A Plaxo 'like' WordPress Theme

Posted on January 5, 2010 by sharath

plaxo-riffictheme

Description

The Plaxo Theme is out and its free. The theme is as simple as the Plaxo design itself, this theme brings it all together. It looks good and works great. I’ve added all of the best design elements on the Plaxo layout and with loads of Plaxo-like features and more….. On the options page you will be able to adjust the theme to your preferences. You can also choose between different style schemes which differ in color and fonts…..

Preview:

http://plaxo.thesharath.com

Download:

Download Plaxo-riffic theme (Approximately 950kb)

Features:

Dual sidebar. Separate sidebar for Pages and Index page
Widget-ready sidebar
Custom Bread crumb navigation
Customized front page to look like a news or magazine site
Breadcrumb ready plugin (for better SEO)
Customized templates for every type of WordPress file, such as category.php and and archive.php
Customized sidebars for different pages of the site
Placeholders for ads. Great sidebar sizes for 125×125px ads
Adsense Ready – Link Ads ready theme

Read me before getting started:

There is a readme.txt in the theme that you just downloaded. Please read carefully before getting started.

Credits:

Devolux – JQ for awesome theme framework
And thanks to Justin Tadlock for the Breadcrumb plugin

Licenses:

If you use this theme, you must leave a link back to me on your site. A full copy of the legal code is in a file called “license.txt,” which is included with your download.
Licensed under the GPL licenses.

Compatibility:

While designing this theme, I’ve tested the theme using Firefox 3+, Internet explorer 8 and Chrome. It works like charm on these browsers.

p.s. I also tried the theme on IE6 but the current version is wonky with the retarded browser IE6. Feel free to report bugs and I’ll fix them.

On my mind:

Thank you, thank you. I don’t even know where to start. BUT I’m proud of it. It’s been a frustrating three weeks tweaking little things here and there fixing lots of browser compatibility issues and bugging my friends to test the site on their browsers well thanks for all the help guys.

People ask me why Plaxo? Why not Facebook or Myspace like WordPress theme?

Its simply because there is already a Facebook, Myspace like WordPress theme available on the internet. Really – try googling it! Plus Plaxo’s design is consistent and readable for blog readers. The Plaxo-riffic theme has lots of new features. One of them is the custom background. You can add a custom background individually for the main index page and the single pages.

Looking at the outcome, I’m damn happy with how the theme turned out. There’s still a little work to be done, but I’m ready to release it to the WordPress-theme-O-sphere… I really wanted to add more features to the theme. Unfortunately due to time constraints couldn’t involve too much into the theme. Hopefully the next version of the Plaxo-riffic theme will have more features . With all that said, feel free to report bugs here, and I’ll try to killem’ all one at a time…..

Future releases?

Hell ya…. i’m gonna develop this theme and fix bugs … contact me, if you need anything!! I’m also planning on adding more features to the theme in the future releases, stay tuned….!!!

How to sign into Plaxo using your Blogger OpenID URL

Posted on September 24, 2009 by sharath

plaxo + openid + Blogger

Did you know that you Blogger blog is an OpenID which can be used to sign into other websites? well now you know … Plaxo has always been friendly with Opensocial stuff like OpenID, Auth which provides more ways to sign in to your Plaxo online account in a secure way.

Here’s how to use your Blogger URL as an OpenID to sign in to your Plaxo online account:

1. Click on Sign in using OpenID

2 Enter your Blogspot URL (Eg. http://sharath-g.blogspot.com)

3. Grant permission (proving you’re the owner) by signing into your Google account

grant permission

4. Vola, you’re done. You should be signed into Plaxo

If you use any of the services such as Google, Flickr, Yahoo, Blogger or Myspace you already have your own OpenID. When you see bold text, you should replace it with your own username or screenname on that service… No more forgotten password problems … Also the same works for any valid OpenID!

Now you should be able to sign in to your Plaxo account using your blogspot URL in the future… Cool and easy eh?.. What’s on you’re mind? do you have any such simple How-to’s? send me tips and i’ll be glad to publish it!

