WordPress News & Notes – October 23, 2008

Here are some WordPress-related news and notes I’ve run across over the past week and felt were worth sharing with everyone:

Price Reduction at Theme Hybrid – The theme club by Justin Tadlock, Theme Hybrid, is currently offering a $10.00 membership to his theme club for the first 100 members. You can read more about the club here.
How to Integrate Pagination into your WordPress Theme – Jean-Baptiste Jung has explained how to build PageNavi plugin functionality directly into your WordPress theme.
15 Premium Quality Free WordPress Themes – Noupe is at it again, this time with a collection of free WordPress themes that they consider to be premium quality. I think they did a pretty good job narrowing this down to 15 quality themes.
How to Add PollDaddy Polls on Your WordPress Blog – Leland of Theme Lab has written a detailed write up explaining how to add PollDaddy polls to your WordPress blog.
Building a Control Panel for Your WordPress Theme – Custom Theme Design has published a great post about building a control panel into your WordPress theme. The example even includes code snippets.
How to Exclude Categories from your RSS Feed – Have a few categories on your blog that you don’t want your feed readers to see? Web Kreation has written a great post explaining how to prevent certain categories from showing up in your feed.