I’ve recently upgraded my blog to WordPress version 2.71 and did intensive changes to the look and feel. iCouple now portraits a new sleeker, simpler, cleaner, and more elegant Black-White theme, thanks to original free ‘Smoky‘ theme by SkinPress studio. After one week of full attention to both back-end database and font-end GUI plus plugin-compatibility, I must say I’m satisfied with the new theme, knowing the tables and queries behind running just fine enough. Let’s start with the summary on factors that contributed to the newly painted house

Being a blogger and a Mac user, I was wondering how my website looks like in an iPhone. Thanks to iWPhone WordPress plugin, I’m now able to reformat my blog’s content for optimized viewing on iPhone. iWPhone detects the iPhone’s User Agent and serves up the content with the special theme only to iPhone visitors, all other browsers will view your WordPress blog with current theme. However, iPhone is only sold in US this time, so my hands are still tight. Worry no more, iPhoney, the briliant software made free from Marketcircle, gives me a pixel-accurate web browsing environment to preview...

Under its scheme of 120 days release cycle, WordPress 2.2 codename ‘Getz‘ is just available for download. This new version is named in honor of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz and includes a number of new features with over two hundred bug fixes. Some features are important for developers and bloggers like: Native Widget, Full Atom support, Blogger Importer, Speed optimizations, … Find out more here: 10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.2 WordPress 2.2: Three Things Developers Will Like All plugins seem to work fine on my site, except for Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) and Smiley...

My exams is over, and so is my Final Year Project. Ask what a free man would do I feel like it’s the time to change something and the first one should be my weblog theme. Thanks to the ‘Dark’ theme designed by Wolfgang Bartelme and later released by iLemoned, iCouple now has a new face It’s one of the most beautiful and calming design I’ve ever seen. Needless to say, iCouple’s also powered by WordPress, Mac, Rock, and Love ^-^ Below are the first 2 themes I used last time: Almost all of plugins are tweaked to work properly. It could take me few...

This post is about some goodies that I think would be essential for bloggers including WordPress fans. I used them all over my pages and posts for which they contributed a lot to enhance my lovely humble corner 1. Flash-like Image Viewer As you can see in browsers with Javascripts enabled, when you click to an image, instead of jumping into a new windows for that image, a smooth popup comes out and overlay image on the current page. Click below for an example: That gorgeous effect is done using Lightbox JS 2 by Lokesh Dhakar. You can make the script showing a collection of images so you can...