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Members: WordPress Plugin by Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock has done it again. This time he released to the WordPress community a user, role, and content management plugin called Members. Its purpose is to make WordPress a more powerful CMS by giving you fine-grain control over the users of your site. So what dose this plugin do: Edit Roles: Edit your user [...]
By | Published: September 18, 2009 | Posted in CMS, Wordpress | Tagged , , | 13 Comments

Early Morning Child Theme

This elegant WordPress theme was inspired by the colors of the early morning as I see them from my window. It’s light, elegant and pleasantly surprising. This theme doesn’t scream at you, instead it takes a step back and lets the user read. Please don’t spoil it by putting ads on it!
By | Published: July 20, 2009 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Thematic, Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 171 Comments

How To Create a WordPress Theme – a tutorial series by Ian Stewart

Have you ever wanted to create your own WordPress theme? If yes then you must know of all the tutorials out there. The problem is that most of them are incomplete. But not any more! Ian Stewart from ThemeShaper released, what I consider, the best step-by-step tutorial series for those who want to learn how [...]
By | Published: July 7, 2009 | Posted in General | 5 Comments

WordPress Wallpaper Pack

Do you love WordPress? Is the answer is yes then you’ll going to dig this! It’s a the ultimate prof that WordPress is among us for half a century! Don’t believe me? Check out this WordPress wallpaper pack! It’s hippy, nippy, trippy stuff! Oh… and did I mention it’s cool? It’s well flavored and available [...]
By | Published: July 1, 2009 | Posted in Wordpress | Tagged | 12 Comments

Add “Featured Posts” to your Thematic child theme

Featured posts are common in WordPress magazine themes. They let you promote hot topics and bring your best articles right in front of your users. First thing we need to do is create a thematic child theme. This way we won’t make direct changes to Thematic. The featured posts will be inserted on the home [...]
By | Published: June 26, 2009 | Posted in Thematic, Wordpress | Tagged , , , | 28 Comments

WordPress as a social platform

WordPress started in 2003. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. But you already knew that! By itself this blogging tool used to be just that: a way to put [...]
By | Published: June 16, 2009 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Wordpress | Tagged , , , | 11 Comments

Street WordPress Theme

Street is something that was created from a spark of inspiration, something that I felt should look like this. This wasn’t thought out nor planed. It uses the beautiful Vegur Free Font for the headings and main menu, implemented by Cufon (text replacement technique). I’ve spent a great deal of time searching for the perfect [...]
By | Published: June 2, 2009 | Posted in Thematic, Theme Design | Tagged , , , , | 88 Comments

“Digital Experience Design: Ideas, Industries, Interaction” – book review

I had the luck of running into this book by accident. It managed to draw my attention mainly because it was a newly published book (February 4, 2009) compared to other books that discuss the web-design industry and user experiences. The editor and author of some of the chapters, Linda Leung (a senior lecturer at [...]
By | Published: May 27, 2009 | Posted in Book Review | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments