Author archive: Andreas Viklund
Distraction-free writing coming in WordPress 3.2
Text editors with completely clutter-free interfaces have been a rising trend for the last couple of years. Instead of having a user interface full of options, buttons, fields and other objects, distraction-free editors go completely blank – leaving only the text you write visible on the screen. It allows writers to put all focus on…
The 5 most downloaded templates
I was asked about statistics for the free templates, and which ones that were the most popular. After taking a look at the download counter logs, I can present a top-5 list for the last 30 days: 1. Basic Presentation 2. Variant Stream 3. Gallery 4. Variant Creative 5. Multi Options From this list, it…
Commercial templates and premium WordPress themes
A lot of website visitors are asking about commercial website templates and premium WordPress themes, two things that are currently not available on andreasviklund.com. At the moment, there are no plans to add any premium content to the site, but I have sent out e-mails to webmasters of some really good template and theme provider…
Security alert: WP-DBManager plugin for WordPress
(Updated!) A WordPress plugin which I have used in the past (and liked a lot) is WP-DBManager by Lester “GamerZ” Chan. WP-DBManager is a tool that makes it possible to create and manage backups of WordPress MySQL databases automatically. Today I learned from a tweet by Joakim Jardenberg that WP-DBmanager has a confirmed, serious security…
New template: Basic Noise
Following the release of Basic Contact yesterday, here is a new basic template design: Basic Noise. It features a tab menu, a feature area (which doubles as a header image area), one or two content columns and a footer. And some hidden options to go with that, for those who dive deeper into the stylesheet….