Listed below are 10 new free Drupal themes created this year for version 6 of the open source content management system. We’ve seen a ton of progress this year not only in core development with Drupal, but also in the community development of plugins and themes. In this post I wanted to highlight 10 particular free themes that have been created this year by some fantastic Drupal contributors. A big thanks to all their hard work! Attention to all you webmasters out there who are using the Drupal CMS for any of their sites, start downloading some of these Drupal themes! You will love them! 1. 960 Robots Drupal Theme 2. Acquia Prosper Drupal Theme 3.  Acquia Slate Drupal Theme 4. Analytic Drupal Theme 5. Arthemia Drupal Theme 6. Summertime Drupal Theme 7. Addari Drupal Theme 8. ColorPaper Drupal Theme 9. Fervens Drupal Theme 10. Magazeen Drupal Theme

Joobsbox is an open source job board application built using PHP and MySQL. To explain it to you in a practical sense, you can use this open source application to build your own job board where you and/or others can post job postings and organize those job postings into different categories. After spending some time thorugh the demo it appears that the application is pretty easy to use and the functionality appears to be quite extensive. This new application creates some pretty awesome business opportunities…some of which include the following: 1. A Local Job Board Let’s say you live in South Dakota. You can use this open source app to create a local “south dakota job board” where you can have businesses from all over your local area post there job postings on your job board website. You could create a “premium” job postings category where you charge money for [...]

There are many Elgg plugins to help you add additional functionality to your Elgg core. The idea of this post was not to put together “the best” list of Elgg plugins, only it’s a list of 10 Elgg Plugins that I have found to be extremely useful. I have used and tested each of these plugins with the most recent version of Elgg which at this time is Elgg 1.1. All have installed and worked perfectly and have been a great advantage to the Social Networks I have used them with. I hope they will do the same for you! 1. Default Widgets This plugin gives you the ability through a web interface to control the default widgets for new users profile and dashboard. This is an extremely helpful plugin because you can’t always assume that your users will know how to customize their profile & dashboard pages. (even though [...]

I ran into a situation recently where a client of mine was starting a new blog and needed my help  importing over 600 blog articles into WordPress. The other complexity was that these articles were all in individual Microsoft Word Docs and not currently in some other blog platform like Blogger or WordPress that I could just export. So I needed a way to be able to quickly combine all the Word Docs into one spreadsheet and import them all at one time! Even that would be time consuming considering I had to do 600 Articles but it will still save me days from inputing each blog article one by one. After much research and trail and error I finally found something that worked for me. Update: October 14, 2010 Use The CSV Importer Plugin Currently the best plugin for importing multiple blog posts via CSV is the CSV Importer [...]

If you are using the WP-O-Matic plugin for WordPress for importing content via RSS feeds, and you are wanting to use Yahoo Pipes to create a customized RSS feed or RSS mashup with WP-O-Matic you are going to run into a bug that will prevent you from getting anywhere. But don’t worry there is a fix! The problem that people are running into is that when they setup their campaign inside WP-O-Matic, the plugin is not actually retrieving any articles when you “fetch” for them. The Yahoo Pipes RSS feed just keeps coming up as “0 Posts Fetched”. But we know our RSS feed works correctly so what is the deal? Here’s The Fix! After your campaign is all setup and you have entered in your Yahoo Pipes RSS feed through the WP-O-Matic management interface, go check out your campaign_feed table in your MySQL database. In my case I just [...]

Many of you are probably familiar with the popular WordPress plugin NextGEN Photo Gallery. It’s one of the most highly downloaded and highly used plugins for WordPress. With it you can create Albums and Galleries and place those Albums and Galleries inside your blog posts or blog pages. A widget also comes with the plugin that allows you to easily add a sidebar widget that displays your most recent photos/images from your galleries. But what if you need more control over where and how your photos are displayed within your WordPress theme? I found 3 very useful customizations that I have used consistently on many blogs I have worked on and the PHP code to make it happen. I Want To Display The 6 or So Most Recent Images On a Page Let’s say you want to display a certain amount of your most recent images on a page, and [...]