Wordpress Herald

Many people say that the true power and versatility of Wordpress as a CMS comes from the Custom Fields. With a bit of ingenuity one can make use of these fields to obtain a broad range of desired effects …

People from Templatic show again that Wordpress can do a lot more than blogging and can compete well enough with dedicated ecommerce platforms. Their latest theme, called (intentionally or not) E-commerce comes to help those people that use their blog to sell stuff online.

In the market for a new job? Elegant Themes offers you a stylish way to present yourself with MyResume. The theme is sleek, simple and easy to use, but also boasts some great features that will make handling your resume all the easier. Add new pages to your resume, create new tabs, connect with your peers using the social networking integration, and even add a custom portfolio at the click of a button.

Fresh from WooThemes comes Boast – a modern business design with a lot of shine & gloss. The theme includes some nifty jQuery touches, which is especially present in the awesome slider on the homepage, as well as the scrolling widget boxes. This is a definite contender for your business makeover.

The people behind WPGarage met an interesting challenge recently. They recently launched a site dedicated to the translation from German to English of a large set of Holocaust-era letters. One of the features needed was to be able to sort these letters by the date they were sent instead of the date they were published on the site.

instantShift has carefully researched, put together and published a very nice list of very useful (and beautiful) wordpress designs from all over the web space. Now days Creative Designs is one of the key aspects for improving your website’s traffic and pagerank. Getting a site featured in some of the popular WordPress/CSS galleries can bring thousands of visitors and many valuable inbound links with excellent SEO benefits.

MiniCard is a social network/business card Wordpress theme inspired by Tim Van Damme’s excellent website. The theme lets you add links to all the social networking sites you may be a member of, and post useful information such as bio’s and contact details. It also has built in hCard support and (optionally) lets you offer a vCard for visitors to download your contact information.

Following a wave of suggestions and feature request from users worldwide, WooThemes launched an update to their highly acclaimed Canvas theme. The most important changes are two custom page templates that allow users to transform their site either to a magazine or a business site.

WordPress users worldwide, rejoice. The next generation of the greatest blogging engine is one step closer. The BETA 1 version has been made available to the public, as an early Easter Egg gift. Check now the official announcement and be ready to test the goodies. EDIT (April 24): Beta 2 is about to be released. The clock is ticking, people. EDIT (May 6): Beta 2 has been released.