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I’ve been researching how to make my WordPress themes more visual and magazine-styled. The best way to do this is to download some WordPress themes that give this functionality and dissect how they work, then replicate the features you like into a custom theme of your own. How is this achieved? Well, check out some WordPress galleries:

1. 11 Free Magazine Style WordPress themes
2. 23 Awesome Free Magazine Style Themes in 2009, and
3. Best Free Magazine WordPress Themes

There are some really good (and a few bad) examples of themes that remix the content from your blog posts and present it in a really sexy way, making your WordPress site look more professional and attractive.

Wow – I haven’t been following WordPress developments lately, just mostly keeping up with security updates. But the 2.9 release looks jam-packed with amazing new features. I can now see WordPress developing into a full-blown CMS with some of this stuff.

Gentlemen, start your engines! WordPress 2.9 is just around the corner. Unlike WordPress 2.8, which Mark Jaquith describes as the Snow Leopard of WordPress since most of the basis of the WordPress 2.8 upgrade was complete rewrites and optimization of the infrastructure that ran WordPress instead of providing lots of new features in the same way Apple’s new OS X release is a focus on improved performance instead of features, WordPress 2.9 brings major new “bling” to the table.

via 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9.

Themeing hooks for image thumbnails, automatic database repair and optimisation and so much more. Well done, WordPress – get the latest version from WordPress.org.

Drupal Themeing Tips: Found this great article on WorkHabit which shows how to hammer Drupal themes into exactly the right output I need. The strip_tags finctionality seems really useful.