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Themes are not GPL, or is it?

Sadish — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:25:15 +0000

In a recent news from the development team of WordPress, they said ‘Themes are GPL too‘.
I do not agree with all of that post’s content, as I am still thinking WordPress is similar to clay and a theme is similar to a statue you build using the clay.
but, before I write a detailed post on this, I will just point you to this post below.

I still don’t believe that the GPL was conceived with the intention of being used to protect the interests of big corporations and manipulate the little guys, but it is what it is….

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WordPress Meetup – June 27 2009

Sadish — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:46:13 +0000

Following up to my previous post on WordPress Meetup, anyone interested?, I would like to invite you guys for a WordPress Meetup on June 27 2009.

The only requirement for this meetup, is you have to be running at least one WordPress based website / blog.
You bring your own laptop and Wifi will be made available. You can even do the WordPress 2.8 upgrade while we meet.
You can discuss about some of the things you want to do with your WordPress site, and we will try to see how we can go about doing it.

Place : Some Common Place in and around North Brunswick, NJ (to be decided based on the number of Participants)
Date : June 27 2009
Time :
Choice 1 – 10AM to 12PM
Choice 2 – 4PM to 6PM
Please RSVP using the comments form below, and also post what will be best for you for the timings (just mention Choice 1 or 2).

Hoping to see some of you. Thanks.

As it turned out, there was not much interest shown by you guys for this meet, it is cancelled. No future meet ups planned as of now.

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All my themes are compatible with WordPress 2.8

Sadish — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:26:14 +0000

Just wanted to let you all know,
All my themes are compatible with WordPress 2.8. There is no line of code that needs to be changed if you want to upgrade to WordPress 2.8.
Enjoy the new version of WordPress, without worrying about anything! It is really pretty cool!

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WordPress 2.8 version is available now

Sadish — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:26:56 +0000

Yes People,
The new version of WordPress (version 2.8) is available as of now. You can go to this post to learn more about it, check out a video and download it.

Enjoy!

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WordPress meetup, anyone interested?

Sadish — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:58:07 +0000

I have some free time this week and I am willing to meet people with interest in WordPress.
Anybody interested to meet in North Brunswick area in New Jersey?

Post a comment here. We will take it from there.

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What is coming in WordPress 2.8

Sadish — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:47:44 +0000

I downloaded the beta version of WordPress 2.8 (release version to see the light of the day soon).

It is a more polished version of what you see currently with WordPress 2.7 series.
The thing that I am going to talk about in this post is about the changes that are coming to “theme management”.
There is going to be a new option under “Appearance”, once you login to your WordPress installation. It will be called “Add New Themes”.

When you click on this link, you will be able to basically browse the official WordPress Theme Viewer and be able to download and install the theme on your site, right within the WordPress dashboard.

It is a nice feature, but unfortunately I have not uploaded any of my WordPress Themes into this official directory, because my themes are not GPL(General Public License).
My themes are not released under GPL. The user has to keep the footer links intact in order to use my themes for free. More about the License Information for my themes.

I am just wondering what I should do now. Let me know what you think I should do. Thanks.

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SoftBubble – Theme is released today!

Sadish — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:10:54 +0000

Thanks to all the people who has participated in naming the next free WordPress Theme by us.

I have finally decided to call this theme as as “SoftBubble“.
It is a two-column theme that support all the usual features you would expect to see in our themes, along with the support for “Threaded Comments” when used with WordPress 2.7 or later.
Enjoy !
Click here to go to Theme Page!

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Next Theme in Progress

Sadish — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:43:42 +0000

I am building the next free theme, to be released by the end of this month.
Its header image is a modified version of a Wallpaper by StudioTwentyEight.

Please click on the image above, to look at the larger picture.

I am yet to decide a name for this theme. Do you have any suggestions?
Please post it as a comment.
Thanks for your time!

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Subdued- Free WordPress Theme!

Sadish — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:36:36 +0000

I just released a new free WordPress Theme at my other site Theme Corp.
It is a two-column WordPress Theme with features like “Threaded Comments” [with WordPress 2.7 or higher], Custom Image Header, Tags Support, Sidebar Widgets Compatible etc.
Check it out !

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Possible fix to the problem with Image uploads with WordPress 2.7.1

Sadish — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:11:00 +0000

I was recently working on a project for a client and faced this issue.
Whenever you upload any image to your WordPress site, it does not show up on the site. The name of the file shows up under Media Management, but the actual file never got uploaded.
It does not matter whether you upload the image by

Clicking on the “Image” upload option under “Add New Post” or “Add New Page” screen
or by clicking on Media, and then “Add New” from the new WordPress 2.7.1 menu option
or by using the “Custom Image Header” option that many of my themes provide.

I was very much puzzled and I tried to solve the issue by taking different approaches.

The First Approach
The first approach I took, was to check permissions for the “wp-content” and the “uploads” directory within the WordPress installation.
I even set it to “777″ which basically means “open” to anyone. (by the way, 777 reminds me of the coupon code of DreamHost which offers a heavy discount on their hosting package.)
Anyway, coming back to the point, the permission changes did not help.

The Second Approach
The second approach is to see if any of the plugins is causing this issue. I went to the Plugins area and disabled all the plugins.
I tried uploading an image afterward, but still no luck.

The Third Approach
Third approach does not take a lot of thinking to do. It is just “Ask the Google” approach. After skimming through a couple of links, I finally landed on this thread on the WordPress.Org forums.
and at the bottom of page, I saw this comment.

Solution for the error
Step 1: Log into your admin panel
Step 2: Go to Settings>>Miscellaneous
You will see two options,
Store uploads in this folder
Full URL path to files
Most probably you will see
/home/.boogee/XXXXX/XXXXXXX/wp-content/uploads
in the first field.
Step 3: Edit that to just
wp-content/uploads
PS: Please take a backup of what you are editing, in case this trick didn’t work, you can restore the old URL.
This should do the trick.

I tried to manually set it to “wp-content/uploads/” but it still did not work for me.

Then finally, I just went ahead and emptied the text on those text boxes and saved it.

Click for a larger view!
Anyway, This fixed the issue for me and hope it stays fixed when upgrading to the next version of WordPress.
Disclaimer: This post is only given as a suggestion, and please don’t make me responsible if it does not work for you.

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