Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s spring. As is my *usual* custom, I’m in the process of organizing my blog themes, weeding out extraneous stuff, and going with a new look for many of them. I purchased a few themes from Woo Themes last year (Fresh News and Busy Bee), and have been very impressed with the quality. Moreover, when [...]

Surprise, surprise! Imagine my delight when shopping Theme Forest to see themes moderately priced! The themes there are very high quality, too. I’ve been generally dissatisfied with the “free” themes out there recently. Many are junk, many require Page Rank-sucking footer links, and others have small annoying quirks that bug me (like the sidebar loading [...]

As much as I would just love to keep this to myself (I like to have these things for my own resource), I HAVE GOT to tell you of a stunning collection of WordPress themes. I am awed. I am definitely going to use one of these– the problem is, which one! The site is [...]

WordPress 2.7 is great– so many new functionalities! BUT please– why oh why did they not revise the “revision” capability?! WordPress’ existing Revision feature is like an auto-save feature– it will automatically save your posts as you write them, so that should your computer or software crash, you have a current copy of what you’re [...]