Validating Your WordPress Theme
One of the first things a blogger will look at before deciding to use your WordPress theme or not is whether or not the theme pass XHTML validation. Aside from those who may potentially use your theme, other WordPress theme designers may check your validation as well. One of the imple ways to ensure that your WordPress theme validates is to use the W3C Markup Validation Service. This is probably the most know validator across the industry and should... Read the Entire Post →
Copyblogger Theme Going Public
I just saw this morning that the old theme from Copyblogger will be released as a public WordPress Theme. Chris Pearson will be making some edits to make it more customizable, and will release it in the next few weeks. So if you were a fan of the old theme, be sure to check over at copyblogger.com in the next few weeks and pick yourself up a copy of the old Copyblogger theme from Chris Pearson, Brian Clarke and company. view post
WordPress Releases Stats Plugin
A while back, I wrote on my addiction to stats on my personal blog. I’m kind of a nut about it. I want up-to-the-minute statistics on who is visiting my site, where from, total uniques, pageviews, incoming links, outgoing links, etc. I guess you could say that I’m a stat-a-holic. In fact, I use 3 separate stats programs to track my visitors. I’ve never used wordpress.com before, so I’m not sure exactly what the commotion... Read the Entire Post →
WordPress Theme Design is 75% CSS
I was chatting with Liz Strauss today, and amidst our conversation, I made the point that WordPress theme design is 75% CSS. What exactly does this mean? You might be asking yourself this question. Well, we all know that WordPress themes are comprised of various parts, such as the loop. (You can read all about the dissection of a WordPress Theme right here.) And although that series was written over two years ago, it accurately describes the gist... Read the Entire Post →
Getting Exposure Through Releasing Free WordPress Themes
As a WordPress blogger and designer, who released his first theme on February 14, 2007, I personally seen and experienced the amazing benefits of releasing free themes to the WordPress community. Here are a couple of specific benefits I see for Intenet entrepreneurs, website owners, and bloggers: 1. Links Just check out the inbound links I have according to Technorati. (And remember … I’ve just been releasing themes since February.) Or... Read the Entire Post →
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