CategoryWordPress

March 13, 2013 — If you’re starting out building WordPress themes or want to develop a system for building them more efficiently or robustly, how do you decide which approach to take? In this article, Rachel McCollin will briefly describe how WordPress themes work and then look at some of the different approaches to developing them. Read more…

March 5, 2013 — The purists out there may be throwing their hands up in horror — a WYSIWYG interface! Letting users alter themes themselves! Well, yes, there is a risk on that. But the Customizer means that if you’re developing custom themes for client websites, you have a whole new set of tools to play with. The theme customizer allows users to tweak theme settings using a WYSIWYG interface and customise a theme so it includes pretty much anything they want. Read more…

February 21, 2013 — Rather than write another article on building a WordPress theme, Siobhan McKeown shares with us techniques that will help us refine our workflow, saving our time and making us more efficient on our theme development and design process. Read more…

February 8, 2013 — Alex Denning explores the steps you need to follow in order to get the most out of your premium WordPress theme. From simply choosing the right theme, to installing it the right way, to being able to ask support questions that get answered promptly, to making customizations to your theme which won’t get overwritten by theme updates. Read more…

February 1, 2013 — Siobhan McKeown reached out to people from across the WordPress community to ask what advice they would give to people just starting their WordPress journey. This article is a result of their insight, and we hope that it provides some encouragement and guidance to newbies. Read more…

January 16, 2013 — Frank is a responsive WordPress theme. It uses a modified version of the Foundation grid system. It also offers the unique feature of a modular home page layout system. The theme comes with various different layouts for your home page (1 column, 2 column, 3 column, 4 column, etc.) that can be mixed and matched. This allows for a home page with different content sections in different layouts. Read more…

January 14, 2013 — If you’ve been around WordPress for a while you know how difficult it used to be to create post lists based on complex criteria while also conforming to WordPress standards. Over the course of a few years the platform has come a long way. By utilising the power of the WP_Query class, we can list posts in any way we want. Read more…

December 11, 2012 — The shortcode ability of WordPress is extremely underrated. It enables the end user to create intricate elements with a few keystrokes while also modularizing editing tasks. This tutorial is for experienced WordPress users; we will be looking at the widgets object and shortcodes. Read more…

December 5, 2012 — WordPress makes it easy for people to publish a blog or website; it democratizes Web publishing. In this post, Siobhan McKeown takes a look at how you can be a top WordPress professional. This advice could apply to developers, but equally to bloggers, support reps, designers and everyone in between. Read more…

November 15, 2012 — WordPress is one of the most deployed content management systems around. One of the main reasons is the number of plugins available and the ease with which we can use the system. Read more…