

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Acid2 is a test page for web browsers published by The Web Standards Project (WaSP). It has been written to help browser vendors make sure their products correctly support features that web designers would like to use. These features are part of existing standards but haven’t been interoperably supported by major browsers. Acid2 tries to change this by challenging browsers to render Acid2 correctly before shipping.

Acid2 is a complex web page. It uses features that are not in common use yet, because of lack of support, and it crams many tests into one page. The aim has been to make it simple for developers and users to check if a browser passes the test. If it does, the smiley face on the left will appear. If something is wrong, the face will be distorted and/or shown partly in red.

Here are a couple of things I predict about IE 8.

• A Much faster rendering engine for Both JavaScript and Web Pages.
• Cooler, Skinnable and Better User Interface.
• Better Extensibility like Firefox.
• Will use lesser memory.
• More Security Features.

This comment on DIGG says it all.

Wow, a story about Microsoft and Internet Explorrer and most all of the comments in here are positive? I Never thought I’d see that!

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Today we have taken a stand. Opera has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission to force Microsoft to support open Web standards in its Web browser, Internet Explorer. We believe that Microsoft has harmed Web standards by refusing to support them; Microsoft often participates in creating Web standards, promoting them, and even promising to implement them. Despite their talent, however, they refuse to support Web standards correctly. For example, Internet Explorer is the only modern Web browser that does not support Acid2.

Sure IE 7 doesn’t have the best support for Web Standards but at least Microsoft is trying. Hey I am web designer and I hate IE. But lets not forget that IE was at one time the most advanced and sophisticated Browser heck IE was the first to implement the concept of AJAX.

The XMLHttpRequest concept was originally developed by Microsoft as part of Outlook Web Access 2000, as a server side API call. At the time, it was not a standards-based web client feature; however, de facto support for it was implemented by many major web browsers. The Microsoft implementation is called XMLHTTP. It has been available since the introduction of Internet Explorer 5.0[5] and is accessible via JScript, VBScript and other scripting languages supported by IE browsers.

I like it how Peter-Paul Koch, puts it.

Nonetheless, I have to point out the potentially disastrous consequences of “asking the European Commission to require Microsoft to follow fundamental and open Web standards accepted by the Web-authoring communities.”

Opera is begging a political body to take control of web standards.

Also I find Eric Meyers Response pretty awesome.

Look, the time to file this motion and make this appeal was in 2005, when Internet Explorer had been dead in the water for years and it was genuinely holding back web design. Then there’d have been a case to make. When IE7 came out in late 2006, it wasn’t a great leap forward for web development, but it did bring IE more or less in line with where browsers were at the time—which was, frankly, a pretty large leap. After all, they were doing five years of catch-up with a pretty small team. Now we have IE8 in development, and there is a real chance that it could push standards support forward in a significant way.

Its pretty clear Opera has a clear conflict of interest.

As has been widely reported, software developer Opera, has filed an antitrust complaint with the EU to force Microsoft to support open Web standards in Internet Explorer and to carry alternative browsers pre-installed on Windows. What has not yet been discussed is the devastating and destabilizing effect that this will undoubtably have on the development of future CSS.

Following Opera’s action, today I am calling on Bert Bos, chairman of the CSS Working Group, and those higher up within the W3C including Sir Tim Berners Lee, to immediately disband the CSS Working Group in its current form. I am asking for immediate action to be taken on the formulation of a replacement CSS Working Group that will include new members who are not the representatives of browser vendors. Instead the new CSS Working Group should consist of people, including some who already serve on the group, who are committed to seeing the development of CSS3 succeed because that is central to the success of our profession. This new group need not start from scratch, but should instead build uponn the significant advances and hard work of the current CSS Working Group.

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5. The Launch and A Happy April Fool’s Day

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Multi Columns

Currently when you create a multi columned layout i.e 2 column or 3 column layout you need to specify individual and separate DIV HTML elements to achieve the desired effect. But in CSS 3.0 you can achieve this with a single CSS declaration like this

DIV {width: 400px;column-count: 4;
column-width: 100px;
column-gap: 10px;column-rule: none;
}

This is actually possible in FireFox but it is not Standard CSS 3.0 you’ll need to use FireFox Specify code in your CSS to achieve the effect. Example is given below.

