Each time you develop a theme you’ll have to deal with the same, repetitive tasks. E.g. you need a certain folder structure to organize your PHP, CSS and JavaScript files or you rely on features…
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How to Build a Custom Login Page Design for WordPress
If you are a heavy WordPress user then it’s likely you’re interested in deep customizations. There are a slew of plug-ins available, but some tasks are just easier to perform yourself. As an example, the…
WordPress Plugins to Help Make Your Site Responsive
With the galloping development of modern technologies the screen size margin of your readership can be anything in-between a 30″ desktop monitor and the iPhone’s 3.5″ screen. Responsive design techniques kills two birds with a…
HTML & CSS Blog Layout – Theme Implementation for WordPress
In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to adapt a simple HTML blog layout into a WordPress theme. We’ll be using this static page as starting point.
Design Tips for Building Magazine-Style WordPress Themes
The move from physical to digital magazine content is an exciting process. Over just the past few years we have witnessed thousands of new brands and templates begin to surface. Magazine editors have wisely chosen…
Website Speed Part 3 – Caching WordPress
As so many people have WordPress installed, I thought I would share with you a key technique integral to WordPress that will help your website speed. W3 Total Cache is a dream plugin for achieving…
30 Fresh Minimal WordPress Themes (2011 Edition)
Minimal is the timeless web design trend of basic styling a web page and stripping out all non-essential elements allowing the reader to focus solely on the content with absolutely no distractions. Achieving the balance…
15 Free WordPress Themes with a Responsive Layout
The most popular topic of discussion at the moment, amongst web designers anyway, is undoubtedly responsive web design. This is in response to the popularity, over the past couple of years, of visitors opting to…
Getting Started with WordPress Shortcodes (+Examples)
Shortcodes were introduced in WordPress 2.5, and help you to create macro codes to use within your content. If you think about it, this is a great way to create something like a dynamic ad…
How to Create a Basic WordPress Theme with Gantry Framework
Gantry Framework is a WordPress theme framework that, unlike most of its modern counterparts, allows the user to construct a layout and color palette from within the WordPress admin backend itself. It’s powerful and flexible…
10 WordPress Plugins to Help Optimize Performance
One of the biggest reasons behind WordPress’ popularity is the vast number of plugins that can not only extend its functionality but there are also many plugins that will improve the performance of a site….
20 Snippets and Hacks to Make WordPress User-Friendly for your Clients
Out-of-the-box, WordPress is a fairly simple CMS for anyone to learn. But for your non-tech savvy clients it could be a nightmare and a potential disaster to the site you have just built. By simplifying…
10 HTML5-Ready Blank, Bare-Bones and Naked Themes for WordPress
If you are a WordPress developer and are looking for an easy way of rapidly building HTML5 ready themes without having to re-write the same WordPress code over and over, then this post is for…
