an additional upgrade on zoxengen commercial theme user, here are some of the added features

- added custom image header with the ability to turn on and off also control the height

- fix text widget and rss widget link with button problems..button-bug..you’re out:)

- meta and keyword control – an issue brought by one of the commercial user…working on it last weeked and now you can insert or customized your own seo meta and keyword in theme option without edit the template.

- tested in latest wordpress 2.6.2

ok if you already a zoxengen commercial user, you will be receiving the new theme via purchase email within this week and be sure to feedback me on the new features added.

if you wanted to purchase the new version of zoxengen, you can head on to the link below

Themes Commercial Usage Purchase

The theme free version already packed with the full version of the theme. You can also choose to download/purchase a commercial usage license for the theme at only USD20.50 via paypal. It will include an added usage as follow:

1. included the theme original design psd and slice version psd in zip
2. included the xhtml files and css files for advance editing
3. Using the theme and modify as client or affliance site are allowed *multi site apply
4. Direct email support included in download notes, you can direct contact me at the email for advance support
5. designer/author link removal
6. Theme page will not include a license usage indicator as in free version
7. resell or sell the theme in single or multi form are prohibited in any way

The theme commercial purchase link will take you directly to download url(zip packed 3.3 mb) after payment purchase and also a download link will be forwarded to your email, any difficulty with the purchase, feel free to contact my site email at rkcorp@dezzain.com

you can also testrun the theme at dezzain testrun site

ok you heard, you see and now get’…hehe..just kidding

i was unable to maintain the site since around may or april due to some private work that needed my full attention. Now i’m alive and kicking and will be updating the blog with new design and also released more new theme a head.

here are some of the project/work you will see in the future..hopefully october at close

New site design

yeap..lot of wordpress designer or developer are already moving forward with new site design..i might as well catch the trend

the site design will had more features and section build so it easy to navigate whether you need to download new theme or old theme or if you need support (there will be new support section developed) anyway be sure to catch the new site soon

new or rather delayed theme released

new theme will released before end of the month, themename DARKGRAVITY aka dark gaming theme..hehe…the theme will be somewhat dark and had some red gaming feel to it so be sure to download the fresh version right around the corner

new support section

yeap..this is essential in the future site development since i mysefl can’t be attend all the email at hand so i will create a new section that give support to a commercial theme or the free theme…be sure to signup a new account there if you would like any support regarding any theme ok

moving or developed more cms driven magazine theme and video theme

Personally i already made lots of client site work on this area but still haven’t release my own touch on magazine theme or video theme..you will see something here soon…….ohhhh yeah

theme series development

secret and still undergorund if you know what i mean…hehe

ok don’t leave yet…catch some new post a head

Yikes..yes…the theme had been delayed for weeks now since i close the unique right purchase of the theme last month. It is ok though..i personally would like to share this theme with all readers and visitors here so i decided not to accept couple of email offer since last months…

The theme features and How To are already inserted in theme page so you can check out how to make a caption post or how to used the p class for downloads ect… ok now let’s see what the theme features are:

Theme featured and functionality

1. 3 column left content layout
2. Widgetize sidebars
3. 4-6 block 125×125 ads in sidebar
4. social tool in single page only to save load time
5. theme option
6. custom field
7. jslide featured articles *added ability to turn off in theme option
8. net-subscribes included in sidebar with alexa tool and technorati tools
9. post-styling (downloads, caption etc) *theme page explained
10. top header and single page adsense block *remove the code if not used
11. plugin integrated as listed below
12. Compatible with wordpress version 2.1+

Plugins supported and tested

• Get-recent-comments by Krischan Jodies
• Myavatar by Andrea Micheloni & Napolux
• WP-PageNavi, WP-Polls, WP-PostRatings and WP-PostViews by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan
• Popularity Contest, ShareThis and WP Grins *known issue below by Alex King
• Subscribe To Comments by Mark Jaquith
• Theme Switcher by Ryan Boren
• Dagon Design Sitemap Generator by Dagon Design

Known plugins and theme issues

wp-grins plugin will not work if the jslide featured articles are active. If you want to used the wp-grins, you can choose to turn off the featured article by selecting the “choose a category” and save the theme options or simply reset the options.

Since last couple of theme release, i have been receiving emails about if the used of the 125 x 125 ad space is allowed? and yes you can input your own ad banner there without worrying.

