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The designer/developer Jeff Sebring has written a plugin which enables the Post Formats feature into any WordPress theme. The Enable WordPress Post Formats Plugin is described on that page, which includes this download link. We’ve tested it with a number of themes and plugins – all smooth sailing. Evernote lets you save all the interesting [...]
Check out this impressive array: WordPress Post Format Eye-Candy: Tumblr Style Theme Inspiration Showcase by Kym Huynh at WordCast. The problem those site designs solve is inherent in WordPress, which will permit the posting of many types of information. Just text alone – WP is ready to accept haiku-or-shorter-length compositions, documents long enough to require [...]
I hadn’t heard of CMSCritic until yesterday, when I found A Collection of WordPress theme frameworks. And in that post I learned of WordPress frameworks, paid and free, that I’d never heard of before – as well as those that I’m familiar with -some that I use, others that I’ll try when budget permits. Check [...]
Theme-Junkie, which I learned about today, has 12 WordPress themes on offer, which I have not yet experimented with, and given my current theory that even with the most customizable theme, if it looks like what you want by default, it might just be the right theme for you. Put another way – it’s good [...]
For some time, it’s been my intention to make it to one of the meetings of the NYC WordPress Meetup Group, which is the product of what must be extraordinary efforts by its organizer, Steve Bruner. On Tuesday, I did, for a presentation about customization without code. The first portion was about the Atahualpa theme [...]
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Via Pro Blog Design, an excellent piece: A Comparison of 6 Popular WordPress Frameworks | Pro Blog Design. This comparison of six free frameworks – and with child themes or skins that tend to be less pricey than the equivalents with paid frameworks – was written by Angie Bowen of Arbenting. Evernote lets you save [...]
WPSkinner has the most complete list of WordPress statistics tools I’ve seen: Top 25 Best WordPress Statistics Plugins and Tools List – this is an area in which I’m playing catch-up – and I suspect that some combination of these tools will be the answer. Its sister site, SmashingUpdates carries paid themes, free themes, and [...]
Via Weblog Tools Collection, a new theme released under the GPL1. Here’s a screenshot: Download available here. The ZadaNews theme can be seen in operation at ZadaNews.com. I installed it in a sandbox (quick: can we use “sandbox” as a verb, as in “we sandboxed it within an inch of its life”?) and found looked [...]
There are, people – I know at least one – who need a twelve-step group because of their susceptibility to new font choices spinning their heads and interfering with their good judgment. Eric Hamm now intends to put this power into the hands of many. How many will now spend their design lives in an [...]
Alex Denning of WPShout released the theme Biblioteca a few weeks back; and has also recently released InstantWordPress, a theme framework or system. Here’s a screenshot.However, given the number of configuration options available, this may not be a “typical” front page – perhaps here isn’t even a single “typical” style for the front page. mber [...]
I found these sites via WPEngineer. amd MakeBetterWebSites.com – which took me to “A Way Back,” the blog of of Amrinder Sandhu, a freelance web designer from Punjab. A Way Back is quite beautiful and simple, using only a single color (other than black and white) – and that only for headings. His portfolio is [...]
Dan Masters – a web designer in Austin, has a very persuasive review of Zoundry, an off-line blogging client. That is, one composes a post irrespective of having an internet connection. I’d been looking for an off-line client, and Masters’ review persuaded me to try it out. Masters’ piece actually predates a new version called [...]
Pixelita Designs has a gallery of 10 Uncommonly Gorgeous Thesis Themes. We’re big fans of the Thesis Theme – (which is in evidence at my primary site, Popular Logistics) and of Pixelita Design as well, a Texas-based design firm that’s done some brilliant work. They’re sufficiently prolific that, in addition to their primary site, they’ve [...]
Adrian at Rubiqube: the excellent WordPress Tutorial: Adding Tabs to Your Blog Sidebar Also don’t miss his Visual WordPress Theme, which I find quite attractive: Visual: The WordPress Theme for Passionate Bloggers. A screenshot, and more after the jump: Evernote lets you save all the interesting things you see online into a single place. Access [...]
WPPro (WordPress Pro) has undergone a site redesign, based on a design by Jason Reynolds and as before, powered by WordPress using a grid design build on the solid Blueprint CSS Framework. one difference is that the theme is not available for download. Some back-end stuff is pending, but to most part the site is [...]
Typography – 20+ Quality Free Sans Serif Fonts – which is one of a number of useful (and free resources available on ThinkDesign. I particularly liked Quicksand: Also not to be missed: 48 Word Press Resources Lorem Ipsum Test Post Pack One of their own free themes, Versatility Lite: ThinkDesign – Blog of Think Four. [...]
Magazine-style themes from DivaGeekDesigns, sixteen of them. Including: Beachler Mag, from WPJunction; Corporate Free magazine style Theme, from WP Junction; And, as noted, a bunch of others. 16 Free Magazine-style themes at DivaGeekDesigns. Evernote lets you save all the interesting things you see online into a single place. Access all those saved pages from your [...]
Design Disease, first of all, are the authors of several deservedly popular free WordPress themes. But they also do very good custom work, some of which can beseen in their portfolio.One of their recent site designs is for HostGator, an excellent hosting company which has recently announced that it has bought renewable energy credits equivalent [...]
20 Best WordPress Themes For Small Business. Some free – and some of the most excellent and reasonably-priced “for sale” themes – an excellent list from BestWPThemes. Evernote lets you save all the interesting things you see online into a single place. Access all those saved pages from your computer, phone or the web. Sign [...]
Easy install, easy configuration, works as promised- and if you’ve never used custom fields – this is an easy, non-scary way to find out. From the wonderful people at MightyMo comes the Simple Pull Quote WordPress Plugin (link to MightyMo’s Page – download link here). If you’re using WordPress 2.8.2, you can even install it [...]
Check out TinkerPriest Media for a couple of oustanding WP Themes and a bunch of excellent tutorials. Some posts worth looking at include 10 WordPress Plugins I Couldn’t Run a Site Without Backup, Backup, Backup! The themes I’ve seen and liked include: Magazine Basic Feed Me, Seymour Great Chefs – Great Restaurants Theme Getaway Graphics [...]
Rubiqube – an essential site by Adrian Diaconescu for WordPress aficionados – has released the Visual theme which is exceptionally reasonable at $25 USD. Here are three screen shots: More screenshots and details after the jump. Evernote lets you save all the interesting things you see online into a single place. Access all those saved [...]