WordPress Themes, Plugins, News and Tutorials
There are many of people out there right now who want to create and launch a website, but they simply don’t have the money available. Unfortunately, most conventional methods you’ll use to put a site together are going to cost you a lot of money – perhaps even thousands of dollars.
Luckily, however, you can use the web’s best content-management system, WordPress, and create a fully-functioning, great-looking, professional website for mere pennies on the dollar.CONTINUE READING »
No matter your skill level, there will likely come time when you feel the need to customize your WordPress theme by digging into the dreaded ‘custom.css’ or ‘style.css’ file.
The reality is that there are just some things that you can’t do without getting your hands into the code. Luckily, it isn’t as hard as you think. Even some basic tweaks will keep your site from looking like every other WordPress site.CONTINUE READING »
If you’re running a CMS based website, there is no need to tell you what is WordPress. But if you still think that it is just a blogging platform, you’re mistaken. WordPress is now a fully functional CMS since the release of version 3.0, which introduced custom post types and Multisite option for running several websites within one installation.
WordPress popularity grows daily as well as the number of its addicts. You’re wondering why everyone is so crazy about WordPress?CONTINUE READING »
With nearly 1,800 free themes, the WordPress Free Themes Directory is the perfect place to find a theme for your website or blog.
In opposition to other sources, the user is guaranteed that all the themes in this repository are free from sleazy up-sell tactics as well as malicious or crappy code. To ensure this level of quality, each submitted theme is vetted by a member of the Theme Review Team.CONTINUE READING »
A few days weeks ago, Mark announced the release of first actual beta of WordPress 3.6, the most anticipating and promising version. A lot of folks have put hours of work into this release and it’s filled with some nice features.
The beta version was released on April 4, 2013 to be exact and is freely available for download, so I took the opportunity to take a closer look at the first beta version of WordPress 3.6. CONTINUE READING »
There seems to be a million ways to customize a WordPress theme, but not all of them are good. WordPress is powerful, which can work for or against you. This is especially apparent when it comes time to customize it. For many of us, just getting a theme to work is a step in the right direction, and we leave it at that.
For new theme developers, it is important understand some of the basics about theme development before diving in. CONTINUE READING »
WordPress is incredibly versatile platform and can be tweaked to add any function or feature.
With WordPress, it doesn’t take much time to figure out how to add any non-traditional feature, as there are many WordPress resources available online. But there are times, when you come across a feature in a blog, and you just start thinking to yourself: How they did that? Is it a plugin or hack? For most of us it’s pretty normal, we all have done the same thing.CONTINUE READING »
Having published two roundup lists devoted to horizontal scrolling WordPress themes, the first in September 2012 and the second in March 2013, I have begun to appreciate the idiosyncrasies of the “sideways” approach to Web design.
In this post I want to share some thoughts on why I think horizontal designs are worth taking a look at and what makes them a product of our time.CONTINUE READING »