Plaxo and Facebook are in open relationship – Plaxo adds new features to sync status and feeds with Facebook!

Posted on April 29, 2009 by sharath

Plaxo being a social aggregator now adds Facebook connect …. Now you can connect with people in Plaxo automatically who are your Facebook friends – Sigh, no more duplicate connections. What’s more, you get to share all the information from your Facebook wall stories (like photos, links, and videos) with your Plaxo friends easily. Keep your Facebook status updated when ever you change the status on Plaxo or vice-versa.

Quick snap of what’s gonna happen if you add Facebook connect in Plaxo:

Automatically connect with your Facebook friends who already use Plaxo
Share your Facebook Wall Stories (like photos, links, and videos) with your Plaxo friends
Keep your Plaxo and Facebook status in sync

Now, you can feed the content you’re sharing on Facebook (such as photos, videos, links, and events) over to Plaxo for sharing to your friends here. In addition, you can sync your status updates between the two services (in either or both directions). And, when you share a link or post a review in Plaxo, you can also share it over to your friends on Facebook.

“We believe this is an historic day, one that marks the beginning of a new era for the Internet, characterized by an open and interoperable Social Web” says Plaxo chief architect Joseph Smarr and VP marketting John McCrea..

Sounds cool, where do I start?…. Go to http://www.plaxo.com/settings/facebook and click on the connect button. You would need to sign in to your Facebook account and grant permission that you want to add Plaxo application on Facebook. Now make sure what you want to share (Status, photos etc..) and whom you want to share it with (Business, family & friends or a group in Plaxo) …. Once you have done that you’re all good – Hola you’re done!

Plaxo could add the ability to sign up and sign in to Plaxo via Facebook Connect. Hope, Plaxo will continue to collaborate with Facebook add more features … and we’ll need wait and watch what’s coming up next .

Plaxo has all new and stronger commenting system with some new updates

Posted on March 14, 2009 by sharath

Plaxo known for its aggregation tools from all over the social web is now up for commenting and now has a stronger commenting system! The post from Plaxo Blog tells us about the two powerful new features to give everyone a “stronger Pulse”: Comments-in-the-Stream and deep integration with the travel itinerary site TripIt.

In the latest release, Plaxo makes conversations a more central feature of the service, bringing them front-and-center in the stream, rather than only on the details page of the shared event.

Take a look at the new stronger commenting system:

Plaxo got Pulse started by aggregating public feeds (and layering on a family/friends/business permission model inside Plaxo). Plaxo did that because that was what was available at the time, and because we believed that over time feeds would go mainstream and that mechanisms would emerge for getting access to private feeds. And, indeed, that has been the case, with the accelerating adoption of OAuth. Plaxo members can now take a feed of what they are privately sharing on Netflix, Picasa, and Twitter and share that selectively into Plaxo just with family, friends, colleagues, a group (or any combination of those).

Today, Plaxo adds to the list of private feed sources the online travel itinerary site, TripIt, via a deep integration with their recently released Open Travel Itinerary API. Now you can share your travel plans with whatever subset of your Plaxo connections which makes sense to you for example your business \ family \ friends or just for your self …. They’ll see your trips in their Pulse stream (and so will you).

And, if you think that’s all…. You’re wrong, there is more here! Couple of days ago I wrote about how to integrate your Facebook calendar with the Google calendar like wise now if you add tripit feed to your Plaxo account, it automatically adds events from your tripit calendar schedule to your Plaxo calendar sweet eh? … All this is possible using OAuth and we all know Joseph smarr is good at cranking this out really easy

sync iphone with plaxo

Posted on March 7, 2009 by sharath

Sync Iphone or any phone with Plaxo!

Did you know? that you can sync your contacts in a secure way between any of your mobile phone and Plaxo … well now you do..

