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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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Hi all, just want to let you all know that there’s a bug for the MintAds plugin. It doesn’t create the 2 database tables when first installed/activated, which throw this error:

WordPress database error: [Table ‘xxxxxxx_wrdp1.wp_mint_ads’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT `ads_group` FROM wp_mint_ads where ads_group=’HomeAds’

Anyway, this will be fixed and new updates will be posted in the “Updates” category and “BWT Announcements, Updates and Releases” forum. (Hmn… I had it running on the demo blog =?). Anyway, if other plugin throw an error, just deactivate that plugin for now, and let me know what the error is as well!

Thank you.

~Mint Tree~

P.S. I’m almost finished with the updates delivery system (I need to finish this to deliver the updates, so stay tune => estimate time of completion ~2 days =).

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Hi all, I just want to let you know that I have found a bug for WordPress version 2.3.0 – 2.3.2 (I have just found this out using these version) regarding the single_cat_title function when the permalink does NOT has the %category% token.

Basically, what happens is that when you choose a permalink structure without the %category% (e.g. like I have for this site /%postname%-%post_id%/ /%postname%/), the single_cat_title does NOT return anything, as you can see the blank whitespace after the “Latest in “, which should have been “Latest in [missing current category name]“.

This also affect the meta Title tag of the single post, which uses the wp_title and single_cat_title functions to display “Title of Post ~ Missing Current Category Name”.

Anyway, I’ll be working on a way to replace the current single_cat_title function with another alternated function.

This will be added to my “list of now 10 things to-do for Week 1 of 2008“.

Anyway, I just want to let you all know.

~Mint Tree~

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Hello to all Warriors, currently I’m working on installing an affiliate-program / download-management / membership script, so those who have purchased the Xmas special can get the updated copy (without me having to worry about unauthorized access =).

Of course, I should have done this in the beginning… but didn’t have enough time to set up the system during Christmas–and I want to get this out for the Warriors Xmas Special =P.

Anyway, thank you and please give me sometimes to finish setting up the system.

~Mint Tree~

P.S. Crossing fingers to hope it will be done in days!

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Hello all, today is Monday December 31 2007 Tuesday January 1, 2008, which is in the first week of 2008! Anyway, below is the list of things that I’ll need to do regarding the “themes” template for this week (I’ll try to do this at the beginning of each week and give you all a heads-up on the “list of 7-10+ things” that I’ll try to accomplish for the week =) :

1. DONE. Add this task to the “Week 3: To-Do List for Best WordPress Template”: Finish testing and tweaking the sales process: including the tweaking of the look and feel of the affiliate program membership back-end.
   
2. DONE. Re-construct BestWordpressTemplate.com into a more navigable and intuitive documentations site. Need a poll for voting/opinion.
3. DONE. Finish configuring and give instructions to the Dummy Blog at Dummy.BestWordpressTemplate.com, so you all can login on the back-end and copy all the configurations (please don’t do any thing other than just copying the configurations of the plugins and themes setting .
4. DONE. Email the 105 Warriors info to transfer the membership/updates system, which I should have done in the beginning: I have to stop the WSO early after ~1 day to finish working on this system xP.
5. DONE. Updating some tutorials of ‘themes’ template on the back-end.
6. DONE. Fix the Listing of Categories on Archives page. Add to next week 3 to-do list to create a plugin to add categories descriptions in the Archives display for Categories.
7. DONE. Add this task to the Week 3 To-Do List: Post an explanation of each category on this site. These categories currently are: General, Themes, Plugins, Developments, Tutorials, Video Tutorials, Documentations, To-Do, and Updates.
8. DONE. Add this task to the Week 3 To-Do List: Fix the bug in the MintAds plugin, which threw the “database table does NOT exist” error.
9. DONE. Fix the WordPress single_cat_title function bug in the “themes” template header.php and single.php file when the permalink structure doesn’t have the %category% token. (All updates will be posted in the “Updates” category and “BWT Announcements, Updates and Releases” forum).
10. DONE. Finish setting up the “Support Forums“.
    

So, there you have it: that’s the list of 7 10 things that I want to finish in this first week of 2008.

Please check back each week for another list of 7-10+ things to-do.

~Mint Tree~

P.S. I like to keep things organized, so if you have any suggestion (after this first week) for improvement, please let me know.

*Note: I’ll pin this type of post every week at the top of the “BWT Announcements, Updates and Releases” forum, which displays all the announcements, updates and releases of the template/themes/plugins.

Thank you.

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