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iThemes Developers Package

If you’re in the market for some high quality themes, look no further. iThemes.com is running a special on a 10-in-1 developers package for 50% off.

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Nathan Rice 1 Comment »

Designers Wanted!

Are you a Photoshop genius? Does Illustrator bow to your every whim? Can you create website mockups that would make the Apple design team salivate? Have you benefited from open source and free software like WordPress? Have you been wanting to contribute, but never had the chance?
During the last few weeks, an [...]

Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Nathan Rice 4 Comments »

WordCamp Dallas, 2008

I’m currently in laid over in Memphis waiting for the next available flight to Dallas, on my way to WordCamp Dallas 2008!!!
If you’re going to be there, I want to meet ya! So here, the best way to hook up …
Follow me on Twitter and just send me @replies. That’s the best way [...]

Friday, March 28th, 2008 Nathan Rice 4 Comments »

The Problem With “Theme Options”

Unfortunately, in an attempt to make things easier, theme options have made it more difficult to modify WordPress themes. The solution may be much more simple than you might have guessed.

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Nathan Rice 10 Comments »

WOW … (speechless)

Sorry for the weird title, but I can’t describe this site with words.  You have to see it for yourself.

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Nathan Rice 18 Comments »

Digest

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted here at NathanRice.net, so I just wanted to give a quick digest of the things that have been going on around the net and here at home.

Small Potato is selling WPDesigner.com. SP is probably one of the most respected names in the WordPress theme game, and [...]

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Nathan Rice 4 Comments »

Google PageRank Updated

It does indeed seem like Google has updated PageRank once again, and considering this blog’s meager 2 free WordPress themes, I’m happy with our growth from 2 to 5.  Not bad for a blog less than 6 months old, if I do say so myself.
I’m sure it doesn’t hurt to have links from the likes [...]

Saturday, January 12th, 2008 Nathan Rice 7 Comments »

Respect Requires Altruism

I’ve been noticing a trend as of late with some of my fellow WordPress developers. Many of them have all but abandoned the idea of releasing free WordPress themes to the community.
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, sometimes money can make you forget about innovation. I think it also makes you forget [...]

Thursday, December 13th, 2007 Nathan Rice 15 Comments »

WordPress Theme Viewer — Still Crippled

It’s been 5 months since WordPress decided to close access to theme designers uploading and updating their themes on the official WordPress Theme Viewer, and the longer it stays closed, the worse the entire situation gets for WordPress Theme users and designers.
Every once in a while, I check out the sites that use my themes, [...]

Monday, December 10th, 2007 Nathan Rice 15 Comments »

Talking WordPress: Not Bad At All!

As I’ve expressed before, I’m disappointed with the quantity of good podcasts out there that talk about WordPress. Obviously, with only one podcast out there, it’s hard to get good quality content in podcast format on the topic of WordPress.
But I recently discovered a podcast that looks like it has some serious potential to [...]

Monday, December 10th, 2007 Nathan Rice 7 Comments »