Ian Stewart has been hard at work experimenting with WordPress - first with the Thematic framework, and now with some awesome child themes. He’s also played with custom hooks and filters, and now includes some pretty helpful ones with Thematic. Confused? You probably are. Let’s get down on a more basic level and learn what Ian is doing, and then you’ll see why his latest work has been so influential. Read more…
A few weeks ago I got the idea of creating a “starter theme” to work from when I’m beginning to port an HTML template to WordPress. After I’ve finished the mock-ups in XHTML and CSS, it’s always the same process: copy the style.css to the theme folder, chop up the HTML into various PHP files, tweak some stuff, and ship off the theme. During that process I often find myself going back to the default theme for various tags, formats, and templates. Read more…
WPForSale is a new site that is focused on providing WordPress users with premium products and resources, and helping WordPress designers and developers sell their work.
Many WordPress users are not aware of many of the valuable products out there. That’s where WPForSale comes in. They showcase the latest and greatest premium products, so users have only one-stop place to check.
WPForSale was built by and currently managed by Bernadot Studios, based in La Crosse, WI, USA. They’re passionate about WordPress and use it as their premier platform, “because the flexibility, community and ease of WordPress is unmatched”.
Scott, the site manager, says they’ve “personally found the premium themes and plugins very useful in our buisness, as it saves tons of time getting a project started and eases management for our clients”.
WPForSale also provides valuable WordPress tips and tricks to help users with their sites. Their site is new, but Scott says there’s much more to come and to expect some new (top secret) additions to the site.
The other day when I was checking my e-mail, I found a nice little surprise in my inbox from Tung Do, aka Small Potato, the previous owner of WPDesigner.com. He said he had just got back from Thailand, which was a fun and an eye opening experience.
He also mentioned he was disappointed with how WPDesigner turned out, and although the Themes Club is Pawel’s responsibility, if WPDesigner remains inactive and Pawel does nothing with the site until January 2009, he’ll personally refund the current paying members (only to the customers in his PayPal records). So if you’re worried about your $5, fear not.
What do you guys think is going to happen? Do you think Pawel will come back from the grave and bring WPDesigner back to life?
Twitter is awesome. It’s a great tool for quick communication and an even more awesome tool for social networking. If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you know I’m quite active and love to tweet (update my status) with funny and random things, but still talk about news on WordPress.
Anyways, Twitter is only fun when you’re following certain people. If you follow boring people who tweet about boring stuff, your timeline gets backed up with boring crap. That’s boring, obviously.
Here’s a list of the Twitter users, that I follow, that tweet most about WordPress news.
A few months ago I wrote an article on how to use Coda with WordPress via Clips. Well the creators of Massive Blue and Nonimage have created a site called Coda Clips, featuring a ton of clips for CSS, Expression Engine, HTML, JS, PHP, Textpattern, WordPress, and other coding languages.
While browsing through some of the clips, I noticed some tags I have never even seen before! Here’s a few that are worth mentioning:
Anyways, if you use Coda, make sure to check out this sweet resource. Oh and if you have a few of your own snippets, make sure to submit them!
This is a guest post by Jeff Chandler of Jeffro2pt0.com
During my interview with Small Potato, I realized that this man was very smart. As I dove into the reasoning behind why his theme club was setup in the way that it had been, a number of light bulbs went off in my head. These are just some of the pros and cons I have discovered when looking into the SP theme club.
I recently attended the Future of Web Apps conference on February 29th with my friends Alain Fontaine and Ptah Dunbar. While we were there, we had the opportunity to meet Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress. We had a nice discussion on premium WordPress themes, the WordPress Themes Marketplace, and WordPress themes development in general. It was such an honor. Just thought I’d let ya’ll know!