Get ready to download the theme

ok enough of all the theme features let’s start downloading the theme and tested it

Download Zoxengen Theme Here
downloads

Plugin Pack Download
downloads

Live Demo Preview

Themes Commercial Usage Purchase

The theme free version already packed with the full version of the theme. You can also choose to download/purchase a commercial usage license for the theme at only USD20.50 via paypal. It will include an added usage as follow:

1. included the theme original design psd and slice version psd in zip
2. included the xhtml files and css files for advance editing
3. Using the theme and modify as client or affliance site are allowed *multi site apply
4. Direct email support included in download notes, you can direct contact me at the email for advance support
5. designer/author link removal
6. Theme page will not include a license usage indicator as in free version
7. resell or sell the theme in single or multi form are prohibited in any way

The theme commercial purchase link will take you directly to download url(zip packed 3.3 mb) after payment purchase and also a download link will be forwarded to your email, any difficulty with the purchase, feel free to contact my site email at rkcorp@dezzain.com

That’s all folks..any problems with the theme, feel free to address here awright

peace

I myself already installed this wonderful script to the site and now caching of the frontpage custom field images are faster since before that i was using the same big images from custom field with a image resize but the file size to load are the same as big image so you can imagine how the site loads will be effected.

With the TimThumb script, now all custom field images are auto crop or tonedown so the usual 100kb images are now only 50kb so to speak…even slight improvement on the site loading already enough to make me happy

Darren well known for his creation of Mimbo series and Ben Gillbanks a wordpress wiz that created the bm custom login and the widely used bm trackback and pingback separator started the work during the release of mimbo pro and releasing the script as an open source program

Finally thanks to Darren and Ben for this great work if you just like me who hate to created 2 separate custom images (big and small image) to associated with one post, this script definately worth a try..server management and script installation can be found at the script release page

Zoxengen Custom Wordpress Theme are the latest theme i created days ago. The theme are meant to design toward a technology and software niche, it is also packed with integrated plugins such post-ratings, subscribes to comments and other. Social friendly Single Page with social submit such as digg, delicious and also related articles for user browsing experience.

The Theme Features And Functionality

- 3 column with 2 sidebar widget-ready

- Globalize Fonts and Headline (Post-title, Sidebar H3 tag) Control with theme option

- Page navigation with inline subpage (browse subpage for clear view) and if child page not detected, an optional line ads such as google ads as showed in demo

- Customize Theme Option to control featured smooth-articles/gallery and featured videos

- Organize Templating

- Paged coded (sitemap, archives, popular)

- Valid XHTML and Valid CSS

- SEO Friendly

- Compatible with Wordpress version 2.1 to 2.5 RC2

Here’s some theme option screenshot taken from wp 2.3 and wp 2.5RC2

wp2.3 theme option screenshot

wp2.5 RC2 theme option screenshot

Theme is not available anymore and will be release as free theme soon

The Theme Also Available To Purchase Or Bid At Sitepoint

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Wordpress 2.5 Release Candidate 1 (WP2.5 RC1) finally out couple of days ago and i also got a chance to give it a local testrun on how the new system (core) will reflect on my current themes and old themes.

So far i passed the first stage on the testing specially the custom theme option that usually imprinted in custom themes still survive from the changes from wordpress 2.3.3 to wordpress 2.5 RC1. I do had my doubt early on since the last time core changes (taxonomy) in wp 2.3 lead to making a drastic changes in theme coding for me and also other developers in that time. Of course without doubt many high powered blogs still carefully using a early version of wordpress 2.1 since making an upgrade to an stable version of wordpress 2.3 will take much consideration into changes in database within the 2.3 core.

What I Like About The New Wordpress 2.5 RC1 Changes?

First of course will be the new interface inside the dashboard are pretty neat..well its some what a step forward look on dashboard. Also i do notice some improvement of caching or information retrieve from within the dashboard. Not sure if the core had something to do with it but i find this articles about Object Caching Improvement may playing the big roll on the new wordpress core.

Addition to the faster object cache, the built-in gravatar in comment page also come in handy if you don’t want to bother to install any plugin or touch the code into implementing the avatar alike plugins. The current default Kubrick already impose on that function so you can try it out yourself.

Also the new interface in write panel also been ajaxed (not sure if that’s the right word for it )

Adding media and video become more flexible..well if you’re into the ajax stuff..you will love this new stuff.

Presentation were change to Design in wordpress 2.5 and it also added a theme tags that can be found below of the theme in your design panel, kind of neat dont’t ye think..Now you can tagged your theme so its easy for user to found their desired theme, come to think of it, the theme tagging function maybe usefull if by any change WordPress Themes Repository come alive soon after the stable of wordpress 2.5 released….hopefully its been unactivate since 2007

So far second stage on testing the new core on theme option had been successful and it seems the new version did not had any deadly effect on it, below are the screenshot for the theme option backend:

Also did i mention that uploading new media or images become more easy and eye candy than before, now you can automatically align the media/image since the panel provide an option for alignments.

