Just this weekend, I launched my take on collaborative music online. I am sure there are already sites out there that do this, but I wanted to focus on the layering concept of creating music with a multitrack editor. Anyone who’s ever recorded with a single microphone knows the process of layering subsequent tracks well. You start with a click track or something similar and build up from that, one layer at a time.

I really think that this process opens up a ton of new possibilities in music creation by allowing people from all musical backgrounds to share and mix increasingly unique songs. We even provide the free drum samples if you can provide the beats.

It’s 100% free and you can check it out at http://letsj.am. I encourage you to log in and post a few tracks or layers yourself. There’s also a tutorial/wiki if you want to learn a little about the process. Feel free to leave a comment or suggestion here, or drop me a message.

This has been added in 2.8! Don’t install this if you have 2.8! Read this instead.

This little plug-in adds a fancy little description field to the “Edit Tag” pane in WordPress. It also adds a function called single_tag_description(); that does just that but only on the tag page. Not really sure why the tag description isn’t available by default, seems like it would be pretty useful. Basically, you can describe your tags and echo that description on each tag page with the above function; pretty simple!

Please enjoy and note that some of the code came from a thread I read on WordPress.org, but some of it came from extracting similar core code, I just made it into a WordPress plugin. Download it now.

If you’d like some customization done on the theme, I refer you to the stellar Magatheme Pro Package WordPress Magazine Theme with customization! It’s got all the options you all asked for, built-in! Everything from an awesome tab slider and homepage layout to drop down menus and a couple subtle color schemes are ready out of the box. So check it out!

Well, I just got finished with the brand new Magatheme (1.0.5)! Ultimately, I’ll incorporate a full front page outline (Pro Edition), just like your favorite magazine themes have, but until then you’ll just have to enjoy this classy, minimalistic WordPress theme just like any other Plain Jane theme.

But wait! If you download within the next 15 minutes you get…

• A classy, minimalistic design!
• 3 column, golden ratio deduced layout!
• A cool, slightly blue ice color scheme!
• Six sidebars! Count them, six!
  • Wide Sidebar
  • Left Sidebar
  • Right Sidebar
  • Left Footbar
  • Mid Footbar
  • Right Footbar
• Completely valid XHTML and CSS!
• WordPress 2.7 compatibility!
• Zebra striped comments!
• Highlighted author comments!
• (Pro) Selectable magazine or blog style homepage.
• (Pro) Over 15 widget ready locations.
• (Pro) 4 color schemes.
• (Pro) No-edit ad and tracking integration.
• (Pro) Feedburner integration.
• (Pro) Drop down menus and fancy homepage tab slider.
• (Pro) Hide/show author, date, categories, tags, and comment sections.

Leave a comment below and let me know what you think of the theme! I’d love to hear it. Perhaps your suggestions will make it into the next version.

PS: I haven’t tested IE6 yet, let me know if it works for you! It works in IE6!

Download it now! or View the Demo! or View the Pro Demo!