I’m pretty lazy, I don’t deny that. So that’s why I’m going to nag about an issue I have. I’m way too lazy to go to the Plugins page in the WordPress administration to check and see if there are any updates to those plugins I’m using. Since I’m too lazy and rarely do it, I tend to miss important updates which should be installed/upgraded as soon as they are released.

So, why on earth isn’t there a little notice on the dashboard when there are some plugins that needs to be updated? It would be brilliant!

Err well otherwise I just have to schedule some time in my planner for just this every week. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t so lazy.

Are there any feature you would like to see in WordPress just because you are lazy?

What are you looking for in a WordPress theme? Are you the one that absolutely need DOM tabs, two columns and 125×125 advertising space? Do you want your tags to be visible on every post?

I wonder how many people use the DOM tabs anyway, I don’t think I have ever used it, if you don’t count the times I tested it out. But I do agree that it is a very good solution to try out if you want to clean up your cluttered sidebar.

So what do you look for in a WordPress theme?
Share your views in the comments and I will put together a little list on the most wanted features with a link back to your site (take the chance to get some link juice!).

I just found a little nifty thing for all you WordPress template coders out there. WPCandy has created an eye appealing Template Hierarchy Diagram for WordPress.

It is much better to look at than the WordPress Codex’s own Template Hierarchy page.

Head over to check it out!

Some of us uses the internal blogroll function in WordPress, but just because you can’t add the nofollow attribute some people are putting up their blogroll by hand!

Why add nofollow?
As suggested by Google, it’s best to use rel=”nofollow” to avoid any potential backlash from the external links in the blogroll. However, I should also mention that there is some very strong criticism against it as well. This is up to you if you want to use it or not. If you decide to, here is how to make WordPress automatically add nofollow to all of your blogroll links.

How to make WordPress automatically add nofollow to the blogroll
You should be somewhat experienced with the WordPress core source codes to do this! Do this at your own risk!

• Find the wp-includes directory in your WordPress folder.
• Edit the file called bookmark-template.php in a text editor.
• Find the following code (line 86 in WP 2.5.1):

  $output .= '<a href="' . $the_link . '"' . $rel . $title . $target. '>';

• Replace it with the following line:

  $output .= '<a href="' . $the_link . '"' . $title . $target. ' rel="nofollow">';

• As you can see we added the rel=”nofollow” at the end. Now save and upload the file again. Now the attribute will be added to every link in your blogroll.

Just a little reminder that you can find free WoW and Final Fantasy X inspired WordPress themes here. All are widget ready and can be used with the latest release of WordPress.

If you find any errors or need help with something, just give a shout and I’ll see what I can do!

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