WordPress Themes, Plugins, News and Tutorials
Yesterday, WordPress Lead Developer Mark Jaquith announced on the WordPress.org blog that the first beta is ready for testing. The software is still in development and shouldn’t be used on any production site but rather on a test site.
To test WordPress 3.6, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin or you can download the beta here (zip), said Mark. This time, WordPress taken a different turn and decided to release the actual beta rather then releasing an alpha & calling it beta.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 »
Social Media sites are the second biggest source of traffic, more than 50% of my traffic comes from social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. To get traffic from these sites you need to engage with your audience. While people will always find the medium to connect with your blog, but how well the social media is integrated on your website plays a great role in attracting traffic.
One of the greatest ways to build social media following is by putting the follow buttons in the sidebar of your WordPress website. 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 »
There are a huge number of slider plugins available out on the CodeCanyon marketplace – some are good, some are bad and some are just okay. Than we have slider plugins by big companies such as SlideDeck, I have nothing bad to say about any of these plugins, in fact I have been promoting SlideDeck and many other similar plugins.
With so many plugins available, it’s really hard to choose the right one, the one that provides truly great experience to both users and developers.CONTINUE READING »
Jake Caputo is a serial entrepreneur, developer, designer and Fake Mustache Enthusiast, who has been building awesome WordPress themes since March 2012. He started his career has designer and later fell into developer.
He currently blogs at DesignCrumbs and sell themes at ThemeForest.
Jake was kind enough to take a few minutes of his time to answer some of our questions about his process of building premium themes.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 »
Weekly Roundup: Common WordPress Problems & Commenting Platforms
Anyways, For those who’re new to this blog, this post is a part of weekly roundup where I collect and share a ton of WordPress news, tutorials & resources. CONTINUE READING »