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Posted: 10 Nov 2010 01:51 AM PST

Write for us!

This is an open invitation to all the bloggers and authors who want to write for Blog Oh! Blog.

Why the Invite?

For a long time, I have been managing this website all by myself where I had to create WordPress themes (free, premium and custom), manage the blog, and also write articles for publishing on Blog Oh! Blog. Things do get hectic when you are a one man running the big show.

Blog Oh! Blog’s themes are widely used by bloggers who use WordPress as their blogging platform. This is a major contributing factor for the website’s success and once I get a good team of authors, I will get the time to fully concentrate on that aspect and that will help take Blog Oh! Blog to a much higher level.

Why write for Blog Oh! Blog?

Today Blog Oh! Blog has achieved a respectable status and can be used as a decent platform for any author to showcase his skills and in turn promote his own website. Here are a few statistics that you might want to consider before writing for this website :-

Google PageRank :- 7/10

Alexa Rank :- 13,527

Unique visitors per month (Majority from USA, UK and China) :- 1,00,000 +

Backlinks (I think none of the existing WordPress Theme websites surpasses this number) :- 2,225,392

RSS Reader count :- 10000+

Topics to be Covered

A wide range of topics will be covered ranging from WordPress, Web Design, Blogging, Resource Lists to Showcasing artwork, Tutorials etc. Here is a list of the topics to be more specific :-

WordPress (Themes/Plugins)
Blogging World
Inspirational Articles (related to Web World)
Icons (collections)
Wallpapers
Tips & Tutorials
Web Design in General
Resource Lists
Graphics
Tools & Techniques

The topics are not limited to the above list. If I like the article and is suited for the blog, I will definitely post it on the blog.

Writing Guidelines

Make sure that the article content is original, written by you, and not copied from somewhere on the Internet.
The writing style has to be friendly, inspirational, creative, and overall engaging.
There should be no spelling or grammatical errors.
You should strike a perfect balance between your textual content and images.

What you’ll get?

Any articles that are accepted for publishing will be attached with an author's short bio that will contains your website/portfolio’s link.
A separate page will be build on Blog Oh! Blog where all the authors will be listed with their websites.
Best authors will also be compensated with cash!

What Next?

If I have gotten you interested, you can contact me at bob[at]blogohblog.com with your articles or just go through the Contact Page.

WordPress Theme – Dictum

Posted: 09 Nov 2010 01:50 PM PST

It’s been almost two months since my last blog post. To make up for it, I am hereby releasing a brand new free WordPress theme called “Dictum”.

Dictum - Free WordPress Theme

This is a WordPress 3.0 + compatible theme with a professional slideshow that you can use to display or highlight any of your categories’ posts. This theme also comes with a social sharing bar in the single post view that will help your users easily bookmark the useful articles from your blog. The widgetized sidebar comes with ready to configure feedburner, twitter and facebook icons that can be setup in the theme’s admin options. The thumbnails are auto-generated and use the default thumbnail size that wordpress generates when you upload an image with a post.
Dictum is a totally free WordPress theme and you can use it however you want as long as you keep the footer credits intact. It has been tested with Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Chrome browsers without any problems whatsoever.

Instructions for the slideshow

When you apply this theme to your WordPress, you should go to Appearance -> Dictum Options and configure the slideshow category from where the posts will be pulled up. For the labels below each slide, a custom field has to be set up with each post. The custom field should be called “label”.

Demo & Download

Test Run Dictum!

Download Dictum!

If you decide to use this theme or even if you just want to leave feedback, please feel free to write a comment as this will help me improvise on my work ahead.