Category Archives: Wordpress

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. [...]
By Cristian | Also posted in Recomended Reading | Tagged , , , , | 28 Comments

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 Cristian | Also posted in CMS | Tagged , , | 12 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 Recomended Reading, Thematic, Theme Design | Tagged , , , , | 109 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 Cristian | Posted in Wordpress | Tagged | 6 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 Cristian | Also posted in Thematic | Tagged , , , | 24 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 Recomended Reading | Tagged , , , | 5 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 [...]
By Cristian | Also posted in Recomended Reading, Thematic, Theme Design | Tagged , , | 39 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 [...]
By Cristian | Also posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design | Tagged , , , | 253 Comments

Quickly add a Category DropDown to Thematic 0.9

With the launch of Thematic 0.9 we now have out of the box drop-down menus to work with. This is one of the many features added to 0.9 that was requested by the community. However sometimes one might want to replace the default Thematic menu with a menu composed with the categories and sub-categories of [...]
By Cristian | Also posted in Theme Design | Tagged , , | 15 Comments

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