I finally got around to designing a new theme to giveaway to the WordPress community. Before writing the code I would like to get some input from the community on the design, as well as what features you would like to see included. Click on each image for the full-size version. Features Focus on Content [...]
We just launched the WP LImits custom themes page, which I am happy to say has been well received by our Twitter friends who got to preview it (follow us @wplimits). So we are now open for business! Since WordPress can be used to create a full website, not just a blog, we wanted to [...]
These days every site must have a content management system (CMS), or else it will very soon be outdated. Try selling a site to a client and then telling them they can’t actually update any of the content or photos themselves, somehow I don’t think they will be very happy. Now in searching for a [...]
Recently there have been a lot of changes in the WordPress theme scene. A little over a year ago it was hard to find quality themes anywhere, so that is what started the Premium Theme market. Brian Gardner started this trend with his very popular Revolution Theme. Why did they become popular? It was very [...]
What do I mean? If you are creating a basic theme for distribution, consider designing it, or at least offering a variation of it, that is image free. As in style everything with CSS, and don’t resort to images for the layout and design. Why do it? Customization. It makes it so much easier for [...]
As advocates of using WordPress for more than a blog publishing platform, we make a vigilant effort to find ways to push past some perceived limitiations of WordPress. There is a gem of a post over at Web Designer Wall that discusses WordPress theme hacks. While the post is a little older, there’s many items [...]
The Theory. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if your site coding went completely smoothly? You didn’t have any weird quirks that took hours to make work in IE, it just simply worked. Impossible? No, not really. What I usually do to solve a lot of these problems on more basic sites (where I may not have [...]