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40+ Examples of Custom Login Pages (Random of the Day #0022)

Random WordPress of the Day #0022

Title: 40+ Examples of Custom Login Pages

Everyone is pretty much used to that boring WordPress login page when it comes time to login, but there are a few reasons why one would want to change that. The first being simply to have something nice looking for ones self, the second would be if you are setting a WordPress website for someone else and want it to look professional and, third, if you have subscribers and you don’t want them getting confused when they reach a login screen that doesn’t match your website.

That being said, head over to WPCookies.com to see their list of the 40+ best examples of creative and unique custom Wordpress login screens to give you a better understanding and help while designing your own.

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WordPress 3.0 Pictures (Random of the Day #0021)

Random WordPress of the Day #0021

Title: WordPress 3.0 Pictures

As some of you may or may not know, we are getting closer to the release of the highly anticipated WordPress 3.0. There are tons of new features rumored to be a part of the new release.

Some of the discussed features are easy blog menu management, dynamic image resize/crop, media upload UI redesign (begun in 2.9 but postponed for implementation due to technical issues), photo albums, custom content type UI and API, supercharging queries (cross-taxonomies), categories/tags for pages, auto-taxonomy UI, custom fields UI (possibly to be registered by themes or plugins for something to be displayed), settings UI redesign, improve the upgrade process (inc. distros for specific use types), SVN awareness, canonical plugins and a UI for displaying them, plugin page redesign, themes UI redesign, comments UI touchup, decouple language updates and files, new default theme, choose your own start page, caps lock detection, accessibility admin theme, mobile admin theme, synching custom fields > taxonomies, exif refresh, role management simplification, credits page in app, default custom types (microblog, galleries, asides), admin bar, front end comment moderation, front end posting (a la P2), better importers, widget installer, importer installer, more inline documentation, built-in “Welcome to WordPress” guide for 1st time admin use/checklist (set settings, add profiles, set up comment options, dashboard modules, add widgets, pick a theme, etc) with ability to dismiss as you move through, better help tab, more template tags, better zone selector, new code editor, XSL for RSS feeds (pretty feeds), bulk user creation (lazy load importer?), below post widgets, image importing, HTML validation, customizable comment form, Twitter and Flickr importers, WordPress capitalization catcher, configurable QuickPress configurable (add categories), more dashboard modules, easy linking to internal content when writing new content in editor, audit of error messages and updating them to be clearer revisions for custom fields and taxonomies.

And this week WPEngineer.com has released some pictures of some of the new features.