The new upload media interface do seems to complicated for beginner in wordpress but still a few trip to wrtiting your own post with images will let you learn and adapt on the new interface….ok now my gallery almost full :spoiler:

What I Did Not Like On The New Wordpress 2.5 RC1 Changes?

Ok there’s always a pro and cons on everything so here are couple of thing i did not like not in the motion of throwing it through the wall

1. The dashboard write a new page and write a new post order..haha..some might find this minor problems but there’s couple of time i want to write a new dummy post, i just accidentally or drowed to click the first button and that will be the write page…I would personally think its better to put the write post first before the write page…

2. Widget is kind of confusing..i do prefer the old school widget area…I had to think twice where should i click and input the widgets.

3. Ajax or jquery effect bug in write panel – sometime when i finished writing a post or uploading a media, the ajax or jquery function just stop and unrespond (do note i’m using firefox at that time) although the post was short and rewrting it was not a problem (also draft not save at that time)..it tend to give you the WTF feel…

well other than the above mentions, all the new interface and changes still make me wanna hug the wordpress creator (in none gayish way)

Couple Of Idea That I Would Love To See In The Future Build

1. Built-in Theme Switcher widget

2. Design or the presentation can be categorized or page separate – something like if my free theme and client work theme can be separate but still using the same wordpress installations. Similiar to design with submenu or something like that..:)

3. smaller screenshot in design/presentation page or pagination in design/presentations – one of the pain in the butt is when you have more 70 themes inside the design/presention. it took like 20 minutes for it to finished loading the screenshot of the themes..ok it wasn’t that looong..maybe 10 minutes:)

4. please can we have activate all plugins button ..my hand hurt when activate it one by one..hehehe

5. More cover and advance option on user roles

6. Built in podcast or built-in voice blog or even voice comments would be nice..although it may seems putting in some extra weight into already complicated wordpress core..but who knows:)

So what do you think on the new wordpress release?

Expo Fender is a clean and sharp theme with controlable fonts and line height in admin theme option backend. The decision to take away some of the design part of the grey in sidebar since i don’t want to over contrast the sidebar and loose the viewer scan on the actual content “blog post”. The sidebar are packed with fully optimize tabs that can accomodate 5-6 box tab and also a aside features that you can control in theme options, attachment on the theme option are as below

Theme option screenshot from expo fender

Theme Features And Functions

- 2 column

- widgetize sidebar

- mini social for inpost ready

- post-styling ready

- top adsense and sidebar 300×250 adsense block compatible

- Sidebar featured articles – theme option control

- global em based font – theme option control

- optimize tabs for more inner listing

- page coded such sitemap, archives, popular for listing most voted, most view etc..

- typo and line height controlable – you can change the font and line height in the theme option

- valid xhtml and valid css

- compatible with wordpress 2.1 and up

- also compatible with older version of wordpress using Ultimate Tag Warrior

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Yesterday the buzz in WordPress community are about small potato decision on selling his branded WPDesigner Dot Com site. Personally i was shocked but not the one that causing a heart attack this morning that the sp (small potato nickname) are putting his years branded WPdesigner Dot Com for sell in sitepoint. Sp initial set price are about USD65,000 and currently geting his first bid on USD15,000. Settle in he will get more advance bid later in the auction.

What Is My First Thought On SP Selling His Site?

well i’m not going to give a construct opinion on sp decision. Truthfully he already done so much work and contribution to the WordPress community with the released of more than 40 free wordpress theme (i lost the count there, how many theme did sp release?) and also posting as many as tutorials concerning wordpress. The fact that he is his own boss..i mean he run the site himself, selling the site will be entirely his final decision so i would say good luck and safe journey on his dream on travelling around the world (yikes! its my dream too)

1. Let’s Sum Up What Would WPDesigner Total Net Worth?

Be in mind, although i’m not an expert in marketing point of view but i got my math working properly during highschool zebra..alzebra

Let’s see..in terms of the best selling point in sp sells will be his domain name WPDesigner Dot Com. With the unpredictable growing of WordPress platform over the years and it will be going even further in the next future. With the Amongst Top Rank in google search for WordPress Themes Tutorial and WordPress Themes Designer. This alone already getting his dot com value on the chart about USD30,000 estiaments. I know investers love statics so here is the most updated statics on WPDesigner dot com

- Had a main site pagerank of 7

- Among the most linked site in technorati (although the recent technorati banned issue on couple of major site, this statics still proven visible on the site linking stats)

[According to sp stats]

Awstats - approximately 70,000 uniques and 896,000 pageviews

Google Analytics – 65,439 absolute unique visitors and over 300,000 pageviews from February 9 to March 10

Personally i’m not an SEO expert or analyst, assuming the stats is really impressive.