Plaxo has a partnership with Synkia to provide synchronization from mobile phones to Plaxo. Synkia supports 420 syncML phones plus iPhone, Blackberry, Palm phones. Last month in feburary, Plaxo partnered with SYNKIA and expanded mobile sync options. Jo Mosaku, Executive Director, Business Development, Synkia AS said,

“In announcing this partnership; we are proud to be a part of Plaxo’s broader strategy to support open standards, such as SyncML. Synkia is “cloud” computing for the mobile phone era and works across multiple mobile handsets, softphones, territories and is carrier neutral. Synkia’s platform seamlessly provides phone back up/synchronization for the widest number of mobile devices available today, which is further enhanced by Plaxo’s rapidly growing network of connected people. Your contacts will always be up to date on your mobile device after syncing with Plaxo”.

Plaxo users, who have accounts at Synkia’s online mobile backup service, will be able to synchronize contact data between the two services. This will extend distribution of contact data from Plaxo to the mobile phones of its users and will enable the synchronization of contact data on mobile phones with Plaxo and vice versa. Plaxo will strongly urge its users to backup data on their phones with Synkia and Synkia will advertise Plaxo to its users.

‘I’m extremely happy to announce our partnership with Plaxo’ – says Morten Sundstø, the chairman and founder of Synkia – ‘People store more and more data in their mobile phones which increases the importance of online phone backup services. The agreement with Plaxo will give Synkia a privileged position on the market of such services in the US’.

Sign up and get a SPECIAL DISCOUNT for Plaxo users! When you backup your phone at Synkia you will be able to synchronize your contacts with Plaxo address book. Don’t wait, try it now!

Now that’s good news to all the people who would like to stay updated with their contacts on the phone

Social job listings by Plaxo in partnership with SimplyHired!

Posted on February 20, 2009 by sharath

Plaxo on Wednesday announced its partnership with SimplyHired, which offers to show job listings according to your work profile information.

What are social job listings?
When you post a job to Plaxo, you have the option of sharing it to any or all of your Plaxo network. For example, you might choose to share the listing to your business connections and to one or two groups that you’re a member of. Or you might share it to your friends and your business network. Or for that matter, you might also share it with your family, if you have family members who might be able to help source candidates! and of course, your can share it via email with anyone, whether they’re a Plaxo member or not.

On Plaxo, the listing is then like any other shared event in the Plaxo stream, which means you and the people who receive it can comment on it, and anyone who receives it can re-share it to their networks!
Here’s a quick snap of how it works:

Although currently the job listing only shows results for ‘United states’ members, Plaxo has plans about globalizing the job search!
Look no further, Jobs directly in your Plaxo Pulse stream! Plaxo also makes the job listing show on your Pulse stream according to the jobs that meet your criteria, which makes it really easy for people to grab jobs of their choice…

Quick snap of how jobs show in the pulse stream!

Jobs Not showing up? Change the setting in your Plaxo online account… Well we hope you get an awesome job through Plaxo !! For more info and to search for a job visit jobs.plaxo.com…

Job-a-matic is the software that powers this site’s job board. The job search functionality is provided by Simply Hired, whose goal is to make finding your next job or next employee a simple yet enjoyable journey. To learn more, visit us at www.simplyhired.com.

Facebook tries to do some sync as well!

Posted on February 18, 2009 by sharath

How to Sync Facebook Events with Google Calendar

We all know that many websites that exists make ourselves more social, efficient, effective, etc …. Facebook being one of the many.

Some of us use so many tools that it often requires another utility manager to manage themselves and its becoming increasingly complicated… As a solution Facebook recently discussed syncing Twitter and Facebook status updates for all those who want to sync their status updates on both sites! Although there are many websites like Plaxo, hellotxt which has the status sync feature Facebook seems to try n catchup!

For all those who’re out there who use Facebook and Google calendar to manage events, here’s some good news to you people and we hope it will but will relieve you of the pain of having to keep up between multiple calendars.

How to Sync Facebook Events with Google Calendar:

1. Login to Facebook and click on events

2. click on “Export Events” and copy the URL (which you would need to use later in the process)

3. Log into Google Calendar and choose “Add” under “Other calendars.” Then choose “Add by URL”…

4. Paste the URL you copied from Facebook and click “Add” in #step 2

And…… you’re done! Your Google calendar will now update automatically every time you accept or decline an event in Facebook.

This should help you being more organized! ….. and we hope this puts a smile on your face too !!

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