WordCamp Philippines

WordCamp Philippines

If you’re a Pinoy blogger or a WordPress user/fan then most likely you’ve heard or read of this already. But in case you haven’t, I have good news for you. There will be a WordCamp held in the Philippines this coming September 6, 2008. If you don’t know what I’m talking about here’s a little info.

What is WordCamp?

WordCamp is a conference type of event that focuses squarely on everything WordPress. Everyone from casual end users all the way up to core developers show up to these events. These events are usually highlighted by speeches or keynotes by various people. WordCamp is a spin off from the popular BarCamp which was a spin off of FooCamp. - Weblog Tools Collection

WordCamp Philippines will be the first ever WordCamp organized and held in Asia. WordCamp Philippines is being organized by a group of Filipino bloggers based in Mindanao who were also responsible for organizing the successful 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit held last year.

What are the objectives of WordCamp Philippines?

…to encourage more developers to use and deploy WordPress, not only as a blogging engine but also as a full-featured content management system for Web sites. Another is to increase the number of WordPress users and developers in the country. By developers, we mean programmers of WordPress plugins and designers of themes & templates.



WP Theme Review: Sakura
15 Comments April 2, 2007 5211 Views

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Sakura is a 2 column, widget-ready Wordpress theme created by the guys from area381. The name “Sakura” which means Cherry blossom in Japanese, is a fitting name for this spring inspired theme.

Instead of the standard Hello World post, we decided to give you a gift. Today is the first day of spring and we prepared a special gift to all Wordpress users - a new, free Wordpress theme with spring motives.

Screenshot:

WP Theme - Sakura

My Take:

Sakura’s design is very simple but elegant looking. It uses a spring motive and has a feminine look to it, so this theme is basically for the ladies. This is one of the best looking Wordpress themes I’ve seen in a while. I give the Sakura theme a 4.5 out of 5. To the guys at area381, great job!

Sakura was developed for newer versions of Wordpress (2.1 and above) which makes use of the language_attributes() function. So if you’re running an older version of Wordpress, you either upgrade your installation or remove the < ? php language_attributes(); ? > line from the header.php file to avoid having errors.

Future plans for the Sakura theme includes a 3 columned version. So watch out for it.

Preview or Download the Sakura theme.

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15 Responses to “WP Theme Review: Sakura”

  1. MyAvatars 0.2   Clawy Anne PHILIPPINES Windows 2000 Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.11 on Apr 2, 2007 | 8:39 pm | Reply

    Nice theme..its girly…its clean…and its pleasing to the eye ;) …. hmmmm….i wonder if i can use this for my blogsite…maybe this theme can make me start blogging.. :D

  2. MyAvatars 0.2   jhay PHILIPPINES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Apr 3, 2007 | 3:16 am | Reply

    It’s a beautiful theme. Too bad I just don’t see that much blogs that use this theme. Personal blogs would be best using this theme.

  3. MyAvatars 0.2   Jaypee UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Apr 3, 2007 | 6:33 am | Reply

    @Clawy - Yeah, it’s really a nice theme for ladies. You really should get back to blogging! I can help set it up for you and I’ll use this theme. How’s that? :)

    @jhay - True. There are a lot of beautiful themes out there that many bloggers don’t even know about. Some of them are not listed in Themes.Wordpress.Net.

  4. MyAvatars 0.2   Jays JAPAN Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Apr 3, 2007 | 7:24 am | Reply

    hi kuya jaypee ♥
    ang ganda sobra ng sakura theme. yung sakura pala dito sa tapat ng bahay namin malapit na matapos.. huhu..
    thanks for sharing!! gusto ko din gumamit ng mga free themes kaso natatakot ako galawin yng mga codes..

  5. MyAvatars 0.2   Jaypee UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Apr 3, 2007 | 6:38 pm | Reply

    @Jays - Hello! Long time no see..hehe :D

    Yeah, maganda talaga sya at girl na girl ang look. Yeah can make your own theme so I’m sure you’ll have no problem editing or customizing this theme. :)

  6. MyAvatars 0.2   mr nice ash PHILIPPINES Windows XP Internet Explorer 6.0 on Apr 4, 2007 | 3:12 am | Reply

    nice theme. Sakura is one of the main characters in Naruto. Sakura fans should have this one. I’ll wait for the 3 column theme and see if I will change my Naruto theme again… Whew!

  7. MyAvatars 0.2   Grace PHILIPPINES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Apr 4, 2007 | 4:58 am | Reply

    Hi Kuya Jaypee,

    Oo nga ang ganda ng pagkaka design nang sakura theme. Next time na ako magpapalit ng theme, at yung theme na gagamitin ko yung 3 columned version nyan.

  8. MyAvatars 0.2   Jaypee UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Apr 4, 2007 | 1:59 pm | Reply

    @ash - I see. I didn’t know that since I’m not an avid fan of Naruto. Change theme again? It’s tiring and time consuming but fun! :D

    @Grace - Hello! Yup, simple but neat design. I guess you and ash would have the same theme then. Hehe :D

  9. MyAvatars 0.2   benj PHILIPPINES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Apr 5, 2007 | 8:41 am | Reply

    It looks real nice. If I were a girl blogger, I’ll be giggling like a high school school girl right now. tee hee!

  10. MyAvatars 0.2   Jaypee UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Apr 6, 2007 | 10:16 am | Reply

    @benj - Hahaha..that’s funny! :D

  11. MyAvatars 0.2   dimaks JAPAN Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Apr 6, 2007 | 10:19 am | Reply

    It’s so neat.. I always like themes of this kind. You can see why by looking at my present blog site :D

  12. MyAvatars 0.2   Jaypee UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Apr 8, 2007 | 2:09 am | Reply

    @dimaks - Me too, I love themes that are neat. Yeah, your theme is really neat. :)

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