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After keeping it for quite some time, I’ve decided to release my latest WordPress theme; Uncrufty.

The name is a play on the functionalities and design of the theme itself. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a graphics design genius. I also don’t like clutter in my themes (and life in general). So the term Uncrufty is a play of words between the two concepts.

Uncrufty should be compatible with any recent version (2.x; 2.3.x would be better) of WordPress.

You can preview Uncrufty here, or download it straightaway.

Over the past 48 hours I’ve been working on two WordPress related project; a theme and a widget. I’m gunning on completing the theme before Saturday because I’m going to KL and spending the entire next week there.

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I received an email from Kay Mackenzie yesterday. In the email Kay states that she’s been using the Single Bookmark Category List WordPress Widget on her two blogs; Quilt Puppy Show & Tell and All About Applique. Both blogs focus on the topic of quilting. She liked the widget so much that she wanted to PayPal me a donation as a token of appreciation.

I’m very surprised that Kay was actually motivated enough to ask me as to whether I’d accept donations for creating the widget. Needless to say, it put a smile on my face. I provided her with my PayPal address and a few minutes ago I received a generous amount from her.

This is the first time I had received a donation from somebody who found that a few lines of code that I had given away for free is worth her time and money. For this, Mrs Kay Mackenzie, you will always have that special place in my heart and mind.

Thank you.

Let me be straight up, I use WordPress and I love it! Therefore, you might find what I’m going to say here to be biased. With that said, I have no doubt in my mind that WordPress is one of the best things that have been born on the Internet.

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Yes, the title says it all. WordPress 2.3.1 was released about 20 hours prior to this post. If your blog runs WP, you should upgrade them as this version also includes some security fixes.

If you have an SSH-enabled web host, you might want to upgrade WordPress using SSH; it took me less than 5 minutes to upgrade three blogs using this method!