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UPDATE:  I have updated the instruction for creating the ’special pages’ on the Copy and Dummy blogs, please visit the link below for more details.

Hi all, I just want to let you know that I have just finished writing out the Instructions for Copying Theme & Plugins Setting on the Copy Best WordPress Template Blog =P.

Please feel free to login to that site with USERNAME = minttree and PASSWORD = copy to copy all the setting discussed in the Instructions for Copying Theme & Plugins Setting post.

Enjoy and please don’t do anything else except for copying those setting configurations.

Thank you.

~Mint Tree~

P.S. I have also set up another clone blog at BestWordpressTemplate.com/Dummy for you to copy - just in case the copy blog mess up. Use the login info below:

USERNAME = minttree

PASSWORD = dummy

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Hi, as a follow up to the post on WordPress inability to send a confirmation email with your password when you registered, here is just a quick tutorial on how to recover the password if you have already registered (but never have gotten a password):

1. Basically, just click on the “Lost Password?” link in the “WP Login” widget on the left and, then, enter in your registered email address (Case Sensitive) to recover the password. Login to your entered email account and see what the password is.

2. If for any reason, you can’t recover your password, please leave a reply in this post with your registered USERNAME and I’ll manually set up a temporary password for you, which you can use to access your “Profile” and change all your information - except for the USERNAME.

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Below is the list of changes in the current Best Wordpress “themes” Template 2.0 - 2.3.2II (updated from 2.0 - 2.3.2):

FEATURES ADDED

1. Add a WordPress “Page Template” to list all the authors via authors.php.
2. Add the ability to display or not display Bread Crumb navigation above the Entry Title in the “Presentation => Entry” admin area.

CHANGE LOG

1. Change back the Header Info for Category and Tag page dynamically to the default Blog Name and Description when the option to display Bread Crumb navigation is checked. (The <h1> tags are used in the end title of the Bread Crumb for Category Name and Tag Name).
2. Dynamically add rel=”nofollow” attribute to Category Link under Entry Info in Single Post/Page when the option to display Bread Crumb navigation is checked.
3. Remove the ‘Leave a Reply” link and comment form when the post/page Comment Status is “closed” => for cleaner look.
4. Add to the css “.bread-crumb ul, .bread-crumb li{display:inline;margin:0;padding:0;}” to style.php.
5. Add Bread Crumb Navigation for single page to display parent page hierarchy.
6. Change the Archives.php to display Archives by Category and Archives by Month side-by-side.
7. Remove the check box options to widgetize the sidebars in the “Presentation => Sidebars” configuration page. Now, if you drag in some widgets they will show up on the sidebar without needing to check the widgetize boxes; and if there’s no widget for a sidebar, the default coded widgets will be displayed for that sidebar.
8. Change color of Entry Title links and visited link to match the default coded link and visited link color.

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This is my new simple WordPress plugin that allows you to list: (1) the latest 5 or 7 posts in a category by the category ID, (2) all posts in the category by category ID, and (3) all posts with their excerpts in the category by category ID.

Plugin Concepts

Well, before writing this plugin, I was looking for a plugin that can list the latest post in category, as well as all the posts in the category (with and without the post excerpt). Mainly, I just want to use the listing of all posts + excerpts in category ID function, so I can use it to list all the posts + excerpt as a CATEGORY TYPE II - according to my SEOed site architectural blueprint on link/page-rank distribution. (CATEGORY TYPE I is the default WordPress category.php page that usually list the latest 10 posts (configurable in the “Options => Reading” admin area).

Anyway, because I could not find a way to ‘automatically’ create these CATEGORY TYPE II pages with all its posts and post excerpts, I had adapted another solution to have an option that let the WordPress admin choose “the Number of Posts to show per Category page” in the Best WordPress Template’s “Presentation => Entry” configuration back-end.

Plugin Features

Nevertheless, I had included this plugin in the downloads of the Best WordPress Template + plugins package, because some of you may want to use the default WordPress category page and could use this plugin to create the CATEGORY TYPE II pages to display all the category’s posts and post excerpts => so you can spread the link-love/link-power evenly to all the posts.

Also, there are 2 functions that you can use to display the “Latest Post from Category (ID)” in this plugin, which will be discussed in the “Plugin Usage” section below.

Plugin To-Do List

1. Use Wordpress Codex API instead of SELECT database.
2. Add parameter(s) so user can choose the # of posts in the category by category ID to display along with optional post excerpts.

Plugin Installation

Installation is like any WordPress plugin:

1. Download the Best WordPress Template + plugins package
2. Unzip
3. Upload posts-in-category.php to wp-content/plugins on your server
4. Activate the plugin
5. Use the output functions (see “Plugin Usage” below) in your template or sidebar widgets if you’re using PHP widgets.

