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Hear My Interview on WordPress Weekly

This past Friday evening, I was a guest on the WordPress Weekly Podcast, hosted by Jeffro of Jeffro2pt0.com. If you would like to listen to the entire 90+ minute interview, check out episode 14 of the WordPress Weekly Podcast.

Monday, April 28th, 2008 Nathan Rice 2 Comments »

WordCamp Recap, Part 1

WordCamp Dallas is now over, and I decided to recap Day 1 while I sit in the airport. Check out my take on the first annual Dallas WordCamp!

Monday, March 31st, 2008 Nathan Rice 9 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 »

Free Installation for NewsPixel — This Week Only!

I just wanted to let my readers know that for the remaining days in 2007, if your purchase my Premium WordPress theme, NewsPixel, you will get FREE INSTALLATION!!!
All you have to do is email me through my contact form letting me know that you purchased the theme before midnight, December 31st 2007 and you will [...]

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 Nathan Rice 1 Comment »

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 »

WordPress 2.2.3 Released!

Fire up your unzipper and FTP programs, boys and girls … WordPress version 2.2.3 is now available for download!
As far as I know, aside from the obvious bug fixes, “tagging” will be an included feature in the new version. So if your a WP theme developer, be sure to check out the new template [...]

Friday, September 7th, 2007 Nathan Rice No Comments »