I don't want to join most other blogs in publishing a useless list of features that will be coming to WordPress 3.o. Instead, I thought I'd do it a bit differently. Recently I interviewed Adii, Nathan Rice, Alex Cragg, Cory Miller and Ian Stewart. In that post I asked "what in 3.0 are you looking forward to working with?" today's post will have a look at what 3.0 means for themes.
(read more) I've recently being developing a new design for my first ever WordPress powered site, Nometet.com. The design is looking a bit shabby at the moment, that's the kind way of putting it! I digress though. The new design is what I'd call advanced WordPress. It's got things like a background that is automatically resized (ie the background-image), a choice of three post templates, a fancy review section which holds the score and things like blockquotes that change depending on which category you're in.
(read more) In post images and captions aren't usually a very exciting affair. Most themes don't offer any support for captions and those that do don't do anything exciting with them. In this post we'll explore how to automatically spruce up your images, videos and captions the easy way.
(read more) Of late commercial frameworks have started appearing everywhere. This post will try and make sense of it all, comparing Frugal, Headway, Builder, Genesis and Elemental. That's all the commercial frameworks I could think of bar Thesis, who didn't reply to me emails. This is an unbiased, unaffiliated look at what your options are if you want something to build more WordPress sites off.
(read more) For the recent (first) design of my personal site I added in some Tumblr style functionality. In this post we'll look at how WordPress can be used to create a Tumblog.
(read more) After the astounding success of the Why WordPress series which ran last year, this week I'll be asking five WordPress Wizards about what's next for themes, WordPress and frameworks in what is a slightly more focused discussion than last time!
(read more) After the astounding success of the Why WordPress series which ran last year, this week I'll be asking five WordPress Wizards about what's next for themes, WordPress and frameworks in what is a slightly more focused discussion than last time! Today, Cory Miller from iThemes is in the hot seat.
(read more) After the astounding success of the Why WordPress series which ran last year, this week I’ll be asking five WordPress Wizards about what’s next for themes, WordPress and frameworks in slightly more focused discussion than last time! The series continues today with Alex Cragg, co-founder of WPShift which enticingly has "made a theme that lets you build your own layout just by dragging and dropping."
(read more) After the astounding success of the Why WordPress series which ran last year, this week I’ll be asking five WordPress Wizards about what’s next for themes, WordPress and frameworks in what is a slightly more focused discussion than last time! The series continues today with Nathan Rice, developer at StudioPress and largely responsible for the recent release of Genesis.
(read more) After the astounding success of the Why WordPress series which ran last year, this week I'll be asking five WordPress Wizards about what's next for themes, WordPress and frameworks in what is a slightly more focused discussion than last time!
(read more) Converting HTML to WordPress has just got easier with this post 'case study' looking at a real world example of the DesignInformer redesign.
(read more) The basics of WordPress theme design looks at the fundamental knowledge you need to start creating your own WordPress themes from scratch.
(read more) The WordPress 2.7 Cookbook and WordPress 2.8 Theme Design are reviewed, following on from the look at Digging into WordPress and Rockstar WordPress Designer.
(read more) Speeding up WordPress has just got easier; using PHP's if statements you can only load the stuff you need.
(read more) A very neat trick that allows you to apply a different stylesheet to each category (and therefore change colors), all with the power of WordPress.
(read more) After months and months of working on it, WPShift has now launched! I'm really delighted to be able to say that :) Find all the low down about the hottest WordPress theme in town!
(read more) Search engine optimisation, or SEO is the art of optimising your content so that search engines will rank it more favourably. This post is some of my thoughts on the subject.
(read more) Have you wondered how to change the layout of the WordPress plugin subscribe to comments subscription manager? There's no easy solution provided by the author of the plugin. So after looking at its core file I found out it's actually quite easy by using an extremely simple tweak. With this tutorial I'm going to show you how you can give it a nice custom design.
(read more) For the last couple of months I've been mentioning a fair bit on Twitter that I'm launching a premium WordPress themes company. This post explains what it is, what's great about it and when it's coming.
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As someone who quite likes being controversial from time to time, I thought I'd vent some steam on people releasing "modded" premium themes. This post attempts to take an unbiased view, considering both sides and producing a coherent and acceptable conclusion backed by evidence. Attempts, anyway...
(read more) Just a very quick tip but nonetheless an important one. Many of you will be using any number of plugins or the database query that's been doing the rounds recently to display your most popular posts. That code/plugin is no longer needed as WordPress' query_posts can now display your most commented posts.
(read more) In what'll be my final post here of the year, today we're going to have a look back at what has been an eventful first year for WPShout. This is not a list post. More of a reflection.
(read more) As someone who is quite well versed in the reviewing world, I thought it'd be nice to do some reviews of WordPress books. In this post I'll look at Digging into WordPress and How To Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer.
(read more) The final of our community series, slightly later than planned asks twenty one of the WordPress community what they think the future of WordPress should be. Again, in no particular order, here are the responses.
(read more) The third of four instalments of the "Why WordPress" series (parts ONE and TWO) asks the same groups of twenty one what problems they see facing the WordPress community at the moment. Like last time, some really interesting answers from the WordPress users, developers and designers.
(read more) The new design for WPShout launches in emphatic style with a look behind and ahead at what's to come over the next couple of weeks.
(read more) Take a look at the new WPShout design and see some results of the feedback.
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