Blogging With Success Version 2.1!

So finally, our redesign got completed! We asked readers about the new design and got some interesting comments. Take a look:

First of all, thanks to all readers for keeping up with blog between the transistion, Vladimir Prelovac for Theme Test Drive plugin which allowed us to test theme without making it public and WP-Them.es for this theme. They have pretty good themes that are well coded and easy to edit.

And now, here is what we did to the theme:

1. Social Bookmarking Fixes: The large social media buttons were added a while ago but there was a small bug. Not bug, but a mistake on my side. I had not added title attribute and this meant only link got posted to Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious. Now, its fixed.

2. Recent Posts in Sidebar: We always had a recent posts widget in sidebar but with introduction of new theme, it was not needed on homepage since 10 post excerpts are already there. It took us time to find the solution but finally, it is done. Recent Posts widget does not show up at homepage now but is visible when viewing individual posts. Want to know how we did it? Read 50 Must have Plugins for WordPress 2.7. The plugin is there.

3. Top Commentators: The widget is now in the footer and we have filtered out team members so that only readers are on the list. Is your name there?

4. Tweets: Added the tweeter widget in the sidebar. And with this, we are also introducing Blogging With Success on Twitter. There you will find articles related to blogging everyday,  so make sure you follow us. Also, we added a small Tweet This button besides other social bookmarks.

5. Navigation Menu: Original theme had simple navigation menu that displayed a category list. We replaced it with a drop down menu with the help of WP Menu Manager plugin. If you want a similar menu like this, hold on, we will be writing a small tutorial for newbies.

What next? We are waiting for your suggestions --- anything else you would like to see? Tell us through comments.