Andreas Viklund’s site is for sale
Known for his famous WordPress themes that undoubtedly give him ton of backlinks, his PageRank 9 site is now for sale with a BIN of $250,000. Worth checking out even if just to see the statistics.
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Improve your WordPress Navigation Menu Output
A tutorial on adding description to your WordPress 3.0 menu links. Might be a nice update for Pico.
Custom Shortlinks for WordPress
Have your own short domain name for the purpose of shortlinking? Here’s an easy way to combine that with your WordPress install.
The Quick Start Guide to Using Google Webmaster Tools With WordPress
GWT is a great, frequently updated features like showing you search queries volume, malware and crawl error diagnostics and links to your site. If you don’t use it yet, you probably need to. This will help you get started.
WordPress & jQuery Contact Form without a Plugin
I would recommend this either if you want more flexibility or to learn how to code a contact form.
Understanding and cleaning the pharma (spam) hack on WordPress
This attack is very interesting because it is not visible to the normal user and the spam (generally about Viagra, Nexium, Cialis, etc) only shows up if the user agent is from Google’s crawler (googlebot). Also, the infection is a bit tricky to remove and if not done properly will keep reappearing.
Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures
Typography nerd rejoice. Works in Safari and Chrome, also used by Firefox by default for texts above 20px.
Web Safe Fonts Cheat Sheet
An updated (written in April 2010), well researched, CC-licensed Web safe fonts cheat sheet, available both in low-res PNG and high-rest PDF. Even the article is useful as well.
The Nicest 2010 Child Theme You’ll See Today
The Timaru Mental Health Support Trust website, made for charity by Team USA (comprised by web superstars like Jason Santa Maria, Dan Mall, Liz Danzico and Automattic’s John Ford) during the FullCodePress competition, is actually a clever child theme of 2010.
More recap by JSM, Daniel Mall, and Liz Danzico.
WordPress 3.0 Theme Tip: The Comment Form
The simpler way to code comment form (once you understand how hooks and filters work).
Showing and hiding content with pure CSS3
I like it, I think it’s short and easy to understand.
You should look at installing commentluv or disqus on your blog. This will make it dofollow and hence you will gain more traffic.
The site has now been sold. It will remain a free templates/theme site, free from ads but with added services (free as well as commercial) that will make it easier to get a template/theme-based site online and get professional support when needed. I will continue to run the site and build free templates and themes in the future, as a full-time employee for the new owner.