6:00 AM Podcast Theme Preview
Since the feedback for the mock-up of the podcast theme for was so great, here is a little preview of how far I have gotten. Read more »
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Squeeze the Header of the New WordPress 2.7 Dashboard
I love the new WordPress 2.7 dashboard design even despite all the bad things that I have previously said. Back then it was only a prototype and probably even the core developers didn’t have a clear and complete picture of how it is going to look and work in real-word environment.
Now when it is one minute away from the prime-time, I applaud Jane, Matt and all the designers and developers behind the overhaul who carried out the work in such a transparent and feedback driven way.
For me it is the new icon-only-slide-right navigation bar that makes the whole administration section work so much better than I could have imagined. All the administration sections are only one click away. Navigation takes up only 40 pixels of the cheap vertical space and thus saves much of the expansive vertical area where things get done. The result is truly amazing and it makes me wonder if anyone really knew it will turn out to be this good. Read more »
Show Ads Only to Visitors Coming from Search Engines
With the latest design update, I have stripped away most of the clutter in the form of secondary content. It also included removing most of the ads, just because 400 visitors a day is still to few to get more than a single click per day.
I decided to install Ozh’s Who Sees Ads plugin to make ads visible only to visitors coming from search engines. The problem, however, is that it shows ads only on the landing page and not on all pages that the user visits. Read more »