WordPress.com is asking users to submit requests for new themes for use on their WordPress.com Blogs. Wouldn’t be correct for me to so. Hence, anybody like to suggest Connections Reloaded?
5000 for Connections Reloaded
Connections Reloaded today crossed 5000 downloads. I am sure there are a lot more unaccounted for downloads from various other theme sites hosting my theme. Am glad that this theme has found favour with the WordPress Community. For all you users out there. Thanks for making this theme so successful. If you love the theme, please do consider a financial contribution.
Rate Connections Reloaded on BlogFlux
Some of you may be aware of Blogflux’s Theme Directory. I had added Connections Reloaded a long time back to it and decided to check on the same today. The 3.7 rating so far generates mixed feelings and I am hoping for a better rating. Please do visit the theme page in the directory and rate the theme. And post a few comments as well 🙂 Thanks.
10000+ downloads served
I have been tracking downloads on this blog from 4th of July 2005 and was really delighted to find that I have served over 10000 downloads to date. Stats as follows: Total Downloads: 17 Total clicks: 10036 Average clicks per link: 590.4 Of these, the plugins have three links each, while my themes have one. Connections Reloaded leads the download count with nearly 3700 downloads. Bad Behavior Stats Plugin follows with 2358 downloads. Both Transpose Email and Open Browser Window have over 1000 downloads and even my new plugin Open Picture Window has 220 downloads from April 1!! Thanks to all of you out there who have liked what I…
Connections Reloaded Credit Line
I have noticed that a lot of users of my theme Connections Reloaded are removing the credit line in the footer. While I can’t stop you from doing this, I can request you not to. I am not making anything out of the theme except for a few donations which some of my generous users have given. If you would like to remove the credit line, please consider a donation of atleast USD50. Once again this is not a charge for a theme but merely an appreciation for my work. Clicking the buton below will lead you to the Paypal page where you can send your donation. Thanks, Ajay
Connections Reloaded 1.5 in French
Chez Thierry has done an amazing job of creating an internationalized version of Connections Reloaded 1.5. He has generated the required .mo and .po files which you can use to translate, using poEdit. He has currently translated it to French and you can find the same here. Good job Thierry! I have a few more modifications in mind for 1.6, and I will officially release an internationalized version of Connections Reloaded 🙂
Connections Reloaded 1.5
With the release of WordPress Widgets and requested by several of my users, I felt it but appropriate to release a new version of Connections Reloaded. Presenting Connections Reloaded 1.5! What’s new? Complete code rewrite Complete support for WordPress 1.5, 2.0 and 2.1-alpha Support for WordPress Widgets Archives, Links and “Pages with Comments” Page Templates have been improved Trackbacks and Comments now displayed seperately. Title tag rewritten to take care of 404 error pages and search results pages 404 and search pages improved All displayed text now written with _e. This is one more step towards internationalization Though the DOCTYPE is set to be XHTML 1.0 Transistional, the code is…
Connections Reloaded crosses 3000 downloads!
Should have blogged about this 3 days back. Two and half months since it crossed 2000 downloads, my theme has crossed the 3000 mark. Unfortunately, my donation meter hasn’t moved as much as I hoped. Thanks to all those who have donated so far. It is really encouraging to know you like the work. And thanks once again to all my users who have helped make this theme such a great success. Well, do keep your suggestions and donations coming. Now if only WordPress.com adds this theme to their list!
Page Templates in Connections Reloaded
404s is something all of us dread. And if you have freshly installed Connections Reloaded you may run into them if you don’t have certain pages created. Connections Reloaded requires the following pages to be present. About This page is automatically created in a fresh install of WordPress and you won’t need to create it, unless you have deleted it. Archives This page needs to be created using the Archives Template. While creating the page select Archives from the Page Template: drop down box. Links This page needs to be created using the Links Template. While creating the page select Linksfrom the Page Template: drop down box. Rules This is…
Connections Reloaded Header
Had made this for Clifford Lee and have decided to release it to everyone since it has been highly requested. You can now download the header for Connections Reloaded in .psd. You will need Photoshop to open the .psd file. The .psd contains three layers, viz. BG, header and topnav. header is the image of the car in the tunnel you see above. topnav is the top navigation bar just above the header. BG is the rest of the image. BG has been placed above both, followed by header and topnav. If you want to change the colour of the top navigation bar, all you need to do fill the…
