New Premium Theme : ZigZag3

Many of the people asked for a three-column version of our popular ZigZag wordpress theme.
Thats why we made a three column theme.
It is available now as ZigZag3!

Enjoy !

A shop to buy wordpress themes!

You have seen me selling two of my wordpress themes, NigaRila and PalNila. Both of them are three-column wordpress themes with a lot of features that you will really like.
I was selling those themes on their own websites at nigarila.com and palnila.com.

I also created a few more themes for sale, but I did not have the time to build indiviual shops for them.

So I decided to create a new shop where people can browse around, learn about the theme’s features and buy it to download the theme right away. Believe me it takes more time to set up the shop than to actually build the themes.

Here I am inviting all of you to take a look at my WordPress Theme Shop !

NigaRila and PalNila at WordPress Theme Shop
Enjoy your visit and buy yourself a theme !

WordPress 2.1 – coming soon to a blog near you !

Updated : WP 2.1 is out now!

WordPress 2.1 is scheduled to be released tomorrow soon.

I already had my hands on the 2.1 RC2 (Release Candidate 2), on my personal blog Simple Inside.

Technosailor has already posted on “top 10 things you should know about wordpress 2.1“.

For those of you who has an account with wordpress.com, you already know what is in WP 2.1. because wordpress.com is acting as a test bed for the core wordpress development.

The first thing that interests me in that list is Custom Image Header

This is one of the coolest new feature in WP 2.1 .
As a theme author, I know how many people want to swap the header image in the theme, with the one they want. Now, theme authors can write some small lines of code in their functions.php to allow people to change the header image to something they like.

This opens up the creativity of the theme consumers, and you know what, some of them might be able to make their version look more beautiful than the original theme itself.

Just like the sidebar widgets, WP team released last year, this is going to be the next big hit for the wordpress community.
Very soon, there will be a new category at Theme Viewer, called “Custom Header Ready” and within a few months people will be thinking that this should be a default feature in every theme.

I am already working on getting some of my themes to have this feature and will be releasing them the day WP goes live with 2.1 .
Enjoy !

Notes for the theme authors – part 2

This is the second part of my series (See Part 1 here). Here I am going to talk about a few more things that I want to tell the theme authors.

I want to re-iterate that these are not hard and fast rules. These are something like a ‘nice to have’ things in the theme.

Now straight to the part 2.

Notes for the Theme Authors – Part 1

There are more than 600 wordpress themes available for free on the internet.
So far, I have not seen any blogging platform, having so many templates. People just do a google search for ‘wordpress themes’ and they are presented with so many links, including links to my own websites.

There are no hard and fast rules, defined by anyone that every theme author must follow. Even I am not going to suggest any rules to follow. I am just going to write about what I learnt so far, by doing theme development.