Posts Tagged ‘Themes’
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A Beginner's GuideMigrating A Website To WordPress Is Easier Than You Think
- May 15th, 2013
- 33 Comments
Now powering over 17% of the Web, WordPress is increasingly becoming the content management system (CMS) of choice for the average user. But what about websites built with an outdated CMS or without a CMS at all? Does moving to WordPress mean starting over and losing all the time, energy ...
Read more...A Developer's GuideThe WordPress Theme Customizer
- March 5th, 2013
- 8 Comments
In case you missed it, WordPress release 3.4 included a very exciting new development – the theme customizer. This allows users to tweak theme settings using a WYSIWYG interface and customise a theme so it includes the colours, fonts, text and pretty much anything else they want. The purists out there ...
Read more...Sharing ExperiencesHow To Improve And Refine Your WordPress Theme Development Process
- February 21st, 2013
- 42 Comments
There is so much to learn about WordPress theme development. The Internet is home to hundreds of articles about building WordPress themes, to countless theme frameworks that will help you get started, and to endless WordPress themes, some of which are beautiful and professional but not a few of which ...
Read more...How To Get The Most Out Of A Premium WordPress Theme
- February 8th, 2013
- 22 Comments
There has quite probably never been a better time to be a premium theme user. While a huge increase in the supply of quality premium themes hasn’t particularly driven down prices, it has promoted a huge push for innovation, best practices and quality design. Unfortunately, there’s one crucial thing which ...
Read more...Frank: A Free WordPress Theme Designed For Speed
- January 16th, 2013
- 59 Comments
Today we are pleased to release Frank, an open-source WordPress theme designed and built to provide a light, responsive and unobtrusive reading experience. The theme’s default home page makes 9 database queries and consists of 2 requests weighing at roughly 30KB (9.5KB gzipped). Frank keeps it basic: no Javascript dependence, ...
Read more...Using WP_Query In WordPress
- January 14th, 2013
- 26 Comments
If you’ve been around WordPress for a while you know how difficult it used to be to create post lists based on complex criteria while also conforming to WordPress standards. Over the course of a few years the platform has come a long way. By utilising the power of the ...
Read more...Performance StudyAdopting A Responsive WordPress Theme Is More Than Install-And-Go
- July 26th, 2012
- 19 Comments
As iOS, Android, and Windows 8 take the Web to smaller screens, designers are adopting techniques to make their websites usable on handheld devices. Responsive Web designs present different formatting and layout to suit the device on which their pages are displayed. Browsers choose the appropriate styles on page load, freeing ...
Read more...Lessons LearnedCreate A Responsive, Mobile-First WordPress Theme
- June 28th, 2012
- 37 Comments
Let’s see what we got: WordPress as this flexible, easy to use Open-Source blogging and CMS system. More and more mobile devices flooding the market every day and being extremely popular. Plus the need of more beautiful designed and coded WordPress themes for users to choose from that will work ...
Read more...Easily Customize WordPress’ Default Functionality
- June 19th, 2012
- 36 Comments
The absolute best thing about WordPress is how flexible it is. Don’t like it? Change the theme. Need added functionality? There is probably a plugin you can download or buy. If not, built it yourself! You can change pretty much everything about WordPress. In this article I’m going to go ...
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