Brown Thoughts

Padangan by Nurudin Jauhari is another fine-looking WordPress theme. It’s a 3 column double right sidebar theme with space for 125×125 ads above the fold. The colors are soothing and post titles are big and clear.
The footer contains the latest posts, recent comments, popular posts, and a section to place info about the blog author.

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My good friend Wayne Smallman of Blah, Blah! Technology has released a new WordPress plugin to help you make the most of Social Media and Social Networking.
Socialize Me! gives you a new way of connecting with visitors to your blog. How? In Wayne’s own words:
Imagine one of your articles has been submitted to StumbleUpon. You’re […]

Looking for a new theme for your blog to start the new year? Take a look at this one.
Dilectio by Design Disease is a free 3 column WordPress theme that’s perfect for those looking for a cross between a blog and a magazine. If you’ve been looking for a theme that isn’t predominantly white but […]

Just when you thought you’ve seen all the great themes, another one pops up. Justin Tadlock, author of the Visionary theme for WordPress, has released another killer theme.
Structure is a magazine/newspaper theme for WordPress that’s even better than Visionary. The theme comes with 2 different layouts and you’d be hard-pressed to choose just one. One […]

Most mortals would be happy with a magazine style theme for their blog. If you’re one of the few who are looking for something more, you’ve just found it.
BlogTimes is a free newspaper style theme for WordPress by Milo. The theme is a four column fluid-styled theme with a ton of features. Out of the […]

Probably one of the least looked at sections of your blog is the blogroll. Whether it’s on your sidebar or on a separate page, chances are, it’s just a bunch of links. Blogrolls are supposed to be where you display sites that are important to you. It’s time to give it a new look.
PowerBlogroll by […]

It seems that Google isn’t done with its updating/penalizing just yet. While most of us thought the page rank update was over, it seems there are still sites that are being slapped for selling text links and having sponsored posts.
Imagine my surprise at seeing Brown Thoughts get dropped from a 3 to 2, to a […]

It seems there’s a new breed of sploggers as noted by Lorelle on her Spinning Spammers article. Content is scraped from WordPress blogs and certain keywords are replaced with synonyms. The result is a new post identical to your original article with different keywords.
This means that it will be harder for Google to detect it […]