You can find full details of installing a plugin on the how to install a WordPress plugin page.

Plugin Usage

There are 4 output php functions that you can use:

• <?php posts_in_cat($catID) ?> = this php function will output a list of all posts wrapped in the <li> tags in the specified category ID (replace $catID with the category ID):

<li><a href=”Post1-Permalink-URL” title=”Post-Title”>Post-Title</a></li>

<li><a href=”Post2-Permalink-URL” title=”Post2-Title”>Post2-Title</a> </li>…

• <?php excerpt_posts_in_cat($catID) ?> = this php function will output a list of all posts and post excerpts wrapped in the <li> tags in the specified category ID (replace $catID with the category ID):

<li><a href=”Post1-Permalink-URL” title=”Post-Title”>Post-Title</a> - Post1 Excerpt</li>

<li><a href=”Post2-Permalink-URL” title=”Post2-Title”>Post2-Title</a> - Post2 Excerpt</li> …

• <?php latest_5_in_cat($catID) ?> = this php function will output a list of the latest 7 posts wrapped in the <li> tags in the specified category ID (replace $catID with the category ID):

<li><a href=”Post1-Permalink-URL” title=”Post-Title”>Post-Title</a></li>

<li><a href=”Post2-Permalink-URL” title=”Post2-Title”>Post2-Title</a> </li>…

• <?php latest_7_in_cat($catID) ?> = this php function will output a list of the latest 7 posts wrapped in the <li> tags in the specified category ID (replace $catID with the category ID):

<li><a href=”Post1-Permalink-URL” title=”Post-Title”>Post-Title</a></li>

<li><a href=”Post2-Permalink-URL” title=”Post2-Title”>Post2-Title</a> </li>…

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Hi, I just want to let you know that the bread crumb navigation will be add to my Features to develop list. Basically, you will have the options to display or not to display it just above the Entry Title (or at the top of the web page?).

Also, I’ll be adding some option fields on the admin back-end so you can tweak the design of the Entry Info as well. With the options, you can display the Entry Info above the Entry Title, below the Entry Title, or way at the bottom of each Single Post/Page.

Anyway, I’ll probably implement the bread crumb navigation as soon as they are tested on the Test blog.

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Today is Monday January 14, 2008! Anyway, below is the list of things that I’ll need to do regarding the Best WordPress “themes” Template for this week:

• Finish What’s Left in “Week 1: To-Do List for Best WordPress Template″.

1. Finish testing and tweaking the sales process: including the tweaking of the look and feel of the affiliate program membership back-end.
2. Fix the bug in the MintAds plugin, which threw the “database table does NOT exist” error.

• Finish What’s Left in “Week 2: To-Do List for Best WordPress Template″.

1. Post about the reasons why I switch from the “normal” downloads/membership/affiliate-program system to the “current” updates delivery system used on this site (with a now totally separate affiliate program, which is yet to launch =).

• List of Other Things To Do for This Week 3:

1. Create a plugin to add categories descriptions in the Archives display for Categories.
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Hi, I just want to let you know that the Header Widgets Sidebar and Footer Widgets Sidebar, the ability to choose the # of posts to display on each category page and a plugin to display posts from category ID (for related PR/link-power distribution = similar/better than “Siloing” structure => will be discussed later in the “SEO” category) are added to my list of “Features Development”.

Basically, a Header Widgets Sidebar is a widgetized sidebar of customizable number of columns or widgets that you can drag-n-drop in the “Presentation => Widgets” interface to display your widgets (e.g. Popular Posts, Most Commented Posts, Subscription Box, etc =), just below the header.

Similarly, a Footer Widgets Sidebar is the same as the Header Widgets Sidebar, except that it is in the footer area, just below the “Previous” … “Next Page/Post” navigation.

*The default number of columns/widgets in the Header or Footer Sidebar seems to be 4.

Anyway, that’s just a few of the many features that I want to implement into the current WordPress “themes” template.

That’s it for now.

~Mint Tree~

P.S. All downloadable updates will be posted in the “Updates” category and the “BWT Features, Feature Requests and Developments” forum.