-moz-column-count: 3;
-moz-column-gap: 1em;
-webkit-column-count: 3;
-webkit-column-gap: 1em;


Multi-Background

Currently it is not possible to put multiple background Images to the same HTML element but in CSS 3.0 you can easily do this.

background: url('http://www.clazh.com/images/body-top.gif')
top left no-repeat,
url('http://www.clazh.com/images/banner_fresco.jpg')
top 11px no-repeat,
url('http://www.clazh.com/images/body-bottom.gif')
bottom left no-repeat,
url('http://www.clazh.com/images/body-middle.gif')
left repeat-y;


Zebra Tables

You can easily do zebra table without the need for JavaScript or putting CSS Classes on individual Table Rows to give alternate colours.

tr:nth-child(2n+1) /* represents every odd row of a HTML table */;
tr:nth-child(odd) /* same */
tr:nth-child(2n) /* represents every even row of a HTML table */
tr:nth-child(even) /* same *//* Alternate paragraph colours in CSS */
p:nth-child(4n+1) { color: navy; }
p:nth-child(4n+2) { color: green; }
p:nth-child(4n+3) { color: maroon; }
p:nth-child(4n+4) { color: purple; }


Rounded Corners

How about the ability to render the ever popular and so called Web 2.0 rounded Corners for a box(html Element) with just a single line of CSS.

-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-khtml-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;


Opacity

Currently almost all browsers support their own version and syntax for opacity. Here is the CSS 3.0 Standard code for opacity

/* IE 8 */
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=50)";
/* IE 5-7 */
filter: alpha(opacity=50);
/* Netscape */
-moz-opacity: 0.5;
/* Safari 1.x */
-khtml-opacity: 0.5;
/* Good browsers */
opacity: 0.5;


Resize

Ability to resize a HTML Element automatically

div.resize {width: 100px;
height: 100px;
border: 1px solid;
resize: both;
overflow: auto;
}


Text Effects

Text effects like drop shadow and Text Overflow.

color: #fff;background-color: #fff;
text-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000;
text-overflow: ellipsis-word;


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So here are the list of some of the beautiful, professional, 3 column WordPress Themes that I could find.

Beautiful Three column WordPress Themes

Illacrimo

A beautiful three column theme called Illacrimo. Created by Design Disease. It has a number of Supporting Plugins like: Gravatar FlickrRSS Pagenavi. Download and Demo Here

Feel The Freedom

A Colorful theme that claims to incorporate Web 2.0 design elements. Download and Demo Here

Mezzo

Download and Demo Here

Brown And Dark 3 column WordPress Themes

Zeke

If you love brown and crisp typography then this WordPress template is for you. I love every bit of it. lots of space to put you widgets in the sidebar. Download and Demo Here

Clean 3 Column Themes

Alexified

Clean Theme Though the font are a bit micro sized. Download and Demo here

Moo-Point

Super clean minimalist theme Also placed second in the SandBox theme competition. Download and Demo Here

Silhouette

Clean Professional 3 columned theme. Download and Demo Here

SubStyle

Download and Demo Here

NetWorker

Clean red and white theme. Download and demo here

Blog Oh Blog

Download and demo here

A few more Beautiful WordPress theme

Elixir

Dark theme pure eye candy. Get the theme in various colored flavors. Download and demo here

Feather

I love this Theme. I am a sucker for bright colors this theme is really beautiful. Download Here

Mimbo

Magazine style layout Download and demo here

Other Notable Three Column WordPress Themes

• JS Paper
• i3Theme
• Upstart Blogger Modicus
• Rockin Web 2.0
• fresco
• Cutline 3 Column
• Dm Bloodless
• Suhweet
• Simplicity
• Genman
• BloggingPro
• Blueberry
• Indiblogger(Note Not a Three Column Theme)

Want to see more 3 columns Theme check these posts

http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/06/26/13-double-right-sidebars-wordpress-themes/

http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/07/28/3-column-wordpress-themes-my-picks/

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5. Notable Free Premium WordPress Themes

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The SandPress WordPress theme has been updated to Version 0.71 its has a number of minor css fixes, and a few other fixes based on user feedback. I am thinking of moving to a better host soon. My current choices are Mediatemple.net and Bluehost. If anyone has any suggestions let me know.

