10 Useful WordPress Search Code Snippets
It is no secret that the standard search within WordPress is not very accurate. The problem is that WordPress takes your search term far too literally, meaning, that if you were to type “search+code+wordpress” in to our search box above, it would return every post that contains those terms (in this case over 30 posts), even though we have no such post with in our database. So, in actual fact…
Top 10 Free WordPress 3.0 Ready Themes
Just a few ago ago, WordPress introduced there 13th major release, the much anticipated ‘Thelonious’ (WP 3.0). As with every other major release, to accommodate all of the new features there has been some (mostly minor) compatibility issues with a number of themes. As such, the WP community has been working hard to update all of there themes and plugins to make them WP3.0 ready and to make best use…
30 Grid-Based WordPress Themes
Grid based layout designs can be very useful for building structured, usable and content rich (not limited to) websites. Grid design certainly has some major benefits for developers (its really easy to to plan where things should go), but its real power lies in what it can do for your readers and users. With a structured grid layout, an everyday user visiting your site can quickly understand and locate the…
Top 10 Social Bookmarking Plugins for WordPress
It has been almost two years since we last published a post on WordPress Social Bookmarking Plugins. What a difference that short period has had on user expectations, design trends and overall acceptance and popularity of social bookmarking. Many of the plugins from the previous post are now pretty much redundant and no longer supported, so this post takes a fresh look at the best Social Bookmarking solutions for WordPress….
Top 10 Content Slider Plugins for WordPress
No web design trend has become as wide-spread and as popular recently as the content slider, they are everywhere! And rightly so, not only do they offer a marvelous method for displaying a lot of content in such a minimal space, they are also a great way to highlight your best and most popular articles and content. And on top off all that, with the correct image selection and well…
The Ultimate WordPress Shopping/Ecommerce Toolbox (Plugins and Themes)
There is not much left that you can not do with WordPress. With every new update it becomes ever more powerful and there are a multitude of plugins and themes that can unleash its full potential that leaves its rival CMSes in its wake. And nothing more epitomizes its power, versatility and ease of use than the ecommerce solutions it offers. Almost two years ago we published a popular article…
40 More Stylish, Minimal and Clean Free WordPress Themes
We love minimalism in web design, we really really do. There is something pure about stripping out all of the unnecessary elements from a design and only being left with nothing but the content and some basic navigation. Without good writing or a strong portfolio, the minimal style will have no real impact and the web design will look cheap. And that is the key to minimal, in the hands…
15 Javascript Plugins and Tutorials for Adding Ratings
Giving users the ability to interact with your web site is one of the key elements to its success. Allowing users to post a comment or response and socially sharing are two of the basic fundamentals of web interaction, another, maybe less popular, is giving users the quickfire option of grading or rating a post, by using the super simple five star method or by the voting up or down…
30 Brand New Quality WordPress Themes
Every week dozens upon dozens of new WordPress themes are released, some of these are well designed, without being too original, and disappointingly, most of the others seem to be replicas of existing popular themes or they use tried and tested layout formulas with no use or thought for originality. And sometimes, just sometimes, you will find a little golden nugget of a theme, that resonates quality, originality and offers…
45+ Fresh WordPress Tutorials, Techniques and Hacks
The growth and popularity of Wordpress continues to spiral to a seemingly endless end. It continually proves itself time time and again that it has very few limitations, and is rapidly pushing itself to being, if not the best, but certainly the most versatile CMS available. Out of the box it is certainly not perfect, but in the hands of the huge WP community, it might just be.
10 Blank/Naked WordPress Themes Perfect for Development
If you have to develop Wordpress themes on a regular basis then I have no doubt that you too have experienced the tedium that goes with re-writing the same code over and over again. It doesn’t matter how excited you are about a new project or even how much you love web design, having to repeatedly do the same basic coding for every single theme can be really, really annoying.
12 Amazing Buddypress Themes and Getting Started Guides
Out of the box Wordpress is a highly versatile, powerful and feature rich CMS. Add to that, the seemingly endless professionally developed themes and there huge library of powerful plugins and you now have the potential to build anything you could ever possibly conceive without limitation…. Or are there limits?
Joomla, WordPress and Drupal – Should you look outside the big 3?
Todays post is a guest opinion article from Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos, he shares his thoughts on how to choose the best CMS and to not be limited to only, as he calls them, The Big Three (Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal). What are your thoughts on CMS selection? Which is the best, and why?