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Hello all, today is Monday January 7, 2008! Anyway, below is the list of things that I’ll need to do regarding the “themes” template for the week:

1. DONE. Combine what’s left in the “Week 1: To-Do List for Best WordPress Template” and this week and add to the “Week 3: To-Do List for Best WordPress Template”.
2. DONE. Add this to-do to the “Week 3: To-Do List for Best WordPress Template”: Post about the reasons why I switch from the “normal” downloads/membership/affiliate-program system to the “current” updates delivery system used on this site (with a now totally separate affiliate program, which is yet to launch =).
3. DONE. Manually setting up WP accounts for the rest of the Warriors, if push comes to shove. Or just email them one more time.
4. DONE. Write Post about the future Features development of the “themes” template in the “Developments” category.
5. DONE. Implement some of the features in the “themes” template.
6. DONE. Setup a test WP blog and forums at BestWordpressTemplate.com/Test/ to test future implementations of the main site: BestWordpressTemplate.com.
7. DONE. Make the to-do list more scalable and not adding more “unannounced” stuffs to the to-do list (e.g. setup the support forums, which was supposed to be on the to-do list for this week =).

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Below is the list of changes in the current Best Wordpress “themes” Template 2.0 - 2.3.2 (updated from 2.0 - 2.3.1):

FEATURES ADDED

1. Add the feature to choose the number of posts to display in category page (recommend to display ALL posts in every category page to get the PR/link-juices to distribute evenly, so your article doesn’t go to the Google Supplemental Index due to zero link pointing to it).
2. Updated all the plugins to the latest version (except for the AdsMint plugin) and add the Posts-In-Category-ID plugin, so you can display Latest or All Posts in Category ID.

CHANGES LOG

1. Change the general visited link color to #82AAFF in style.php to increase visitor’s usability.
2. Change the visited Entry Title color to a different color: #D2E1FF (similar to #82AAFF).
3. Change (a:link) Link Color from 005EBF (without the “#”) to #005EBF (with the “#”) in “Presenation => Other Setting”.
4. Change the overall Default-coded style of the template in “Presentation => Entry” to display the Entry-Info on the Home, Category, Archive & Tag Page and Hyper-Link the Post Titles on the Home Page. (The Latest Posts from Category plugin should be turned off, as the old posts do not need to leak more link juices to facilitate the Search Engines’ indexing of the new posts).
5. Change the display of the Date format from “-” to “/”, add the < span class=”date” > in the Entry-Info.php and alter its gray font color to dark-blue color in style.php + MintTree.css.
6. Change Main Box (enveloping Entry Box) Background to #FFF & Web Page Background to #00002B.
7. Fix and replace the Single_Cat_Title function with a new function in Header.php and Single.php to display Current Category Name.
8. Change the List of Categories display in Archives.php (will need to create a plugin to display Category with Category Description).
9. Add the is_home and is_archive conditional tags to the Entry-Info.php.
10. Change If you found this “Article Title” useful… to If you like this “Article Title”…
11. Rename “salespage2” folder to “sales2page”, “sales-page2.php” to “sales2-page.php”, “sales-setting2.php” to “sales2-setting.php”, and “sales-toolkit2.php” to “sales2-toolkit.php”.

PLUGINS UPGRADE INSTRUCTION

–Just upload/FTP and override the “plugins” directory found in “wp-template-plugins-2.0-2.3.2.zip” to the existing one.

TEMPLATE UPGRADE INSTRUCTION

–Like any other WordPress theme, just upload/FTP the new “MintTree” theme to the current “themes” directory, overriding the existing “MintTree” theme. *Note: the SalesPage2 template has been changed. So, you can safely delete these files and folder in the old “MintTree” folder:

1. salespage2 - folder
2. sales-page2.php - file
3. sales-setting2.php - file
4. sales-toolkit2.php - file

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Hi all, it seems that some of you are having problem after signing up for a WP account: some of you do not receive the confirmation email with a password!

I don’t really know what happen (maybe it’s the latest WP version), as I have tried and registered a test account and did receive the WordPress notification of new account sign up.

Anyway, if you’re still having some problems signing up for an account here, please posts a reply below… and I’ll manually set up an account for you. *Note: you need to post your desired USERNAME (unchangeable) and use the desired EMAIL ADDRESS when reply to this post (do NOT post your email directly in the reply).

Thank you.

~Mint Tree~

P.S. You can use the Username and Password of the WP account to access BestWordpressTemplate.com and the Forums, but NOT for the affiliate login. Anyway, for further supports, please either post them in the “BWT Sales and Technical Supports” forum (can post as a Guest) or contact me.

P.P.S. Also, if it comes to me having to manually create WP accounts for the rest of ~30 Warriors, I’ll use your FIRST NAME as the USERNAME, which is permanent and cannot be changed, and your PayPal address. (However, I do need your permission to do so!).

Now, I’ll re-send an email reminder to your PayPal email address to sign up for WP account (so you can receive future bug fixed updates, etc).

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