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Multilingual Wordpress – WPML Plugin Review

Photo by derSven ¶ One of the hardest things to do with Wordpress is creating a multilingual blog / website that is easy to maintain and develop. My interest on the subject comes from the need of my customers for easy to maintain multilingual websites. This way they can extend their services to new markets. I’ve had this [...]
By Cristian | Also posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 21 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 Cristian | Also posted in Thematic, Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 82 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 Cristian | Also posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

Content design – what makes a good landing page

Photo by divemasterking2000 I want a redesign. I need it to be forward thinking with easy access to most sections of the site. Although this sounds like I’m trying to sell something to a client, please bare with me. Creating an effective landing page (in my case the front page) is a must. This is not [...]
By Cristian | Also posted in Theme Design | 7 Comments

Add a search box to the thematic menu

A search box in main menu is something a lot of themes have by design. Although this is not the case with the Thematic Theme Framework, it’s easy to customize it with a few lines of code. First thing we need to do is create a thematic child theme. This way we won’t make direct changes [...]
By Cristian | Also posted in Thematic, Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , | 32 Comments

Green anyone? Try Commune – Thematic Child Theme!

Simply put I have been lazy lately. I know this isn’t the best way to sell my self but a little bit of honesty hasn’t hurt anyone (or has it? ). So without further ado I here by present you Commune Child Theme based on Thematic! As far as I know it’s the first magazine like [...]
By Cristian | Also posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , | 229 Comments

Multilingual solutions for a wordpress installation

Photo by mykreeve From my point of view the internet has became a really crowded place. No more “build it and they will come” mentality. Today’s internet business have started to compete for every single user and the need to address all potential users is more important then ever. This is where multilingual web-sites and web-applications come [...]
By Cristian | Also posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 16 Comments

Replacing the Thematic Menu with a DropDown List of Categories

There comes a time when you might want to use the Thematic Theme for other things then just a blog, like a magazine or a portal and it might be best suited to have the categories of your blog on top instead of your static pages. After all, you’ll probably have two static pages (about [...]
By Cristian | Also posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , | 19 Comments

Installing Wordpress Child Themes and Customizing the Byty Theme

Source byty.ro Since I’ve launched by first Wordpress Child Theme based on Thematic I thought writing about how you can make small changes to the theme and put your own graphical logo, add css for other plugins, basically create a customized version of it. This post is divided in 4 different parts, particularly: Installing Wordpress Child Themes Adding your [...]
By Cristian | Also posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , | 14 Comments

Byty the Free Child Theme – Built on Thematic

         This is my first Free to Download Child Theme. It was built for a friend of mine and we decided to release it for free in hope of some extra publicity . In order to install it you have to download the Thematic Theme (from which this child theme inherits all of the functionality), [...]
By Cristian | Also posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 75 Comments

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