Introducing Warp – An Open-Source Theme Framework for WordPress & Joomla

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 like layouts, compression and caching. Because you don’t want to start from scratch, coding all these features over and over again, you are better off using a theme framework. It provides you with a file…

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 login/register forms are often unfitting to match the template of most websites. But thanks to a few genius developers there are simple guidelines to including your own custom styles. In this guide I’ll walk you…

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 single stone by helping improve user experience by displaying a screen sized optimized version of your website. You can help your WordPress website become more mobile-friendly, and here is a list of the most useful…

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 the Internet as a medium to share their news stories. This not only reaches a wider global audience but also allows for the free flow of information. Without constraining signup fees these magazines can grow…

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 caching, I would recommend it to anybody. Yet there are times when you do not want to cache a whole page for long periods, but to cache sections of it so that a page rebuild…

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 between content and minimal design is not easy, but in the hands of a skilled designer or a competent writer, the minimal style can truly accentuate your web page. This post is our third year…

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 use a mobile device of some sort (Android, iPhone, iPad..) to access their favorite web sites. Just to give you a quick overview, responsive web design allows you to offer a specific and optimised screen…

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 spot or a call-to-action button in your posts. If we use the call-to-action example, you could add something like this to your blogpost to show the button, and then edit the output in your templates…

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 enough that power users can harness Gantry to achieve much greater things with much less effort than they might usually be in for, but the uninitiated can install Gantry and have a customizable layout configured…

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. These plugins have the capability to make a site faster, that is, they enable it to load quicker and more efficiently. They will ultimately help in improving the search engine rank of a page. If…

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 the system and adding some quick hacks to disable or hide certain areas of the CMS you are able to not only help clients you will also give yourself piece-of-mind knowing that that the site…

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 you. Blank, bare-bones, naked, themes, or whatever you prefer to call them, are a life-saver for developers who have to build WordPress themes on a regular basis. They are basically stripped-back themes that have had…

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