Below is the ChangeLog. You can view the Demo Here

• Updated To the Latest SandBox Version 0.9.7
• Fixed 31st Date-Stamp CSS bug
• Fixed Strong Bold text CSS Bug
• Removed SandPress Header
• Changes To The Menu, Smaller Font
• Reduced Header Size (based on SmallPotatoes Feedback)
• Search box looks much better now
• Prettier Vista fonts for headings
• Better Styling for the Calendar Widget
• Added Home Link in menu
• Max-width for images

Download The Theme

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5. CoolWater Two Column Free WordPress Theme

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When I logged in to my computer this morning, I had completely forgotten that today at 5:30 AM (Indian Time) the results for the SandBox Design Competition would be announced. I opened FireFox and my Gmail Manager Extension showed that I had received more than 25-30 mails and Comments.

I found out that The SandPress Theme won the First Place in the SandBox WordPress Design Competition. It took a while for it to sink in. I want to thank the judges and everyone for the support and kind words. There are a few people I would like to thank specially, while I might not have the time to comment and take part in discussion in forums (WordPress.Com, sndbx.org), these are the kind of people who make the WordPress community such a great help and resource, without such people WordPress would be just another obscure Blogging Platform.

• Scott for running the SandBox Competition in the most professional and transparent way, providing all possible help and support.
• Adam the CSS Genius for giving me the idea for implementing the Date Stamp using Images.
• Engtech for providing the SandBox HTML Dummy code it was a great help.
• People in the SandBox Forums and the WordPress.com forums, again it was Scott, Adam, Engtech and a few dedicated WordPress Community members like DrMike, timethief, thatgirlagain, atthe404 sorry if I missed out anyone.

I have tried my best to personally thank everyone who had some encouragement and kind words for my me.

A List of other Winners and participants. Copied from scott’s blog. The numbers indicate the total points. you can also look at the complete data score here

1. Moo-Point by Will Wilkins 23 Second place
2. Prima Sunaryo Hadi 19 Third place
3. Essay Ian Stewart 15 Runner-up
4. Tiffany Blue Ia Lucero 10 Runner-up
5. Shades of Gray Leslie Franke 10 Runner-up
6. Diurnal Carolyn Smith 9
7. Milkia Christian Betancourt 8
8. Oriole Jason Porritt 8
9. MIX Jauhari Nurudin 6
10. Blueberry Dean< Robinson 5
11. Walk in the Shadows Adam Freetly 4
12. Scrappr Gordon Brander 4
13. Hourglass Daniela Risse 4
14. Sakeena Shazia Mistry 3
15. Oranges Chris V. 3
16. The Blue Butterfly Carolyn Smith 2
17. Takimata Robert Ellis 2
18. Picnic Carolyn Smith 1
19. Chocolate Vanilla Stephen James Broughton 1

So what happens next with The SandPress WordPress Theme?

I will continue to support the SandPress Theme. Here is a mini Road Map

Current Goals

• Bug Fixes
• Side Bar Content and Widgets Needs more styling for various widgets.
• For the Date Stamp on 31st the Image doesn’t show up.
• Remove The SandPress Header or show people how to do it.
• Content Formatting Bugs example Bold or the strong tag doen’t show up properly

Future Goals

• Move The SandPress Code to Google Code.
• Get Feeback from the community for new Features.
• Launch a forum for support and discussions.
• Launch SandPress.com
• SandPress Candies (Different Colour Schemes)
• Comment Box needs to be made flexible i.e. it expands if there are more fields.
• Support for Popular plugins while remaining backward compatible with SandPress.

A few things I am debating.

• While three columns are great some people prefer 2 columns with a 780px width. I am thinking of making a two column version too, with a large footer.
• I don’t like the semantic structure that SandBox is following .i.e. h1 for blog name and h3 in the side bar. I prefer to follow what Chris Pearson has outlined. But this means I need to break away from the SandBox.

So the competion may be over but I am not done yet with SandPress, in the end it has a lot of hidden potential its just waiting to be discovered ;)

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5. Wordpress Themes and Plugins Competitions

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