Today in WordPress world – 25/06

There are lots of things to say about WordPress today!

News First!

• Yummthemes debacle and what we think – From The Couch | CSS Videos | Video Tutorials | Video Interviews
  Yesterday we saw quite a bit of activity on twitter about a new theme company, yummthemes, coming as a competitor to woothemes and Thesis among others.
  One theme has been introduced so far, osea, and it seems interesting even if we have no notions about the price or the conditions attached to that theme coming up in the middle of July.
  However the landing page announcing this new theme club seems a bit wrong to me, simply because it shows other WordPress theme developers as competitors when the WordPress community tries to avoid such approach by linking to each other and maintaining good relationship between themselves.
  Here is the opinion of the guys from the Couch! Make sure you check the comments as well as yummthemes’ owner has expressed his opinion about all this!

Then some nice tutorials:

• 10 incredibly cool WordPress shortcodes
  Introduced in WordPress 2.5, shortcodes are a very easy way to display lot of things on your blog posts by inserting a very simple code.
• Creating Dashboard Widgets in Two Easy Steps | WooCamp
  Creating Dashboard Widgets is an easy thing to do, and can add some professional finish to your theme! Check how to do on WooCamp!
• WordPress Theme Template & Directory Structure
  It’s time for another episode of the WordPress theme tutorial series by themeshaper.com. Today, we will speak about what has to be in your theme.

And a nice WordPress theme:

• ElegantThemes – ePhoto WordPress Theme
  ePhoto was created for those looking to turn their blog into a photo gallery