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WordPress Creation Kit – a sparkling new custom field, taxonomy and post type creator

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: December 20th, 2023

WordPress Creation Kit consists of three brand new modules that can help you with the tough task of creating and maintaining custom post types, custom taxonomies and most importantly, custom fields and metaboxes for your posts, pages or CPT's. Why another plugin for this? We've actually started working on this more then a year ago, […]

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Professional WordPress Plugin Development review

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: March 22nd, 2011

It's been a while since I've reviewed books on this blog and I think it's about time to start doing that again. And I couldn't have chosen a better book to start with then "Professional WordPress Plugin Development" written by Brad Williams, Ozh Richard and Justin Tadlock. This is the book I’ve been waiting for […]

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Cozy Child Theme

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: December 13th, 2021

This elegant Wordpress theme started as a custom project but ended up as a Child Theme for the Thematic Framework. It's a warm design that makes you feel comfortable.

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Charisma, Free Genesis Child Theme

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: December 13th, 2021

Charisma is a free Genesis child theme that will work perfectly for your Wordpress personal blog. When I started designing Charisma I had in mind an elegant, simple, well structured theme which highlights the content and gives the user a pleasurable reading experience.

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Multilingual WordPress – WPML Plugin Review

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: July 1st, 2020

Since writing this article we developed TranslatePress, a frictionless WordPress multilingual plugin that lets you translate all your site content directly from the front-end, using a super intuitive UI. Download it for free and go multilingual, the easy way. Photo by derSven One of the hardest things to do with Wordpress is creating a multilingual […]

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Early Morning Child Theme

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: December 13th, 2021

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!

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WordPress as a social platform

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: April 26th, 2023

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 […]

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Content design – what makes a good landing page

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: May 26th, 2009

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 […]

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Green anyone? Try Commune – Thematic Child Theme!

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: December 13th, 2021

Update 11.17.2010 The category image was removed and all thumbnails are now created using the Featured Image default functionality. If no Featured Image is added a default image appears in place. 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 […]

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Multilingual solutions for a wordpress installation

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: December 7th, 2021

Since writing this article we developed TranslatePress, a frictionless WordPress multilingual plugin that lets you translate all your site content directly from the front-end, using a super intuitive interface. Download it for free and go multilingual, the easy way. Photo by mykreeve From my point of view the internet has became a really crowded place. […]

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