Curtis Henson

Wow I got all sorts of goodies in my RSS reader today!

TimThumb

First up is the release of TimThumb by Tim McDaniels. This was a script created for use in the Mimbo Pro Premium Wordpress and Darren Hoyt and company have released it as open source. I can’t wait to try this out and start incorporating it into my themes. What it does is resize images so the user doesn’t have to anymore, and I think no matter what your level of skill this is much appreciated. Grab the files at Google Code.

bbPress ver. 0.9

The bbPress team has released a new version, which is primarily to update it to work with Wordpress 2.5. There have been a few improvements though.

• New Installer, better integration with Wordpress
• New RSS feeds
• Support for gravatars
• New core theme
• Better Security

Check out the release notes for a full list of the changes. I’ve been meaning to get my hands dirty with bbPress and I think now will be the time. Look for some themes and tutorials in the future for bbPress.

Checkmate

My premium Wordpress theme Checkmate is coming along nicely and will be released “soon”. The first release will be the blog only portion. There will be an advanced business version that will function more as a CMS coming out soon after the blog version. I’ll write a more detailed post in the coming days about the features, design, and all the rest of the details.