Hey guys, just made the big switch from WordPress 2.3.3 to WordPress 2.5.

It was painless with the help of WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. The upgrade clocked to 52 seconds; fast and furious rather than upgrading manually thru FTP.

All my plugins worked after the plugin. I tried to explore the brand new interface; it’s a lot more brighter and better. The dashboard gives you the sufficient data you need. I’ve read that you can embed some plugin pages to your dashboard; such as the WordPress Stats plugin.

The Write Page and Write Post pages are still powered with TinyMCE, but now with a cleaner theme. I’ve noticed that it loaded faster than the old one using our slow dialup connection.

The Plugins page, also offers an automatic upgrade link for outdated plugins. It seems that they want to have a WordPress that’s a lot easier and user friendly!

On the Comments page, there you can see the Gravatar of the person who commented. Weeee, so slick! Unfortunately, most of my commentators don’t have a Gravatar yet. If you still don’t have one, you may get one at Gravatar.com.

Good job WordPress coders, developers, designers and supporters! I’m liking it!

Hey guys, a while ago I felt so bored so I looked for something interesting to program or reprogram. Then, the idea of converting Nate Sanden’s Show Top Commentator plugin’s generated list into cloud came in.

You may take a look at it; it’s on my sidebar at the right, just beside the categories. (feed subscribers, you really have to open my page :D)

On my example on this blog, I chose the 30 top commentators who commented in the last 30 days. The top commentator gets a font size of 16 while the lowest among the 30 gets a font size of 10. Nofollow attribute is given to URLs with font size of below 16. Growth of your name is not based on ranking but instead number of comments. This means that for example there are 3 commentators listed with 3, 4 and 15 comments respectively; the one with 15 comments will get a much bigger font size than those who had 3 or 4 comments.

Neat, huh? If you want a copy, just contact me through my contact form. I still have to ask permission to Nate Sanden if I can release a modified version of the plugin; of course with due credit to Nate.

You may also suggest other plugin modification ideas by commenting on this post.

Finding a WordPress theme for your blog is like searching for a lost ant in a rice field. It’s true; with the vast collection of WordPress themes available online.

Here at Build that Geek, I can help narrow down the choices by posting top 5 WordPress themes according to genre. Not only that, I also give out at least a link of a live blog (not a demo site) using the theme.

Our spotlight for the moment goes to Neat WordPress Themes.

Blogging Pro by Design Disease
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Blogging Pro is a neat three-column WordPress theme. It uses light colors; blue and orange. It’s typography is at par; very readable and has enough whitespace.

You can see Blogging Pro in action at J. Angelo Racoma’s The J Spot.

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Hey folks.

I just finished my first ever xHTML 1.0 Transitional Theme, the unDirty. It is currently on its 1.0 stage. I’m planning to develop the theme in the next few days.

Specifications

Here are the specifications of the unDirty Wordpress theme:

• xHTML 1.0 Transitional valid.
• FeedBurner API integration by me.
• NO Widget Support.
• Search box.
• custom 404 page.
• seamless Twitter integration with help of Twitter Tools.

Please bear with its bare design as it is still on development stage.

Changelog

v1.0 @ March 2, 2008. First stage of development.

Download

The Wordpress theme is still not available for download.