Around the WordPress Community: Design, Thesis Hooks and Filters, Comments, and Design Mistakes
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 17 2010 at 4:21 am | No Comments »
This week’s trip around the WordPress Community digs more into web design with a collection of resources and tips from around the WordPress Community. We found some great tips on WordPress Theme design for navigation, custom post types, Thesis Theme hooks and filters, comments, and a few reminders on those common pesky design mistakes we all make.
Around the WordPress Community: CSS3 Tips and Techniques
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 10 2010 at 4:19 am | No Comments »
In this week’s Around the WordPress Community, we look at CSS3 and offer some tips and techniques and examples of what could be coming to a WordPress Theme near you, or that you need to keep in mind as you design or upgrade your next WordPress Theme. You will want to bookmark many of these!
Automattic Hires Theme Developer Ian Stewart, Forms “Theme Team”
By Dave Moyer, posted Mar 5 2010 at 9:44 am | No Comments »
Yesterday, highly respected WordPress theme developer Ian Stewart announced on his personal blog that he has been hired by Automattic as a Theme Wrangler. What is interesting is the fact that his blog, ThemeShaper, is also joining the company, as a front-end to what he calls a “theme team” being formed there.
Around the WordPress Community: Dynamic Copyrights, Moving WordPress, Microformats, and Twitter to Blog
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 4 2010 at 4:28 am | 2 Comments »
In this week’s Around the WordPress Community, we dig far and wide to bring you WordPress related tips and techniques on moving your WordPress blog, creating dynamic copyrights, injecting content and custom stuff into your WordPress feed, bringing Twitter to your blog, and some great tips on microformats for WordPress Themes.
Donate to Your Favorite WordPress Project: Support a WordPress Developer Day
By Dave Moyer, posted Mar 1 2010 at 8:44 am | 1 Comment »
One of the primary reasons the open source WordPress content management system is so powerful is its’ extensibility. If you’ve been thinking about donating to a WordPress development project like a plugin or a theme, or even if you haven’t, today is definitely a great time to do so. Scott Ellis has designated March 1st as “Support a WordPress Developer Day!”
Around the WordPress Community: Post Thumbnails, Videos, Permalinks, Multiple Bloggers Blog, and Designing for iPad
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Feb 24 2010 at 4:43 am | 1 Comment »
This week our wander through the fields of the WordPress Community include a guide on using the new post thumbnail feature in WordPress, great videos from WordCamp New York, improving your permalink structure, tips for multiple author blogs, a look at some of the most influential designers in the world, and designing website tips for the iPad.
WordPress Wrangles
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Feb 22 2010 at 4:22 am | 3 Comments »
We all have our pains and suffering with our WordPress blogs, but Dave Thackeray came up with a novel way to tell the story of his WordPress woes. We’re looking for your innovative “WordPress Wrangles” to share in an upcoming article. Come join the fun and help us showcase your WordPress story.
Around the WordPress Community: The Perfect Sidebar, SQL Queries, Videos, and WordPress CMS Style
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Feb 16 2010 at 6:35 pm | No Comments »
A peek around the WordPress Community this week finds some great articles on the perfect sidebar for your WordPress Theme, WordPress SQL queries you need to know for MySQL, video tutorials for WordPress, and come CMS stuff for WordPress.
Free WordPress Theme For Photobloggers: Kozuka
By Kym Huynh, posted Jan 24 2010 at 11:00 am | No Comments »
There is a well known proverb that suggests that a picture (or in its more contemporary form – a photo) is worth a thousand words and hence a whole lot easier to post than sitting down for 45 minutes writing a blog post. For all the lucky photobloggers out there comes a new photoblog theme called Kozuka and the best thing about it? It is completely free! Now all you need to do is string a few pictures together and voila! Instant pictorial novella.
The Process of Designing the New WPVote
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jan 22 2010 at 11:20 am | 1 Comment »
As Ben Gillbanks develops the new WPVote Digg-clone site, he shares an ongoing series on the step-by-step process on his Binary Moon blog. It’s an interesting look inside the technical process of developing a WordPress site specifically for monetization that pushes WordPress beyond the blog look and feel.