2. The Copyright Transfer Worth In General

Assuming the fact that sp is going to transfer his all copyright on wpdesigner on the new owner. This will includes a copyright on all his free theme about 40-50 free wordpress theme lying around the wordpress themes site. Now let’s give a value of USD1000 for the each theme copyright and that would been estiament about USD40,000 to USD50,000. With the include of all his copyright on premium member theme clubs, that will give a total sum of USD60,000 in general.

Ok i know you may asked why would a there be a difference on a site copyright and his themes copyright. With the selling of his branded WPDesigner, i assumed he will be selling his brand(WPDesigner Dot Com) not the actuall content (that include the copyright of the themes created by him over the years) …like said you can’t buy microsoft brand without buying all the copyright on all the product that using the microsoft brand, right?

3. Advertisment And Marketing Value With WPDesigner Dot Com

Advertisment

With the investment paying load with the predicted net worth, the advertisment and marketing value will be first priority on making a profits out of everything. First, the advertiment value in WPDesigner, let’s say the monthly ads board in WPDesigner would be around USD200 (at minimum with the traffic growing along the years). With maximum 6 ads spot for 125 x 125 banner board, it will generate an income of USD1200 permonth and with the generally wise google adsense or any advertising method that will be conducted by the new owner, it should round up about USD20,000 above a year for ads income (banner – 1200×12month=USD14400 + any revenue or alternate income for advertisments)

Marketing

The big main point on the obtaining the WPDesigner brand will be pushing it marketing value to the max. Over the years sp been lacking the site marketing potential, he already produce tons of free wordpress theme but still haven’t got a chance to market more advance and more high quality (paid themes) to its fullest potential. Small potato initial move on stay away from the market of “premium/magazine theme” are losing some of his site market potential. I would love to see him created a final one go away premium/magazine theme similiar to JWM when his sales in sitepoint are successfull. In the other hand just to comfort his readers and also drop the final bomb on the magazine themes trend.haha..just kidding…

its not like small potato will be going away forever, he did stated he will peek around the site and see what’s the latest buzz in wordpress community.

Ok before i forget, the marketing loss on sp decision on staying away from premium/magazine will be…let’s see the current magazine theme are tagged with about USD70 minimum pertheme and about USD200 minimum perdevelopment theme. If the paid theme sales goes well, it should round up about 20-30 copies permonth (both package mix) and that will generate an income of (let’s take the summing form – USD200-USD70 = USD130 x 30 = USD3900 at minimum permonth and about USD46800 peryear income) *although this seems alluring, it is a base prediction estiament only…damn…that’s some hard cash flow…

In Conclusion

The final round up on the prediction of WPDesigner Dot Com net worth will be about USD156,800. The sum net worth may seems a big number for individual party but for a corporate and business point of view, the net worth is tempting..why? The growing wordpress platform is getting more and more exposure with the creator matt travelling around the continent to spread the wordpress wings, it shouldn’t take long before corporate, business and even politician starting to used wordpress as their communcation platform. The fact that recent US Elections had seen his effect on some candidates are using wordpress platform to communicate or speak their mind (i forget where i read about the news…i’m not a political follower..hehe)

Also the recent buzz about wordpress will become more social community platform with the automattic acquires buddypress . It will also take the platform up a notch on communication and media social blogging tools so getting your hand on a power branded site like WPDesigner may come handy in the future for developing any kind of wordpress developments related….good investment i guess…ka ching!

And finally wish small potato find his new path in life and carrear and have a wonderful journey in travelling…

The site i was talking about are Netdisaster.com a cool innovative method to destroy your site with all kinds of disaster. Mine was just served by God Almighty minutes ago and it leave some minions in the headline…joke! joke!

Who The Genius Behind This Interface

The site and Netdisaster was created by Dennis Rionnet. A lot of guys contributed to making it a wonderful site and also creating the cool disaster you seen in the site. My favourite will be the vomit and dogpoops..hussah..its nasty!

In other case, they did won the Yahoo! Search Award as Best Innovative Website of the Year 2005. This showed great idea are very well awarded and recognize..congrat to the netdisaster team

so what are you waiting for?, go right ahead and destroy your site