Front-end interface portability between CMS – the next BIG step in web-development?

Image by unloveable I want to talk in this post about front-end interface that could be used without any modifications (or just with basic configuration) between different Content Management Systems (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Expression Engine and a million more) and how this could help the developer. I know it sounds far fetch but bare with [...]
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Use WordPress as a CMS with Thematic – Part2

Photo by solarnu In Part 1 of the tutorial we’ve discussed about: Installing WordPress Creating a Child Theme Implementing out blog design Css tricks The functions.php file Setting up WordPress and adding pages. Now we take over from where we left and make the web-site fully functional. In order to do that we’ll use a [...]
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Use WordPress as a CMS with Thematic Theme- Part1

This will be a two parts tutorial in which will use WordPress as a CMS with the Thematic WordPress Theme Framework. Requirements: WordPress Thematic Theme framework A ready made layout design Coffee ( preferably hot with cream and no sugar) We all know how powerful WordPress can be. A lot of people have done this [...]
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Before I go on vacation, more Thematic madness!

I’ve mentioned in my previous post about Thematic that I want to implement a static web-page using WordPress and Thematic as a CMS, so here’s a sneak  peek: www.cozmoslabs.com/projects/kraft2 . It doesn’t have a lot of content yet, I still have to install a form builder, a photo gallery, create some more pages and perhaps [...]
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Joomla! 1.5.3 FTP layer and upload problems (update)

I’ve encountered a really nasty problem with a Joomla! 1.5 installation for a client of mine. It has to do with the default PHP upload function. The problem manifested like this: Upon uploading and installing a plugin, because the server was using PHP 4 I needed to make some modifications to the plugin php files [...]
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