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WordPress Themes Site

I’m on a roll! You can never have too many themes for your blog, now can you? ;) This one is WPRex – free wordpress themes. It touts itself as the “Best Free WordPress Themes For Free.” The themes are very nice. Many of them are the popular magazine style. I rather like the Elegant News and Magnalitus themes. I’ve been searching for a new theme for this blog (I have never found one that I liked *just right*), so I’ll be hunting again, when I have more time.

You can search by color, columns, theme topic, etc. No registration or login is required to download a theme, either (I hate that). Nice themes here, check them out.

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More Good Blogger Templates

I’ve been scouring the World Wide Web for Blogger templates, recently. I’ve come across quite a few websites that have extremely classy templates! I’m happy to see that Blogger users have more choices available to them today. When I was with Blogger, 10 years ago now, the templates were horrid, and there were only a dozen or so available. Today, users have taken it on their own to provide some great templates– and most of them are free. Here are some I found:

BTemplates
Blogger Themes
Dante Araujo
Blogcrowds
Instant Shift’s List of 120 of Best Blogger Templates Around

I also have a handful of helpful tutorials for Blogger users at The Older Geek blog, which you may find helpful.

Happy blogging!

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Another- ANOTHER- WordPress Update

Oh my word. LOL. There’s another update!!! WordPress users, you’ve probably seen the little notification in your blog dashboard. WordPress 3.0.1 is out. Looks like it’s a maintenance upgrade, taking care of a bunch of issues missed in the last upgrade.

I love WP, I really do. It is GREAT. But the updates keep me in a tizzy. I have 13 blogs… updating them every couple of weeks is a real pain, especially when they are insignificant kinds of upgrades. Couldn’t they have thoroughly tested 3.0 before issuing it?!

I don’t mean to complain… they WP dudes do a superb job. WP is beautiful stuff. But I am *sigh* tired of updating everything. Again. And again.

Oh well. :D At least they’ve made it easier! :)

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I Survived the Update to 3.0

Well, I took the plunge. To WordPress 3.0.

For you WordPress newbies out there, I remember the olden days, back… Ohhhh… TWO years ago before WP incorporated the automatic upgrade feature. Back then, we used to have to update our blogs manually. As in SAVE everything first. As in upload (via FTP) all the new files. As in “hold your breath and pray it doesn’t explode” updates. Nothing bad every happened to me, thankfully, (didn’t stop me from making billions of backups, though), but I heard horror stories about folks whose entire blogs self-destructed.

Anyway, it’s easier now. But the old terror still clings as I hit the “upgrade now!” button.

All’s well that ends well. I updated 12 blogs, and all are OK.

Whew.

Oh, and how is WP 3.0?

It’s OK. I don’t see much difference. They added some features that I don’t need, so its not much different besides the light blue color and the fact that my username doesn’t automatically save so I can log in (so I have to type it in each time)> What is up with that, anyway?

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MIA!

I haven’t had much time (or energy) for blogging these days. If you are wondering why, it’s because we are demolishing the downstairs level of my 1855 house! It’s been over decade in the planning… I am gutting the home and building a new kitchen, replacing the plumbing and electric, and more. It’s a TON of work. So if you’re wondering what I’ve been up to, I keep a blog about our renovation adventures, at New York Renovator.com.

The Internet is a very valuable resource for all this work. I’ll have more on that later. Thanks for reading! :D

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