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The future of WordPress

My future in the WordPress community

I was recently asked to participate along with quite a few other designers in answering a not-so-simple question — Where will WordPress themes go in the future?
Ian Stewart put together a panel of leaders in the WordPress theming community to answer this question, and I was happy to participate. We all added our opinions [...]

Is Options another “cookie-cutter” magazine theme?

One of the things I’ve wanted to address is whether the Options theme is just another magazine theme. This theme isn’t meant to be only a magazine theme but a theme for anyone.
Did I promote it as a magazine theme? Certainly, at least on the demo page. Magazine-styled themes are “hot” [...]

A WordPress theme with more options than I can count

Options WordPress Theme

Description: Too many options to count.
Requires: WordPress 2.3+
Version: Now updated to Version 1.1.2!
Support: Options theme forum
How to use: Online documentation

Download Theme (13435 downloads)

Version 1.1.2 notes: This version update is just to fix some minor bugs, which mostly deal with the translation process. If you want to use one of the translations [...]

New “super theme” on the way

If you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to lately — like not keeping on a regular blogging schedule — then you should know that I’ve been hard at work on a new WordPress theme.
I present to you the Options Theme. Here’s a live demo.
What you see there is only a small [...]

Designing the community theme

Project Community Theme: Design

It’s time for round 2 of the Project Community Theme — the theme where you create the design and I code it. And this time, we’ll discuss design.
Put your designer-thinking caps on and get ready to discuss how you want this thing to look.
Thus far, I’ve gotten a lot of interesting ideas about [...]

Using bbPress forum software with WordPress

New forums for my site

I finally decided to create a message board for this site, which I’ll mostly use for WordPress theme support. Right now, it’s entirely experimental, and I want to know what you think. Check out the forums.
After a lot of nagging from users of the Structure theme and finally getting some [...]

A simple WordPress contact form

Even Simpler WordPress Contact Form

Are you tired of all the “bells and whistles” of most WordPress contact forms? Are you exhausted from modifying CSS for hours just to get a contact plugin to display with your theme?
Try out the Simpler Contact Form for WordPress. This solution was based off my original Simple WordPress Contact Form. [...]

Adding WordPress custom fields to your feeds

Custom Fields For Feeds: WordPress Plugin

Description: This puts images or videos into your feeds through the use of custom fields. You can alter the custom field Keys and what is displayed.
Version 1.0.1 Beta
License: GPL
Download Plugin (1298)

About this plugin
One of the things I wanted to accomplish in the custom fields tutorial series is adding the custom fields to the [...]

How to add videos to your WordPress sidebar

YouTube has become a bit of a phenomenon on the Internet, and everyone’s rushing to embed videos into their blogs. This is actually a fairly neat thing, especially if you blog a lot about videos or have videos that will emphasize the importance of your posts.
In my last two themes, Structure and [...]

Project Community Theme: Where the users design the theme

Project Community Theme

Have you ever wanted to design a WordPress theme but lack the CSS skills to make the template pretty? Do you have some great ideas for functionality but don’t know a lick of PHP? Perhaps, you’re just too lazy to sit down and do it yourself. You’re not alone. Welcome to [...]