Ryu is a great, minimalist theme that many personal bloggers choose. It allows you to use WordPress without all the extra clutter and chrome many themes have. Best of all, it’s now available for WordPress.org sites in the official theme directory. It’s a theme built by Automattic to focus on clutter-free blogging for folks who just want to focus on content, and not other things cluttering their site on sidebars, etc. Some widget options are available as well, but they don’t take a way from the minimalist feel of the theme at all.
I Will Never Fork WordPress
There’s been a handful of posts this week that have focused on the theory and possibility of forking WordPress. Instead of reacting immediately to some of the posts I’ve spent a bit of time in introspection reading these posts and asking myself if I would ever, myself, seriously consider forking WordPress. What I’ve come away is pretty clear and I’ll go ahead and say it for the record (as if the title of this blog post didn’t give that away): I will never fork WordPress. I will spend a little bit of time explaining my position as follows:
Your Passions May Not Work Well as a Blog
I had to share this today because I’ve encountered far too many people emailing me over my lifetime asking me the question of whether or not one should follow their passions in terms of their blog. In other words, they are asking me whether or not they should blog about their passions and whether that’s the right path to go so as to achieve success. Although you’ve heard that you should follow your passions and that your passions will keep your blog fresh with new ideas and a never-ending flow of community development and posts and strategy and, of course, […]
Inject Plugin: Strange Name, Potentially Helpful?
Today we’re taking a look at a new plugin from the folks at Netcodes. It’s called Inject. The idea behind Inject is to help give WordPress Designers and Developers more flexibility when creating custom sites. Essentially what Inject does is allow you to reuse dynamic content on your WordPress site wherever you want to put it with no extra PHP files. From within the plugin itself you can create your own custom page templates using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, avoiding PHP all together. The examples they give on their site, a portfolio, fancy author box, post list, gallery and slider […]
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 5.8.2013
Happy #humpday everyone! Wow, that day really flew by for me. How about you guys? Almost forgot to share these new and updated plugins with you guys. There’s quite a few. Check them out after the jump!

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