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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 …
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Being Unique in the Blogosphere
According to Technorati, 175,000 new blogs pop up every day. That’s around 121 new blogs every single minute! With that many new blogs every day, and with the tons and tons of already established blogs, it can be hard for a new blogger to get any traction in the blogosphere. Unfortunately, there is no sure-fire …
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Why It Pays to Offer Free WordPress Themes
I was chatting with a client yesterday, and he asked how old I was. I told him, and I was quickly greeted with a bit of shock, along with a flattering compliment. You see, on the web, it really doesn’t matter how young you are … what matters is how talented you are. But there …
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More hacks for your WordPress theme comments section
The comments section is probably one of the top overlooked portions in a WordPress theme, and is a great indicator of how much effort a designer actually puts into his/her themes. Thankfully, Daniel Adams of instantShift has compiled 30 of the “most wanted” hacks for making the comments more easy to use. Here’s one of …
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Try porting existing HTML templates to WordPress themes
Whether you’re currently in creative drought or you just want to spend less time coming up with a new WordPress theme, perhaps you could try porting existing free web templates to WordPress themes. Hongkiat has listed 38 beautiful HTML templates you can use as base for your next WordPress theme. Some things to remember though: …
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Tip: Add value to your theme with an options page
Always assume that typical WordPress users will want to customize their themes, whether they’re willing to pay for them or not. And since you’ll probably be manipulating the functions.php file to widgetize your theme, why not go even further? Custom Theme Design has written an excellent tutorial on building a control panel for your WordPress …
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Some of the best free WordPress themes
Smashing Magazine posted a list of 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes. If you’re ready to change your theme, this is definitely a list to check out. I would especially recommend the grid based themes.
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Photoblog WordPress Themes
Below is a list of Photoblog WordPress themes that are available for download: Photopress created by Brian Gardner If you would like to suggest a category or would like to have your theme listed, please contact us and let us know!
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Essential steps for setting up a new blog
Having set up many blogs in the last year or so, I have a standard set of steps that I take after getting WordPress installed. Here’s a run-down of items that you don’t want to skip: 1. Change the permalinks from the meaningless default set up. I personally prefer /%postname%/ to get the best looking …
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Coffee WordPress Themes
Below is a list of Coffee WordPress themes that are available for download: Coffee Chick created by Frisky Wife CoffeeSpot created by Sadish Bala Coffee Time created by Geeky Girl Downtown Java created by Brian Gardner Caffeine created by Jon Emmons milkandcoffee4u by WordPress Themes 4U desert4u by WordPress Themes 4U If you would like …
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Need inspiraton? Check out these WordPress showcase sites
Want WordPressThemes.com to build a custom WP-powered site for you but don’t know where to begin? Try browsing through these showcase sites and experience just how innovative and powerful WordPress can be: WordPress Showcase: the official listing of sites that take WordPress one step further, maintained by no less than the developers of WordPress themselves. …
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Add Twitter to your WordPress themes for more star power
Twitter is one of the hottest things on the web right now, and although this microblogging service could overtake (macro) blogging with WordPress, why not take advantage of its popularity and use it to add even more star power to your WordPress themes? Here are several guides that make WordPress blogging and tweeting a seamless …
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Submit your site to the WordPress Showcase
So you’ve got a fully-customized WordPress site. Why not submit it to the WordPress Showcase? It features beautiful WP-powered sites that are notable in their fields and use WordPress in ways you would not expect. Some of the biggest names in news, business, education, sports, entertainment, and technology have sites that are running on WordPress. …
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Styling comments in WordPress 2.7
WordPress 2.7 has been out for a while now, and one of the biggest new features it has is threaded comments. And they just happen to be pretty complicated to style. So for all the theme authors out there, Andrew Rickmann made a diagram illustrating all the HTML elements and CSS classes used in nested …
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Will the premium WordPress themes controversy ever end?
It’s been more than a year since premium WordPress themes first gained attention and finally became commonplace. But the debate over whether one should make or purchase such themes still hasn’t died out. Blogs like Upstart Blogger and ThemeShaper continue to raise this issue.
