Tag 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 | Published: October 8, 2009 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Wordpress | Also tagged , , , | 57 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 | Published: September 18, 2009 | Posted in CMS, Wordpress | Also tagged , | 13 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 | Also 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 | Also 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 | Also tagged , , , | 88 Comments

Future Child Themes for Thematic in the works

Spring is at it’s end and makes room for a promising Summer. Finishing the new design was a fulfilling moment for me. When you put so much effort into something, your personal expectations are always high. Building something for myself and things are prone to be problematic. In the initial stages nothing really feels right [...]
By | Published: May 26, 2009 | Posted in Theme Design | Also tagged | 7 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 [...]
By | Published: January 22, 2009 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Wordpress | Also tagged , , , | 24 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 | Published: December 17, 2008 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , | 24 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 [...]
By | Published: October 29, 2008 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also 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 | Published: October 25, 2008 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , , | 119 Comments