Let me start a new contest to celebrate this new year 2008 ! I am planning to host more contests like this, in this year.

You name it, You got it !
It is very easy. You are going to suggest a name for my next premium theme, that I am going to sell at my WordPress Theme Shop.
If the name you suggested is chosen, you will get that theme for yourself free !

See it
Please click on the screenshot to see a live preview of the theme.

Rules:
1. All entries for this contest goes in as comments to this entry.
2. One Person can enter as many names as they want.
3. Your entries are visible to other people.
4. The last date for entering into the contest is January 26th 2008.
5. The theme is a premium theme, to be sold at my WordPress Theme Shop.
It is made free for you and will be available at Theme Corp on Feb 1st 2008.
Thats it, Enjoy !

It has been really tough to pick the name for this theme. I want to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone who participated in the contest.

After a lot of thinking, I went with the name “Floralia”. This is partly based on the entry by Hailey.

Who is the Winner?
I would like to thank each and everyone who took part in the contest and announce all of you as WINNERS. If you have entered into the contest, please email me and let me know which one of my premium WordPress Themes that you like and I will send that to you for free!.

Floralia will be released for free on February 1, 2008 from our sister site WordPress Theme Corp.

I just wanted to provide a quick update to all of you.

I am really thankful to your involvement in coming up with a name for my next theme. I will announce the results tomorrow.

and one more thing, this theme will be released for free on February 1, 2008. I am finishing up a conversation with a sponsor, who wants to make this theme available to everyone.

and if this theme is free, what will the winner of the contest get ?

The winner can choose any one of my other premium WordPress Themes, and I will send that to the winner for free!

Let me start a new contest to celebrate this new year 2008 ! I am planning to host more contests like this, in this year.

You name it, You got it !
It is very easy. You are going to suggest a name for my next premium theme, that I am going to sell at my WordPress Theme Shop.
If the name you suggested is chosen, you will get that theme for yourself free !

See it
Please click on the screenshot to see a live preview of the theme.

Rules:
1. All entries for this contest goes in as comments to this entry.
2. One Person can enter as many names as they want.
3. Your entries are visible to other people.
4. The last date for entering into the contest is January 26th 2008.
5. The theme is a premium theme, to be sold at my WordPress Theme Shop.
It is made free for you and will be available at Theme Corp on Feb 1st 2008.
Thats it, Enjoy !

There are certain WordPress plugins you hear about all the time. You see them repeated across multiple blogs as the “best” WordPress plugins like a broken record. Who ever looks back and tries to find underrated WordPress plugins though? These are plugins that don’t get much publicity, but are very useful in one way or another.

• Search Regex – I know this plugin has come in handy for me several times. What this plugin will do is search and replace data stored in your site. For example, if you wanted to change the directory path to images (from /wp-content/uploads/ to just /uploads/) throughout all your posts, all you would have to do is type it in once. Be careful with this powerful plugin though. Make sure to back your database before using it.
• WP DB Backup – This brings us to our next underrated plugin – a database backup plugin. This can automate the process of backing up your database by sending you an e-mail attachment at a defined interval. It was briefly gone over in a previous article of mine: The Importance of Backing Up Your WordPress Site.
• No Self Pings – This is more of a personal preference than anything. I personally don’t like how WordPress “self pings” when you link to another page of your blog. If you’re like me, you can install this plugin and not have to worry about moderating your own pingbacks.

And those are my three. Thanks to the WordPress Expert and Kyle of Hack WordPress for this post idea.