WordPress Theme Directory is no doubt the place to get more exposure for themes with thousands of people browsing it every now and then. The theme directory is indeed a good place for people to browse the thems, vote them and see them in action. For theme developer, maintaining a theme on WP Theme Directory is really a pain in the ass.
I have updated theme Diana with a few changes and some features. The main feature will be the widget support. Yes, Diana is now a widget compatible theme and I have edited, removed or added some of the markups for better theme performance.
New version 0.7 is still pending at WordPress Theme Directory, so if you want the latest one, just grab .zip file here or download through SVN access at http://diana.blogfwrd.com/diana/alpha/
Well, I am opensourcing my theme which I christen as Diana, it is somewhat complete, but still need a few clean-up and changes to make a public release. So at this time, I am looking for people to test my theme on their blogs. For geeks out there who are interested in testing my theme, I have created a SVN repo at http://diana.blogfwrd.com/diana/alpha/ . Theme is now fully functional to power your blog except for some minor changes.
For those who are not familiar with SVN, you can download the zipped theme files at following link - Click here to download the theme
So please help me test my theme and assist me in whatever way you can to gear up this theme for public release. I am planning to release exact source file of theme that I am using on this blog as well (including the PSD file and font faces). Basically, I am OpenSourcing my blog’s design for both commercial and non-commercial usage.
Update: I have some contact with Sean from Reinvigorate recently, and it seems like they will be rolling out new services and features for Reinvigorate in 1 or 2 months time, after lying low for almost 8 months. So I will just cross my fingers and wait for a surprise. Just glad to hear the service is not dead yet.
Some of you may have heard of this service called Reinvigorate which is a hosted real-time website metrics services like statscounter, Mint and Google Analytics (well this one is not so real-time). I started using this in 2006 for several websites and blog, and still using it until today. The project itself is somewhat dead, last updates or message I received from them was in middle of 2007 when Reinvigorate was still in beta. Since then, the service is still functioning except the fact that nobody is accepted for the service anymore.
For those who have managed to get an account, it is indeed a blessing as it is a good one (much better than WordPress.Com stats). User Interface is excellent, there’s a desktop client for users to check the site events realtime and various kind of graphs and stats. The only bad thing is that existing users are not able to invite other people to join instead they can only add the sites into their account and create additional access information for other users.
For those who have never seen how Reinvigorate looks like, I have a screenshot below showing the dashboard.
