Full Feeds and the “more” Tag
I love the <!–more–> tag! It keeps my homepage clean, it lets me customize the text that is used to link to the full article, it encourages more pageviews, and it’s a fantastic tool to “tease” your audience. The WordPress guys really hit a home run on that one. But it comes with a price. Unfortunately, when you use the <!–more–> tag in your posts, it doesn’t just affect the homepage. ... Read the Entire 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 →
WordPress Deprecated Tags
When building a WordPress theme, one thing that you might immediately get called out for (by other designers mostly) is the use of deprecated template tags. Essentially, WordPress occasionally deprecates certain tags and replaces them with better, many times more descriptive, template tags. These updates usually come alongside a major upgrades in the WordPress code itself (like when WP went to version 2.0, 2.1, etc.). When WP deprecates tags, it... Read the Entire Post →
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